The garden looked quite wet this morning, and there must have been rain in the early hours. It is now bright and sunny. The latest revision to the forecast has changed a few hours of sun to just sunny spells, but in return it now shows sunny spells extending to 7pm. The temperature should reach 23° C. By 4pm, but right now it feels quite cool at around 14° C. Tomorrow, for one day only, should see a proper return to summer. Mostly pure sunshine, and some sunny spells, should last all day, and the temperature should reach a pleasantly warm 26° C.

  Yesterday was quite satisfying in a couple of limited ways. On the other hand, a lot of yesterday was quite tedious. I did almost nothing in the morning apart from writing this blog. After I finished that I found I had run out of enthusiasm, energy, concentration, or something similar that I am not sure how to describe.

  As noted yesterday, I started the day with a horrendously high blood glucose level. I theorised that it was mostly due to dehydration, although there was stuff i had eaten the day before yesterday which would definitely not have helped. one thing I did do diligently during the morning was to drink more than usual. I was only drinking fizzy, sugar free drinks, and so I could not gulp down large amounts like I could have if I was drinking chilled water.

  I am happy to say it worked, and just before midday I checked my blood glucose reading (just using the new meter) and it said a very ordinary, and unremarkable 8.8mmol/l. That was my cue for some lunch, and it was a fairly big, but relatively safe lunch of a large portion of instant noodles. I felt much better for that, and after an attempted short snooze (I think it felt too chilly to relax enough for a snooze) I felt ready to start work.

  That work was generally photo editing. By mid evening I finally came to the end of all the pictures I had taken at Petts Wood Calling - except for two lots. I regard it as low priority, but I still have a pile of pictures of the metal band Ransom that should have enough passable pictures to make a second photo album. I also have the pictures I took at The Daylight in after a Guinness bribe from the landlady. I did check and edit one picture to see how it looks. It was of all the bar staff lined up behind the bar. They look OK, but there is quite a bit of curving on the outside edges, despite heavy cropping, from the use of my only wide angle lens I had at the time - the fisheye lens.

  One thing I wanted to do, and it seems I was very successful, was to eat a very low sugar dinner. I started with four rice cakes with mayo, mustard, salad leaves, and ham on them. They were tasty enough to make me want more. I felt semi confident enough to chance another 4 rice cakes with cheese instead of ham on them. They too went down nicely and did leave me feel not exactly full, but satisfied.
  The last pictures I worked on were of the band Fat Salad. They were the last band I saw, and i took the pictures when feeling tired, and also in some discomfort. It seems I took more picture than I realised. i think I was on something like autopilot when I took them so there were no great shots, but quite a few were quite acceptable.
  The very young looking singer reminded me of someone like Roger Daltrey, or maybe even  a young Ian Gillan.
  I wanted to do more shots like this, but oddly I only seemed to do it when feeling tired. Odd !
  One problem at Petts Wood Calling this year was very little front of stage lighting. i heard someone complaining that it was difficult to get good pictures, or even views with his eyes, of Glamstar who were the headliners, and mostly played after sunset. The crazy thing is that it made taking pictures of Fat Salad's drummer easier because there was so much light towards the back of the stage. Very often it is hard to get a good picture of drummers.

  One oddity is that I have no recollection of how Fat Salad sounded. I think their style was basic rock, but I don't know if they did just covers, their own songs, or a mix of both. I guess I can say I would like to see them again if only to see what I was missing first time. I guess they hope to appeal to teenage girls. The last thing I saw as I headed for the exit was that most of them had taken their shirts off !

  I did the full usual compliment of TV last night, usually working, or making dinner, between commercial breaks. The last thing I watched was QI. That finished at 10pm, and I went straight to bed where I read the last couple of pages of a book. As far as I can recall, I fell asleep within minutes of turning out the light - maybe at about 10.30pm.  There is not a lot to say about my sleep. I can almost recall having some dreams, but I can't remember anything about them, and on the whole my sleep was unremarkable.

  I was quite keen to check my blood glucose level this morning. I was desperately hoping that my eating choices had worked OK - and they HAD ! Both of my blood glucose meters had an identical reading of a marvellous 7.7mmol/l. I wish I could do that more often, and of course I could if I ate the same as yesterday. The large helping of instant noodles were very nice, and the ham and the cheese on rice cakes were very nice, but I like variety, and eating the same thing day after day would be boring - plus I have sausages and ice cream in the freezer that have to be eaten one day.

  I hope that by the end of the day I will have finished the pictures of The Daylight Inn, and sent them to Eileen the landlady, but top of my priorities is to go to The Jolly Farmers for a lunchtime Guinness or three. I believe that Angela should be back at work by now. I'll let her know that I'll be in there, but I somehow doubt I will even get a reply.