Today is going to be another day very similar to yesterday. The sky will be nearly clear all day, and the sun should shine until sunset. One curious thing is that the forecast says today has started colder than yesterday morning, and yet the lack of frost, and what my thermometers tell me, suggest that today has started 1° C warmer than yesterday. It is still bloody cold though ! On the other hand, maybe there is a better chance of this afternoon's temperature reaching 11° C, and maybe, if we are very lucky, even 12° C. It may not get so cold tonight, and this time tomorrow could see the temperature as high (!) as 4° C. Tomorrow morning may only feature sunny spells, but full sunshine is predicted for the afternoon. It seems illogical that tomorrow may only reach 9° C in the afternoon instead of the 10 to 12° C of today. The forecast for the day after tomorrow, Monday, is of course nothing but fantasy, but if it does have any reality it is going to be colder, and a a lot greyer.

  The thing I didn't mention yesterday, mainly because I was unaware of how bad it was while writing, was that I was suffering from that close relative to Dysentery - the galloping shits. There was little urgency about it, but for the whole morning (and maybe even ending early afternoon) I was making regular trips to the toilet every hour or less. It was peculiar in that it was different to the more common upset stomach. Without going into gruesome details it is hard to explain why, but the simplest difference was a dull stomach ache. I did have a hint of nausea for a while, and that was a bit different to the typical "drop everything and run to the toilet" type of stomach upset.

  Needless to say, this killed my plans for a walk in the sunshine. Even if I had trusted I was empty by, say, 2pm, I still had that stomach pain.In some ways it was closer to a hunger pain than anything else, although I shouldn't have been hungry. I decided to eat something that should have been sort of "safe", or was until I added chilli sauce to it. I had a couple of bowls of instant noodles. They were soft, and not challenging in most ways. They were bland to until I added some tomato purée, and chilli sauce to make them really tasty.

  Those noodles did seem to settle my stomach in one sense, but maybe they were the source of the slight feel of nausea I got. It didn't feel like I would throw up in any strong sense, but there was a sort of background hint to it. A little later I had this idea that maybe some ice cream would go down well. It was certainly very nice, but I don't think it did any good, or any harm - except to my blood glucose level.

  I felt in an extremely lazy mood for almost all of yesterday. Until mid afternoon, and maybe a bit later than that, I spent a lot of time laying on my bed reading and snoozing. I think I wanted to snooze a lot more than I actually did snooze. I have to admit it was almost like sunbathing with the sun streaming through my bedroom windows. Where it hit my bed it felt deliciously warm and relaxing. It is a shame that the window glass filters all the U.V. light out, and so my tan did not get topped up. I think not getting the full sun on my face and arms was my main regret about yesterday.

  When it came to dinner time I wanted "something", but I was not sure what. Initially I thought I would have no more than some grilled bacon, but then something caught my eye. I knew it was stupid at the time when I included two cans of tinned beef burgers in an order from Star Bargains. I ordered them with a sort of morbid curiosity, and it was that same curiosity that made me "cook"  (aka zap in the microwave for 4 minutes) the contents of one of the cans emptied into a microwave safe container.

  Those burgers where exactly as expected - just short of disgusting ! They were disks of mechanically recovered pink slime formed into patties.  Their texture was unpleasant, and the taste was bland in the extreme. They came in gravy, and the gravy was the most tasty thing, although even that left a lot to be desired. Oh well, at least I know what these £1.99, reduced to £1 (I think) taste like, and I only have one more can to do something with. Maybe as fox food !

   After resting so much through the day my sleep didn't come easy, and at time it didn't feel like it would come at all. The big problem was that after spending most of the day in my bedroom it was too warm in there to be comfortable in bed. Specifically it was that all too common problem of being too hot under the duvet, and not quite warm enough to shift the duvet aside. I think I managed to sleep for almost 2 hours while half uncovered.

  By that time the room was cooling down a bit, but it was till too hot to fully cover myself with the duvet. After thrashing around for nearly an hour I solved the problem by turning the heater up, and completely ignoring the duvet for most of the night. In the last couple of hours before getting up I started covering more and more of me with the duvet, and I woke up at just gone 7am almost completely under the duvet.

  This morning the effect of two bowls of noodles, a tub of low calorie/sugar ice cream, and maybe some other stuff I ate, left their mark on my blood glucose level. It was up to 8.3mmol/l again. Apart from a few stiff muscles when I first got out of bed, I felt moderately OK this morning. My stomach upset appears to be over, although I must have been completely empty after yesterday morning, and it might take a while to find out how my guts are doing. I did feel a bit peckish this morning, and I treated myself to 4 rice cakes with cheese on them for breakfast.

  I had been thinking of trying for a walk in this morning's sunshine, but it is rather cold outside, and I need a bit of energy for this afternoon. For complex reasons involving football, Jodie has asked if she can change Sunday afternoon's boozing session to today. It is actually because the people she would usually visit on a Saturday will be watching football all evening today. So this afternoon will be beer time, and tomorrow I will have to find some alternate entertainment for myself, It will be cold but sunny, and if this afternoon's beer doesn't trigger a gut upset, maybe I'll get that walk in tomorrow.