This morning the forecast has got it right - for now. It is indeed sunny right now, but the future hours are anyone's guess. There is a lot of cloud in the sky right now, but a lot of it is very thin, and there are useful blue areas. If the sky doesn't change too much we could have a fairly bright day with sunny spells at any time. From 6pm the chance of rain goes up from a negligible less than 5% to 10%. That could mean the cloud will be thicker then, and we can wave goodbye to the sun...or maybe not. Today will be very slightly cooler at just 20° C (as per a later revision to the version shown above). Tomorrow could be very similar to today, but the current forecast doesn't show a single sunny spell, and one hour of dark cloud at 2pm. There is also a 10% chance of rain almost all day tomorrow. The temperature may still peak at 20° C.

   It would be wrong to say that yesterday was a terrible day, but only a bit wrong. As I said above, about the weather, the morning was horribly grey and depressing. Of course it was made even worse after getting some lousy sleep thanks to my right leg aching in various ways - mostly centred around my right knee. Also repeating what I said about the weather, the afternoon was bright with almost non stop sunny spells. That just made me more pissed off that I had allowed the morning to control my whole day.

  However I did have one little triumph that ultimately reduced the crappiness index for the whole day. As I think I suggested I might do yesterday morning, I did some laundry - quite a bit of it if all the smaller bits count as whole items. I didn't start it until about 2pm when I realised that the afternoon was probably going to feature more sunshine than the rather pessimistic weather forecast would admit.

  I finally hung the washing on the line at 2.30pm. That didn't give it long to dry before the sun was too low in the sky to do anything useful. In practice that was 6pm. By that time the washing was a lot drier than I expected. It wasn't quite dry enough to put away, and I hung it on the clothes horse to finish drying overnight. This morning it seems to be perfectly dry, and I didn't need a heater or even a fan on to help it on it's way.

  I spent most of the morning quietly reading, and trying to snooze. I can't remember if I snoozed or not. After such an awful night I would have expected to doze off while reading. Apart from doing the laundry, I passed a fair bit of the afternoon continuing the arduous/boring task of trying to get all my mp3 music, and radio recordings, all onto one external hard disk. I must be well over halfway there by now, but there is more to go. The worst part will be when I try and do something with all the oddments scattered here and there, and often not in any special category.

  Apart from when doing the laundry, and obviously very physically distracted, I had almost no distractions from feeling peckish.  I had started the day with a fairly low blood glucose reading, but at 8.3mmol/l it was a fair bit higher than the 7.5mmol/l that I aim for. My original intention was to try and get it down this morning, but there was no way I could control me eating enough for that.

  During the day I had two wholemeal rolls filled with cheese and tomato. By themselves they are relatively harmless, but I also ate 4 packets of crisps during the day. I had also started the day with a big plate of fish fingers - maybe 15 of them ! Once again, in moderation they are relatively safe, and once again "relatively" was meaningless when other stuff was taken into consideration.

  I checked my blood glucose before dinner, and by then it was very high (9.1mmol/l). Fortunately my dinner was already cooked at that point, and I knew it too should be "relatively" safe. It was grilled vegetables - a tomato or two, some mushrooms, some bell pepper, some slices of leeks, and even a red chilli. I had that lot with roast neck of lamb (I thought it was a lamb steak, but it was actually better). I used some of my new Rosemary plant to garnish the lamb. It was a rather nice dinner.

  Only a bit later in the evening I didn't feel tired, but I knew I wanted to get as much sleep as possible, and I wanted it to be good sleep....then again I had wanted the previous night to feature good sleep, and that didn't work. I took two paracetamol tablets before taking my book to read in bed at 8pm. I'm sure it was hardly any later than 8.30pm before I was fast asleep. I hadn't felt any annoying pains or stiffness, or indeed anything to stop me sleeping.

  It does seem that I slept quite solidly last night. I woke up a few times, but I can't recall not being able to get back to sleep for any longer than about 90 seconds ! As sunrise approached I know I was dreaming a lot, but any memories of those dreams are so fragmented that there is nothing rational to write down - except for one bit of dream. It concerned a pub I once didn't like, but it was newly re-opened (probably after Covid). I decided to go in. I think it was during my lunchbreak at work.

  It was a strange experience in the pub. Like most pubs it was only moderately noisy, but it was like I couldn't hear, or understand what people were saying. I selected a beer, and decided I had better only have one pint because it was 10% - rather strong for a lunch break !! It was also very expensive. I had 4 or 5 quid in change in my hand, but the barman said it was £11. I pulled a £10 note from my wallet, and handed that, plus a £1 coin to the barman. He said "don't forget to wait for your change", and gave me a handful of cannabis leaves. I thought that was a nice idea, but didn't know what to do with them because I no longer smoked.

  It is hard to know the exact time I fell asleep, woke up, and for how long all the short periods of time when I was awake in the night added up to. All I can do is guess that I got more than 10 hours, and less than 11 hours sleep last night. I'm not sure I feel a lot better for it, but maybe I do even if I couldn't stop yawning when on the toilet soon after getting up. After the very high blood glucose reading I got just before yesterday's dinner, I was expecting the worst this morning.

  True to form it was high, 9.1mmol/, but I expected something over 10mmol/l. I guess I got off easy this morning, and although the reading is in the "nines" it is only just in, and not that much more than my average for most months. It still means I ought to take care today, or get the worst over in the morning. I have done the latter. I used the last two wholemeal rolls to make cheese and tomato rolls for my breakfast. I still have two more packets of crisps to tempt me.

  One complication is that I think Jodie will be over for a drinking session this afternoon. That almost rules out going out for some exercise, although this continuing morning sunshine does make some sort of walk tempting. Speaking of sunshine, I don't think I have seen the sun go completely in since I drew the curtains some hours ago. There are times when the light becomes a bit soft and hazy, but it still seems to be "sunny". So far this is far better than the forecast.