Today is going to be a bit odd. This morning is nice and bright, and the evening is forecast to be nice and bright, but the latest revision shows light cloud with no sunny spells between midday and 5pm. The temperature may peak at only 21° C. The BBC weather forecast is, typically, more optimistic with sunny spells shown for the whole day, but they agree on 21° C being today's maximum temperature. Tomorrow is currently forecast to follow the same pattern as today, but the maximum temperature could be down to just 20° C.

  Yesterday was another day when possible plans almost came to nothing. One plan that did come to fruition was to eat carefully, and this morning I reaped the rewards for that (and maybe gained some mild constipation). Other than that, I did very little.

  I'm wracking my brains trying to think anything I did that could be described in simple words....errrr, maybe even in long words. I had a very lazy day. I had contemplated going out for a walk, and had even selected some shoes to wear that I thought might be comfortable - or as comfortable as I seem to remember they were the last time I wore them several, or more, years ago.

  I guess that reminds of one positive thing I did do yesterday. I threw out two pairs of shoes. One pair was still almost comfortable, but the insides were starting to fall apart, and held together with duct tape. They were also looking very grubby after walking in too many muddy fields. The other pair never seemed to get comfortable. They were the pair I wore at the garden party last Monday. Until my fall they were still very white, but one was stained with crushed flowers, and the other looks like I poured a glass of coke on and in it.

  The latter shoes could have been cleaned up, but considering how uncomfortable they were, and the fact that I really have too many shoes often sitting around unused, it wasn't such a hard decision to throw them away. I made even more space in my bedroom (not that you would notice) by throwing out three old shoeboxes.  When new, shoeboxes are good for storing stuff in, but not when they are part crushed, tatty, and dusty.

  In the morning my blood glucose was only a bit high, and as I think I mentioned yesterday morning, I had my usual breakfast of instant noodles. After that I had an idea I might have a mixed lunch and dinner in the middle of the afternoon with the idea that I would go out for a couple of hours in the evening (and then go straight to bed without any supper when I got home). It wasn't all that far into the afternoon, possibly around 2pm, when I had a fairly light lunch of salad leaves with two types of cheese.

  Later in the afternoon I got my Nikon D300s camera out and checked the batteries etc. I selected the shoes I would wear, and a t-shirt - all in preparation of going out to The Swan in West Wickham to take some snaps of a band called Ransom. They were reported to be a heavy rock band, and I know someone who rated them good. It would mean leaving home for the 7.59pm train towards Hayes (Kent). As 7pm approached my interest waned, and I was feeling starving.

  When I checked the listings for the Sky Arts channel I saw there was some good (or possibly good) music to watch on it. I changed my plans for the night, and ordered some food online. I ordered my now usual two shish kebabs. This time I ordered via Just Eat, and I guess last time I got some sort of discount, because this time it cost a couple of Pounds more than ordering direct from the restaurant.

  The food arrived, and it was delicious. I ate it while watching a Jeck Beck concert on Sky Arts. It was good in places, and I am sure Michael would have loved all the guitar playing, but I found a lot of it getting tedious. That gig was followed by Deep Purple (modern version as far as I could see) playing a gig somewhere. Bits of that were good, but it wasn't long before Sky Arts were seriously pissing me off. For one thing the adverts and various promos, were louder than Deep Purple - who once has the accolade as being one of the loudest bands. They Sky started playing long adverts between each song !!!!! After 30 minutes I turned off in disgust.

  By that time it was possibly 9pm, and I went to bed where I read for half an hour or so. I very much doubt I was awake at 10pm. My first bit of sleep lasted until about 1am, and I can't remember a thing about it, and therefore it must have been good sleep (probably). Maybe I did dream before I woke up because I was having lots of negative thoughts that stopped me getting back to sleep for 20 minutes or so.

  Once I did get back to sleep I seemed to sleep OK - in the usual 2 or 3 hours at a time cadence. I feel sure I had some dreams during that time, and I almost seem to have one on the tip of my memory (if you'll excuse the mixed up saying), but basically it is blank. Like the night before I was probably thinking too much about checking my blood glucose using my new blood glucose meter.

  Like yesterday morning, I lined up the old and the new meters, and made sure i had enough of a finger pricks worth of blood for both meters. Once again the shish kebab diet worked again. My new meter showed a very nice 8.1mmol/l, and the old meter a very similar figure of 8.2mmol/l. That must be conclusive evidence that both meters are working properly, although maybe only after I had pressed the reset button on the old meter.

  One other good this is my weight. I have yet to "empty my bowels" but even without that it looks like I may have lost a couple of hundred grams again. I have to bear in mind that type 1 diabetes is often accompanied by weight loss, but my blood glucose readings this morning, and to a much lesser extent yesterday morning, suggest I am still type two, and 8.1mmol/l is low enough to be in the pre-diabetic stage - which of course I am not in, but still well withong the range of control by diet instead of drugs like insulin.

  That just leaves....."what am I going to do today ?". There is a gig that might be worth seeing at (I think) 4pm, but it is in a pub that would take two buses to get to, and I doubt I can be bothered with that. Maybe today I will finally get out for a nice healthy walk. I will admit that I don't feel very keen on that at the moment, but maybe I can work up to it.