One feature of the weather I was unaware of was that there must have been a fair bit of wind in the night if the leaves outside my front door weren't dumped along the road as a prank. The nearest broad leaved trees are in the park maybe 3 or 4 hundred yards away. By my reckoning it was only about 4° C this morning, and possibly as low as 3.5° C. It is a sunny morning, although it took until almost 9am before it was very obvious. The latest revision to the forecast says the sunshine should last until sunset. The afternoon temperature should reach 10° C, and in direct sunshine that should feel OK provided there is no strong wind. Tomorrow morning may see a frost. There could be a few sunny spells, but most of the day will be a bit dull, and the temperature will struggle to reach 8° C.

  Yesterday was one of those days where it seems I forced myself to be busy. I can't think how I managed that, or even what I did, but I definitely can't remember thinking I was bored. The surprising thing is that I didn't snooze more after my lack of sleep the night before. I do remember one snooze, but it is only a guess to say it lasted for an hour.

  One thing thing I definitely did was to do a bit of laundry. The two important items in that wash were a pair of bar towels. One of them was on my bedside table, and had possibly been there since before I paused smoking until I reach 80 years of age. That towel was responsible for turning the first wash water a bit muddy ! It was while bending over the bath, giving those towels, and a few items of clothing a good wash in my big builders buckets, that inspiration came to me.

  I wondered how easy it would be to buy some new bar towels. I bough two of them when I placed an order with the Fullers brewery, but I didn't want to buy more from them, and I preferred not to have to place an order for more beer from anywhere so I could add a few bar towels to it. I did an internet search and found a few dodgy deals on ebay, and two other places that sold bar towels. One place was charging almost double the price of https://www.pub-paraphernalia.com. It was obviously the latter where I ordered a selection of bar towels.  Their London telephone number suggests they probably trade from an industrial estate in Camberwell. That makes their delivery fee of £7.50 a bit high compared to the fare on the 185 bus from Catford to just after Kings College Hospital.

  One thing about doing that washing was that I hung it up to dry on the clothes horse in front of the heater in the front room. After a while the front room was warm enough to work in, and I set up my laptop, and an old HP printer/scanner (of which only the scanner works), and then spent some time scanning some stuff that I had been meaning to do for some time. I never did finish all the scanning because my knees were hurting too much when trying to work from the settee to coffee table.

  I actually gave up when the film Star Trek: Insurrection finished on Film 4. I have to say it was one of the better Star Trek movies. They took some liberties with the uniforms, but the crew were the correct actors for the parts. The special effects were very restrained, although the extra money involved in movie making allowed for bigger sets, and much more CGI. I think I enjoyed it.

  One of the things I was supposed to be trying to do yesterday was to be very careful with what I was eating. To a limited extent I managed to achieve that, but there were a few outliers that I might have been able to avoid on a bright warm day. On the other hand, on a bright warm day I might have been out exercising, and that would allow a few liberties in my diet. To some extent being distracted from food by being out on a walk, maybe even a coastal walk that would have kept me out half the day, would have been even better.

  During the evening, which now starts at 4.30pm when it gets dark, I expected my lack of sleep the night before to catch up on me very early. Oddly enough it didn't, or at least not until the last minute. I went to bed early because I felt I should, rather than feeling that I needed to. I read for a while, and it was then that I suddenly began to feel tired. I put the book down, turned out the light, and was asleep in next to no time. I think that was possibly before 9pm.

  I slept well for most of the night. I don't think I even got up to pee as often as most nights, and that was despite drinking two cans of strong Polish beer earlier on. I had a wide variety of dreams, but I can only remember remnants of them now. One included a bus ride, and another a train ride. The only one I can really comment on is one that with hindsight is sort of amusing. It involved going for a lunchtime meal in a very exclusive Chinese restaurant. It was very exclusive because they opened at midday, and would only allow one hundred people in, and then would kick them all out when they closed at 2pm. I think they provided doggy bags for those who had not finished their meals because everyone had to leave at 2pm !

  I woke just before 6am, and under different circumstances I might have got up then, but it was quite cool in my bedroom. I had a pee, turned the heater up full, and got back into bed to wait for the room to warm up a bit. Nearly 90 minutes later I woke up again ! I may have got 10 hours sleep last night, and almost worked of my sleep debt, but I wouldn't be surprised if I didn't get in a long snooze or two today, or if not, another early night.

  This morning my blood glucose was down to a more respectable 8.6mmol/l. I would be happier if it were lower, but it is OK for now, although I think it blows out any chance of a record monthly average for this month. It will probably be an average average ! Of course it made it important to be careful with what I bought when I went shopping in Aldi this morning. On the whole I was careful, but I took a few chances on a few things.

  This morning I seem to have a mildly sore throat, and maybe a bit of nasal stuffiness. It's a bit like a cold. The odd thing is that I have seen so few people recently that I wonder where or who I caught it from. I thought it might be prudent to buy some oranges (in the form of little "easy pealers"), and some kiwi fruit for a bit of extra vitamin C. I meant to have some of that fruit for breakfast, but I am taking a chance of another purchase that might, or might not be good. It was a sliced loaf of Warburtons "no added sugar" wholemeal bread. I've had a ham, and a ham &cheese, sandwich for breakfast. The ironic thing is that I didn't really enjoy them because I found the taste of the bread seemed to overpower the ham.

  The main event today is a parcel delivery from Amazon. It contains a 2TB exteranl hard disk to make a back up copy of the 2TB external hard disk I spent so long the other days copying over a terabyte of files to the other day. That is going to hog my PC for a large chunk of today again. The other thing in the parcel is another radio link temperature sensor. This one comes with 3 external sensors. I can monitor the garden temperature, maybe in two places, and perhaps the kitchen or bathroom. I must confess I ordered it more for it's price than having a reason for all three sensors. The thing I mustn't do is fit lithium cells in the external sensors. Lithium cells are really great for some things, but I think when very lightly loaded, such as a sensor, they can produce too much voltage, and kill the sensors. I killed two nearly 2 years ago - they just started eating batteries in a matter of days - they should last a year of more. This new one is a replacement for the whole system. Ideally I could have found just replacement sensors, but maybe I didn't look hard enough for them.