This morning there has been more sunshine than not ! There are thin, almost transparent clouds in the sky right now, and sometimes the sunshine dims a bit, but I can't seem to recall any time when it has gone out completely. The latest revision to the forecast says sunny spells, hopefully like we are experiencing now, will continue until 3pm, and maybe there will be more in the late afternoon/early evening. The temperature should rise to 21° C - which is a good rise considering it started at just 12° C this morning. The forecast for tomorrow is similar to the early forecast for today. Fingers crossed that it turns out as nice as today will hopefully be.

   Not a lot happened yesterday. As predicted, I didn't go out to have a drink with Angela. That was mostly because I was waiting in for a parcel delivery from Amazon, but also a little bit because I wasn't sure I wanted to meet her. She seems too involved with lover boy lately to be that warm to me. As it happens I could have gone out because my parcel didn't arrive until 4pm.

  There was nothing I desperately needed in that parcel. It was a spare battery for my Nikon D80 camera, a Nikon branded strap for the camera, and some spare 16GB SD memory cards to put into a drawer ready to use when the need arises. The one thing that wasn't included was a new "Amazon Basics" camera bag fro the Nikon D80. That seems to be being shipped from a European warehouse, and like a lot of things it seems to be held up crossing the Brexit border (just like a bottle of whisky I ordered in July !).

  Apart from maybe as much as 5 minutes of gardening, I filled in most of the day with my long term project to make a spreadsheet listing every fair or better pictures of trains I have taken over the years. I explained (as best I could) why I am doing this yesterday (and maybe previous to that too). The one thing I didn't do, or more correctly didn't do much of, was eating.

  I had a couple of wholeseed rolls in the morning, and maybe that was all I needed to stop me feeling hungry for hours on end. Of course, not having much to snack on was nothing to do with it. Oddly enough, that is almost true. I had cheese and plenty of rice crackers, plus some sugar free cookies (that are not as innocent as they seem) that I could have munched on, but somehow I didn't.

  I thought I was making up for it at dinner time when I had what should have been a really wonderful, and seemingly foolhardy meal. It was sausages and baked beans. The sausages came from Iceland and I am not sure they really had meat in them. They tasted slightly unpleasant, and were a great disappointment. The beans were HP baked beans. They have a fair bit of sugar in them, but oddly it is close to, or less than in Heinz reduced sugar and salt baked beans. I purposely overcooked them in the microwave, with added chilli sauce, until the beans were nice and squidgy, and the sauce thickened. They were delicious. A little later I had a nibble on some walnut halves.

  I must be getting really jaded because TV holds less and less attraction to me. The various Star Treks on last night couldn't capture my attention, and I only watched an old episode of QI all the way through. I ended up doing a bit more train cataloguing in the evening before taking my book to bed. I think I was asleep soon after 10pm. With hindsight I think I probably slept well last night. It all came to an end at just gone 7am with a dream that crossed the line between dream and reality.

  I can't remember enough of the dream to recount any of it in enough details to be interesting, but I do remember the end. I was standing up at a bench in what seemed like an almost empty room except for a person who had asked a question. I was trying to answer but all I could do was go argghhhh. The only word that finally came out was CRAMP ! At that point I woke up with all the muscles in my right calf trying to tie themselves in knots. The pain rapidly vanished once I leapt out of bed and stood up.

  It seemed to be a bad start to the day, but that was misdirection. Once past that pain, the rest of this morning started well. I was fully expecting a very bad blood glucose reading this morning after those baked beans, but I was wrong. Evidently I had probably eaten a lot less than usual, and maybe even less than I thought. My blood glucose was down to a marvellous 7.4mmol/l - just under my target of 7.5mmol/l. I know that pride comes before a fall, and it is very easy to trip doing what I am doing, but it is starting to seem like I can control my sugar intake better than "good control" as described by the nurse.

  It is probably the sunshine, but there is a good feeling in the air today, and I sort of feel good in some ways. I've certainly been busy this morning. I've had a shower, and been to Tesco where I bought some beer, and another 6 cans of soup to lug home again. I have also made it halfway through washing 3 t-shirts and quite a few pairs of underpants. I am hoping I caan do the other half, and get them out on the washing line before midday. I am hoping they will dry nicely in this nice weather (nice for September - maybe). I think this afternoon will be another beer drinking session.