There is a choice of weathers today. The BBC website says heavy cloud, and the Met Office website shows mostly light cloud, but both show zero sunshine, and both say the temperature should go up to 13° C. Also, but say it should stay dry. I don't usually bother interpreting the wind speed, but I think there may be a little less wind than when I went for my walk 2 days ago. It was the wind then that made it feel a bit cooler than the 13° C. Tomorrow may well see thicker cloud, and hence gloomier, but it should still make 12° C, and it should stay dry.

   There is not a lot to write about yesterday because nothing happened, and I did nothing of note. It is possible I was ill in some way. There were a couple of indicators that this may have been true, and a few symptoms too, although the latter were intermittent in the extreme. Some of it was depression, but what came first - depressed and so feeling ill, or feeling depressed because I was ill ?

  The two physical indicators that all was not well were my blood glucose level and my temperature. I had a nagging idea that although I had eaten a few things that were marginally bad the day before, I didn't think that what I had eaten deserved the high blood glucose reading yesterday morning. Blood glucose does tend to rise when fighting some sort of infection. I also noticed that my body temperature was slightly higher than usual. It was little more than 0.7° C higher than typical at various time of day, and several degrees away from a text book fever, but it was higher than usual.

  In terms of physical symptoms I did occasionally have a slightly tickly throat, but it was just a few times and mostly in the morning. I was also prone to a few times when my nose was a bit runny. In that respect it was like the lightest cold you could ever imagine. One other thing that may have had some relevance, but I can't imagine what it was, was that I was constipated yesterday, and didn't pass a thing all day. Oddly enough I didn't actually feel uncomfortable, and it almost ties in with the idea that I didn't eat that much on Sunday.

  Whether any of these physical things account for feeling depressed, or listless, or creeping malaise, is anyone's guess, but I was most definitely listless. I couldn't find any reason to do anything except stay warm and quietly read for quite a chunk of the day. I also blew out the idea of trying to partially fast to help get my blood glucose down. In fact I don't think I ate all that differently to Sunday, and that seemed to raise my blood glucose a lot.

  There was just one thing I did that required a little bit of planning/preparation, and that was to cook a special dinner. It was oven cooked sprouts with "dry cure" smoked bacon. I was hoping it would be very nice, but the sprouts were just undercooked enough to still have a bit of crunch. Another 10 minutes in the oven might have made them perfect, and the meal that much nicer. It was still nice, but not that nice.

  I knew that after doing so little during the day I would probably have some difficulty getting to sleep last night. After milking the TV for all it had, which was very, very little, I retired to bed with a book, and read for a couple of hours. I think it was around 10pm when I put the book down. Evidently my timing must have been good because it wasn't very long before I was fast asleep. I think I probably slept really well last night. I seemed to wake up less, and I even managed to oversleep by half an hour - not that it matters when I get up.

  I felt sort of refreshed when I got up. It is impossible to say what that actually meant, but I guess it may have been an absence of the sort of negative things that would have made me feel bad. The two most positive things were my body temperature and my blood glucose. My body temperature was a nice, getting close to death, 34.8° C, and that was 0.9° lower than yesterday morning. My blood glucose was down to 8.7mmol/l. That was much better than yesterday's 9.5mmol/l, and probably very good considering I had come very close to not bothering what I ate yesterday.

  It is probably an indication that I feel fairly good that I am thinking about going for a walk today. The rather gloomy look outside says no, but the predicted temperature of 13° C says yes ! The only fly in the ointment is that while I am technically not constipated this morning, but so far very little has happened (which is better than nothing). If, in the next couple of hours, I have a few decent visits to the toilet (enough for two days worth) then I will feel comfortable to go for a walk. If not then I guess I will be staying in waiting for something to happen !