Yesterday's great achievement was a second shopping trip to Poundstretcher. I bought the solar powered spot lamps I was interested in, plus a few other things. My legs felt a bit stiff as I started walking there, but they seemed to loosen up fairly quickly. It soon felt to be quite good, and I could almost have been tempted to walk a lot further. Maybe it was because I had my proper walking boots on, and I was wearing them with new socks. The socks were just cheapo black trainer socks from Poundland (6 pairs for £2), but they seemed to be very comfortable.
  I noted that Iceland was being refitted while out yesterday. First it was Bejam, and then Iceland, and now it will be Iceland mk2 (or 3, or 4, of however many times it has been refreshed/refurbished). The place was certainly due a refurbishment. It was looking very grubby and down market recently.
  Another thing I spotted, and bought yesterday, was a packet of Vesta Paella. I haven't had one of these for years and years. These Vesta meals are both good and bad - sort of tasty, and very unauthentic. I only stopped to look at it because it stood out from other stuff around it in Poundstretcher. That made me examine it a bit closer. My first thoughts were that it would have a high sugar content, and a high calorie content. The calorie content is moderately high, but the sugar content is not too bad, although all the rice will turn to sugar when digested. I still thought it was worth grabbing a pack, and someday in the not too distant future I will have it for dinner.

  When I got home with my shopping I put away stuff that needed to be put away, and then I removed tags and stuff, and set up the three solar power spot lamps. I then "planted them" in the garden. I also put out some of the new bird feed I had bought. That included dried silk worms. I guess they are a by-product of silk harvesting. The birds seem to like them. With the lamp set, and the birds fed, I did very little else for the rest of the day.

  The "little else"  was things like occasionally going down stairs where I am slowly re-ripping my CD collection to mp3 files. In some cases it is actually ripping them for the first time. I think I had a snoozed or two, and I read some of the current book I am reading ("Earth" by Ben Bova). Later on I entertained myself by watching another three episodes of Blake's 7. As I said yesterday, some episodes are good, and some bad, but none seem to be as exciting as an episode after having to wait a whole week for a brand new episode on TV.

  I'm trying to think if I ate anything particularly bad during the day, yesterday. I don't think I did, but by dinnertime I thought that maybe I had eaten a too much during the day. I opted to have a very light dinner. It was to be a ham salad, and in a way it was, but it had no green leaves in it. When I rummaged through the fridge I found one unopened, and three opened bags of assorted salad leaves. The unopened one was looking nasty and limp, and the other bags were in a very sad condition indeed ! I had my salad, and without a pile of assorted leaves it looked very small.

  My sleep was good and bad last night. It was good in as much as I didn't get that horrible itchiness feeling on the sole of my right foot. It was bad because....actually I am not sure why I think it was bad. I just get the idea I didn't sleep well, but I can't remember why because I was mostly asleep. About the only sort of bad thing I can think of was, like many nights recently, I decided to turn the heater on during the night because I was feeling too cool (but not exactly cold). In fact, a few hours later I was feeling a bit too warm.

 I had some interesting dreams. At least they seemed interesting at the time, but all but a part of a dream has now faded away. The bit of dream I remember sounds very feasible, but I am sure it has never happened before (or anything like it). I think it was set in my mums old garden, and featured a wooden clothes horse - which she did have. I was hanging a few shirts on the clothes horse. Half had been pre-dried in front of an electric heater, and the other half in front of a gas heater. Those dried electrically were far drier than those dried in front of a gas fire. I would imagine that in the real world it would be hard to tell the difference, but in the dream world the water given off by the burning gas served to keep the shirts damper.

  This morning my blood glucose has dropped a little to 8.3mmol/l. That is getting nearer to where I would like it to be, and so is good. I feel moderately OK this morning, and that too is good. For some reason I changed my usual morning routine this morning. I got dressed enough to go outside and fed the birds before I did anything else. I also disposed of the rotten, and nasty smelling salad leaves into the garden waste bin. I also emptied the kitchen waste bin. It should smell a bit sweeter in the kitchen this afternoon.

  It was only then that I went to the toilet, and took my morning medication. There then followed stuff that kept me away from writing all this until a lot later than I could have. The first distraction was looking for photographs I had taken of Carrie Mae (singer and now small time TV host) because it is her birthday today. I think I found a few she may never had seen before. After that I was distracted by two rambling phone calls from Lee !

  It seems Lee has revised his fantasy of having a band play at a garden party he is organising. He thinks that of he can hire Chain it will immediately give him the credibility he so lacks. He intends to invite many of the Bromley musicians, but I feel sure that most won't go because his reputation is in the dumps because of his failure to repair so much he said he could repair. To be honest, even I don't want to go his party. Two days ago he was complaining he was broke, and so I don't know where he will get the money to pay Chain for a gig (probably £200 to £300 at a guess). I have doubts they will want to do it.

  Today's big entertainment (sort of) is another Sunday afternoon beer drinking session with Jodie. Other than that, nothing much is happening. I did have thoughts of going to Poundland, but there is nothing there I am desperate for. I think I will just quietly read for a while next, and maybe even have a snooze if I feel one coming on. Sooner or later I must have a shower and get properly dressed !