It is probable that today will be no better than today. Most of the day will be dull (even the sunny spells at 6pm have been removed in the latest revision), and sometimes very dull. There was none shown, but there was a light sprinkle of rain at around 9am, but oddly enough it was accompanied by a few short, slightly diffused, sunny spells ! The early version of the forecast, in the screenshot above, was optimistic about the temperature. The latest revision is more pessimistic with just 18° C forecast. Tomorrow looks like it will come out of the same mold as today and yesterday.

   It would be easy to say that yesterday was another day when I did nothing. That is only true if only physical exercise/work is considered. The end product of hours and hours of sitting at my PC all day is a still only 20% completed spreadsheet listing all the pictures of trains I have photographed over the years. It has meant searching through my photo archives, and very often re-editing photos using newly found skills (although mostly cropping, shrinking, and a bit of exposure correction).

  I started the spreadsheet a week or two ago, and originally it was specifically for one class of train - the class 465 and 466 electric multiple units. I started it because they are due to be phased out around here, and will be replaced by secondhand, low mileage, class 707 trains originally ordered for South West trains. Apart from no toilets, they are very similar to Thameslink class 700 units.

  It was inevitable on a day like yesterday that I would eat a bit more than was ideal. At least most of what I ate was relatively safe, although maybe only when eaten in isolation. I had fish fingers for breakfast. They are pretty low in sugar, but they still seemed to slow me down. By 1pm I wanted more to eat, and it was because it was cold after sitting quietly at my PC for a long time. I had a couple of cans of soup.

  One of the soups I considered, but didn't eat was Baxter's pea and mint soup. It appeared to have a lot of sugar in it. While heating up my second can of soup, an Aldi own brand pea and ham soup, I rechecked the Baxters label. Unlike all other soup makers (or the ones I am familiar with) they show nutritional information for the whole can. Others quote it for half a can, and so it was no surprise the Baxter's looked very high. Even dividing the figure by 2 still makes it higher than all my preferred soups.

  My dinner was something unusual - peri-peri flavoured smoked mackerel. It was delicious, but like all smoked fish it needed something to follow to keep the smokiness inside. I opted for a little tub of Tesco 4 bean salad. I added chilli sauce and some mayonnaise to it. The latter was best quality Helman's mayonnaise, and probably wasn't a good idea. I think the last thing I ate, maybe an hour after dinner, was a chunk of cheese.

  There's not a lot to say about my sleep. It was pretty good, maybe very slightly better than average.  The only notable thing was two dreams that I am desperately trying to remember.  The first was set in, or ended up at a cheese shop. I was trying to buy two lots of cheese, but the man who served me for the first bit of cheese said "it was 3 times the usual price today". That seemed steep, but for some reason I think I bought it. I then tried to buy a different cheese from a lady who was serving there.

  She didn't seem to know the price, and was leafing through a very ancient ledger trying to work out how much to charge me. At that point an alarm started to sound from a back room because a door had been opened (or maybe left open). The people in the front of the shop had no idea what had happened. I knew what had happened, because I had read the book. The man in the back of the shop had been kidnapped by nasty people. I suddenly realised that I was in a book, and woke up.

  After going for a not really needed wee, I went back to sleep, and I was soon dreaming. It was a sort of continuation of the previous dream, but this time it was like watching a movie. I noticed that the white tiles in the back room had a slight hint of magenta about them, and realised that someone had got the colour balance wrong. I don't remember any more after that. I may have woken up again.

  I was hoping my blood glucose would have stayed low yesterday, but it was inevitable that after being very sedentary all day, and eating three meals, even meals that were generally safe, my blood glucose would not be going lower. Instead it would be higher, but at least it was only only 8.2mmol/l, and that is below my average for the month (and the last few months). I guess that should be thought of as a limited success.

  Today I can say I have done some limited exercise. I have been shopping in Aldi. Once again I had to make it known that I wanted to use a manned checkout, and as soon as I was told to start unloading my trolley, three others immediately queued up behind me. Many won't make a stand, but many really don't like self service checkouts even if it does give a great opportunity for theft by those who have the nerve to try it.

  I seemed to spend a lot in Aldi this morning, but I did buy two bottles of vodka (one was raspberry flavoured), and some detergent and fabric conditioned. The steaks I bought weren't that cheap either. I suspect if I had bought the same in Tesco I would have spent even more. As a means of judging how well my legs were working this morning I would have to say pretty fair. I maintained fair walking speed there and back (while carrying a fair load).

  Today I doubt I will be using my legs much, and that is probably just as well after eating another fish breakfast. Today I expect I'll end up adding more to my trains photographed spreadsheet. It is also the last day of the month, and I'll have to prepare a web page for September on this website. That shouldn't take long though. There is one other thing I have started, and it might have been a mistake considering how bad today's weather could be. I have started washing three (or four ?) t-shirts and some other bits and pieces. I may have to dry them inside, but I'll probably give them a few hours outside to get at least half dry.