This morning it seems very cold, but not cold enough for a frost. It was 5° C at 7am, and it will only be a couple of degrees higher in the early afternoon. Just 9° C is expected. The only good news about today's weather is the latest revision showing it won't start to rain until 11am. There will then be 4 hours of heavy rain followed by one of light rain. It will end up clear tonight, and that could give another chance of frost this morning, but apparently it won't go below 5° C. It is going to be a dull, but dry, even colder day with only 8° C expected in the afternoon.

  It had it's rewards, but yesterday was a dreadful day on account of me feeling so ill. There were times when I wondered if another heart attack was brewing, but an aching chest was just one of very many places to ache. Probably many of my joints ached, but oddly I had no upper or lower back pain. Keeping warm, and several large vodka and Cokes in the late afternoon helped to loosen some stiff joints.

  Any idea of going out to see the Orpington Xmas lights live stages was a definite no, although some painkillers and sunshine, nearly enticed me out. The final reason to stay in was because I had so much photography work to do. I had taken 270 snaps in total at the Liz Vass memorial gig on Saturday, and I worked steadily through almost the whole day to select the best to edit for "publication". In practice that meant uploading to social media. All the heaps of "likes" made the whole thing worthwhile.

  I did take some time away from those photos to go through my archives to find old pictures of Liz Vass who died of breast cancer a year or two ago. I found about a dozen to use. The earliest was from 2010. Some of those old pictures, with a bit of careful editing looked quite good. That sort of surprised me because my earliest digital cameras were far from versatile.
  There were some pictures I took that were a little strange, or at least I wish I had taken them a bit differently. This crane shot (holding the camera as high as possible, and hoping I was pointing it in the right direction) would have been better if I had been standing more central to the band, but at least I got all four member of the band in, and none had their faces obscured by microphones. It's a shame that John, the drummer was looking the wrong way !
  This would have been better if Cath, on the left, and Jo, on the right, had been standing closer to each other. I don't know what it was they were singing together, maybe something gospel inspired, but I didn't care for it. That was a shame because Cath was a striking woman, and I loved the jacket she was wearing.
  Unfortunately it was John Bull who got the cuddle with Cath after I introduced him as the man who does the famous Rockrpix photographs.
  These are The Dirty Perks. The bass player on the right is Joanna Prosser, nee Vass - Liz Vass' daughter. I suspect it was a collaboration between her, and Jo Corteen that arranged the memorial gig (which followed a church memoriam service in a local church). The thing about The Dirty Perks is that they are very good, very professional, and somehow I can't really enjoy what they do. It is a mix of some covers of things like Beatles classic, and some of their own stuff.
  Another crane shot, and this time I got the shot at about the right angle to spread then band equally across the picture. It was cropped from a picture taken with my fisheye lens. That lens, which was quite an expensive purchase (£290), proved to be quite useful, although I never used the full picture. The band is Jamie And The Jets. It is one of several bands that Jamie Bull is in, and this one is an Elton John tribute band. The only trouble is that, in my opinion, Jamie is not good at singing Elton John songs. I prefer him when belting out heavy rock songs.

  It was quite late when I finished all my photo editing, and uploading the photo albums to social media. With that done it gave me more time to consider how I felt. I kept my room warm during the day - warmer than I would have otherwise, and it did make me feel a bit better. By then the worst pains had probably peaked, and they were so widespread that it seemed highly unlikely that I had any heart problems.

  The time at the bottom right on my blood pressure meter may still be on BST, but even so, it is a reminder that I took these reading earlier than I suggested above, and I would still have had another couple of photo albums to edit. 113/68, which I read without trying too hard to relax, is a pretty typical figure for me these days (except in the doctors surgery when it has been almost double on some old occasions).  My doctor said any systolic pressure under 130 is regarded as "normal". I think this reading says I had no heart or circulation problems.

  The pulse oximeter reading is horribly blurred because I fumbled the camera trying to use it one handed while trying to keep mthe other hand very still. A blood oxygen level of 97 is very typical, and if I had managed to take it without dropping the camera, it was 98% for a short while. Apparently 98% is excellent, and remarkable for an ex heavy smoker. The blurry pulse measurement of 59 is slightly less than the blood pressure reading showed, but is very close to it.

  It all meant that later on I could go to bed with the belief that I was unlikely to die in the night, and also that maybe, with the help of some painkillers I could get a fair night's sleep. I aided that by leaving the heater on low all night. I did indeed sleep really well, and I think I got up less times for a pee. I had some entertaining dreams - mostly about trains, and it even featured an erotic moment somehow.

  My eating was a bit strange yesterday. I nearly mad it through the day without a hot meal (apart from the instant noodles for breakfast). For lunch I just had 4 Marmite rice cakes with corned beef on them. I had 4 more rice cakes with cheese on them for what I thought would be my dinner, but at the last moment I decided to have a hot can of chunky vegetables and beef soup for an extra boost of heat before I went to bed. That seemed to work without overheating me while I was in bed.

  Having started yesterday with a high blood glucose reading, I was wondering how much that late night soup would do to my blood glucose reading this morning. I needn't have worried, it was a very average 8.5mmol/l. To celebrate, and to warm me up a bit, I had two lots of instant noodles this morning.

  It seems to be a very murky morning, and will probably be a very murky day with added rain in, or even before the afternoon. I think that rules out going out today, and even more so as I continue to recover from my aches and pains. So I shall stay in, and maybe I'll get back to that laptop that I was given last week. My latest theory is that the power button does not actually work, and maybe is stuck in the on position. Getting to it could be a major headache, and replacing it, if I can find it, and it is faulty, could be very tricky. While I have the laptop dismantled I will check out the inbuilt camera. It seems to have one, or at least the lens of one, but it is not reporting to the operating system. While very unlikely, the real fault could be the camera plugged into the power button socket, and the power button plugged into the camera socket !