Yesterday was one of those days where time seemed to fly by without the aid of any distractions. I did a few tangible things that passed some times, and the first of these was a shopping trip to Tesco. I seemed to spend a fair bit of money in Tesco, but two thirds of it was just lots of little things. A third of it was on a 3 pack of underpants. The silly thing is that I have loads of perfectly serviceable underpants, but I fancied a change, and I don't know why.

  Well I can offer one explanation - I spotted some different coloured underpants. There was one pack of three that had two shades of blue, plus one black, in it, but to my great annoyance they didn't do them in the larger sizes. At that point I should have walked away, but having come that I close I did select a pack of three that had bright coloured elastic at the top of almost ordinary black.

  I did find a few bargains. I grabbed two packs of diced lamb that were reduced from something like £4.50 to £2.79. That is quite a good discount for the Catford Tesco. In the Sainsburys local by Catford Station every thing is discounted to half price once it is close enough to it's sell by date, and they want to be sure it sells. I'm looking forward to a couple of lamb and (green) vegetable stews soon.

  One thing I regret buying is all the instant noodles. I should have gone to the little supermarket on the bridge for those. It seems that the Batchelors "Low Fat" instant noodles do have a significant amount of sugar in them. I have grave suspicions about some of the instant noodles I bought yesterday, and particularly for some of them on the "Oriental Foods" section. They don't have the very convenient "traffic lights" nutritional panel, and the nutritional panel on the back doesn't even have a separate section for sugar. It appears to be counted in with the carbohydrates.

  The final significant thing I bought from Tesco was a Valentines card. It was just what I wanted for someone who sadly isn't a lover, and may never be despite us loving each other a lot. It's message was really for very close friends, and that seemed appropriate. As soon as I had put my groceries away I sat down and wrote a message in the card, and as tradition dictates, I left it unsigned. I then rushed out to post it. I could then start to relax.

  I couldn't relax too much because lunch time was approaching, and I was looking forward to some lunch. It was to be a tin of minced beef and onion eaten as a soup. Should have had no more sugar in it than most of the true soups I eat - unless they did something despicable and gave the amount per quarter tin or something worse. I think I probably had my lunch before I started washing a small load of laundry. I say small, because in terms of big stuff there were only two t-shirts in it, but there were at least 5 pairs of underpants - almost everlasting underpants since I started hand washing them 10 or more years ago.

  With the laundry done I could really relax, but not the way I wanted. I wanted to get back to reading the book I am currently reading, but I had about 15 tabs open, each with a different news story, in my web browser, and that was before I refreshed the first tab which was the home page of https://www.theregister.com/ and later, when I did refresh it I found another 16 more news stories I wanted to read. (and this morning I suspect there will be even more when I refresh it). Many of those tech news stories are not that interesting, but until you read them that can't always be predicted. Others are fascinating.

  I did eventually get to my book, and I even managed a short snooze. I think it was yesterday I said the books was a bit tedious, but that I expected that once the background info had been described it would start to get more interesting. Since last night I am now a quarter of the way through the book, and at last the pace has picked up, and it is has started to get a lot more enjoyable.

  One more thing I bought from Tesco was some cod in breadcrumbs, and because I don't like to try and keep fish too long (unless deep frozen) I had that for my dinner in preference to the diced lamb that I was looking forward to. I had that cod with runner beans. I'm not sure they were a great combination, but they weren't bad, and of course added something I could call "green vegetables" to my meal.

  I seemed to be feeling quite sleepy last night, and I think I put my book down quite early, and I think I fell asleep quite quickly. I am sort of annoyed that I didn't pay more attention to the time. On the whole I slept well last night, but I did seem to be dreaming a lot. One dream, in the early part of my sleep, was almost like I was writing up an idea for a TV series. It was to be about some sort of flying boat, capable of vertical take off and landing, that could travel through time.  My imagination only seemed to go as far as imagining different sorts of landings and take-offs.

  A series of dreams later in the early morning seemed to be about horses and railways. It was almost like it was some sort of military pageant. The dream started with me near Ladywell Station, and I passed lots of horses with military type riders as I walked back towards Catford Bridge through the park. I think it was in one of the earliest dreamlets  that featured a bright green horse box that was the height and length of a double decker bus, albeit slightly thinner.

  I passed many groups of horses and riders in the park, and each group seemed to be lead by a mounted policeman. When I got to Catford Bridge I saw the same, or a similar green horse box on the other side of the railway, pulled up next to the platform. I was fiddling around with a little pocket sized camera when a very young looking man wearing a khaki coloured sweater, and no other insignia, but somehow was a general asked me if I wanted to take some pictures of the horses in the horse box.

  I said yes please, but that meant walking to the road bridge to cross to the other platform. It seemed like we were walking through a large hall, and I lost my guide before we got to the other end. It was then that I was approached by someone I obviously knew, and she asked me to massage her shoulders because they were very stiff. The thing is that she was wearing an open jacket with nothing on underneath it. Somehow I didn't seem to be able to see if her nakedness extended below her waistline. I did massage her shoulders, but I really wanted to......err, I woke up soon after that.

  This morning is one of those mornings where technically I am constipated, although I feel zero discomfort. This is probably because I went a lot yesterday morning. I probably started the day rather empty. It is probably my imagination, but it seems on mornings like this morning my blood glucose is higher, and whether there is any cause and effect, my blood glucose has gone up to a most annoying 8.8mmol/l. That is well below the danger area, but it messes up my running average, and I was really hoping that this month would end on another record low - an even lower low !

  The really annoying thing is that I don't think I ate anything that much different to days when I have had much lower readings. The low fat noodles I had in the morning definitely had over double the amount of sugar than the normal fat versions. I did have two small packets of crisps in the afternoon while I was reading from my PC screen, but in the past I seem to have survived such a treat. Going out on a limb, there is one possible explanation for the higher reading, and that was that it was an inaccurate reading. This morning I used the very last test strip in the packet. I have a rather desperate theory that once the sealed pack is opened the strips can start to deteriorate because of moisture, or even oxygen in the air. Tomorrow I will open a new pack, and hopefully the reading will be lower again.

  Today is yet another day when I have no idea what I am doing. I feel it is too cold for any sort of enjoyable walk. Besides the cold, there seems to be rather less sunshine than promised. It is very cloud right now - when the forecast says it should be full on sunshine - and the only sign the sun is still alight is a glaringly bright patch of cloud when the sun should be. One thing I would half like to do today is to go to Chain's gig at The Railway in Blackheath. It would be good to see them again, but I still can't seem to change my internal clock to go out instead of going to bed. On top of that is that I really don't like The Railway. It is the pub that did, and I expect still does, only take card payments, and I consider that a very dangerous way of drinking !