This morning's forecast for today doesn't look as good as the predictions made yesterday. Originally the afternoon was going to be sunny, but now it looks like even sunny spells will be in very short supply this afternoon. The forecast is right so far - we are having long sunny spells at the moment, but there are banks of white fluffy clouds to be seen in the sky. It looks like it should be dry today, and the afternoon temperature will be a mildly warm 21° C. The very latest revision that I have just seen shows sunny spells for a lot of the afternoon again. Maybe today will be better than the early forecast suggested. Let's hope that tomorrow will improve. The current prediction is for light rain for over half the day tomorrow. The last rains of the day could be quite heavy.

   The hay fever that afflicted me the day before yesterday had died down well before the day was over, and I didn't really notice any problems yesterday (or this morning). Yesterday's main affliction was the after effects of my guts exploding the night before. My gut felt tender until gone lunchtime, and possibly later. Some of the empty feeling was helped by the bacon that I reported I had for breakfast yesterday morning. At lunchtime I had a couple of cans of soup, and they probably helped to make my gut feel better.

  The rotten weather yesterday morning meant I only had one plan for the day, and that plan was starting to look foolish for a while. I wanted to wash a small bath towel, and a hand towel, and I wanted to hang them in the sunshine to dry. There was still one shower at 2pm shown in the forecast, but I decided to ignore that, and fortunately it ignored me. It was soon after midday that I hand washed those towel, and hung them on the line to dry.

  At first it was a bit dull, and they seemed to hardly dry. Then a light breeze sprung up - just enough to make them jiggle a bit on the line, and they probably dried a bit faster. I think it was about 4pm when I brought them in. They were warm and dry after we had a good hour of long sunny spells. My gamble of hanging them on the line paid off in full !

  The rest of yesterday was one of those days where I was mildly active, but still doing nothing of any great import. I suppose that is not fully true because there was one sort of important thing I did. I got out my tallest tripod, and set one of my trail cameras looking at the bird table, and feeders, in the hope of some nice pictures of, ideally, small birds.
  Unfortunately I put the trail camera too close to the bird table. The bottom of the hanging feeders could not be seen in the pictures (or video), and the heads of any pigeon was off the top of the picture if they stood fully upright. I missed a good (as in good visuals) pigeon fight/disagreement because of that.
  This was the best picture of a pigeon I got, and it is far from spectacular. I did manage to capture the shadow of what I think was a blue tit, but a shadow doesn't make a very useful picture. Early in the evening I changed the memory card in the trail camera, and moved the tripod back. I hope the camera is now capturing a bigger view of the bird table and feeders. I was curious to see if the table or feeders got any nocturnal visitors. This morning I am very curious as to what the camera managed to capture because one side of the table has partly fallen away as if something heavy landed on it. Once I am dressed for the great outdoors I'll check the camera.

  I filled in all the gaps in the day by one of three activities - reading, snoozing, and also I did a bit more CD ripping to my new laptop down on the dining room. Inevitably my thoughts turned to food as dinner time approached. There were a few things I could had prepared for dinner, but for some stupid reason I got it into my mind that I fancied some Thai food. That meant putting my hand in my pocket (so to speak) and paying for a takeaway.

  I checked a few places. One place looked interesting, but only scored 3 out of 5 on "scores on the doors" by the food standards agency. Another was waiting assessment, but then I noticed one scored the full 5 out of 5. Not only a high score but the online menu gave a good description of each dish, and included what some of the ingredients were. One family of dishes specifically mentioned sugar as an ingredient, and I stayed clear of them.

  The delivery time was quite good, maybe around 20 minutes, and it seemed I had made some good choices - just don't ask me to remember the names of anything I ordered ! Perhaps on of the most notable things was "Summer Rolls". They were inspired by Chinese spring rolls, but rather different. For instance, instead of being fried they were wrapped in soft rice paper, and most of the ingredients, except for a few little chunks of chicken, were raw. I suspect they were very healthy, as in low sugar and low calorie. Nothing I had seemed to contain any sugar as far as my taste buds could tell.

  My TV viewing started at dinnertime, and was what is now the usual of Space:1999, and Star Trek: Voyager. Neither really grabbed my attention that much. If I remember correctly, when Space:1999 was first shown I thought the concept was very good, but by the second series it just got silly, and I lost interest. Last nights, and indeed most episodes I've seen lately just feel rather silly now. What was less silly, and was very interesting viewing, was a documentary about The Sex Pistols, and the making of their infamous album, "Never Mind The Bollocks".

  I thought I was going to write a lot about my dreams this morning, but now I sit hear behind the keyboard I realise I have just about forgotten all my dreams. All I can remember is that they seemed only what I can call "friendly" - as in non threatening, or possibly a bit bland. Maybe it all means that I slept well last night. I can remember getting up for a wee more than once, but even those memories are sort of blurry. The first strong memory is of waking up at 4am. It was light outside, and it felt like I should get up, but I fought that idea and eventually fell asleep again until almost 7am.

  I do feel what I can only describe as less bad this morning. In other words nothing seems to be creaking and uncomfortable this morning. I think it is a sign of a little bit of better weather. Yesterday morning my blood glucose was a rather high 9.0mmol/l. Before dinner last night it had dropped to  nice 6.7mmol/l. I guess there was probably a little bit of sugar in my Thai dinner last night because this morning it is up to 8.5mmol/l. That is still a bit too high, but it's not too bad.

  There are a few things today that I might, or might not do. Repairing the bird table, and checking the trail camera that should have seen it break is one definite thing. I think I'll be taking a chance on the weather, and washing a rather heavy duvet cover. It is made of quite thick cotton, and is going to be bloody heavy, and rather difficult to wring out by hand. It really will need to be hung on the line to drip dry. That duvet cover will probably wear me out, and the chance of going for a nice healthy walk through the park seems unlikely today, but still possible. More likely, although still far from definite, is a quick visit to Poundland for a few items.