Today is probably going to end up very similar to yesterday, but one difference is that after a clear night it was a chilly morning with the temperature down to just 14° C. The sky is still mostly clear and the sun is shining. The latest revision shows the full sunshine may last until 9am, and then there may be a couple of hours of sunny spells before the clouds rule the sky until a few sunny spells at 4pm, and more at 6pm until sunset. Once again the maximum temperature will be 23° C. Tomorrow may feature more clouds, and less sunshine, but the temperature is predicted to be 23° C again.

  I seemed to have another day when it seems I couldn't be bothered to make things happen. I did have an idea that it might have been nice to go out for another exploration on the trains, but while there wasn't a train strike on National Rail, there was still some disruption. My probable route would have needed to use London Overground, and possibly the tube, and there was strike action taking place on those.

  Although I didn't do much, I did do a couple of useful things. One was to go shopping in Tesco. It might have been a bit more useful if I had remembered to buy two of the things I specifically went there for. One was Marmite rice cakes, and the other was bird feed. The latter I probably didn't actually forget, and it was more the case of moving it down my list of priorities until it fell off the bottom. Not getting the Marmite rice cakes was annoying.

  The other major thing I did was some more laundry, although like last time I seemed to leave it until well past the start of the afternoon until I got it all on the line to dry. There were only a few items in this wash, but one was a big hand towel, and another was a double fitted sheet. Both demanded a bit more effort than washing t-shirts or underwear. Maybe it was made up for by a pillow case that was very easy to wash.

  I probably spent most of my day reading both from a book and on the internet. I managed to get up to date with one of the funny/satire/fake news web sites, but there is another I like that I must be about week behind.  Somehow I didn't even find time to read all the I.T. science and technology news on https://www.theregister.com/. It does make me wonder how I could be so busy doing so little.

  One very quick little job yesterday was to reset, and re-bait the mousetrap in the dining room. After examining it I still can't make up my mind as to weather a mouse triggered it, or if it was something like a change of temperature or something. If it was a mouse I wonder if it was injured ?  It is possible that it managed to get back to it's nest, or somewhere secret, and had subsequently died. It certainly didn't come out last night to trip either of the two baited traps.

  After my nice low blood glucose reading yesterday morning, I tried to eat sensibly in the hope I could get another low reading this morning. It didn't work, and I am not sure why. A bowl of instant noodles for breakfast is like a constant, and in theory can be dismissed. The problem seems to have been two plates of 4 rice cakes with salad, cheese and/or ham. Maybe two plates, albeit separated by a few hours, was over doing it, but I am sure I've got away with it in the past. One the other hand I did seem to have doubts about it it yesterday because I opted for two known low sugar cans of soup for my dinner last night.

  I seemed to get a very good night's sleep last night. I started out watching QI on TV until I realised it was a repeat from not too long ago. I turned of the TV, and went to bed. I was probably fast asleep before 10pm. Once upon a time that would not be that early, but it seems my standards have slipped recently. I have a vague recollection of getting up for a pee at around midnight, but the next time I was aware of was just after 4am when I definitely needed a pee.

  I got back to sleep easily enough, but I only seemed to sleep for an hour. I partly got up, but only long enough to go to the kitchen for a bottle of water from the fridge, and check the mousetraps as I went through the dining room. I also quickly checked the weather because I thought it felt a little chilly. I went back to bed, and pulled the empty duvet cover over me. Oddly enough it still seemed a bit cool, and while I was in bed for maybe another 90 minutes, it didn't feel like I was asleep at any time. My maybe it didn't seem like it, but I must have got some sleep because there was a lot of missing time in that 90 minutes.

  As is now normal, I waited until I had drunk over a pint of water before checking my blood glucose. The result was still disappointing. 9.2mmol/l is almost the new normal, but while still under the red line (10.0mmol/l) it is a lot higher than I like. It is all the more important to get better control of my blood glucose since the only medical help I seem to be able to get is a privately run robot rather than the usual living, flesh and blood nurse I used to see.

  My surgery warned me to look out for messages on Whatsapp from Doctaly via a text message a week or so ago. The day before yesterday I got my first message from Doctaly (actually Doctaly Assist). It said something like "would I like to proceed to use Doctaly ?". I replied "No". Yesterday I got another message saying I still hadn't agreed to use it, and that if I didn't use it I would be struck off, and referred back to my GP.

  Apart from being very impersonal, and it being just a chat-bot hitched to an AI (artificial intelligence), it is actually run by a for profit private firm called BM Medical. It is all part of the creeping privatisation of the NHS, and I don't like it, and I will not use it. There is more is more information about it here > https://www.nhsforsale.info/private-providers/doctaly-new/

  Today could be like tomorrow, or the day before, but with even less things done. There is a slim chance I might go out tonight, but at the moment it feels unlikely. If I do go out it will be to see Chain playing in Blackheath (it is the gig I thought was on last night). I think I feel very unmotivated today.