As mentioned in the video, I was feeling good enough to extend this walk by about half a mile compared to the previous day. By the Bow String Bridge I left the park, and walked home over the top of Perry Hill. That wasn't so bad, but my feet were feeling quite heavy by the time I got home. This change of weather really is making me feel less capable of walking. It is rash to make such predictions, but at the moment it feels like I won't be doing any 4+ mile walks any time in the near future, or at my most pessimistic, until next summer (or possibly spring if the year warms up quickly).

  I arrived home almost dripping with sweat, and it felt so good to take off my raincoat so I could get some air on my body. I recovered, and dried up quite quickly once I was out of that coat. Although my feet had felt heavy on the last bit of my walk, they were not in any significant discomfort. After being home for, maybe, half an hour, I didn't even really feel tired. Despite that I didn't seem to get much done in the afternoon.

  I was just too busy doing nothing ! I didn't even find time to lie down and read. A big reason for this was a 2 hour phone conservation with a friend who I hadn't spoken to possibly since sometime near the beginning of the year. I managed to fit in a bit of video editing before dinner time, but that was all. It was possibly fortunate that my dinner had to be the spare kebabs that had been chilling in my fridge since ordering them 2 days previously as part of a takeaway dinner. They were both the healthy grilled meat and salad type of kebab.

  If I didn't have those kebabs I might have cooked up something far less healthy to celebrate my weight loss at the end of my walk. It still wasn't as good as after some walks in very hot weather a few weeks or more back, but it was a very useful drop after weighing myself in the morning. It was very close to the weight I wanted to be on the morning of the 1st of the month. That would have meant I would have lost a whole 3kg during September. Of course some of it was dehydration, but a few grams would be burnt off during the walk, and I did make quite a productive visit to the toilet before going for my walk.

  I was looking forward to a good nights sleep last night, and that is what I did get eventually, but like the previous night I had to deal with some stomach ache before I could get comfortable in bed. The night before last night something turned the content of my bowel to gas. Last night maybe that same something (some sort of stomach bug ?) turned the content of my bowel to liquid. It seemed to happen very, very quickly. One moment I seemed fine, and the next moment I was running to the toilet doing my best to not having an accident.

  It makes me wonder what will happen tonight. We've had the gaseous phase, and the liquid phase. Presumably tonight it will be the solid phase. I wonder what that will be - cubes maybe ?  Anyway, all this unpleasantness only kept me from my bed for maybe an hour, and I was probably asleep not that long after 10pm (maybe 11pm). I did seem to sleep quite well after that with just one period in the night when I was awake for 10 to 20 minutes. I didn't even seem to dream much.

  I can only remember two almost instant snapshots of my dreams. Both would have been inspired by the SciFi book I am reading. I was in some sort of interstellar spaceship that used a novel form of faster than light propulsion. I have no idea what the spaceship looked like inside or out, and I have no memory of it actually moving. My first few seconds of memory concern landing on a planet, and seeing a statue. The Captain took one look at it and said we must have lanced on an alien planet because the statue was of a woman with an "outie" belly button, and he reckoned only aliens had them.

  The next few seconds of dream I remember was of almost exactly the same thing, but this time the statue had an "innie" belly button, and it was announced that we had landed on a human populated planet. The weird thing is that I remember these snippets as more like a concept than an actual vision. I have an extremely vague idea that the statue was sort of rectangular rather than of a woman, but it seemed that what the Captain said must be right.

  This morning, thanks to eating fairly carefully by default, and my emergency visits to the toilet last night, my weight is pretty good this morning. I have little doubt it won't be quite as good tomorrow if, as seems likely, I get a bit bored today. It is a Sunday, after all ! Even my blood glucose is rather good this morning. It being 7.6mmol/l, and that was even after eating a bit of junk food yesterday. This morning I feel a bit cool, but with it being little more than 9° C outside this is not surprising. I think I also feel like I probably would expect to feel on a rainy morning - stiff and creaky.

  I have a few unrefined thoughts about what I will be doing today. I think I will probably give going for a walk today, although I am curious as to how deep the river may be after the continuing rain.... There are two things I will almost certainly do. One is to wash some sweaty t-shirts, and a few other items of clothing. I'll have to dry them indoors, but that could be a good excuse to put a bit of heating on downstairs.

  The other thing is to take a look at some CD and DVD disks that Michael has lent me to see if I can do anything with them. One seems to be a DVD video, and another an audio CD of his sons band performing gigs some time ago. The third disk is a recordable DVD but at the moment I am unsure if it is another video DVD or just a collection of raw video and audio files. The main thing wanted is to try and improve the sound. That could be a job best done using the Windows program Cool Edit Pro - if I can remember how to use it. I used to do wonders with off air recording with it once, and maybe it's clip restoration function could help if any of the band audio is over recorded and clipped.