This morning has featured many sunny spells, but maybe they are fading out now, although the latest revision to the forecast says there could be some at 11am. After that things continue pretty much as the screenshot of the early forecast above shows. There will be a few hours when the cloud gets really thick, and the chance of rain rises to 10%. Later on, from 5pm according to the latest revision, there will be more sunny spells, and even solid sunshine is possible just before sunset. It should be a tiny bit warmer today with the afternoon temperature expected to be 23° C. Tomorrow may also briefly peak at 23° C, but there will be very little sunshine, and there is a 30% chance of rain from heavy clouds in the early afternoon.

  Yesterday was, speaking extremely generally, one of those days. As I wrote yesterday, it all started with an early morning appointment to give a couple of blood samples. It was the only important thing of the day, and it seems once it was all done it seemed like I didn't really want to do any more. I felt in a very lazy mood, and because I had got up earlier than usual I felt like I wanted to snooze a lot. I actually snoozed very little, but I was definitely very inactive for a lot of the day.

  The one thing I did do, with some reluctance, and in two parts, was to hand wash a bath towel, and a hand towel. It felt like hard work, but with just two items it was mostly easy in reality - I just didn't want to believe in reality. I didn't get those towels on the line until 2am, and probably missed the best drying weather, although the sun did come out for 5 minutes while I was hanging them on the line.

  By 8pm they were getting close to dry. I did consider leaving them out all night to dry this morning, but I brought them in to dry on a clothes horse overnight. This morning they only seemed to be 99.5% dry, or maybe they were just feeling a bit cool. If, as I would like to, I get around to washing a bed sheet and two pillowcases today, I really must try and get them one the washing line much earlier than I did with those towels.

  For quite a lot of yesterday I wanted to have "forbidden" food - food with a medium to high sugar content. The worst I had was, as I mentioned when writing yesterday morning, were 4 bits of liquorice allsorts. Later on I calmed down, and ate a bit more sensibly. I was sort of saving myself up for something like an Indian takeaway, but when it came down to it I still wanted to treat myself with a takeaway, but I opted for the safe option of grilled meat and salad - aka a kebab.

  I did order a couple of large kebabs, and they were delicious, although the novelty is wearing a bit thin now. I came very close to ordering either some grilled wings, which come with chips for some unknown reason, or a box of donner meat with chips. That latter option is really unhealthy, and really nice ! In a way I am sort of glad I did choose the safe option when ordering that takeaway (and made safer by discarding the pitta bread).

  It was a few minutes before 7pm, after I was feeling quite stuffed with my kebabs dinner, that I got a text message from the surgery to say my results were in. That seemed damn quick, and it is possible it wasn't all the result, but it was the important result. It was only a very short text message that said "Your results have been received. Good control of diabetes.". It seems it was worth hanging on until I had two months of mostly good results of my home tests. Although when I check my monthly averages it was only last May that was terrible.

  One other thing I did yesterday was to take these two pictures. The top picture shows part of the flowerbed-to-be by the back fence of the garden. Fortunately it is not easy to see in this small picture, but it is a cat toilet ! Easier to see are lots of small green plants - mostly immature plants. Many can be recognised as weeds, but there are also a lot I don't recognise. It was on this bit of ground that I emptied a whole load of seeds that must have been past their sow by date (and all past the sow by season). I made no attempt to cover the seeds, and no attempt to scatter them in any order. I just up-ended the seed packets, and let gravity and the wind take care of them.

  It is quite possible that some germinated, and have started growing. I'm pretty sure the pink flower, that I recently was informed is a variety of poppy, was not among the seeds I used. It has grown all by itself. It seems to be a nicer flower than the more traditional poppy. There are two more flower buds visible, and there is also a smaller plant with a couple of buds on it a 2 or so feet to the left of this picture.

  I had originally a plan, or maybe just aspiration, to go to a gig last night, but as the day wore on I became less enthusiastic about it. Ordering my take away just about killed any intention, and if that didn't feeling rather full after my dinner, certainly did. The nonsensical thing is that I was more looking forward to trying out the new lens that was delivered on Thursday, than looking forward to the music itself. I guess I'll have to wait until another gig comes along.

  I might possibly have been in bed a bit earlier than I was if it hadn't been for another late evening call from Lee. At least on this one he didn't sound so drunk, and wasn't raving like a madman. I still had to read in bed until I felt really sleepy before I turned out the light, and went to sleep. I am unsure what time that was, maybe as late as 11pm, and I don't think I fell asleep as fast as it sounds.

  I probably slept quite well last night. I can't remember any dreams, although I am sure I had some, but I do remember waking up a few times to go for a pee and/or because I thought I felt a bit cool. Evidently I wasn't that cool because everytime I wrapped my self in the duvet I quickly started to overheat, and I mostly slept uncovered last night. I think the day and night temperature is going to have to drop at least 5 degrees before I really start to use the duvet in earnest.

  This morning my blood glucose is up to 8.6mmol/l, or very slightly higher than my monthly average (around 8.5mmol/l). In light of the apparent success of my blood test, I guess I am still doing well, but I'm still going to aim to get it less than 8.0....maybe only on good days though ! I think washing my bed sheet and pillow cases is the only plan I have for the whole day. I feel very uninspired at the moment. I'll have to describe anything I do do tomorrow.