There was evidence this morning of rain during the night. I don't think it is raining now, but it is so grey overhead that it's like the sun got stuck rising this morning. If the latest revision to the forecast turns to reality it should brighten up a bit in an hour or so. By 3pm there could be a sunny spell, and then there will be more sunny spells an hour or two before sunset. It should be a smidgen warmer today at 20° C. Tomorrow may reach 22° C thanks to possibly sunny spells during the day, but there is also a chance of a shower. The forecast for tomorrow, issued tomorrow morning, could well be very different.

   Yesterday's deep grey, and very wet morning sapped almost all enthusiasm to go out, or do anything, but I did go to Tesco just before midday because there were a few things I wanted (but maybe not needed there and then). I was lucky that the rain had mostly stopped on my way to Tesco, and I think it had stopped when I came home again.

  As shopping trips go it was very so-so. I completely forgot to get some barbecue wings. Maybe that was a good things because I mainly wanted to compare them with the wings I got from Iceland on Monday. I have little doubt that the Tesco version of them might easily have been just as crap.  What was definitely crap was my own fault for mistaking "wholeseed" Scotch rolls with "wholemeal". The former has sugar in it, and the latter doesn't. I have made this mistake at least once before. It explains a few mystery high blood glucose readings.

  Things like the rolls, and also some smoked fish, were very light. The rest of what I bought wasn't ! It included 3 x 2l bottles of Diet Coke, and 8 cans of soup.  The Diet Cokes were 3 for £4. The Tesco branded bacon and lentil soup was 4 cans for £1.60, and the Heinz potato and leek soup was 4 cans for the price of 3. I now have a reasonable stock of soup ! This morning I was going to have kippers, bought yesterday, for breakfast, but I didn't fancy smoky burps today.

  Although I had been out, and the fresh air felt nice in small quantities, it didn't manage to raise my enthusiasm to do much yesterday. In one respect that was good because while it might sound almost like a paradox, I seemed in almost the right mind to continue a tedious task I have been doing on and off for a while now. It was my continuing effort to catalogue, in the form of a spreadsheet, all the trains I have taken photos in the last 20 or even 40 years. 95% of them were taken with a digital cameras, and so in the last 18 years. On my afternoon out on Monday I took a lot of train pictures !
  I had a fair time to wait at Lewisham station, and a few trains passed before mine arrived. This was one of them, and it was a class 465 train - the type that will be replaced by South West trains hand me down class 707 trains later this year.
  On the rear of the train in the previous picture was class 466. This is a 2 car version of the 4 car class 465 units.
   The other type of train that is common around here is the class 376. They are designed purely for commuting - loads of standing room, and very uncomfortable seats. Unfortunately I think these are staying.
  I did say I would show a couple of pictures taken here - Woolwich Dockyard station. It is a classic case of what was once exotic because it was unknown, quickly becoming mundane. Sadly, Woolwich Dockyard station failed to cause any excitement !
  It looks like the ticket office was once much bigger, but now just a slice off the end (at a guess) is all that remains as a ticket office.
  This is the view looking along Woolwich Dockyard station in the "down" direction (east, or towards Woolwich Arsenal station).
  There are short tunnels either end of Woolwich Dockyard station. This is the tunnel at the London end of the station with a train from (probably) Cannon Street just entering the station.

  There was just one other thing of note that I did yesterday. It was to order another lens for my new, old Nikon D80 camera. When I bought that Nikon D80 camera body I noticed that https://fivercam.com/ had a few lenses that needed an older Nikon like my D80 with the focus motor in the camera body, and that they looked rather cheap. Yesterday I took another look, and there was a nice 300mm telephoto lens going for £89.99. That is incredibly cheap, and it is because it won't work on modern Nikon cameras.

  In a world of ruthless corporates it was nice to get an email from Fivercam asking if I really wanted to buy the lens because of it not working on newer Nikon camera. They wanted confirmation that I realised this. I was happy to say that I had bought the camera from them to test another lens, and now I was happy that the camera and the lens I had worked as expected, I couldn't resist a 300mm telephoto lens for under £100 including P&P ! That is a third or more of the price of a lens for more modern Cameras of many makes. That Nikon D80 takes bloody good pictures, and while it would be nice to be able to buy top of the range models, I don't think my photos would be any better.

  After realising that the wholeseed rolls I bought contained sugar I thought I had better moderate my dinner a lot last night. As well as two rolls I had eaten an assortment of mostly safe snacks. It seemed wisest to have just a couple of cans of soup last night, although I have a nagging feeling I had something else before the soups. I can't think what it was unless that was when I had the two rolls. Incidently, one of the rolls was a cheese and Kimchi roll. It wasn't as exciting as hoped. I think I have concluded that I don't really like Kimchi.

  I'm not sure what time I went to sleep last night. I think it might have been just before 10pm, but it might have been after. I seem to recall thinking it was taking a bit of time to get to sleep, and I was very disappointed when I woke up until I realised I had been asleep for almost 4 hours. It felt a lot less. My next block of sleep was just under 3 hours. After that I seemed to be awake for nearly an hour.

  When I got back to sleep I started dreaming, and while it was not a nightmare, or at least wasn't scary, it was another variant of a common dream for me, and it is a dream that is very tedious. This morning's variant was set in a huge technical training school that had many staircases, many floors, and the lower floors were given over to retail - some supermarkets and small shops and boutiques. I left the classroom I was in, probably for a smoke break, and couldn't find the exit I had come out of to go back in. I spent ages going up and down stairs, most didn't cover every floor, going down long corridors. Somehow I ended up half a mile from the building in a tube station, and it wasn't until I went outside that I could see the building, but not how I had got where I was.

  I never did find my way back to the classroom, and I think I woke up because it was all getting too silly. It seemed too early to get up, but I didn't think I could get back to sleep, and if I re-entered the dream I didn't want to go back to sleep. The good news is that despite eating those naughty wholeseed rolls, my blood glucose is just 8.4mmol/l this morning. That is not as good as the 7.3mmol/l the other day, but below my monthly average.

  While my blood glucose is good (or good enough) everything else is not so good. My right knee feels sore this morning, and the weight of the dark clouds has left me with a sort of headache. I feel like how I expect high blood pressure to feel - except you can't usually feel blood pressure, and mine is actually nice and low at the moment (109/69). I did have some fanciful idea that I might go to Folkstone today.

   Last night the weather forecast reckoned there would be sunny spells in Folkstone this afternoon - rather better than we may get here. On the other hand we have just had a 15 to 20 minute sunny spells here - which was most definitely not in the forecast. For some crazy reason I thought that I wouldn't see Angela today. That was the idea behind going to Folkstone as much as anything else. Thankfully there is a better reason not to go out at all today. I haven't had the official word yet, but the tracking info on a parcel indicates it is likely to be delivered today. It arrived in Dartford at 1.23am, and if it delivered by an early riser (Amazon have a few of them) it could be here as early as 1pm - just as I would be starting to drink with Angela. I'll keep an eye on he tracking info, and if it leaves the depot late I might be able to dash to the pub fo an hour safely. If not it is back to adding more info to my train spotting spreadsheet.