08:48 BST

  Yesterday's weather forecast gives only one clue about yesterday's weather. That one clue was that the afternoon temperature would be 15° C, although I think the maximum was actually 14° C, but it did fall very slowly, and not very far as the day ended. Although the early forecasts showed the afternoon as having sunny spells, they were removed in later forecasts, and indeed in reality. There were a few times when the sun did try and peep through a crack in the clouds, but only on a few brief occasions did enough light get through to give a faint and hazy shadow.

  

  As far as I am aware there has been no rain yet on the mild, 10° C, morning.  The latest revision to the forecast shows a 50% chance of light rain between 10pm and midday. 2 and 3pm may feature showers, and 4pm may feature fill sunshine and blue skies, but that does seem a bit difficult to believe. The rain may resume again at 6pm. The afternoon temperature will only reach 12° C today, although that is not too bad if the wind is light - except gusts of up to 34mph are predicted for this afternoon. Tomorrow gets the rain out of the way in the early hours of the morning, and from sunrise it should be dry. The afternoon could feature lots of sunny spells, but it will be a bit cooler than today.

  Yesterday was a curious day in which I had plenty of energy in the morning, but seemingly none in the afternoon. By the time I had finished writing the previous day's accounts about my day, and then having a shower, much of the morning had already passed. I quickly dressed and walked to Aldi to finally get some shopping in. It was just gone 11.30am when I got there.

  I had mentioned that I was intending to buy mostly healthy stuff, but there was bound to be at least one exception to that. I think there were actually a few exceptions, but the most obvious was probably a small "vegetable frittata" that I was curious about. It was small, and therefore probably not that bad, and so I bought it, and ate it. It was worthwhile to do it just to satisfy my curiosity, and I didn't even dare to look at the nutritional information panel. It was nice, but maybe not nice enough to tempt me to ever buy another.

  The other exceptions were probably two fish things in breadcrumbs - both of which I ate yesterday. I ignored my own theories about then, and once again I just didn't bother to check the nutritional information. My theory is that sugar is used in the breadcrumb type coating to make it brown and crispy when cooked.  Someday I will check the ingredient and nutritional panel to find if this theory is right, and if it is bad enough to make me not want to eat stuff that is otherwose very nice.

  It felt what I can only describe as absolutely normal walking to and from Aldi. I suppose that is no indicator of having a lot of energy, but on the other hand there was nothing that made me want to slow down going there, and also to keep up a fair pace when carrying the heavy shopping home. Of course there was one other factor involved. It was mild enough that I didn't need a coat, and not being encumbered with a coat always give a better feel of freedom.

  During the afternoon, and I guess also the evening, I don't know if it was a lack of energy, or enthusiasm, or some other factor I can't seem to think of or describe, but I barely did anything of note. Of course there was the factor of my lack of sleep after talking to Sue for what felt like half the night. In the afternoon I did have a couple of snoozes, and one of them may have lasted a full hour.

  I did have one bad snack in the afternoon, and it was a fairly big bag of cheese flavoured corn sticks. Corn based snacks are not as nice as potato crisps, but they do seem more benign when their sugar content is considered (and some sugars are produced in the digestive system from carbohydrates). I guess there is some indication of their benigness (I don't think that is an actual word, although maybe it should be) in that they feel good while being eaten, but leave no lasting feeling of fulfilment.

  It took a small amount of willpower not to have an early dinner last night. I gritted my teeth, and waited until it was 7pm - my attempted new normal time for some reason. I thought I would cook a "proper" dinner. The main items were a couple of "melt in the middle" cod fish cakes (with that easy to brown, and probably full of sugar, "breadcrumb" coating). I had them with runner beans and new potatoes. It was a nice dinner, and seemed filling enough not to need a top up later.

  In theory I should have had an early night last night, but I didn't. I turned the TV back on to watch two episodes, one after the other, of QI. I think the second ended at nearly 10pm. I was straight to bed after that. I started to read, but I had barely read a quarter of a page before I put the book down. I was asleep maybe 5 minutes later. I seemed to have had a mostly good sleep that was only spoiled by one annoying dream.

  That dream was probably inspired by reading that Bromley borough council is probably going to turn over the running of Crystal Palace park to a charitable trust. My dream was probably about a different park, and it was already being run by a trust. The actual details of all this were vague in the extreme. What stood out, and turned out to be the source of something that seemed to irritate me a lot during the night, was reading about a funding increase for the park.

  The money was described in a very strange way that had more in common with how computer IP addresses are written. The new donation of money was described as something like 153.67.0.47.15 (I have made up those number because I can't remember the figures from the dream, and I can't be sure I have got the format right, but it was something like this). The thing that bothered me, and would seem to pop up in some later dreams, and even during brief periods when I was awake, was that I couldn't work out the rules for adding two lots of money presented in this strange format, and that bothered me, although back in the real world I know it is just all a fiction.

  This morning was one of those days when you wake up, and have to go for a pee, but it feels like it is half an hour too early to get up, and so you go back to bed for just an extra 10 minutes - and wake up an hour later ! When I did finally get up it did feel like I was sort of fresh after a good night's sleep - at least I think this is so, but I am not sure about it these days. I can't even remember what "normal" used to be, and the new normal is that it is good if you wake up without too many aches, and you are still breathing.

  My doubts about what I ate yesterday were very valid. This morning my blood glucose has risen again to 8.7mmol/l. Although a fair way from the danger level, it is still of concern because it provides less leeway, and it is now, just 6 days into the month, looking like there is little chance of getting this months average figure down to match even the lower averages, and never to set a new record. Oh well, maybe today I might do better, but I may well end up having more new potatoes as part of my dinner, and they are not blameless.

  Two important things should happen today. The first should be a lunchtime drink with Angela. That may mean a walk through the rain, but that is fine because there is a good reason for it. The second thing should be a delivery from Amazon of some assorted boozes. Past experience suggests it will be from late this afternoon until potentially late in the evening, but the worry is that they will pull the joker out of the pack, and try and deliver while I am in the pub. That will be most annoying !