Before leaving the subject of the weather, and in particular, yesterday's weather, the picture above was taken at 3pm, and is looking to the north. It is pretty typical of what the sky looked like for almost all the hours of daylight. The cloud in the top half of the picture is typical of the sort of cloud that would occasionally float across the face of the sun. This, and most other clouds was thing enough to let some dim sunshine shine through bits of it.

  I can account for all of yesterday morning by just describing two things - both already described yesterday. They were a shopping trip to Poundland, and then writing yesterdays diary (or blog, or whatever you want to call this scribble). I shouldn't need to mention it, but a little time was taken up having a shower, drying myself, and getting dressed to go shopping. There are some days when I am so convinced that I am not going to see a single living soul that I do not bother to have a shower, but those days are rare.

  With hindsight I should have done one or two things yesterday. The weather would have been fine for a walk, or for doing some gardening. I'm not sure why, but I just didn't fancy either. Neglecting the garden was the worst thing because I have a lot of seeds to plant, and I even bought more of them when I was shopping in the morning. Most have to be planted this month if I want them to flower in the summer.  It was even dry enough to strim what's left of my lawn, and I could have tried to tidy it up and put down more grass seed (most of which would probably be eaten by the pigeons !).

  I spent most of yesterday afternoon reading. Perhaps half of it online, and the other half from the book I am currently reading (Isaac Asimov's "Foundation And Earth"). For a lot of the morning, and a lot of the afternoon, there was sufficient sunshine coming through my bedroom windows to keep the room comfortably warm, but for a little while in the early afternoon it did better than that. I was laying on my bed reading, and I was almost feeling too hot. The feel of that bright sunshine, even after going through two panes of glass (double glazing), and the net curtains, was absolutely delicious.

  I was going to try and eat as best I could yesterday, but that didn't really happen, or at least it didn't seem to be that sensible at the time. My late breakfast was southern fried flavour chicken steaks that I had cooked the night before, and left in the oven overnight. I heated them up, and ate them with some sliced jalapeños and reduced, but not exactly low sugar tomato ketchup. They were nice, but I didn't really enjoy them. I think it was a bit of guilt, and just the timing that spoiled them. They just didn't really seem breakfast material.

  I had what would have been my breakfast, two bowls of instant noodles, for a late lunch. I also managed to fit in a few snacks before dinner. My dinner was sort of sensible except for the dessert ! The main course was some oven cooked haddock in batter with a serving of mange tout. That dessert was more fish - fish goujons. They looked a bit like rounded fish fingers, and I expected them to taste like them, but I think they were based on off cuts of rather plain fish (possibly extra bland Pollock).  The only reason I cooked and ate them was because I don't like to leave fish in the fridge for too long.
  This was what last night's sunset was like. Weather lore tells us "red sky at night, shepherds delight". As the sun continues to shine this morning, and the temperature slowly creeps up (now 10° C at 10am), that red sky did a better job of forecasting today's weather than all the super computers at The Met Office. The night before had another red sunset, and yesterday was a lovely day.

  There seemed to be a fair bit of TV to watch last night, and I didn't get to bed until gone 9pm (and maybe it was as late as 10pm). I was getting very close to the end of the book I am reading, and I read until midnight. I still had a short chapter or two to go, but I couldn't stay awake any longer. I turned out the light, and tried to get comfortable. At first it seemed I wouldn't be able to get to sleep, but I doubt that lasted more than 5 minutes before I fell asleep. I woke up a few times in the night for a pee, but I seem to think I actually slept very well last night.

  This morning was the big revelation. I knew I could have eaten a lot more carefully, but maybe it was not as bad as I thought. In fact it must have been a lot better than I thought because this morning my blood glucose was actually down a little. Yesterday it was 8.4mmol/l, and this morning it was down to 8.1mmol/l. Although after just 2 days the running average for the month is meaningless, it was 8.25mmol/, and close to last months record low. I think I feel sort of pleased, but I shouldn't be. One thing I have noticed is that through January, when my blood glucose was (on average) the lowest it has been for a couple of years, I actually put on 2kg of weight. That is the opposite of how it is supposed to work !

  There is only one thing of significance happening today, and that is, assuming I don't hear any reason to cancel it. I will be going out to meet Angela for a lunch time drink. The weather forecast, not that it seems to trustworthy, says we should get at least sunny spells, although the latest revision has replaced midday's sunny spells with light cloud. It has been great for the last few weeks walking Angela back to work in sunshine when there shouldn't have been any. It is almost as if someone up there is smiling down at us together.
  One more weather picture. This one was taken at 9am today, and it looks a bit flat, but the contrast between the shadows and the sunlit parts is very stark. The blue sky is slightly spoiled by a few small smoky looking clouds just above the trees in the background, but particularly to the naked eye it looks lovely out there, and an hour later it still looks great.