Today should also be very sunny, but the forecast for the afternoon is only for a temperature of 12° C. To make matters worse, I've checked the wind speed for today, and in the early afternoon the wind will be gusting around 30mph. That will make it feel cooler, or fresher. Tomorrow will be another degree or two cooler, and while it will be bright all day, a lot of the sunshine in the afternoon may only be sunny spells. After tomorrow it looks like we could get some genuinely warm days.

   I didn't feel all that good yesterday, and it is hard to know why. I can pinpoint one reason, and that was a badly upset stomach, and yet apart from being an annoyance, it didn't seem to feel that bad. I didn't seem to have any particular aches or stiffness, or at least none that feature most days. It may have all been in my head because the worst thing was just a great lack of motivation. I felt tired, but wasn't.

  The stomach upset was very annoying. It seemed that I needed to go to the toilet every 30 to 60 minutes for most of the morning. There were two particular reasons for annoyance. One was that every time I went it seemed like I wouldn't need to go again, but sooner or later I did. The other particular annoyance was that my bottom was becoming unsurprisingly sore. It was a relief to realise that it was all over, at least for something like 8 hours, at about midday.

  I had intended to go for a long walk in the park yesterday, but under the circumstances I didn't feel like it at the time. Instead of a long walk I went for a short walk to the Poundshop. It was a good and bad walk. The actual walking seemed easy enough, but for a lot of the walk it didn't feel very warm at all. To get to Poundland meant walking in the shade a lot, and to make matters worse, there was a very strong breeze blowing straight along the road that ultimately leads to Aldi. I had gone out in just a t-shirt, and felt rather cool when in the shade and wind.
  I hadn't very far from home when I saw this damaged wall. It looks like a car had driven into it at some speed. It is the same house which had a huge white tarpaulin over the scaffold, and which was blown away to somewhere unknown during the big storm we had last month. Considering that wall is only about 5 houses away from me, I find it hard to believe I didn't hear anything. I did see a car parked rather awkwardly on the pavement on the road facing the wall, and I suspected it had been in some sort of accident. Maybe it hit whatever hit the wall. The car I saw seemed to have very little, if any, damage, and was driven away a few minutes later. Maybe I'll hear some neighbourhood gossip which might give a better idea of what happened.

  I bought a selection of stuff from Poundland including bird seed and bird food quality peanuts. I don't think either are very good quality, but they are fine for the skanky pigeons who stuff themselves silly on the bird table. I also bought 2 six packs of salt and vinegar crisps, and I did dare to eat two packs - which was silly considering I am still battling some high blood glucose readings.  The one thing I didn't see in there was any shower heads. The best place for them was the old 99p shop. There used to be a lot of good stuff in there that the Poundshop just does not stock.

  When I came back from the Poundshop I had some lunch. It was another thing I really shouldn't have even bought, but having bought it I had to use it some time. The big annoyance is that it was bad for my blood glucose without having any redeeming quality of being nice. It was a variant of Chicken Kiev (or should that be Kyviv now ?). Instead of garlic and herbs it was stuffed with smoky barbecue flavoured cheese. What I actually found was some of brown goo that had hardly any flavour at all. I suspect, although I didn't even dare check, that the breadcrumbs were stuck on with some sort of syrup so they would brown nicely when cooked.

  I did very little for the rest of the afternoon, and also in the evening. I spent some time catching up on technical, and related news from http://www.theregister.co.uk/, and also did some book reading. I may have had a snooze as well. I think I tried to, but I can't seem to recall if I ever fell asleep. The next thing to happen was dinner. That was a whole heap of assorted salad stuff with some roast/grilled fresh salmon (this time with no sugary marinade !).

  There is one bit of eating I have forgotten to mention. I think it was in the early afternoon that I had one small apple, that was bought as much as a fortnight ago, and two Nectarines. Those Nectarines I bought last Monday, and were labelled "ripen at home". After almost a week they were barely ripe. When truly ripe, perhaps only when left on the tree for longer, the flesh comes away from the stone easily. The two I ate yesterday seemed soft and sweet enough, but the flesh clung to the stone like a limpet.

  My TV viewing seems to be limited to just 90 minutes a night now. At 6pm I watch The Prisoner on the Horror Channel, and then at 7pm I watch The Simpsons on Channel 4+1. After that I invariably turn the TV off, and go to bed with a book. Last night I did have an old plan that I would go to see Chain playing their debut gig at The Bricklayers Arms, but there were three reasons why I didn't.

  One reason was that I thought it polite not to mingle with too many people if some of how I felt was due to a Covid infection (even this morning I often feel like coughing, but try not to). There was also the thing that I was feeling something like fatigued, but as I said further up the page, it may just be mental rather than physical. The third reason was the return of my upset stomach, and last night it really went for it hammer and tongs.

  I could feel and hear a great disturbance in my gut that had started to build up after my dinner. Just before I was going to brush my teeth in preparation for going to bed, I went to the toilet, and exploded ! It made what I did in the morning seem very mild by comparison. Once that was over I washed my hands, and started to brush my teeth. I think I only managed to rinse my mouth twice, and the second time none too thoroughly, before I was on the toilet again for another nuclear sized explosion. After that I wasn't troubled again - even this morning. I must have been completely empty from end to end. I re-brushed my teeth, and after some more relaxed rinses I went to bed.

  I read for a while, and I have no idea when I went to sleep, but I don't think it was after 9pm. I had what seems to have been a good night's sleep. I had a few dreams, and one bot of a dream I remember was being in a pub, and being served a pint in a glass where it looked like part of the rim had been melted and folded over. I was trying to take it back to ask for another glass because it couldn't contain a full pint. I noticed more glasses like it, but I couldn't seem to find any bar staff. I think it was supposed to be a lunchtime pint, but it was dark outside when I finally gave up looking for a member of the staff, and left.

  This morning I feel moderately OK - just a bit of early morning stiffness on legs, knees and stuff. That is sort of good, but my blood glucose is not. It has gone high again. This morning it is 9.6mmol/l. That has not crossed the danger line at 10.0mmol/l, but is perilously near it. The ease that I am hitting these high numbers suggests one of two things. One is that the low readings I was getting for almost a month until recently were the result of some unknown factor. The other reason is that these high reading are the result of my body fighting something. It might possibly be the hay fever I am definitely suffering from - as proved by walking under a tree in full blossom, and instantly suffering from it. It could be something completely different ranging from cancer to covid.  Finally, it might just be that I have eaten too much crap lately.

  Today I have already had a small amount of mixed (unsalted) nuts, but I think I will try and fast until dinner time if I can hold out that long. Hopefully I will make it out for a walk in the park today, but I am worried about the possibility of my gut going wobbly again. Maybe last night featured the final high pressure clear out, but it couldn't have included anything I ate from lunchtime onwards. It's a tricky one. I'll have a shower soon, and consider what to do next.