07:54 BST

  Yesterday's weather was good enough that I was wearing shorts all day !  There was lots of hot sunshine, and the temperature reached 23° C (or possibly briefly touched 25° C).

  It may cloud over after 6pm, and maybe a cloud will drift across the sun at 10am, but otherwise there should be full on sun for the best of the day. Temperatures should reach 26° C. The start and end of tomorrow may be cloudy, but the sun should be out in the afternoon, and the temperature could hit 27° C.

  It was my original intention to go for a walk, or maybe do some trainspotting yesterday, but neither happened because I was worried about my guts being a bit volatile. They had been in the morning, and later on, as midday approached, I was still getting some "internal noises" and I feared there could be more to come. As it turned out, nothing at all happened, but I think it might have been wise to stay within easy reach of a toilet - just in case !

  In one respect it was good that I didn't go out because I ended up doing a job I had been putting off for too long. It was to cut the grass in my back garden. I have to admit it was running riot, and some of it could have been cut for hay. I am still considering getting a proper mower of some type, but all I had yesterday was the strimmer to attack the grass with. Considering an electric motor does all the hard work, I wonder why I find it so tiring to use that strimmer. Maybe it is the muscle control to try and keep it at a good height above the ground to try and get some sort of even cut.
  From a distance it mostly looks like the grass is looking good after strimming it. Unfortunately a closer look reveals all sorts of variable height clumps, off blades of grass not cut at all, and all the bald areas. Maybe the time for getting a mower is getting closer. For one thing I managed to rake out quite a few stones while raking the grass up to put it in the garden waste bin.

  I just about had enough energy left to do a little bit of weeding, but in truth I doubt it as 10% of all that needs to be done. My last bit of energy was to brush down the garden waste bin, and move it to by the back door. It is my intention to put it out to be emptied when the bin men come tomorrow. While I was working in the garden I was helped by a few robins, and even a sparrow or two. The latter are a welcome addition. It wasn't until recently that a sparrow found there was free food available, and one or two now seem to be regular visitors.

  It was good to lay down and cool off after I had finished in the garden. Working in the hot sun felt nice up to a point, but I was feeling very hot and sweaty at the end. Of course I did it all backwards - I had my shower in the morning with the idea that I would be going out. I probably should have had a shower after being in the garden, but I relied on my deodorant to try and keep me sweet for my next brief adventure.

  At this point it is worth stepping back in time a few hours. During the morning I got out three pairs of shorts. The best thing is that they all fitted me. Yesterday I wore a pair of khaki shorts around the house. I used a pair of grey (faded black) cargo pant style shorts to do the gardening, and I wore a pair of light blue shorts to go shopping. I can recall the last time I tried those blue shorts on they didn't fit. Yesterday they did, but I will admit they were a very "snug" fit !

  It was a pleasant walk to Savers to buy a few bits and pieces. Top of my shopping list was bleach and cod liver oil capsules. I also bought some raspberry flavour shampoo and conditioner. For unknown reasons I seem to think the smell is better than my usual go to shampoo, sweet strawberry flavour. Once upon a time it was the other way around. I wonder if the change is another legacy of of Covid ?

  After getting home from Savers I didn't really do any more, but I did eat. My intention was to fast until dinner time, but working in the garden, and the walk to and from Savers, had stirred up my appetite. Over the course of part of the day when I meant to be fasting I ate a whole small bag of mixed "nibbling nuts" and the other three reaming small (25gm) packets of Frisps. This was not ideal, but apart from the calories in the nuts it would not do much harm.

  The rest of my day, and the evening were spent being very lazy. Even my dinner was a lazy meal. I had the last two Oriental flavoured packs on Instant noodles I had bought from Tesco on Sunday. Last night's flavours were "stir fried noodles" and Al Gorang (or something like that). None were even close to unpleasant, but I can't really care for any of the three flavours I tried. I think I prefer Polish noodles, and the beetroot/borche flavour is probably my favourite.

  I watched one episode of Sherlock Holmes, from my stash of recordings, and two episodes of QI on Dave before going to bed last night. I wasn't sure I was that sleepy when I went to bed, but after reading for 15 minutes or so I started to feel very sleepy. It was maybe 10.30pm when I put the book down, and turned out the light. Minutes later I was fast asleep. My bedroom was a nice temperature to kick the duvet aside, and I slept seemingly extremely well until nearly 4am.

  I say "seemingly" because while I don't remember in anything but the very haziest, dreamy detail, I am sure I woke up for a pee at something like 1am. I must have walked to the bathroom and back on autopilot or something. That long sleep wasn't dreamless. I had a long series of dreams about semi intelligent robots. The curious thing about these robots is that I can't remember what they looked like apart from one feature. It was a circle of glass tubes that contained computer memory.

  If the robot was to change the job it was supposed to do it's entire memory was erased, and a new information written to it. One clever robot worked out that there was sufficient memory space to hold a compressed version of the last programming, and so erasure was not needed, and the robot could experience the equivalent of an extended life. It all sounds a bit bland as I try and describe it, but somehow it was exciting in the dreams. I feel sure I had a whole series of dreams, probably all slightly different, but based on this general idea. I am sure there is a lot more detail that I can't recall that would make the dream more interesting too.

  This morning I continued what seems to be a habit now - a two stage wake up. I woke up about an hour before I felt I ought to get up and managed to get another hours sleep. I still ended up getting up a bot earlier than usual, and maybe earlier than wanted, but I seemed to feel basically OK. The very good thing is that I had reversed the very high blood glucose reading of yesterday morning. That was a very naughty 9.9mmol/l. This morning, although I didn't fast as intensely as intended, my blood glucose was down to a very good 7.1mmol/l. That is less than my target of 7.5mmol/l - which I very rarely achieve these days.

  Unless I hear differently, my entire plan for today is to meet Angela for a lunchtime drink. I may well water the garden as well - probably this morning. I will also need to lug the brown, garden waste, wheelie bin through the house so I can park it outside ready for emptying tomorrow morning. It is a shame that it is stinky and full of flies, but if I make sure the lid is held down it shouldn't pollute my house too much !