Rather sadly the forecast has been revised since I took the screenshot about at just gone 7am. The latest revision shows all the sunshine confined to the morning. The afternoon will (probably) feature mostly white cloud, but the temperature should rise to a fair 14° C. Tomorrow should be fairly mild, with maybe 12° C in the afternoon, but it is currently predicted to be a wet afternoon. The first rain tomorrow could actually be in the small hours of the morning. It should be dry before sunrise, but from 1 to 10pm it will probably rain - sometimes very light, and maybe sometime heavy.

  After such a late start yesterday, I have already described half of yesterday. There were a few other things I did in the afternoon, and one of them was a bit of light laundry. I hand washed 4 bar towels, and two tea towels. I didn't use any heating, just a desktop fan to blow air at the items, and I was surprised how quickly they dried compared to things like t-shirts and underpants.

  The only other thing of note that I did was to make a start of going through all my old photos and negatives. I have found some that I don't think have been scanned before, but I don't think I'll be scanning any unless they are of some special significance. The more important job is to try and get all the photos and all their negatives in some sort of order, and hopefully to be able to put a few dates on them. I know some folders of photos do have a date on them, and I used to write a date on the back of some photos. Some will never be dated to any more than a guess at the year they were taken, but even that could be completely wrong in some cases.

  I had a spare 99p shop little notebook, and I have started to make a record of all the photos in that. It is more tedious than I thought, and I started with some easy stuff. By comparing the negatives with the prints I can note the frame number on each photo, and so get them in the right order, and also have a reference number to enter in my little black book (funnily enough, the little 99p shop notebook is black !).

  The first folder* I started on contained the prints and negatives of a 36 exposure film. Many of the prints look a little underexposed, but they are generally of good quality. If they were of good interest too I would scan the negatives, and edit the electronic picture using my favourite photo/graphics editor, The Gimp. If I could put a reasonable date on them I would scan them all too, but first looks suggest that maybe three shots from that 36 exposure film would easily represent the whole film, and the rest would add nothing to it.

* I can't think of a proper word to describe what you got your films in when they came back for the chemist (or wherever). It is a sort of folder, with a pocket for the prints, and a pocket for the negatives. I think "folder" will have to do for now.

  I only got to about the tenth picture when I was interrupted by a phone call. It was a fairly rare call from my friend Keith. I guess I get a call from him every 2 or 3 months, and each call goes on for a long time. Yesterday it was two and a half hours. That was fine because most of it was an interesting catch up of news, but it did keep me from my photos, and made me late preparing my dinner.

  My dinner took a fair bit of preparation because it was cod in batter with salad. I didn't have to do anything to the ready to cook fish, but I did need to chop some of the salad ingredients. It turned out to be a very nice dinner, and the only problem with it was something I had forgotten about when I bought the fish. The last time I had this cod in batter my blood glucose went up the following morning. I made a guess that the batter had a lot of sugar in it so it became nice and brown and crispy.

  One peculiar aspect of the salad was that I had bought some celery sticks, and added diced celery to it. The significance is that I liked the celery. Before Covid I was experimenting to see if I could learn to at least tolerate celery, and I did have a modicum of success, but last night it was beyond tolerable, and in the region of nice. To make sure I ate another unadorned stick of celery a bit later in the evening, and it was sort of enjoyable. I suspect that this is because of Covid.

  About two years ago now, when my taste had returned after having Covid, I found that cucumbers tasted disgusting. The taste of them is slowly returning to normal after 2 years, but is only about half way there so far. I can tolerate a few bits of cucumber if it is of decent quality. It was only a week or two ago that I mentioned I now find many beers too bitter for my tastes, and that is probably another legacy of Covid. Celery becoming nice is a positive result of Covid !

  A lot of time seemed to slip by unnoticed yesterday evening. It was only when I tried to read in bed, and my eyes kept closing, that I noticed it was gone 11pm. I went to sleep very soon after that, and on the whole I slept well. I think the temperature last night seemed to suit me better. I have vague memories of lots of assorted dreams, but there is only one I want to write about.

  This dream was a good example of how the subconscious can be so creative.  I can't recall how it started, but I seemed to be in someone's large-ish living room where a sort of low density, low key party was just finishing. The bit that was very creative, and very vivid was when a young lady (maybe 30 years old) got up to say good bye to me in a very tactile way. There was a lot of hugging, some kissing, and even a brief nose rub (kinky !). She could only be described as very vivacious. She had bright red or orange hair which was slightly spiky, and a nice face, although I can't seem to describe her face.

  I can't even describe what she was wearing, although I do get a sort of vague idea that it was mostly black. What is amazing about it all was that I can think of no one in the real world who could have been the inspiration for her. I can only guess that someone like her may have been in an advert, or appeared on TV in a minor part, and somehow my subconscious stored that image, and used it to construct the woman I saw in my dream.

  There could be other things, like some chilli peanuts I ate, but it does seem that once again I was hit by the unexpected sugar in the batter for the cod I ate yesterday. This morning my blood glucose is back up to 8.7mmol/l. It means I've had almost a week of readings in the eights, and it is annoying more than anything else. It seems unlikely that I will have any chance of getting a record low this month. The current running average for this month is still lower than for the end of January, and I guess that is good, but higher than last month.

  A check on the latest revision to the weather forecast shows the sunny spells continuing until 2pm now. It is now looking almost as good as the early forecast again (although still not as good as the 7am prediction at the top of the page). It should be shirt sleeves weather in the sunshine, and I ought to go out for a frolic in the park today, but there is a problem. As yet I haven't been to the toilet, and I have that uncomfortable constipated  feeling. it is sods law that I haven't been troubled like this for several weeks, and on the first day when the weather looks really good, it's back again.

  Maybe something will happen soon, and in which case I will get out, but otherwise I will just be doing some stuff indoors, although I could do some gardening. It is definitely time I got the strimmer out to see what is left of my lawn under the weeds and stuff. It could be backbreaking work getting the lawn more lawn like, and this time I will have the added problem of constant visits from pigeons who will try and eat all the grass seed !