It's another wet morning - I know this well because I have been out in it ! Once again it seems to be fairly light, or at least not the heavy rain shown in the forecast. The latest revision to the forecast doesn't really show anything different to the screenshot above - it will be wet until 3pm (instead of 5pm), and there will then be a break in the rain until it starts again at 7pm and continues until beyond midnight. Of course it could be, and probably will be totally different ! The thing about today is that from sunset the temperature will be 11° C, and if it wasn't cold, dark, and wet, it would be t-shirt weather ! All being well, tomorrow should be mostly dry with much lighter clouds, and even the possibility of a short burst of sunshine. Once again the temperature should be 11° C. The day after may even see 15° C.

  I don't have a lot to say about yesterday because I did so little - just a few odds and sods to keep me amused. Things like a bit of computer hygiene, tidying up, and backing up some stuff. What I did do of particular note was to somehow manage to eat very carefully again, and once again it seemed easier than I imagined. Maybe getting that blood glucose reading of 10.7mmol/l a couple of days ago scared me enough.
  I say I ate carefully, but yesterday morning I did confess to eating a medium sized bag of crisps. My lunch was just two cans of soup. It was a bit of a bold move having soup, but only in one special way. There is a batch of Bramwells (Aldi own brand) that is made with some really rough old peas. The usual consistency is quite creamy, but the odd batch is very course. It is like it was made with tough old peas with leathery skins. It makes it quite chewy, but it is probably all healthy fibre.

  The beef and vegetable chunky soup is rather pleasant and mostly harmless. However, I spiced it up with a fair bit of the scotch bonnet, extra hot, chilli sauce. That can irritate my digestive tract, and combined with the tough, leathery pea skins, it was probably a recipe for spending today sitting on the toilet. To my surprise that hasn't happened yet, and I don't even really feel uncomfortable, but there is a nagging thought in my brain telling me to expect something spectacular sooner or later.

  It may not have helped that my dinner was a simple dish of roast sprouts with bacon. On the other hand, maybe that did help in an unexpected way. I could have done both (and I don't think I have to explain what reputation sprouts have in the ordinary way).

  It all feels a bit vague, but I think I was asleep in bed soon after 9pm last night. I wasn't distracted by anything on TV because I have refused to watch any TV for the last couple of days because it is probably all christmas crap, although the last time I thought that I found out, fortunately before it was too late, that one of the channels was showing a load of "Carry On" films back to back.

  I seemed to sleep well last night, at last I think I did, but I have a few doubts. It seemed that the intervals between waking up in the night, usually for a pee, but not always, at least not always with any desperate need, seemed to after what felt like long periods of sleep. On reflection, it probably was that way for over half the night, and it was only later this morning that I woke up most.

  During the night I had a load of "episodes" of a dream. I sort of know that many, or most were separate dream, but they were on a common theme, and seemed to have the same characters in them. I guess the core of the inspiration for these dreams, or maybe the background settings, was the book I have been reading, but the actual "story line", if indeed there really was one, was nothing like the book.

  The dreams were about being with some extremely rich people. I seemed to be a friend of them, but the exact relationship is very vague. In some instances I felt more like I was watching something on TV or a film. The only bit I can describe now is a demonstration of how rich these people were, but is also weird in the extreme. It all started when I felt movement. Their whole house, and some of the land around it, was on wheels running on two parallel narrow gauge railway tracks. The whole lot moved quite gently, many miles until it stopped by a bay with pure white sand, blue sea and a blue sky.

  Back to the real world, and I got up at just after 8am - a little later than expected, but it did seem easy to fall asleep again after waking up 90 minutes earlier. What I ate yesterday had no explosive effects this morning, and in fact nothing happened at all. My temperature was slightly higher than usual for early morning, 35.5° C, although when I checked my temperature records I see that at 8am it is about that half the time. I guess it is not unusually high after all !

  The best result was my blood glucose. Even after scoffing a medium big bag of crisps for breakfast it was just 7.0mmol/l. That is an excellent reading, but it will take every day until the end of the month to be like that to get my end of month average down to something I am happy with. It is hard to say whether I feel good or bad this morning. I've had a few twinges from my chest, and my left elbow was feeling sore earlier.

  On the other hand, when I walked to Aldi this morning my legs felt really quite good, and in fact nothing gave me any discomfort. It wasn't quite the same coming home, although I was within 30ft of my front door before my right knee started to complain. It was only a mild complaint, and had I been out walking it may have got worse, or it could have got better again.

  After such a low blood glucose reading this morning I developed a theory, and almost put it to the test. It often seems like I can get away with something with a fair amount of sugar in it if I eat it early enough in the morning. I did feel tempted to do something silly like buying some icecream for breakfast, but apart from that being silly, it is hardly the weather for it. I had a more sensible breakfast of "southern fried flavoured" fish burgers (like square fish fingers, and eaten without any buns or other stuff).

  Once again I think the weather rules out any outdoor activities today. That leaves me with almost nothing to do, or nothing I feel I want to do. One job I may do is really boring and tedious, but it is a job I have been putting off too long. It is to go through some old hard disks, and maybe even recordable CD or DVD disks, to see if there is anything I need to add to my master archive disk (and also archive back up disk) of mp3 files. I have a nagging idea that there is an album or two of music missing from the master archive disk (and it's backup), and they, or it, is on some small disk somewhere. It is a long and tedious job !