The latest revision to the forecast has not changed much to that in the screenshot above. One significant change is that the sunshine for 9am has changed to sunny spells. As I write this the sky is widely covered by thin-ish cloud, and the sun has been behind a thicker piece of cloud for some time now. If it manages to find a way for it to come out again then I guess "sunny spells" is justified, but it feels a lot more like "cloudy" at the moment. From midday the sky will be overcast with light cloud. The latest revision shows no heavy cloud at 2pm, or sunny spells at 5pm. The afternoon temperature should rise to 7° C. It is not shown, but tomorrow could start perilously close to frosty ! The afternoon temperture may briefly hit 7° C, but 6° C will probably be more representative of the day. One single sunny spell might happen at 10am, but in general the first half of the day will feature light coloured cloud, and the second half, darker cloud.

  Not including the weather, yesterday was actually quite a good day. It started when I did something I didn't need to do, but I fancied doing it anyway. I went for a short walk. I didn't measure it, but I estimate it would have been close enough to a single mile that it could be called one mile. I initially walked to the cash machine by the small Sainsbury's Local by Catford Station. After extracting some cash I went and spent a little of that cash in the little supermarket on Catford Bridge.

  I bought a selection of stuff including some fruit (navel oranges) and some stuff I probably shouldn't have bought. One item that was not an ideal purchase was some rye bread with sunflower seeds. I usually avoid buying bread because it can be detrimental to my blood glucose level. It does depend on the bread though. Some white bread seems to be sweetened with sugar for some reason. I don't think the rye bread is sweetened, and provided I use it in moderation it may be OK. The small ring of Turkish bread with sesame seeds definitely tasted sweet. I think the sesame seeds were probably stuck on using a sugar solution. I didn't eat that in moderation, and I am paying the price this morning.

  There were two things that curiosity drove me to buy, but I have to treat them like nitroglycerine ! They are almost pure sugar ! It was two packs of "Turkish Delight". One was "cherries and berries" flavour, and the other may have been strawberry flavour. I haven't opened either pack, and I shall try not to until I have been on at least a 5 mile walk on a warm sunny day - so probably not any time this month ! Even then I will have to only eat a block or two a day.

   When I first started walking towards the cash machine I felt really stiff and creaky, but with hindsight I wonder if I felt worse than at the start of most of my walks. After getting my cash I then walked to the mini supermarket, and as I got close to it I could feel my legs getting better. From the mini supermarket to home my legs felt fairly free, but by then I was carrying quite a bit of shopping, and with a warm coat on, I didn't enjoy the walk because I felt too encumbered.

  After getting home I had a bit to eat - bean salads - and then had a rest. It may have been an hour later that I started some laundry. It didn't feel like it was a long time since I last did some laundry but I was quite surprised how much I had to do. I very nearly did the job in two halves with a break between them, but I did it all in one go. I seemed to feel that I couldn't wait to get back to something else, and didn't have time to do that laundry in one go, but that was fantasy. I had nothing else to do, and so no need to stop....although I was intrigued to see what the two envelopes contained that had arrived in the post as I was doing the laundry. (They were nothing to get excited about !).

  The final thing I had to do was to tidy up the dining room, and prepare it for a boozing session with Jodie. She brought two cans of beer with her, and although they were not terribly exciting, they were not horrible like some of the stuff she has been bringing over. It was much nicer when we got to some of the strong (~8%) Belgium beers I had. They were really good - very smooth, and very potent.

  At the end of the session my will power was very low, and I ended up eating the rest of the ring of sesame bread (we had both had a nibble or two of it while drinking). I had it, with some cheese, as a sort of dessert after my otherwise quite healthy dinner of skinless chicken thighs cooked in stock with mushrooms and green vegetable. It has unfortunately become standard practice for Jodie to leave in time for the 7pm train instead of the 6pm train as used to be. That meant I had my dinner at 7pm.

 It wasn't long after 8pm that I decided to brush my teeth before reading in bed for maybe half an hour or more. In reality it was less. I am still struggling to enjoy the book I am reading, but it does seem to be getting better now I have finished many chapters that were sort of background to what I hope will be the main story. I didn't seem to have any trouble getting to sleep after putting the book down. I think I was asleep a bit before 9pm.

  I first woke up just before 11pm, and it was because I needed a wee. My first thought when I saw the time was that it was not yet closing time (in the pubs that stick to the traditional closing time of 11pm). I know many people, in fact I think almost everyone I know who would not want to leave a pub until closing time, but I was fast asleep in bed two hours before closing time.

  I woke a few more time in the night, and I should be able to remember some dream, but all I can remember is what seemed like a long dream set in a Business Village. It was a bit like the first place I worked for my last employer. It was an old factory/warehouse divided into individually rented rooms. I seemed to be there being introduced to the place as a potential new recruit, but actually as a Job Centre mandated work placement. Mostly I seemed to be just following someone around who knew quite a few people in there, and could show me their workplaces. I do seem to recall that no one was actually doing any work despite seeming to be busy.

  The second to last time I woke up was because I had cramp in my right leg. It was made more painful by being, or seeming to be being tangled up with the duvet. It was painful work trying to get my leg free so I could get out of bed. Once I was standing up the pain just seemed to flow away in seconds. Amazingly enough I got back into bed and fell asleep again only 20 minutes away from when I might have got up. I actually slept for an hour and twenty minutes. Even with the times I was awake I must have got a lot more in total than my eight hours.

  My biggest surprise on getting up was how not big my blood glucose was. It was 9.1mmol/l, and that is far too high, but I was expecting something over 10mmol/l after all I ate and drank yesterday. I guess my pancreas is still working OK, and my insulin resistance is not too bad at the moment. I hope that once we get some warm, dry, and sunny weather, and if I can start to do a lot more walking, and lose some more belly fat, my insulin resistance should improve. I should be far more tolerant to the occasional excess of sugar then. The only trouble with this future fantasy is that I sometimes wonder if I will ever enjoy, and be able to do such walks again in the future. On the cold and damp days it seems improbably that I could survive even a 3 mile walk, and yet the 6.8 mile walk I did in the warm sunshine mid February says I am still capable when the conditions are right.

  Today I probably should force myself top dress up in my winter gear and go for a walk - even just a 3 mile walk in the Linear Park - but I have a good excuse not to. As far as I am aware, because the tracking web site seems a bit vague, I am waiting in for my new beer supplies to be delivered today. It seems that the many from Yodel left the depot at about 10.30am. I have no idea where I will be on his round, and so I can't even begin to guess when the delivery will happen. All I really know is that Yodel have a terrible reputation of ring and run, or tossing delicate electronic equipment over garden fences (sometime in the wrong garden) as part of their standard delivery routine. I really need to keep a sharp lookout for a delivery van, and try and rush to the front door as soon as I see it. I dare not even have a shower and wash my hair until my beer is here !