It is quite dull as I write this, but the first sunshine may be only an hour away. The latest revision to the forecast only makes one change to that above, and it is that 1pm is now shown as featuring sunny spells. By late afternoon it could be starting to feel hot as the temperature is predicted to rise to 21° C. Tomorrow is another bank holiday, and so naturally it will be colder and wet. The day may actually start with a few hours of sunshine until heavy clouds take over, and it may be warmest at 10am when it might be 15° C. From midday, when the rain is currently predicted to start, the temperature will slowly fall away, but it might still be 13° C at midnight. The day after tomorrow may be a bit warmer, and may have a few sunny spells in between showers, or it could be completely different to what is being forecast now.
 
  The most significant thing about yesterday was that I ached. Maybe not all at the same time, but every major or minor organ in my torso ached, and nearly every joint in my arms and legs seemed to ache. One more persistent ache was my right wrist. I spent much of the day wearing a wrist support.

  Having a nice hot shower was a temporary cure for most of the aches and pains, although one didn't seem to go away while showering - probably because I was aggravating it by doing things like picking up the showerhead from the bottom of the bathtub. It was a mysterious pain on the right hand side of my body. It was long enough to pass several organs (I think), and felt more like some sort of muscle strain.

  That ache didn't emerge when I went out to do some shopping. In fact while I started off with a stiff gait, once I started walking most bits of me seemed to work relatively easy, and with relatively no pain. I only went to Poundstretcher for the shopping trip. Top of my shopping list was to see if they had any more Tango, sugar free, Dark Berry drink. One can of the stuff is very nice, but two cans would be too cloying and sort of terrible.

  Alas there was no Dark Berry drink there, although there were some cans of drink that claimed to be low or reduced sugar that still looked to have scary amounts of sugar in them. I didn't touch them ! I did buy I think it was 5 bags of the micro size chips that I seem to like, and find that they have a minimal effect on my blood glucose level. Most of what I bought in there was food of some type or another, but I did buy one non food item - a bottle of hemp flavoured shower gel. It has a smell that is different, but somehow like fresh mown grass (I guess it is just another type of "grass").

  When I got home I should started on hand washing a couple of t-shirts and some underpants. One of the t-short was a brand new t-shirt. It was, or seemed to be, a (not so) cheap Chinese knock off of a Doro t-shirt. It was rather smelly - a sort of vinegary smell, probably from the latex paint used to print the picture on the front. As expected, it would give off a fair bit of black dye, and I conveniently had a slightly faded black t-shirt to wash with it. I haven't seen it in good light yet, but a first glance suggests that t-shirt is now a bit blacker - as intended.

  I split that hand washing job into two halves because it was triggering too many aches. My right wrist was the first to almost give out as I was wringing stuff out. I finally got the job done, and the stuff hanging on the clothes horse to dry, fairly late in the afternoon. I left a desk fan on it overnight, and it is dry this morning.

  There was one other thing that that affected the timing of doing that laundry, and a few other things. It was the usual uncertainty about when a delivery from Amazon would arrive. I knew it had left their Dartford depot before midday, and depending on the drivers route it could have arrived as early as 2pm, but the first estimate was from something like 3:15pm to 7:15pm.

  During the afternoon the estimated delivery time varied a lot, but at least it didn't revert to "before 9pm". The second to last estimate said before 7:45pm, but it was gone that when I checked, and it still hadn't arrived. A quick update changed it to 8:45pm, and it was actually delivered by about 8pm.

  I'm trying to think what I ate yesterday. I know I had a bowl of instant noodles for breakfast. I know I had at least a bag of chicken flavoured micro chipsticks for lunch, but I think I had a second lunch an hour or two later. It was a Rustlers "BBQ rib sandwich" (or something like that). I bought it from Tesco over a week ago because it seemed like it had the possibility of being nice, or even better than nice, but the reality was it was not nice at all - rather bland with a squidgy texture.

  Dinner was easy to remember because it was an experiment, and also because the cabbage needed a lot of preparation. It was four pork sausages, two rather over cooked rashers of bacon, and white cabbage. The cabbage had been sitting in the kitchen for too long, and it was starting to rot at the stalk end. I had to cut away a lot of rotten cabbage before I could partly steam half of the untainted cabbage. I haven't had cabbage as a stand alone vegetable possibly since school days. I usually, and fairly frequently just add it to stews. I can't say it was nice as a stand alone vegetable, but it wasn't bad.

  There was some interesting TV on last night. There was an interesting documentary about the making of Pink Floyd's "Wish You Were Here" album. It was their follow up to "Dark Side Of The Moon". Apparently it could have turned out very different, but the band argued about what songs should go on it. One reasonable argument was that it should all be on a common theme like Dark Side Of The Moon. It seems the argument resulted in the decision to make it as a memoriam to the late Pink Floyd main man, Syd Barret, who fried his brain with too much acid (LSD).

  That documentary was followed by another documentary entitled "The Technicolour Dream". It was about the rise and fall of the counter culture in the mid 1960s. It was one of those periods of time, barely 2 years, when a lifetimes of stuff happened. Although they argued they were just a band doing gig, and were not part of the political movement, Pink Floyd certainly provided the musical back drop to so many events and "happenings".

  I think that second documentary finish around 10pm. I could have stayed up to watch Pink Floyd's "The Endless River" but I have seen it before, and it is surprisingly boring ! I went to bed, and read for a while before falling asleep around 11pm. Before getting into bed I took a couple of paracetamol tablets to help suppress some aches that would prevent me sleeping well. They seemed to work well until after 6 hours of fairly good sleep I ended up having quite a disturbing dream.

  I have absolutely no idea what the inspiration for the dream was. It started off with me apparently staying in someone's house, and waking up in the morning. I went to the toilet, and the first thing I almost did was to block it with toilet paper. It took three flushes to clear it, and every time it came with a paper thickness of over flowing.  That wasn't not a good start, but things would get worse.

  Time seemed to jump from the morning to early evening, and that was when I met the man who owned the house I was staying in. He was a sort of mix of a couple of almost psychotic bosses/owners of companies I am aware of. The worst thing about him was that me maltreated his wife. Most often he would talk down to her and belittle her, but later he turned to violence by kicking one of her legs so hard that it drew blood.

  I wanted to get out of there before all that started, and the worst part of the dream was that I couldn't. I think I had been driven to the house by the man or his wife, and the house was in a semi isolated bit of countryside. The nearest bus stop was a mile away, and I didn't even know the times of the precious few buses that went that way, or indeed if they ran in the still fairly early evening. Even if I could get a bus into the nearest town there was no railway station for a train back to London. I think I was most happy when I woke up because I needed a pee.

  There was some good news this morning. Despite a motley collection of food yesterday, ny blood glucose was down to the lowest figure so far this month, 8.3mmol/l. I could do with a few more readings like that, and ideally even lower to get my end of month average to a better figure than last months bad average. There was also good news yesterday. Jodie phoned up to ask if we could delays today's beer tasting until tomorrow (Monday). She fancied getting out and about in the sunshine today with boyfriend Alan. That leaves me free today to go and see a matinee gig starting at 3pm in The Chelsfield Pub right next door to Chelsfield station - easy to get to if the trains are behaving.