Today may be better than yesterday, but it remains almost like mid February. There seems no chance of seeing the sun today, but at least a lot of the day may only feature white clouds. That is not the case at the moment - even if the forecast shows the same white clouds as expected for much of the rest of the day. At the moment we seem to be heading towards a shower. The latest revision to the forecast says there will be light rain at 8am as well as the heavy rain at 9am. It wouldn't really come as a surprise if later revisions added more rain. Curiously enough my thermometer, which also measure barometric pressure, reckons it will be sunny today ! The only good thing about today is that the temperature should rise to at least 17° C. It needs to rise fast because there is an icy feeling wind blowing into my bathroom ! Tomorrow should be a bit more like June with lots of sunshine, and the temperature above 20° C

   Yesterday was a day of excess ! That doesn't mean I did anything after I went shopping in Aldi early in the morning. The grey skies and rain made me feel hungry. Not only did I have the big pack of sandwiches, and the pasta salad I had bought from Aldi for breakfast, but I had too many snacks as well. By dinnertime all I dared eat was a salad that was all vegetable except for a sprinkling of shaved Parmesan type cheese on it.

  As well as an excess of food, I tried for an excess of drink. I have to admit I failed in that, and it was all the fault of the last of three bottles of Fullers beer that I drank. The first two bottles were of Bengal Lancer. That is an IPA style beer with (I think) some spices added. I am not keen on it, but having bought 8 bottles of it I have to drink it. The last bottle was of Golden Pride. That is an 8.3% beer - very strong, and very malty tasting. It has quite a sweet taste, and that, as enjoyable as it was, signalled it was time to stop.

  Eating and drinking were the highlights of yesterday. I spent almost all of the rest of the time either reading or snoozing. The weather was making me feel quite depressed, and I couldn't raise the enthusiasm to even think about raising the enthusiasm to do anything useful. It was a day that couldn't pass fast enough. At least not until the evening when I finally raised a little enthusiasm to do something. That something was to finish the book I was reading.

  I think it may have been as late as 11pm when I read the last words in the book, turned the light out, and fell asleep. My memory is quite hazy, but I have doubts that I fell asleep that quickly. Just lately, possibly just during this cold wet weather, my right shoulder can get quite painful at times, and those times are mostly when I turn over on my right side, and there is pressure on that shoulder. I know it was painful in the night, and despite sleeping on my right being  my preferred side, I mostly slept on my left side last night.

  I can only remember a bit of one dream from last night. It was quite inventive as well as being a bit strange. It was one of those dreams where you are sure there must have been something before and after the bit you remember. The bit I do remember was firing off a rocket that I seemed to have invented. It was very small, about the size of an old "magic marker", and it was nuclear powered. One curious thing was that the rocket engine gave off a thick cloud of smoke, mostly at take off, and the smoke was deliberate because it was impervious to radiation, and protected me and anyone else in the vicinity. The rocket flew to 8465 metres above the ground, and then the dream sort of faded away.

  At about 4am this morning I woke up needing a wee, and also feeling freezing cold. I had the heater on low all last night, and so it shouldn't have been that cold, but I was completely uncovered when I woke up. At that point describing myself as freezing cold was a bit of an exaggeration, but after going in the bathroom, with an icy wind blowing through the open window, I did feel very unpleasantly cold. Before I got back to bed I turned the heater up full, and made sure I was completely covered by the duvet cover. The way the time passed after that meant I must have got some sleep, but it felt like I was awake most of the time.

  When I finally hauled myself out of bed again I still felt a bit cool. It did occur to me that maybe I had a fever. I take my temperature every morning, and record it, and this morning I was far from a fever. The thermometer said my temperature was just 35.0° C. That is quite low, but also quite normal for me. My next reading was not so good. It was my blood glucose reading. It was 9.6mmol/l, and that is getting close to the danger zone. It was not surprising after the breakfast I had yesterday, and the sweet beers I drank later in the day. I think most of the snacks I had were mostly safe. Of course it didn't help that I started off with a high reading yesterday morning.

  Today really ought to be guided by that high blood glucose reading. In a different reality I would go out train spotting/rail exploring for the day, and avoid all food. In this reality I can't go on trains without a face mask, and I will now bow to wearing one just to get on a train. Unless it gets significantly brighter later today, I don't think I will be going out for any exercise. I think today will just be another boring day, stuck inside, and somehow ignoring the urge to eat. Maybe some  other option may present itself later, but I doubt it.