The BBC weather forecast is a bit more generous with it's sunshine and sunny spells, but the latest revision to the Met Office forecast is getting very similar. Only 11am is now shown with no sunshine, and 10am and 6pm are shown with full sunshine. All other hours are currently shown as sunny spells. Both forecasters agree that today will peak at 19° C in the afternoon. Tomorrow is currently an enigma. The Met Office say it will be a dull day, but with a high of 22° C. The BBC predict tomorrow will be mostly sunny with a high of 23° C. I expect that later today their forecasts will start to merge.

   I can't describe yesterday as a good day, but it did have its moments. One problem is that I felt mildly ill. I don't think I can attribute that to my very high blood glucose, but having to eat as sparsely as I could manage (which was not as sparse as I would have liked) just made me feel worse.

  My "illness" was a bit odd. It was like heartburn, and indeed antacid tablets did go some way to helping it, as did only drinking water from early evening. It felt like the sort of burn in the gullet you get for a while after vomiting, but I didn't vomit, and I can't recall eating or drinking anything that could have caused the feeling. It was by no means a strong feelling, but more like a very gentle nagging at any time there were no better distractions - which there weren't for most of the day.

  One thing I didn't do yesterday was to get washed and dressed. This was partly because the bathtub had a big bucket in it filled with a bath towel soaking in detergent. I did consider a flannel wash just so I could go out and stretch my legs with a walk to the shops, but I just wasn't in the mood to do that. I did eventually, early to mid afternoon, get around to finish washing that bath towel, and hang it on a clothes horse to dry.

  I managed to avoid eating any breakfast, but by mid morning, or maybe a bit earlier, I kept tasting the cod liver oil tablet I had taken in the morning, and maybe one or more of the other pills I took was instrumental in making my gullets feel burned. I gave in and had a handful of peanuts. They did help a lot. I did end up having a late lunch of 4 rice cakes with some sliced beef and chicken mortadella on them.

  For much of the day I did very little, but now and then I did a few odd jobs like doing all the washing up, polishing the the kitchen sink with bleach, and also I started cooking my dinner. That dinner was a meatball stew with some cauliflower and broccoli. Another short(ish) job was throwing together a design for my month of October web page. It is hard to believe how fast we are running out of days for this year, and 2024 feels so close now.

  Another potential feeling that fortunately never happened was the feeling of winter creeping in. I didn't leave the house at all yesterday, but I think it would have felt fine during the day. I know that the sunshine warmed my bedroom, and the front room downstairs, up to a nice comfortable 25° C by the afternoon. That would have a slight negative effect in the night, but more about that later.

  From about 5pm I sat down to watch the three usual Star Treks....except I didn't. I thought that rather moan about how bad it was, I would just not bother to watch Star Trek:Voyager. I must admit that I wasn't terribly keen about Star Trek: Deep Space Nine either. It was during the start of the the latter that I ate the dinner I described earlier. It was also the time when I took to drinking nothing but chilled tap water.

  I had been reading in bed for some time before I turned the light out. I think I fell asleep fairly quickly around 9pm. It was quite warm enough at that time to push the duvet aside, and sleep uncovered. It may have been around 3am when I pulled the duvet over me, and fell asleep like that. At just after 5am I woke up feeling too hot, and also needing a pee. I think I went back to sleep (after having a pee) with just one arm and a leg under the duvet. I must have kicked it off completely by the time I woke up at almost 7am - a much needed lie in !

  I can remember some of two rather different dreams. One was about being back at work.....actually it is more true to say that several were about being back at work. The settings may have been very similar, but there was no continuity between dreams. One was about the boss (and company owner) retiring, and being replaced by one of the managers from one of my early jobs.

  Another dream in basically the same setting was about a new product. When I retired the company had made a small range of computer controlled motors. Initially they were to drive pan and tilt cameras, which the company also made. The largest motor was getting some interest from other directions because it was powerful enough to control remote TV studio cameras, and also lights. In the dream we were developing a super powerful motor - big enough to power a small car, although it was never designed for such a use - cars don't need extreme precision in the same way as perhaps an astronomical telescope (although thatw as a possible use that didn't appear in the dream).

  The other dream was very different. I was at a friends house, and his house was huge - mansion sized ! Although they looked perfect to me, his wife decided to change all the carpets. With his rooms being so big I seemed to spend the whole dream thinking how I could hint that I could use some of his cast offs to re-carpet my own house. Just one of the bigger ones would carpet two of my rooms with some left over.

  One of the first things I did when I got up was to take my temperature. I started doing this during Covid, and it was one of the first spreadsheets of health results I made (although maybe blood glucose readings predated it by a year or more). Having made a spreadsheet I kept adding to it. I had columns for most waking hours, but very few of those get used now. This morning, after having slept uncovered for most of the last hour, my body temperature (or at least under the tongue) was down to 34.9° C. Evidently I most definitely didn't have a fever this morning !

  Next came my blood glucose readings. I do this religiously every morning partly to keep track of the ups and downs, but also to prove to the nurse (if needed) that I do take this type II diabetes very seriously, and do my best to control it. After yesterday morning's high readings I was not expecting very low readings, but two of my meters gave acceptable readings. The new meter was worst with a reading of 9.4mmol/l. That is high, but still firmly in the safe-ish region. The other two meters closely agreed with each other, and maybe that was a more true reading. My older meter read 8.9mmol/l, and the oldest read 8.8mmol/l. Both readings would be fairly unremarkable.

  I felt my blood glucose readings were low enough to allow me to have some breakfast. I had the last horrible Itsu rubbery noodles, and a far more satisfying bowl of Kimchi flavoured noodles. In theory they should be enough for me to miss lunch, but if my plans come to fruition there might be some difficult to ignore temptations. I definitely need to go shopping today, but maybe not to Tesco. I have sausages in the freezer for a possible dinner tonight. Today I want to go to Savers to top up on vitamins and other stuff they sell. Then, as I usually do, I'll go across to Poundstretcher for a rummage in there. I particularly want some new coat hangers.