The very first revision to today's forecast has changed the light cloud at the start of the day to thick and heavy clouds. with a 10% chance of rain. The sunny spells have been put back to starting at midday, and finishing after 4pm. Today may still make 9° C, but if the trend of the first revision continues it may not get that high, and some sunny periods might tirn out to be rainy periods. Tomorrow is currently shown as featuring mostly light cloud, but with a chance of some sunny spells at midday. Like today, the temperature may briefly peak at 9° C.
 
   Yesterday was both good and bad - a not unusual thing, except this time it was all to do with the cold I started suffering from. I spent a lot of the day just being very lazy in my bedroom soaking up the warmth of the combined heat of the sunshine through the windows, and the heater on low. At other times I could have turned the heater off, but raising my bedroom to summer temperature was enough to make me forget I was ill.

  Of course there were times when I had, for instance, venture down to the cold kitchen, and then I got a strong reminder that I was not well ! There could have been the possibility of doing something, and that would have included going to the pub, but knowing that Angela would not be there, and the uncertainty of what they cold air might do to me, I decided I preferred to stay snug and warm.

  The combined consequences of feeling ill, albeit in a minor sort of way during the middle of the day, and the boredom of doing very little, meant I had to be very careful about what I ate, and how much I ate. I was fairly careful about what I ate, but I was a bit liberal with the amount. Fortunately I think I did OK until the evening. I had cooked a sort of healthy chicken and vegetable stew (mostly white cabbage) that was intended for my dinner.

  For some reason, as dinner time approached, I wanted something different, more dramatic....or something like that.  It was only the day before, when I went to Tesco, that I had bought some thick cut oven chips. Despite it not being a clever idea, I decided I was going to have a plate of chips for dinner. I got away with it (just) two days earlier when I had a very large, but standard portion of chips that were part of my kebab order.

  There was one flaw in my idea, and that was that my small oven/grill only allows me to cook a small portion. There is then a long wait for the other half to cook. Maybe it was the wait, or maybe it was just a facet of this cold I have, but I ate half of the second portion, and thought that maybe that was all I wanted. Of course I was not going to waste the rest, and shovelled them down my throat regardless.

  I was in a curious state of being tired but not tired yesterday evening. The not tired would have been because I had been doing such intensive relaxing for a lot of the day, and the being tired was probably split evenly between habit, and the effect of being ill. I watched TV until 11pm, and during that time it seemed like my cough was really picking up, and my nose was getting very drippy.

  I thought I would never get to sleep while coughing and dripping, but to my surprise I did get to sleep very quickly. Evidently I was definitely tired. Of course the real surprise wasn't falling asleep because I was not aware of that. It was suddenly realising it was almost 2am that was the surprise.  I had another similar surprise when it was suddenly about 4.30am. By tghen my cough had turned from a dry tickle to a wet cough. I guess I had breathed in a lot of snot from my drippy nose.

  The last couple of hours of sleep were very light sleep. I definitely woke up to cough more than once. It was in those last few hours that I had some dreams about railway stations. I was at a railway station that was split in two halves - a bit like Waterloo Mainline station and Waterloo East station, but in a much more compact layout.  I think I might have been on my morning commute, and maybe I had deliberately gone to the wrong platform to see a strange sight. It was one carriage of an old 4 car Metropolitan line train that was painted red.

  The red train pulled out of the station, and then I had to dash to the platform where my train was due to depart rather sooner than ideal. It was mad dash up stairs, through long corridors, and through another set of ticket barriers to get to my train. I can't really describe the train I wanted. I think, but I am not sure, that it was a slam door train, but it seemed to be made up of completely mismatched carriages.

  I think I got on it in time, but some of the dream spilled over into day dreams because I was waking up quite frequently in the last hour of sleep. In the end I got so fed up with coughing every time I lay my head on the pillow that I thought I may as well get up. I have definitely coughed a lot less since going from horizontal to vertical. On the other hand, my nose seems to be filling up a lot quicker.

  I don't know if it was the extra stuff I ate during the day, or if it was purely the chips I had for dinner, but my blood glucose was up to 9.3mmol/l this morning. That is not good, but on the other hand it is not too bad. My blood glucose level usually rises when I am ill, and maybe that is partly the reason for taking the number into the 9s. I shall try and do better today, but there are two possible reasons for failure.

  Ideally I want to go out and stock up on tissues - possibly from Tesco or Aldi, and such a shopping trip would bring probable temptations.  I am in two minds as to whether I should dare to go out when ill like this. The other potential problem is that while I will warn Jodie that I now have what she was suffering from last week (and possibly gave it to me), she still might dare to come over for another beer tasting session. I think I would be happy about that. This cold, despite having the potential to affect my taste buds, doesn't seem to be doing so yet. I would be happy to get drunk this afternoon, and maybe I will even without Jodie of Michael (who I shall warn off because I don't think he has had this cold - Jodie has, and so she should be immune).