There might be an odd hour when there are only sunny spells, but most of today will feature full sunshine. It could drive the temperature up to 31, or 32° C. Tomorrow could also see 31° C, but at the moment it is forecast to be a very different day. The morning may be bright and sunny, but a thunderstorm is possible at midday. The afternoon may be a bit dull. On the other hand, the BBC say tomorrow will feature sunshine all day with temperature peaking at 31° C.

   With my bedroom still about 27° C from the previous day's heat, and the outside temperature predicted to rise to 29° C, I was once again in the mood to take the day cool and easy. That didn't fully happen, and I did do some useful work in between quietly reading and snoozing.

  One very important thing I did was rather hot work. It was to finish hand washing some t-shirts, underwear, and also a couple of face flannels that had been soaking in detergent overnight. It was rather hot work, and I think I ended up wetter than the wrung out clothes did. I could have dried them outside, but opted to dry them on the clothes horse indoors. The reason was they all fitted on the clothes horse with a little room to spare. There was also a second reason. It's September, the month of the spider. I had to remove a large web part suspended from the washing line, and I feel sure that by the time my stuff was dry it would be festooned by spider webs !#

  The other significant job I did was to finally finish the photo album of Crosstown Revival, the headline band at Chattfest on  Sunday 27th August. Being on last they didn't finish until after sunset. The stage lighting was very basic, and it relied on natural illumination at the front. The last pictures I took just looked too muddy to use, and I scrapped them. I still ended up with nearly 30 mostly decent pictures. There were a few good ones of Angela's husband to be, but she didn't bother to like them.

  There was one other job that was important that I nearly forgot, and it was to clear the sink and side board of washing up. I did the whole lot, and then started making a tiny bit more work by preparing and cooking my dinner. It was the sort of thing - diced beef with broccoli and cauliflower - which I could have done in the slow cooker. I don't think it lacked anything for doing it in the microwave - except having to wash the very heavy ceramic pot used in the slow cooker.

  I must admit, having to manhandle that very heavy pot has slightly put me off using the slow cooker. That is not to say that I won't be using it in the future. I can imagine slow cooking some winter dinners for instance. Cooking my dinner in the microwave had several steps. 15 minutes to get the beef almost cooked. 10 minutes, sometime later, to help tenderise the beef. Then 10 minutes, shortly before dinner time, to cook the vegetables.

  When I look back I can't seem to remember eating anything that I would call lunch. I do recall several small snacks, and mostly while I was photo editing because a snack breaks up the time, and rests the eyes. I had three quarters of a bag of the micro chipsticks that seem to have almost no sugar involved with them. i had a couple of chunks of cheese, and a handful of salted peanuts. I probably had something else, but I can't remember what.

  I am wondering how much I slept yesterday. I think I had a couple of snoozes - one in the morning, and one in the afternoon. What I am actually wondering is how the day seemed to go so quickly. At about 7pm I ate my dinner while watching one of the Star Treks. I followed that by watching UFO. That finished at 9pm, and after brushing my teeth I went straight to bed. I read in bed for maybe half an hour, and then had no difficulty getting to sleep.

  I did wake up every couple of hours during the night, or at least that is how it seemed, but on reflection I think it was sometimes after 3 or more hours sleep. To help me sleep I had the fan on all night, and I was drinking lots of chilled water. of course all that chilled water would account for the amount of times i got up for a pee. Like the previous night I can remember dreaming a lot, but unlike the previous night I remember some of a dream.

  I can imagine a psychoanalyst could draw lots of exciting conclusions from this bit of dream I can still just about remember. In the dream I was at a technical college, but it could have been a university (although I have no personal experience of university). I finished attending a class at the end of the day, and then there was the equivalent of an edit in a movie, and I was there the next morning looking for my class. I couldn't remember what room it was in, nor who was the teacher/lecturer. I was wandering around the corridors on several floors trying to see if I recognized anything.

  It was probably good that I woke up before it all got too frustrating. It is no surprise that I woke up because it was almost 6.45am - a fair bit later than I usually get up. Once I had been to the toilet, only a pee unfortunately, I checked my blood glucose readings. The series of good readings continues.... The new meter gave the highest reading this time. It said 8.3mmol/l. That is below my typical average, and so is good. The old meter was even better. It read 7.7mmol/l, and I regard any reading starting 7 as very good.

  Today is the sort of day where I ought to go and frolic in the sunshine, but once again I don't think I fancy it despite my best walks have always been done in the hottest days of the year. I guess it is still possible. One thing I am definitely going to do, because I feel yucky, is to trim my beard, shave the non bear areas, shampoo and condition my hair, and have a shower. I doubt I will be able to dry myself in this weather, and maybe I won't even bother to dry myself.

  If a shower under warm, but not hot water doesn't make me feel too hot, what I intend to do next almost certainly will. I think it is high time I washed my bath towel. It is not smelly, but after a lot of use it seems to accumulate soap from any bit of me I haven't thoroughly rinsed off. It means multiple rinses after washing it to try and get the rinse water not frothy. I'll probably wash a couple of white t-shirts at the same time. Maybe I will spend the afternoon quietly steaming on my bed, reading and snoozing.