This morning it is cool but sunny, but it seems it will cloud over around 11am, and the afternoon could be very dull. There is even a 40% chance of rain from 6pm. It is going to feel slightly cool with maybe only a single hour when the temperature reaches 22° C. Tomorrow could reach 25° C, and there could be a few hours of sunny spells during the morning, and a few more later in the afternoon.

  Yesterday didn't work out as expected, but I did get a few sort of useful things done. In the morning I went to Tesco again, and this time I did remember the bird food, and the Marmite rice cakes that I wanted. Of course I also bought other food for myself, and that included some sort of nice, sort of crap, sausage meat burger patties. I had those for my dinner last night.

  The only other food I had was a bowl of instant noodles for breakfast, and six spicy wings, from my takeaway the previous night. They were not as expected. I expected them to be grilled wings with some sort of spicy marinade. In fact they were in "spicy" flavoured breadcrumb batter. I think they were probably not good for me, but I had to eat them rather than waste them. I also had some cream cheese and salad leaves on Marmite rice cakes as an afternoon snack.

  One thing I didn't expect to do was some gardening, although it was only weed clearance. It all started when I went out to feed the birds with the bird feed I had just purchased. I dumped that on the bird table, and then I looked at the bird feeder. As usual, the pigeons had crapped in the water bowl, and were working their way through the fat balls that were really meant for the small birds.

  The first thing I did with the bird feeder was to get it upright again. It had been leaning over, but hopefully the chunks of concrete I used will help keep it upright for  time. I then rotated the feed tray, and the water tray to make them less friendly to big birds like pigeons, but still fine for small birds.  I was later rewarded by seeing a sparrow having some meal worms, and having a peck at a fat ball.

  While I still had gardening gloves on - a better grip, and some protection from the rather filthy bird feeder - pigeons just crap everywhere - I pulled up a load of weeds, many of the dry and dead, from the flower bed by the left hand fence. It was partly just tidying up, but also to get a better look at where a rat is getting into my garden from the old fox tunnels under next doors garden. I will have to come up with a better solution some day, but I did identify two holes that I have blocked with chunks of concrete. The longer term solution will be make a neat line of concrete or brick along the bottom of the fence.

  By 1 or 1.30pm I had done all the washing up, and polished the glasses ready for a beer tasting session with Jodie. Maybe 10 minutes later I had a phone call from Jodie to say she wasn't coming over, or going anywhere. It seems she had contracted food poisoning, maybe for the second time, after eating in The Green Dragon pub - a pub somewhere in Croydon that I am unfamiliar with.

  I had no alternate plans for the afternoon, and just whiled away the afternoon using the usual lazy methods - reading, snoozing, and a bit of (recorded TV watching). In theory I should have gone out for a walk in the nice afternoon sunshine, but somehow that didn't seem appealing. So not only did I resort to the lazy things in the afternoon, but well into the evening. Somehow I didn't go to bed until about 11pm, and I didn't get to sleep until midnight.

  I felt really hot when I first tried to go to sleep, and resorted to having the fan on low until I woke up an hour or so later feeling cold. I tried sleeping partly under the empty duvet cover for the rest of the night, but it never felt very comfortable. The peculiar thing is that I can't remember any time when I was awake for long, and I can't remember waking up that often. Maybe it is because I got to sleep so late that I feel I didn't have a good night's sleep. I certainly didn't get my full 8 hours of "beauty sleep".

  This morning I got up very rapidly at 7am - I had to leap out of bed with cramp in my right calf muscle. Other than that, I do seem to feel sort of OK, although I don't think I can bring myself to use any work like "good". I've had a pint and a half of water, and then checked my blood glucose. This morning it is very slightly higher, but 8.5mmol/l is very average, and while it would always be good if it were lower, I am not bothered with it, and will only take medium care of what I eat today.

  I have just two plans for today. Once I am fully up, washed and dressed, I intend to pop into the surgery on my way to get some shopping from Aldi. I have printed out my last three months worth of blood glucose, and blood pressure readings (using dark blue as a substitute for  black because that cartridge has run out of ink). I will drop them into reception for the attention of the nurse, and leave a sarcastic comment that maybe it might remind her that she has still taken no action to my "Yes" response to her two text massages reminding me my checkup is due, and would I like to be called to make an appointment ?

  Aldi is just around the corner to the surgery, and so I can do both things one after the other. Once I have done my shopping in Aldi I have have no idea what I will do. We will probably be losing the sunshine by then, and with the afternoon predicted to be very dull, with the possibility of rain, I don't fancy any outdoor activities. It is possible that Jodie may call and suggest we have out beer tasting this afternoon. She didn't mention today as a possibility yesterday, but it would be very convenient for me.