The latest version of the weather forecast seems identical to the screenshot above. This morning is going to be dull and wet, but there is hope that there could be a few sunny spells from midday, and then some light cloud until it rains again at 5pm. Today seems like it will be a whole degree less cool than yesterday. 11° C, during a sunny spell, may feel pleasant. On the other hand, the BBC's weather forecast is giving a 30% chance of rain at midday, and as high as 58% for the rest of the afternoon. I think I will try and believe the Met Office. The warmest hour of tomorrow may be 10am when it will be, once again, 11° C. After that temperature will slowly fall to 6° C. From late morning to 1pm there could be rain, and much of it could be heavy rain. After that it should brighten up, and there might be some sunny spells.

  It was soon after I finished writing yesterday that I realised I had forgotten a very important thing. I suddenly remembered an even worse thing I did that would have been a major contribution to my high blood glucose. On Monday morning I had been shopping in Aldi, and for breakfast I had a sort of treat - too many ready made sandwiches. Some were made with white bread, which apparently has actual sugar in it, and the Valentines special sandwiches were made with malted bread. Malt is as good as 100% sugar. With all the other stuff I ate during the day it was not surprising my blood glucose level had gone through the roof !

  My high blood glucose was depressing, but the grey skies, and rain, were even more depressing yesterday. I really didn't fancy doing anything except mope around, quietly reading. I knew I had to break the lethargy, and once again I turned to laundry. Earlier on I had discovered a t-shirt hidden under my jeans, and I had another that I was going to wash. I decided to wash my "drinking trousers". I am not sure when they became drinking trousers, and they are only indoor drinking trousers. They are a sort of sports trousers with a drawstring around the waist. Once they were just casual indoor trousers, but it seems their turn for being worn is always on drinking days.

  Which nearly everything about yesterday's weather was dreadful, the 10° C (and I have a feeling I might have seen 11° C at some time) was quite good. It seemed mild enough to leave the dining room window a bit to get some fresh air in there. It also meant I had to use a lot less heating. For an hour or so I had the heating fully off in my bedroom where I was reading while laying on my bed. The only problem was suddenly realising I was feeling rather cold. That was the trigger to do the laundry - always a way of getting warm, and sometimes hot and sweaty.

  I was doing my best not to eat much, and to choose stuff with low amounts of sugar in it when I did eat. I did have a few nuts at times during the day, but my lunch was just grilled bacon and tomato sauce. That seemed to satisfy my craving for food for a fair time. It was while I was relaxed, and feeling a bit bored that I had one of those revelations that creep into the mind from apparently nowhere.

  I realised that my new PC has plenty of spare "horsepower" and resources to run virtual PCs inside it. It was something I experimented with quite some time ago, but my PC at the time was not very powerful, and I couldn't really do much with some of the virtual PCs I created. Yesterday afternoon I tried some of the virtual machines I had created in the past )saved as a single file representing a virtual hard disk). I got some good results !
  The most pleasing result was when I managed to get OS/2 to boot, and to boot correctly. I even managed to view a web page on it using it's own rather primitive web browser. I had to view one of my own web pages, based  on very simple html with no scripts of any other bloat. Any commercial web page would have just choked the whole machine. Everything was fine until I tried to make the screen size bigger. It all went down hill from there. I did almost mange to get it functioning again, but I am wondering if I should start again from scratch - not that it really matters. It is only a novelty thing to pass a few hours rather than a tool for doing anything productive.

  My dinner was very simple, and very healthy - possibly apart from the chicken gravy granules I used to thicken up the gravy that I cooked 3 chicken thighs, and rather a lot of savoy cabbage in. Later I added a sprinkle of hot pepper sauce, but apart from water, those were the only ingredients - no potatoes, or other carbohydrates. I probably should have had no more than a couple of apples for dessert, or even no dessert at all, but I thought I had been careful enough during the day, and so I treated myself to a tub of the low calorie/sugar ice cream that I have been finding is usually safe enough.

  I had had such a sedate day, and one that included a snooze or two, that I had difficulty getting to sleep last night. I must have been awake for at least an hour after turning the light out, and it was gone 10pm when I did that. I seemed to wake up more times than usual during the night, and by 5am I had almost run out of sleep. I could have got up then, but I really felt like I would like another 2 or 3 hours of sleep. I managed almost one hour extra.

  This morning my blood glucose has come down to 9.7mmol/l. That is still way too high, but at least it is a whole point lower than yesterday morning. There could be a little lag involved after having that ice cream in the evening. Today the one thing I will be doing is trying to be careful about what I eat, and hopefully my blood glucose can drop another point - maybe more if I do a bit of exercise.

  I can't say I feel wonderful today. This dull wet weather seems to be making a selection of joints ache again. At the moment it feels like the sort of aches that should respond to a few miles walk. With the afternoon mow different to what I was going to say before I checked to see if the forecast had been revised..... It seems the last of the rain will have fallen before midday. No sunny spells are now forecast, but the temperature could hit 12° C for just 1 hour at 2pm. No sun is bad, but being mild is good. I'll have to try and be patient, and keep my enthusiasm going until gone midday, but all being well I will be going for a walk today. The Linear Park is going to be very muddy, and I am wondering if I should walk elsewhere today - maybe I'll walk to the top of Mountsfield Park, and then see where I fancy going after getting there.