The peculiar thing about the latest revision to the forecast is that it sort of denies the admittedly slight hazy sunshine we had until I started writing the sentence, and says it should be misty now. I can't see any mist. The revision has also removed all the sunny spells shown in the afternoon in the screenshot above. There may now be sunny spells at 11am and midday. The prediction of the temperature has also changed downwards to no more than 21° C. It is feeling like today is going to be quite similar to yesterday. Tomorrow things will change, but the change is getting less after the latest revision (and there will be many more before the events of tomorrow happen. Originally there were thunderstorms predicted for late tomorrow afternoon, but now only heavy rain is predicted.It will be a degree or two cooler. Autumn is starting to bite again.

   I was trying to get in the right mood to go out as I finished writing yesterday. I did indeed go out, but only to Poundstretcher. I never made it to Woolwich where I was hoping to get to with my Canon 600D dslr camera. The reason was that my guts were still rather active as late as just before midday.  After a day when almost nothing happened, I paid to very productive visits to the toilet yesterday morning. I can't remember what time it was, maybe around 11am, and I was a little surprised that I needed the toilet again.

  I felt sure that I must be empty at that point, and continued preparing to go out. I had had a good shower, and I was dressed to go out. I had selected my camera and lenses, and checked it was all in working order. I had checked the times of the trains, and I was going to start off by getting the 12:04 train from Catford Bridge. It was probably about 11:45, 5 minutes before I would have started to walk to the station that I felt that maybe I needed the toilet again. I did ! It wasn't a lot this time, but it was enough.

  It felt like that last visit to the toilet drained the last of my energy as well as the contents of my digestive tract. I didn't expect the feeling to last for more than  a few minutes, but I was wrong. I decided that while I was dressed in outdoor clothes I would go to Poundstretcher for bird feed, and anything else that seemed useful. I didn't go straight to Poundstretcher. I went via the Halifax cash machine on the high street. It felt like I had little energy as I walked there, and I still couldn't get a spring in my step even when walking home.

  I don't know if that lack of energy was anything to do with the need to go to the toilet for two days worth, or something else. I do have suspicions that the two cheese rolls I had for breakfast slowed me down a lot. I usually do my best walks on an empty stomach. I really out to get back to not having any breakfast. I have only being having breakfasts because I know I can get away with them not affecting my blood glucose 24 hours later. There is also the thing that it may make reduce the desire to eat during the day.

  After I got home from Poundstretcher I just didn't fancy doing anything except laying down with the book I am reading. I can't recall if I had a snooze or not, but I was in the mood for one. It probably wasn't until mid afternoon that I started doing some useful (although I use the word useful without it necessarily meaning that). I was continuing a chore that I sort of wish I had never started - cataloguing all the trains I have taken pictures over the years. At my fried Kevin's suggestion I have added a tiny bit more work to the idea by including a small picture of the type of train to each sheet of the spreadsheet.

  If I did have an afternoon snooze it would most likely be after having some lunch at 1.30pm. I don't really know why I thought I needed any food. I doubt I did, but I had two cans of soup. One was Oxtail soup, and the other was probably lentil soup. At dinner time I had two more cans of soup. One was a chunky chicken and bacon soup, and the other was a beef consommé. The latter turned out to be not much more than an Oxo cube dissolved in hot water, but it cost rather more than that. It's sugar content was low, but I would have expected it to be around zero. Oddly enough it was not that much less than the chunky chicken and bacon soup.

  There was one other thing I had for dinner, and I wasn't sure if I was going to eat it. It was a "30 day matured" steak from Aldi, but it had been in the bottom of the fridge long enough to add as much as an extra 15 days to it's maturation. It had developed a bit of a smell, but it was not the smell/stench or rotting meat. I decided it would be safer if I cooked it well. That was a shame for what was once a nice piece of meat, but it still tasted nice. There was a brief period when I wonder if it had triggered off something in my gut, but I think it was just a bit of a gurgle of some wind, and it came to nothing.

  I found myself fighting sleepiness quite early in the evening, but I resisted it until 9pm when I was in bed, and turned the light out. I expected to fall asleep very quickly, but I found I couldn't get comfortable. I think I fell asleep about 20 minutes later. As I write this I have started yawning, and feeling like another hour or two of sleep would be nice. It seemed like every time I woke up it was a struggle to get back to sleep again. Fortunately I didn't wake up more than a few times before 5am. It was at 5am when I just couldn't seem to get comfortable, and I think I was trying to get back to sleep for almost an hour, or that is what it felt like. Once I did get back to sleep I slept for almost 2 hours before I got up.

  I don't think I felt very refreshed when I got up, but at least I didn't seem to feel too stiff or creaky. When I checcked my blood glucose it was just 7.7mmol/l - down from 8.9mmol/l yesterday morning. That was a good drop. I guess I shouldn't be sorry it didn't hit 7.5mmol/l, and I am not really, but hitting my target would have been the icing on the cake. Since than I have fed the birds, and now I have to think how I am going to use the day.

  I don't seem to have any enthusiasm for a day out exploring the rail network, but maybe I might take a walk in the park. One the other hand I could do some gardening. I really need to cut the grass ! I also have a few items, including a towel that I could wash. It is looking like today could be the last day for drying stuff on the washing line for the indefinite future.