It was a rather cool night, and I think it is still closer to 15° C rather than the 16° C forecast. The sky is clear enough to give sunshine right now, and not sunny spells. The latest revision shows sunny spells at 11am giving away to a thunderstorm at midday, and then heavy rain at 1pm. There could be further thunderstorms at 3pm, 10pm and 11pm. I don't think I have ever seen so many thunderstorms forecast as in the last week or so, and for at least a few days to come. Today could be a cool 20° C. Tomorrow could be just 19° C, and the day will be mostly wet with either light showers or thunderstorms !

   I don't think I can describe yesterday as a good day, although ultimately one plan, after some modification, worked well. Less well was the laundry I did. I had hoped to hang it on the line so it could start to dry in a bit of sunshine, but I left it a bit late for that. By the time I was ready to hang it up to dry the sky was looking very threatening, and I opted to dry it on a clothes horse indoors.

  It is lucky I took that route because it wasn't all that long before the first very heavy fall of rain. The heaviest rain only fell of 5 or 10 minutes, and then it moderated a bit, but only a bit for another 20 minutes. It was followed by another 20 minutes or so of light rain. Had my washing been out in that rain it would have been saturated, and would still be very wet when the next downpour came along.

  I dried my washing on a clothes horse in the dining room with the window slightly open. To help things along I had a fan blowing at it. It still felt at least mild in there, and that was good because I did some work in there during the afternoon. It was tedious work, but part of a very long term plan to thin down the amount of clutter I have. In this instance it was to scan, and store electronically, a pile of paperwork. Some of it was not really needed, but it still felt like a good idea to keep it in one form or another.

  I can't say I really did anything else yesterday except to break my intended fast. It was lunchtime when I was washing my clothes, and my stomach was really growling. I quieted down with 4 rice cakes with cheese on top. A bit later I had a small bag of mixed nuts. Both these "snacks" were low sugar, but unfortunately rather high in calories. I wonder if I will ever lose the kilogram or two I would like to before seeing the nurse on Friday of next week.

  At least my dinner was a lot safer. Like my dinner the day before, it was basically a sort of stew of meat and green vegetables. The meat was diced pork this time, and the green vegetable was broccoli. This time I didn't thicken the gravy, or enrich it with too many spices - some, like the harissa paste I could have used, do contain a fair amount of sugar. It was actually a rather thin stew, and was not terribly satisfying. It wasn't lone before I munched on two unadorned Marmite flavour rice cakes.

  My evening featured some TV, but I turned off QI before it was a third of the way through, and headed to bed. I was in bed by 9.30pm, and just reading. I was near the end of the book, and I may have finished the book, and fallen asleep as early as 10pm. I seemed to sleep well for a lot of the night. It was only when it got too cool to sleep without the duvet that there was a small interruption to my sleep for maybe 15 minutes as I got comfortable under the duvet.

  It was another night where I can barely remember any of the dreams, although this morning I do remember having dreams. I can only remember an overview of one dream that I had in the last couple of hours of sleep. The significant thing (to me) is that it was almost set in Dulwich telephone exchange. The building was about right, but I can't recall seeing anything of the inside of it. The major departure from that reality was that it had a large landscaped garden in the back. Some people were visiting, and I remember walking through the garden, and into the foyer of the building to sign them in. I have no idea what they were there for because the dream sort of faded away at that point.

  This morning feels quite chilly, but other wise almost OK. I feel good-ish despite a slight feeling of tenseness, and the headache to go with it. I have no idea what all that is about (probably cancer or covid I suppose). What it is not is a high blood glucose reading. Evidently some of my plan worked because this morning my blood glucose is down to 8.2mmol/l. If I could keep that up for the rest of the month I would have a new all time low monthly average.

  I can't see I can get such good readings for a whole month, but at least today I think I deserved a bowl of instant noodles. That is a good thing because I really wanted something hot inside me to warm me up. There is some sunshine coming through the window now, and that will help take the edge off this cool morning. I am determined not to resort to using the heater until it is much colder, or maybe even much, much colder. Unless the price of electricity goes down, instead of ever upwards, home heating is going to be a rare luxury - if I can stand it !

  There is only one thing on the agenda today, and that is to take a walk in the park, possibly in the middle of a thunderstorm, to meet Angela for a lunchtime drink. That assumes she dares to walk through possible heavy rain to the pub. After that I will probably have a couple of cans of hot soup, and it will be Tesco's own Cream Of Chicken soup - very tasty, nice and warming, and very low sugar content. Tonight's dinner will be similar to last night, but maybe I might make the gravy a bit thicker, and it will be sprouts again - which I will cook properly this time !