It is bloody cold right now. My outside thermometer agrees with the prediction of -4° C, but much of the sky is blue, and the sun will soon make it over the rooftops, and a lot of today could be sunny, or if not sunny, then it will feature sunny spells. By 1pm the temperature may have risen to 0° C, and a few hours later it will be 1° C. It should stay there until 9am tomorrow when it will rise another degree. Tomorrow should see the slow transition to slightly warmer days, and also back to wetter days. Monday might be almost warm if the wind is light enough. From then on most days should see the temperature hit 10° C, and sometimes a bit more. It is the first hint that spring will eventually arrive.
  I seemed to forget to show this picture yesterday. It is of yesterday's sunrise. All that red should have heralded a lousy day, but unless you count the temperature, which you shouldn't, it was actually a nice and bright day. There was a slightly red sunset, not nearly as spectacular as this, but weather lore says it foretells of good weather. It seems that once again, if you ignore the temperature, it will be a fine day.

  I am not very good at multitasking. I don't mean the more traditional meaning of doing many things at the same time, but doing lots of things one after the other. Going out to get my Covid jab seemed like such an important thing that I didn't feel the need, or just didn't want to do anything more for the rest of the day. It seemed like a perfect time to lay on my bed, quietly reading.

  Unfortunately I couldn't keep that up for too long, and I did do other stuff. One thing involved a bit of physical effort, and tested how my arm felt after the needle was stuck in it. I hand washed a couple of t-shirts and half a dozen pairs of underpants. There didn't seem to be any real physical reason not to do the whole lot in one sitting, but I didn't for one simple reason, I was something like bored, but not bored. The problem is that I was doing something on my PC, and get wanting to get back to it. I did that laundry in three sessions with as much as a half hour gap between them.

  The thing I was doing on my PC was consolidating all my audio files onto one external hard disk.  I had loads on my PC hard disk, and even more on a couple of small USB external hard disk. I realised when doing it that one of those small hard disk had some old BBC radio programmes I had recorded in the days of  BBC7 on DAB. Until yesterday I was worried I had lost them. There is all sorts of spoken word stuff from serious stuff like Sherlock Holmes, to comedy stuff like "It Sticks Out Half A Mile" (Some of the cast of Dad's Army set in the years after the war).

  I only copied the files to the new hard disk, and so I still have a backup on the original disks, but I will need to get another big hard disk to make a backup copy of the new combined files on the new hard disk. Then I could potentially use the small hard disks for something else. Doing the copy started to get to be a long process towards the end because I had to intervene when duplicate files were detected - and there were quite a lot of them.

  The other bit of "manual labour" was preparing and cooking my dinner. Apart from a few nibbles on nuts, all I had eaten prior to dinner was two cans of soup. Both were relatively low in sugar content, and I needed to continue that after my terrible blood glucose reading in the morning. My dinner was basically a sort of chicken stew with mushrooms and savoy cabbage swimming in some thickened, and spiced, chicken gravy.

  I did seem to feel tired yesterday. It could have been a known side effect of my vaccination, but I rather think it was getting up at 5am. That was my standard time when I was at work, and it meant I always tried to get to sleep around 9pm. Last night was no different. I think I did have at least one short snooze during the day, but it, or they didn't seem to impair me getting to sleep quite close to 9pm.

  I seemed to sleep well, but I slept partly uncovered because my bedroom was quite warm when I went to bed, and perhaps more significantly I was quite warm inside after my hot, and spicy, dinner. As far as I am aware it was just before 2am when I first woke up. I felt a little cool, but not uncomfortably so - or so I seemed to think at the time. I needed a wee, and went to the bathroom. It felt icy cold in there, painfully cold, although I didn't seem to shiver. I couldn't wait until I had finished my wee, and got back to bed.

  I thought that maybe I had a fever. It is one common side effect of the vaccination, and is noted not to last long. If it was a fever it lasted all of 15 seconds. I checked my temperature, and it was just 35.1° C - a long way under a fever. I then checked my radio linked outside thermometer, and it was saying -2.5° C. It was cold in the bathroom because it was bloody cold outside....and it was getting colder, -4° C this morning.

 The early hours of this morning were one of those strange times when I started out thinking about the temperature, both mine and outside, and didn't seem to fall asleep for ages. Evidently I did because it felt like I had barely blinked while the clock had advanced a couple of hours, and my thoughts seemed to continue uninterrupted. I think that happened twice. By then I had possibly had a good 8 hours of sleep, and once again I seemed ready to get up soon after 5am again, but I think I managed to hang it out until just gone 6am....or did I ? It all seems very hazy now.

  One very well known side effect of the vaccination is a sort spot where the needle went in. I didn't notice anything when thrashing around in bed, but I will admit that there is a very vague hint of tenderness where the needle went in. The other frequent side effect is a sort of mild 'flu-like feeling that could last a day (a bit like my actual symptoms of Covid 19 a year ago, although that probably lasted 3 or 4 days). At the moment I can't decide if I feel worse than many mornings or not. I certainly was stiff, particularly my lower back, but I don't think that is specifically a 'flu like symptom.

  Now I've been up for several hours I feel much better, although I may still feel a bit tired, but that could just be impending boredom. The good news in all this is that my blood glucose has come down from silly to a fairly good 8.4mmol/l. I would be happy if I could keep it that low for the rest of the month, and get it lower still if March turns out to be modestly warm, and not too wet.

  It may be sunny for a lot, or quite a bit of today, but it is still very cold, and I think I am bored with relentless cold. It's fun when it is just one rare frosty morning, but day after day is too much. With that in mind, I can't be bothered to go out today. With warmer weather just around the corner, albeit possibly wet weather, I think I'll bide my time for a better day to go out. That leaves me feeling potentially bored today. I expect I'll find something to do - even if it is just hand washing my big bath towel. It is probably due a wash. Other than that, ???????????