The sun should be shining from a clear blue sky until 11am this morning, but after that the clouds come back, and the afternoon will start rather grey, and maybe for an hour or so it will be very grey. The latest revision to the forecast now shows 5pm as just another cloudy hour. The afternoon temperature will be 10° C. Tomorrow will probably feature a lot of mostly light rain, but when tomorrow, and when and if there will be some sunny spells late in the afternoon, will likely be very different than what the forecast shows now. One thing that probably won't change is that it will be a very cool day. The day will start at 9° C, and then it will get gradually colder. By 11pm tomorrow it could be down to 4° C, and possibly still falling.
  I think I can describe yesterday as "satisfactory" (but with out the implied sneer when that word was used on school reports). I was particularly impressed with the morning sunshine - maybe more than impressed considering the weather forecast didn't initially say there would be any sunshine at all ! Before the sunshine ended I put on my rucksack and went shopping, and I didn't even feel the need to wear a coat. That was a mistake because the sunshine failed on my walk back home under a stormy looking sky.

  I first went to Savers where I bought an assortment of drugs plus some shampoo and conditioner, and some bottles of bleach. I then went into Poundstretcher where I bought more drugs, more bleach, and a few edible things. I was disappointed that they didn't seem to have any cheap bleach (79p  a bottle last time), and I had to by proper branded stuff (Domestos and Parazone). Fortunately it was not too expensive, although I have strong suspicion that £1.89 is probably a lot more than I could get it for in Aldi.

  I bought two edible things. One was a bag of cheese ball type things. They were corn based (I think) and mainly because they are mostly air, I knew that they were quite low sugar. The other thing was most definitely not low sugar ! It was a bag of Cadbury's chocolate éclairs. I expected them to have chocolate on the outside, but there was something brown and gooey on the inside of a hard toffee shell. I ate just one of them yesterday, and I aim to eat no more than one per day, and probably less than that. It shouldn't be too hard because I found them to be quite disappointing.

  Walking home under a dirty grey sky was not pleasant at all, but at least it stayed dry for another hour or two. I still felt rather good when I got home. I guess it was because I had done something positive, and I had bits and a till receipt to prove it - not that I needed to prove it to anyone except my self. I thought it deserved a short rest once I had packed away what I had bought. I think I wanted a snooze, but evidently I didn't need one, and didn't have one.

  The rest of yesterday was filled up with reading, more CD ripping, and some more work cataloguing all the best of my train pictures in an ever growing spreadsheet. That catalogue job seems to be ever lasting. It doesn't help that I keep adding more information to it, plus things like embedded links to wikipedia. It's completion will never truly come if I keep taking pictures, as I have plans for this year, but getting it up to current date may not take too much longer. The next time I sit down with it I will be starting from the year 2020, and during the Covid years I didn't do a lot of train photography. Once 2020, 2021, and anything this year have been done I will need to go back through my scans of negatives taken on my old film camera. Sadly I won't be able to put an exact date on those, and often not even the exact year.

  Yesterday morning I had a single bowl of noodles for breakfast, and I had the bag of cheese ball things (as described above) for a sort of lunch. I also had a few other snacks. Mostly that was just a few peanuts now and then as I was working, but I also had a couple of oranges that were only medium sweet. I feel like I had something else, but I can't recall what it might have been - maybe just a chunk of cheese to nibble on.

  My dinner was sort of constrained by what I had bought on Monday in Aldi. It was some cod in crunchy breadcrumbs. I could have had other stuff, but I don't like to keep unfrozen fish in the fridge for too long. I had that fish with a small can of garden peas. It is a nice combination, but those peas are known (to me) as having a negative effect on my blood glucose readings the next morning. Other stuff I ate would also contribute some sugar.

  Last night was another night with hardly any TV. After the single episode of The Simpsons ended on Channel 4 I turned the TV off because I couldn't find anything listed that grabbed my attention. The sad thing is that I missed the last 10 minutes of The Simpsons while I was getting my dinner together. I did turn the TV on again at 9pm (or was it 8pm ?) to start watching an old episode of QI. It had the potential to be a good episode, but this episode featured Johnny Vegas, and I can't stand him. 10 minutes into the show I switched off and went to bed.

  I read in bed for a bit longer, but at 10pm I put the book down, turned out the light, and tried for sleep. At 10.15pm nothing happened. What seemed to be just 5 minutes later was actually nearly 3 hours later. I don't know if I was extra tired, or just some sort of luck, but nearly all my night was like that. I only woke up for a pee a couple of times, and each time I didn't think I would be able to fall asleep again, but the next thing I was aware of was that 2 or 3 hours had passed. It was only after 6am that I had something resembling insomnia, but that was only because I probably didn't need to sleep any long.

  I think I managed to get two more very short sleeps before I realised it was light outside, and it then definitely felt like time to get up. I guess I felt reasonably OK when I got up. My blood glucose had gone up to 7.9mmol/l, but I was sort of expecting that, and it is still a good reading. After most readings typically being in the area of 8.5mmol/l for so long, anything under 8.0mmol/l is good news, although I think my target once I am out and about a bit more, frolicking in the sunshine (sort of), will be 7.0mmol/l.

  There is only one thing of importance on the agenda today. It's Wednesday, and I am looking forward to meeting Angela for a drink during her lunch hour. It is a shame that we will have lost the sunshine, and it could even be rather dull when I walk through the park. I think today, unlike last week, I will be wearing a coat with sleeves. One thing I think I will do is to go via the little supermarket on Catford Bridge to buy a couple of Kohlrabis to present one each to Asia, the barmaid, and Angela. I have a feeling I might get the train from Catford Bridge to Ladywell - mainly because I can, and not that there is any need for it - except I might pick up a copy of The Metro while at one of the stations.