08:38 BST

  The weather changed the day before yesterday. Yesterday it changed even more. At times it felt quite chilly, and particularly in the morning when it was just 11° C at 7am. Later on it did warm up to 19 or 20° C, but there was very little sunshine. There were a few passing showers in the late afternoon/early evening. They were almost ignorable, but just enough to give the garden a light watering.

  There are possibly a few more clouds in the sky than the forecast suggests, but it is sunny now, and the temperature seems to be a degree higher than forecast at 16° C for this time. The latest revision to the forecast now shows most hours to be sunshine, and a few as only sunny spells. The single cloudy hour, 10am, shown in the screenshot above is now shown as sunny spells. For all that sunshine it seems the afternoon may still only reach 21° C. Tomorrow may see almost non stop sunshine, and the temperature should rise to 24° C.

   I can't say I enjoyed yesterday, but it had it's moments. There were a few problems. The first was that I ached a lot after my afternoon out at Chislehurst Rocks. The other problem was that I felt tied to my PC "developing" pictures. I had taken a silly amount of pictures at Chislehurst Rocks, but ultimately that was good because many of them were terrible. Basically I had the camera light metering on the wrong setting. It was set for pictures that are evenly illuminated - like landscapes, or trains. Maybe that i what I had last used the camera for. The trouble was that the black backdrop of the stage was confusing the camera, and it ended up making it too bright, and my subject, one of the band members was often over exposed.

  Having to try and compensate that over exposure, and even deciding if even that was possible, made for slow progress. Sitting down for long periods, in front of my PC, was not doing my aching joints any good. I was often troubled by chest pain. Not the heart attack sort of chest pain (although there is a bit of an overlap), but old scar tissue pain, plus whatever damage I did to my ribcage in the first weeks after my bypass operation in 2013. With the benefit of glorious hindsight I now realise all the instructions my surgeon gave me should not have been blatantly ignored !

  Curiously enough, the time I felt best, and most free from pain, was when I went out to get some shopping from Tesco. I could feel some very mild stiffness in the first minute or two, but that little walk there and back, even with a heavy rucksack on my back, was quite pleasant. I was moderately careful about what I bought in Tesco, and probably the worst thing for me was a couple of cod and parsley fishcakes, but even they weren't that bad for me. One thing I did buy two lots of, because I now know it to be relatively safe, was coleslaw. I seem to be eating quite a bit of it recently. It does have the bad side effect of being a bit like a laxative !

  There were basically two lots of photo albums I ended up making yesterday. Said like that I wonder why it seemed to take so long. I guess I did stop to go shopping, eat and even have a snooze or two during the process. Of course there were also a lot of photos to go through. I started with photos of the last band I saw called Victor And The Bully. I was quite surprised how many usable photos I had taken, but also disappointed that there were also many that would have been really good if I had taken the picture right. Some of those were almost recoverable using lots of photo editing skills I've developed.
  Victor and The Bully were skilled at their stagecraft, and played their music well. The only trouble was that I didn't really like it. They describe themselves as "steam-punk goth", but maybe I might describe them as folk music in the style of goths. One thing made photographing them even worse was that by the time they had come on stage my right thigh was really throbbing with sciatica. That sciatica is becoming a nuisance. It is a pity that none of the bands invited me into the back stage area where I could have sat down and rested my leg before it got too bad. Even a brisk walk around the field didn't really help, and even the walk to Elmstead Woods station wasn't a cure.

  I took so many pictures of Hell On Tap that I had made one album that I shared on social media the night before. Yesterday I made another photo album. That second half of the 499 (!) pictures I had taken in total (I would be a useless photographer if I had to use film !!!) also included many terrible pictures of when should have been great scenes, but I thing I found about 16 very usable pictures. The final one was a bit special.
  It was one of those pictures that I seem to be famous for - catching someone at exactly the right moment. I can't really remember the moment, but obviously Carrie was standing in front of a black background. I think it was just after their final song, and she was just resting her face, and stretching her neck. It looks like it was posed for a magazine shot, and in my conceit I can imagine this shot being good enough to go on the front of a magazine, or record cover.

  There was one lot of pictures I didn't take a good look at until this morning, and I have selected a few of them. They were taken while I was waiting for my train from Elmstead Woods station. many of them concern bears ! Let's set the scene first.
  This one is guarding a seat. I think I spotted 4 or 5 of them in these garden areas on the middle, island platform serving platform 2 and 3.
  I should have done a close up on this, but I wanted to show the little plate on the back in context. It says it is from The Chislehurst Society, and that it is bear 2 of 25 on a trail around the surrounding area. The QR code, which wouldn't resolve on my phone QR code scanner, should take you to https://chislehurst-society.org.uk/bear-trail-individual/bear-2/ If I had the energy, and the map that is linked to on the first page of the bear train web site, I could have walked back to the recreation ground that I had just come from, and then gone even further, to see 25 bears in total.

  By yesterday evening I was feeling really tired. It was about 9pm when I fell into bed. I tried reading for a while, but I couldn't seem to keep my eyes open. I turned out the light, turned on to my side, and straight away my chest started to complain. It often does when I lay on my right side - even when I have done nothing to provoke it beforehand. Turning on to my left side usually cures the problem, but I seemed to do it very roughly. My left shoulder seemed to hot the mattress a bit hard, and I felt a sort of internal thump as if something had given away inside me. I now had one set of chest pains if I lay on my right, and different bits aching if I lay on my right.

  It was impossible to get comfortable. Even my legs and feet got into the act of aching in various ways depending on how I placed them. I thrashed away for a couple of hours before getting up and taking a couple of painkillers. After nearly an hour they were helping a bit. I think I managed to fall asleep through pure exhaustion. I woke up several times in the night, and each time it was a struggle to find a comfortable enough position to get to sleep.

  There was one brief moment in the night that was good. It was, if I remember correctly, 3.15am, and I was going to the toilet. As I entered the bathroom I looked out through the 4 inch wide horizontal view through the bathroom window, and I saw a nice streak of yellow looking sky as the sun was starting to get near the horizon, and daybreak approached an hour later. The rest of my night was horrible, and I can't say I feel all that wonderful this morning. I guess I do feel a lot better than when I was trying to sleep, and I suppose that is something good.

  I definitely feel like 3 or 4 hours of deep sleep would be really good ! I should have time for at least a snooze or two today. The better news is that despite eating a lot yesterday, most of it was fairly safe. This morning my blood glucose is up at 8.5mmol/l.That is in the no man's land between good and bad - or fairly typical in other words. Actually it is probably quite good considering all the meals and snacks I had yesterday.

  I think Jodie may be over for a beer tasting session this afternoon. I was supposed to be going out to see Lord Algea playing in Greenwich yesterday afternoon, but I was too busy, and feeling too crap. Even if I had known I wasn't going out, I would have still felt too crap to enjoy beer tasting. I suggested to Jodie that we could do it today, and that we would confirm later today if we were both free for it. Apart from a probably beer tasting, I still have more pictures to deal with - including some pictures of trains at Elmstead Woods station, and other views there.