I'm not so sure that it was very dull around sunrise. I'm sure I saw a bit of sunshine around the edges of my curtains from first light. The latest revision to the forecast shows this morning as being very sunny. Looking out my window (to the south) I see an almost clear blue sky. Some clouds may drift by later, but there should be plenty of sunny spells through this afternoon. It was also be closer to warm than we can expect at this time of year, 15° C. Tomorrow will probably be a mix of dull and gloomy, but it may still be 14° C.
 
  Yesterday was another day that was less than exciting. I was still feeling ill, where ill = odd, and odd was a mix of my chest still being clicky, and a complete lack of inspiration. The closest I came to doing anything like exercise was washing a hand towel, and a few other bits and pieces by hand. I probably could have tried drying them on the washing line, but while there was some sunshine, it barely reaches more than a foot down my garden, and the washing would have been in shadow all the time.

  I dried it all indoors, and used that as an excuse to put the heater on low in the dining room. I had this idea that if the dining room was warm I could do some work down there - probably playing with Jodie's mum's old PCs. I seem to have lost the enthusiasm for playing with old OCs these days. I really ought to just take the hard disc out of the second PC, destroy it, and then dump the rest of the PC. The problem is that while I have lost the enthusiasm to try and resurrect old computers, I still have the curiosity that wants to know what the hardware was....and I suppose to see if it is usable for anything.

  Oddly enough, what I did spent a lot of time doing yesterday was playing with computers, but this was in a different league to playing with old computers. As I have mentioned here before (probably loads of times) I make a point of keeping backups of my work. I had two small back up disks of old TV programmes, and there was some duplication between the two. I decided to move a single copy of everything on the two disks to one big disk. It was, in fact, a 4TB disk that I bought last April for future use.

  4TB is far too large just to store a backup of TV programmes, and so I made two directories on it. One is for TV programmes, and the other for movies. Getting all my movies, some VHS tape rips, some DVD rips, some copies from TV broadcasts, and other acquired via other means, is a job for another day - possibly today. That big 4TB drive will now be the full archive, and a couple of small disks will become working copies. I made the working copy of the TV programmes yesterday.

  There was one other important thing I did yesterday that was a huge success and a tiny disaster. I mentioned yesterday how I had eaten a lot of ready cooked, but heated up chicken for my dinner the previous day, and how I expected I would use the rest for a chicken stew (at least I hope I mentioned all that yesterday, but I am writing this without checking). Yesterday I spent a bit of time picking off all the flesh to use in the stew, and then discard the bones. In an ideal world I would have boiled the bones to make stock, but I did it the easy way using stock cubes.

  I stewed that chicken with some ancient, and part dessicated, green beans from the back of the freezer, plus some of my own home grown potatoes. While I was trying really hard to keep my blood glucose down I dared not eat those potatoes, but things have eased up now. I also added some black pepper and thyme. I finally added some chicken gravy granules to thicken in all up.

  It was delicious, and might even been better than that were it not for the tiny disaster. As I was pulling the flesh off the carcass I put the skin aside. It just goes soggy in a stew. I had an idea that maybe I could crisp it up in the oven, and then even enjoy it like that, or put it in the stew just as the stew was ready to serve. I though 10 minutes from a cold start might be about right. I set the time, and went back to my bedroom. When I opened the kitchen door half an hour later I was greeted by a greasy smog. It seems 10 minutes was a bit too long. All that was left of that chicken skin was charcoal.

  There is not a lot to say about my sleep. After my short sleep the night before I was feeling quite tired by 9pm, and although it is all a bit vague, I think I was fast asleep soon after. It didn't seem too cool in my bedroom, and so I left the heater off. I felt a bit warm under the duvet, and it seems I kicked most of it off. At midnight I woke up feeling dreadful. It seemed more than just feeling cold, but getting warm cured it. I then slept generally OK until getting up at 7am. I can't even remember any dreams.

  Although my blood glucose seems to have settled to a lower level since my 3rd Covid jab, I am still experimenting - feeling for the limits. Adding the potatoes to my stew yesterday was part of this experimentation. I also ate 4 cubes of Turkish Delight. I must have bought that Turkist delight last spring, and haven't dared to eat any of that pack since then (although I did very slowly and carefully eat a second pack). I did stop to wash the icing sugar off the cubes first. This morning my blood glucose if higher than the day before, but it is only 8.2mmol/l, and that was low enough to reduce my running average to a new low.

  I really ought to push myself to go for a walk today. The trouble is I just don't feel like it. I think I am worried that the cold air will make my chest/ribs/scar ache more. However, if this afternoon really is 15° C, then that is t-short weather (just), and there is the possibility of getting some warm sun on my chest. If I keep thinking this way I might be able to persuade myself to go for a walk. If not then there are plenty of things I can do without going out - if I can be bothered.