Today sticks to the recent trend - cool and dull. The latest revision does show sunny spells for 11am, but otherwise it differs little from the screenshot above. The afternoon temperature is still predicted to be 19° C so maybe a fraction warmer than yesterday. There is a 10% chance of rain all through the day. That usually means it will stay dry, but there is always a chance of one of the copious grey clouds springing a leak. Tomorrow afternoon could show a small change to the recent trend. Sunny spells are forecast from 3pm until sunset, and the temperature may rise to 21° C.

   Yesterday was another day when I spent most of it behind my computer updating my spreadsheet of all electric trains I have photographed. The more I look through my archives, the more I find. Most photos were not taking on rail outings, but were just one-offs taken while waiting for a train to go to a gig or to/from work. I am wondering if this was a silly idea, but after doing so much work it seems silly to abandon it. It could provide plenty of entertainment*  for some time to come.

        * Where "entertainment" means sitting with a numb bum for hours and hours, getting fat, and repetitive strain injury.

  There was one important thing I did yesterday. It was to hand wash 3 t-shirts and some underwear. I tried some new Aldi own brand fabric conditioner for the first time. It was all they had in the shop (probably another facet of Brexit) yesterday. It was neither good nor bad, and I guess I will be happy to use it in the future. The only bad thing about the whole exercise was that when I brought that washing in off the line it was still a bit damp. There was no sun to bake it dry, but I hoped the medium strength breeze would do more. I left it all to dry indoors overnight, and it is dry and ready to wear now.

  I wasn't quite as conscientious about eating as a could have been yesterday. The cod in breadcrumbs I had for breakfast should have kept me going for ages, but by about 2pm I ate some rice crackers with hot pepperoni slices. The main bad thing there was probably the grease. I had planned what should have been a very nice dinner, but it had one flaw that spoiled it.

  Dinner was to be grilled steak on a bed of grilled vegetables - onion, tomato, peppers, chillies and mushrooms. They were fine. It was the steak that was not so good. It was 50% off (or maybe 30%) when I bought it because it was on it's sell by date. It said it was aged for a month, and so I thought another fortnight, maybe 3 weeks, wouldn't matter, but it did. The nice rind of fat on that steak was starting to go rancid. The meat itself seemed OK, but that fat tainted it. It wasn't horrible, but it spoiled what should have been a really nice dinner.

  It should have been quite a healthy dinner too if you ignore the small fat content. It was probably a mixture of knowing it had a very low sugar content, and a desire to take away the taste of that slightly rancid fat that lead me astray. I decided I wanted a dessert, and I wanted ice cream. Fortunately, or unfortunately in one respect, I had a tub of alleged low calorie ice cream in the freezer. It was of the type that I knew only had a small bad effect on my blood glucose.

  Not counting waking up at around 4am feeling cold, and putting the heater on low before going back to sleep, I had another good night's sleep last night. I am judging it mostly on the fact that I seemed to sleep in three hour segments instead of the 2 or less hour segments on a bad night. Maybe the best bit was a dream I had in the last hours of sleep. It is annoying I can only remember the good bit of it.

  The dream was probably set in a hotel, and I think there was a gig, or some sort of celebration going on. As usual I was taking lots of photographs. What was extremely unusual was that I was with a woman, and we were obviously in a very close relationship. I have no idea who she was. All I can remember was she was a good 3 or 4 inches shorter than me. She was urging me to take some good photos of a particular man (he might possibly have been the host of whatever the occasion was). I was ribbing the woman by saying that if we ended up in a hotel rooms after the event finished, that she would prefer to spend the night with him. I was saying this as we were cuddling, and she laughed and said yes while cuddling me harder. It was a very innocent bit of banter, and we both knew we would end up in the same room later. Unfortunately the dream ended seconds later.

  This morning I expected the ice cream I ate to have a very bad effect on my blood glucose despite knowing that type is only moderately harmful. It was actually 8.8mmol/l, or just above my typical monthly average. If I hadn't eaten the ice cream it would have probably been under the average, and nearer the 7.5mmol/l that I am really aiming for. Other than that, I feel moderately OK. My knees were a bit stiff when I went downstairs to feed the birds, but they seemed to free up quite quickly.

  On such a dull day there is little chance of doing stuff I ought to do. It would be good to do some gardening - mostly weeding and cutting the grass. It is possible that I will end up pulling some weeds if I have time, but I doubt I'll be getting the strimmer out. The main activity today will hopefully be a short walk through the park, and a lunchtime drink with Angela.