The forecast for fog and mist was right this morning. It is not a thick fog - more a sort of thick mist as I write this. That is in accordance with the forecast, and now we wait to see if it thickens at 9am. The latest revision to the forecast says only 9am will see fog, and 10am now shows dark cloud. Mist for midday is still shown. It is going to be a very dull day, and the latest revision throws in some light rain for 6 and 7pm. Like yesterday, the maximum temperature is going to be 14° C. Tomorrow looks like it is going to be very wet, and even colder. Just 12° C is forecast.

  The most important job yesterday was to finish the laundry that had been soaking for nearly 24 hours ! It wasn't my intention to leave it soaking at all, but somehow I just never got around to finishing it on Saturday. Plunging my Marigolded hands into that freezing soapy water would not be pleasant, and so I wasted a lot of hot water to slightly warm it up before I went through the rest of the washing process until I could hang the 6 items up to dry.
  I actually waited until one of the afternoon sunny spells to take this picture using my old G1 (HTC Dream) mobile phone. The top right hand edge is well over exposed by the bright sunshine, but most of the relevant part of the picture is taken still in part shadow. It makes the picture look a bit soft. That G1 phone can take very good picture when the lighting is good. I've put both my G1 phones away now (fully charged), and my next bit of nostalgia (sort of) will be to try and find a good subject or two for the camera in my old HTC Desire phone. It was my main phone when I was in hospital in 2013, and the pictures taken in hospital were very clear.

  After I had hung up the clothes to dry, slightly aided by the fan blowing cold air at them, I was originally going to have a shower. When I considered that I only wanted to be clean to go to a couple of shops, I decided I didn't need to be that clean, and made do with a quick flick around with a flannel, a good spray of deodorant, and fresh clothes. It seemed good enough for where I was going.

  The first part of my shopping trip was to Savers where I particularly wanted some 30 day packets of hay fever tablets. I really had to stoop down low to find them at the back of a bottom shelf. I also found some nice (I hope) smelling candles in there, and a few other things too. I then went across the (pedestrian) road to Poundstretcher.

  There were only a few things I specifically wanted from Poundstretcher, but of course I found more than that to buy. One specific thing was bird feed peanuts. They had plenty of bags of them, but they were smallish bags, 500gm instead of the 1kg bags that Aldi sometimes have in stock (but not recently). I think those from Aldi are cheaper, and better quality - not that it matters to pigeons !

  Another specific thing I was going to get, and did get, were 4 pots of Oyakata instant ramen noodles. The odd thing is that having just had one as part of my breakfast, I do wonder why it was so important to get them. The first time they were a novelty and seemed to be good. The second time I tried the other flavours, and they seemed to be good. This morning I thought that maybe, once you take away the novelty value, they are pretty ordinary, and probably not good value for money. Not only that, but one pot had the back of the label nibbled away by mice, and they/it had just managed to make a very fine split in the plastic. I three that one away ! I wonder how I didn't notice it in the shop.

  There was one thing I found in Poundstretcher that I have been looking for everywhere for a while now. It was plain candles of the tall thin type you can stick in bottle necks. The one single pack I saw on the shelf had 6 candles in it, and each was 9 or 10 inches long. With my rucksack full of goodies, plus a separate bag for the 4 pack of kitchen towel roll  I had bought, I walked home.

  It had been a curiously pleasant walk. When I look back it seems I might have had some sort of malady, maybe a very attenuated Omicron Covid, or something that gave something like a mild 'flu feeling - particularly in regard to aching joints and muscles. Just last night I was thinking about how when I stopped taking the Clopidogrel tablets (blood thinner) the bad pains I was getting in my right elbow seemed to go away for a week, and then they returned with aches in other joints two. I can't say when they got better, but I have had very little trouble with my right elbow for a while now. Of course it is easy to provoke by cold and damp, because that joint was dislocated for several months, and now could be classified as an old war wound !

  It was around midday when I got home, and I was looking forward to some lunch, but somehow I was distracted. It was getting on for 2pm when I had some lunch, and it was just 4 chilli flavour rice cakes with cheese on them. I think I was originally thinking of a couple of cans of soup. Maybe some of the distraction was the spells of sunshine warming up my bedroom. It is a shame that it was not until 4pm, with the sun already starting to set, before I could go into ultra lazy mode, and lay on my bed to read and snooze.

  I wonder if laying on my bed reading is really ultra lazy ? I guess a snooze be, but oddly enough, despite trying, I didn't have a snooze. By 5pm I was checking to see what was on TV, and the answer was nothing, or least nothing until 8pm when Dave was showing an episode of QI. Unfortunately it was one that feels like it was shown fairly recently. It was worth staying up to see it because it was followed by an episode of Have I Got New For You - and that was no more than a year old (at a guess).

  Before watching TV I had a three part dinner. Part one was a can of bacon and beans - of eastern European origin, and with with real chunks of fatty bacon in among the beans. Part two was the second half of a pack of German pork meatballs. I had the first half the previous day. I am sure that in the distant past I would think nothing of eating the whole pack. I grilled them instead of just warming them in the microwave. Oddly enough it didn't seem to make them much better. Part three was carefully washed Turkish delight. Having it so late in the evening was a good test of my theory that the moderately high reported sugar content is just the icing sugar coating, and washing it off just leaves the flavoured gelatine - mango flavoured in this instance.

  It was very late, almost 11pm, before I finally put the book down I was reading in bed, and turned out the light. I didn't seem to feel very sleepy, and initially nothing happened. I suspect nothing finished a lot quicker than I thought because the next thing I knew was that I was waking up for a pee at about 1.30am. I seemed to sleep rather well last night, or at least I can't remember any periods of insomnia, and I didn't seem to have any trouble with the temperature - no sweating or anything.

  Having said that, after turning on the heater at about 4.30am, after another visit to the toilet for a pee, I seemed to start feeling a bit warm far too soon after putting the heater on. I spent the last 40 to 60 minutes of sleep with the duvet partly pushed aside. That was almost certainly the reason why my body temperature was just 34.7° C when I got up this morning. I am sure that had no effect on my blood glucose reading. That was 8.1mmol/l - a little higher than the previous morning, but still below my typical average. Evidently if the washed Turkish delight had any sugar left it was only a tiny amount.

  It is sort of possible that the two below average readings might suggest I hadn't been eating all that much (by my own standards) for a couple of days. That would explain why I am technically possibly constipated this morning, but there is no discomfort - I just haven't "been".  It would only be significant if I was going out today for any length of time. I do need to go to Tesco this morning, but that is not the same as a walk that could take me a mile or more from a toilet !

P.S. Two minutes later, and I am no longer constipated !!