The early morning version of yesterday's
forecast was not terribly accurate. Later
revisions changed some of the periods of dark
cloud to light cloud, and other periods of dark
cloud were changed to rain. That got a bit closer
to the reality that featured more showers, but
also a few sunny periods. It was late afternoon
when it brightened up, and the sun managed to
break through the clouds a few times. The part of
the forecast that was, as usual, very close to
reality was the temperature. It reached 18° C for
a while, but 17° C probably represents the
temperature in a more general way.
The forecast
today is very similar to the early
forecast for yesterday. There will be
lots of dark clouds, and apart from at
9pm when the sun may peep through the
clouds for just long enough to wave
goodbye as it sets, the rest of the
day will feature light clouds. It is
entirely possible that the weather may
diverge from this forecast, but that
could mean rain or sunshine at some
random time. The morning temperature
is a definite chilly 14° C. By 5pm it
could be 18° C like yesterday.
Tomorrow the weather will try to act
like summer again. There will be lots
of sunshine, but the temperature will
only be 23° C. The day after could be
warmer, but maybe feature less
sunshine.
I
definitely felt bored yesterday.
It wasn't intense boredom, and in
some ways it was more akin to
frustration. It was a day when
nothing seemed to be going on to
capture my imagination. The
weather bears 80% of the blame for
it. It never looking inviting
enough to consider going out, and
one desperate plan I hatched to
cut the grass again was thwarted
by unscheduled rain.
One thing I can claim to
have done was keep an eye on my
eating. It wasn't so much how much
I ate, which I confess was more
than needed. That can be directly
attributed to boredom. It was the
quality of what I ate -
particularly with regard to sugar
content. As a for instance, my
dinner was lean beef cubes cooked
in stock with beansprouts. That
should have been very low sugar,
and fairly low calories. Other
stuff, such as peanuts and cheese
was also low sugar, but rather
high calories.
Before the first afternoon
rain shower I went out to put food
on the bird table, and to fetch
the memory cards of the trail
cameras that were watching the
bird table and feeders. I also
spent a few minutes looking at the
state of my garden.
I'm sure I must have
mentioned that the one thing the
fox cubs never trashed in my
garden were the potato plants.
Potatoes are part of the
nightshade species of plants, and
their leaves are poisonous, and
the fox cubs trampled them a bit,
but basically left them alone. In
the last fortnight, aided by all
the rain we have had, they have
really flourished, and although
the delicate, light shaded lilac
flowers don't show up well in the
above picture, they were flowering
- not that flowering really
matters - all the good stuff is
below ground !
One or two of the local
birds seemed to want to thank me
for the bird food. This cherry,
and one off the right hand edge of
the picture were dropped just
outside my backdoor. I presume
they are from next door's cherry
tree.
Going through all the
pictures and video that
my two trail cameras
shot took a fair bit of
time yesterday. Once
again I came to the
conclusion that the
pictures were pretty
lousy. The used to look
fine with big, mostly
slow moving animals like
foxes and cats, but they
just can't cope with
fluttery small birds.
However, the video
capture is not too bad,
and in this video I
present three clips that
are mostly self
explanatory. The one
thing I'll add is that
the last clip shows a
great tit (I think) on
the peanut feeder. It
seems very rare for any
bird to go to that
feeder.
Sometimes I am
unsure how to describe my
sleep, but last night I can
definitely say it was lousy.
It didn't start out that way.
I spent some time reading in
bed, but I feel sure I had put
the book down, turned out the
light, and was fast asleep
before 10pm. I seemed to sleep
solidly until about 1am when I
woke up for a pee. I am unsure
if it was a self fulfilling
prophecy, but somehow I knew
it was going to take ages to
get back to sleep.
I thrashed around in
bed for maybe almost an hour
before getting up and reading
stuff on the internet and
stuff. It was gone 3am before
I got back to sleep, and I had
to turn on the heating to feel
comfortable. The funny thing
is that it didn't feel cold
while using my PC, but it felt
half way to shivery when I lay
on my bed just 5ft away from
my PC. Once I got back to
sleep I didn't sleep all that
well. I seemed to want to get
up at 5am, but I thought that
was too early. Then I woke up
at 6am, and once again I
didn't want to get up. I
finally decided to get up at
just gone 7am.
I know I had loads of
dreams. One was erotic, or at
least I think it was supposed
to be, but I can't seem to
remember anything happening. I
only remember a few seconds of
one dream because it was very
strange. I can't remember the
circumstances surrounding the
bit I remember, but the bit I
do remember was having a
bucket, and wanting to fill it
with water so I could wash my
hands. I got that water by
going up to a lamp post, and
overriding the rain control.
Instead of a lamp there was a
shower head up there, and that
filled my bucket. Maybe it was
dream that leaked from the far
future where all lamp posts
have shower heads to wash the
road while we are asleep.
I did not feel good
when I woke up, although, with
hindsight, I am unsure exactly
why I thought that. I don't
think I had any extra aches -
just the usual ones, and even
they didn't seem as bad as
usual. Maybe it was just
annoyance at an apparently bad
sleep, and a feeling of
tiredness. Maybe it was just a
feeling of another bad weather
day, and so a mostly boring
day.
The good news is that
my blood glucose level was
down to an acceptable
8.0mmol/l. I am hoping it may
be even lower tomorrow to give
a good start to July. Of
course the chance of keeping
it low for a whole month seems
pretty remote. Mind you, my
average morning reading for
this month is 8.45mmol/l, and
that is not that bad.
If I were to give a blood
sample today, as I have
supposed to have done well
over a month ago, I think the
official figure would
be in the region where the
nurse would give me a mild
lecture, but not suggest any
change in medication.
So today may be a
boring day, or maybe there is
a minute chance of it being a
good day. It's a Wednesday,
and if Angela has got over her
cold enough, she may meet me
for a lunchtime pint or two. I
have my doubts, but it would
probably be good for me just
to do the walk to the pub to
stretch my legs. Failing
that, today could be a lot
like yesterday.
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