Yesterday was one of those days where I seemed to be very busy doing nothing. I started to wash some stuff, and left it soaking in detergent. It is still there, all cold and nasty this morning. I seemed to spend nearly all day just reading or on the internet. I have a few dubious downloads to show for it, but nothing else.

  Despite it all sounding like a negative sort of day, I did achieve one good thing. I was very careful about my eating. For breakfast I had two bowls of instant noodles. My lunch, and my dinner were just soup - two cans for dinner, and two cans for dinner. All the soups were low sugar, and probably low calories. I didn't have a completely snack free day. I had a couple of small packets of crisps some time in the afternoon.

  One peculiarity was that I hardly remember much about the evening, and maybe even the late afternoon. It is probably because there were few "hooks" to hang on to. I remember eating, and I remember watching both Have I Got News For You, and QI, both repeats shown on Dave. On reflection that does count for a lot of the evening. I think QI finished at 9pm, and I went to bed, to read, after it had finished.

   I made a particular point of brushing my teeth before going to bed this time. The night before I thought I had brushed my teeth - it is the sort of thing you do on autopilot - but I still seemed to be able to taste some blue cheese I had before going to bed even in the morning. It was not pleasant. Maybe it was something else because even a couple of swills with mouthwash in the night couldn't seems to fully take that taste away. Maybe it was something else that was beyond my imagination.

  I probably read in bed until about 10pm, and I think I fell asleep quite quickly after that. It was a night where on every occasion except one I could fall asleep very quickly after waking up in the night. That one occasion was when I developed an itchy foot. I have no idea what causes an itch on the sole of my foot (possibly a tiny, invisible, cut or something). Fortunately I have not been afflicted by this gigantic annoyance for a some time.

  I had two dreams last night where I seemed to be delivering something. The first time I was delivering what was something like a Yellow Pages to a kebab shop at 8am. The shop was open, and a few cab drivers were in there having breakfast, and the grill was on. I decided I fancied a small doner kebab for breakfast. I expect it was delicious, but sadly I think I woke up before I could eat it.

  A delivery only took up part of a longer series of dreams that had a nautical flavour. It seems I was going on some sort of sea trip, although the interior of the ship was rather like that of the old Woolwich Ferries. During the early part of the dream I knew the name of the ship I was on, but I forget it now. However I do know the name of it's sister ship. It was the Abbey Dabbey, and I think the name of the ship I was initially on had a similar sounding name. The captain of the first ship asked me if I could go along the quayside to deliver something to the captain of the second ship.

  That delivery was just in a brown paper bag, and I could see it was a pre-paid cheese catalogue. Actually it was a clever idea - almost like a gift card, but a whole booklet listing different cheeses that you could order up to the pre-paid price. It was when walking through the second ship that I think I noticed the strong resemblance to the Woolwich Ferry. It was there that I met a "posh looking bird", and we left the ship together to go to a dockside bar. Things were looking optimistic, but then I woke up !

  This morning the truth about my careful eating was revealed. My blood glucose reading had fallen from 8.5mmol/l yesterday, to a very nice 7.5mmol/l. In consequence my running average for the first 5 days of this month has fallen to 8.2mmol/l - the same as my average for January. Now the big question is whether I can keep it this lower, or even lower at the end of the month ?

 So far today I have had some breakfast (two bowls of instant noodles) and I have fed the birds. I've also read a few internet articles. The next thing I have to do before considering anything else is to finish doing the laundry I started yesterday morning. Even through rubber gloves it is going to feel horribly cold and slimy, but it has to be done. I almost wonder if I should hang some of it on the washing line. If I were to know the afternoon would be mainly sunny I might do that, but then again, even at midday the sun is still not high enough to shine on the back fence, and my garden is in gloom for a few months yet.

  Once that washing is hanging up to dry I will consider what I might do next. I could possibly go for a walk, but wearing myself out would clash with a desire to try and go to a gig tonight. MT Pockets, who I really like, are playing in The Railway in Blackheath tonight. It is easy to get to if I dare get on a bus without a mask - no more than 20 minutes on a 54 bus. It is also sort of easy by train - a train from Catford to Nunhead, and then change to a train back to Blackheath. I am sort of tempted to try the train route to get there. The only real bugger is the pub is very expensive, and doesn't (or didn't) take cash payments. Also the gig will probably not start until 9pm. Even when I was going to gig fairly regularly, pre-covid, I hated late starts. There is a 50% chance I will actually be home in bed before they start !