I don't think either forecaster has got the forecast right for today. Maybe the BBC was a bit closer to reality with their prediction of some light rain, as well as sunny spells this morning. The sun has recently gone in after a sunny spell lasting a full hour (or thereabouts). Both forecasters say there could be more sunny spells this afternoon, but at completely different times to each other. The one thing everyone agrees on is that it will probably be 5° C for several hours this afternoon, but it will get very cold tonight once the temperature starts to drop after sunset. Tomorrow will probably feature 100% light cloud cover for the while day, and be very cold. The high could be as little as 2° C, or as much as 3° C.

  Not a lot happened yesterday. Most of the physical symptoms of what I am now not so sure was a cold, seemed to have gone yesterday, but I still felt lethargic. It was almost certainly the depressing effect of a cold, grey, wet day. That little primitive part of the brain, still existing after millions of years of evolution, kept telling me I should be hibernating until spring. That would be a fine idea if the rest of the body knew how to hibernate.

  The other subliminal message from the primitive bit of brain was that I should do lots of eating....or maybe I was just bored and wanted some sort of stimulation. The worst thing I ate was half a chocolate Swill roll. I should never have bought it because any time I ate it would be a bad time. Having bought it, it was obvious that I would have to eat it, and yesterday seemed like a good idea...although it wasn't really. It was really nice, and would have cheered me up a lot of if I had been able to eat it without feeling guilty.

  I did eat quite a lot yesterday, but mostly it was stuff I knew would not have too bad an affect on my blood glucose level. Unfortunately it would still have an affect on my waistline, and that in turn would make my insulin resistance worse.  It seems that my blood glucose level has stabilised a higher level than it should. The fact that it does seem stable suggests to me that my Pancreas is still producing Insulin OK, but my body is having a hard time using it.

  After so much snacking through the day, my dinner was very simple. It was just two cod and cheese crispbakes followed by some fruit. I don't think I ate anything else after that, although there wasn't much time to do so anyway. I was surprisingly keen to get to bed - which was odd after doing little but rest and eat through the day. I ended up going to sleep much later than I thought I would. In this case it wasn't that I couldn't get to sleep, but that I decided I was near enough to the end of the book I was reading to continue until I had finished it.

  I must admit it did feel that it was going to be hard to get to sleep, but I think I was fast asleep before I had even finished exploring that thought. To my amazement I slept really well. I have only the very vaguest memories of getting up for a pee maybe twice in the night, or three times if you include going for a pee at nearly 7am. After that pee I thought I would get back in bed and rest my eyes for a few more minutes. 90 minute later I woke up !

  When I woke up I seemed to have my cold back, but it was mainly in the form of a dry mouth and throat that made me cough a bit until I wet my mouth with a couple of mouthfuls of drink. I also seemed to have a mildly sore throat. That too seems to fade away fairly quickly. However, I did have a brief period of dry cough when I first tried to go to sleep last night, and that set my mind thinking.

  I may, or may not have mentioned that the first symptoms of the cold I thought I had were also very much like an allergic reaction. This morning I realised that it only seemed to happen when my mouth and nose were very near the pillow on my bed - i.e. when laying on my side. During my long walk on the 2nd I had walked under some overhanging trees, and I felt twigs brushing through my hair. I am wondering if those twigs had dust, or fungal spores, or even bird crap on them, That night I could have transferred what ever I might have picked up on my hair to my pillow.

  The only problem with that theory is that I would have felt the effect on the morning of the 3rd, but I think my cold-like symptoms started on the morning of the 4th January. However some sort of allergic reaction could explain why my temperature has been very stable over the last 4 days, and by stable I mean follows a well trodden pattern. Anyway, this morning I have washed my hair and changed the pillowcase. If I wake up feeling extra fine tomorrow I will have proved the allergy theory....well, sort of.

  This morning I feel moderately OK in most respects, but I could be deluding myself because of the sunshine (and as I write that, the sun has just pooped out again). The only negative thing is my blood glucose level. it is hard to fool that. I can probably blame a lot of it on that half a Swiss Roll (and now it is open I'll probably eat the rest today). This morning my blood glucose level was 8.5mmol/l. That seems to be about my average for this month. It is too high, but fortunately not dangerously high because it is proving very hard to control it better while I suffer from the winter blues.

  Today I should take advantage of the brighter weather, and what ever sunshine there is still to come, and go for a walk, but I am not sure if I will. I feel like I should try and do a bit of housework while I am almost in the mood. I have already left some clothes soaking in a tub of laundry detergent that I will finish washing soon. I have a little bit of washing up to do, although I have managed to not let it build up recently. The wildest think I think I am going to do is some hoovering. The dining room really needs it after cutting up some cardboard boxes in there recently, and many rooms, plus the hall and stairs need it after dried mud has come off my walking boots in many places. I know I shouldn't even walk in with them without cleaning off some of the mud, and then get the rest of the mud off as soon as possible, but you have to remember I am a lazy slob :-)
  I took this screenshot of a government "advert" because I thought it was another prime example of this government's slap dash way of dealing with everything they should do. In my opinion it would be more effective if it read "Act like they have got it" - "They don't need symptoms to have coronavirus". If you assume that anyone you meet is a plague carrier, and try and keep at least 3 metres, and preferably more, from them, there is little chance of you catching it, and then passing it on to others. I'm sure that in most cases self preservation outweighs altruism. After all it is hard being altruistic if you are dead. Only when you look after number one can you look after others.