The latest revision to the forecast has improved on that shown above. 8am is now shown as full sunshine, and as I write this, with 8am just minutes away, the sky is clear, and the sun is indeed shining, but too low in the sky to light the road or my house, but it should do soon. The clear sky means the temperature is very low at the moment, and while there was no ground frost, there did seem to be frost on a few neighbours garden shed roofs. Today may be very sunny, but the best we can expect is just 10° C.  Tomorrow there is a choice of weather. Over in BBC land there will be a lot of drizzle and light rain, but in Met Office land it will stay dry until 5pm when over the course of two hours the clouds will fully open to give heavy rain. Then it will be dry again. 10° C is also expected tomorrow.

   Yesterday was another day of rest and healing, and not a lot happened - except healing. Which was a very good thing. I think I probably have more to say about my night, and this morning, than about yesterday, but there are a few notes I can make.

  Yesterday all my scrapes, abrasions, and bruising were very raw in the morning, and I was starting to wonder if I might have actually broken a bone of the coccyx or somewhere. If I put pressure on my bottom, at the very base of the spine, it did feel very painful indeed, but this morning I think it is unlikely anything was actually broken. I think it was just badly bruised, although I can't actually see a bruise.

  I feel I should have a big purple bruise on the side of my right thigh. It is very tender, but I can't actually see anything. The only area that shows something bruise like, but fairly feint, is on my right upper arm, almost on the shoulder, but that doesn't seem to be developing into anything colourful....yet.
  I've just take a picture of my upper arm, and the bruised area does show up, but it's hardly in your face. If I could have got the camera a bit further round my back it would make the scrapes that can just be seen in the picture a bit more obvious. My most obvious injury was my scraped left knee. It rarely causes and pain unless directly provoked, but has cause some bother as I'll explain later.

  One oddity is that while many things I did could be uncomfortable, there was one thing that felt better than normal. It was standing up doing some washing up. Sometimes that can make my arms mildly ache when working with arms outstretched, but yesterday I was doing some washing up, and sort of marvelling and how great it was to be completely pain free !

  I spent many hours laying on my bed, usually reading, but I think I managed to snooze for a bit too. Getting to sleep was not easy because I was always a bit uncomfortable when laying on my bed. There was the neck ache I think I described yesterday, although went away once my  head was supported by the pillow. Trying to find a position where the pressure on my bottom (or base of spine) was not sometimes very uncomfortable, and very tricky to do - if indeed I ever fully managed it.

  One thing I wanted to do yesterday was going to get some shopping from Tesco. In the end I decided I just didn't want to spoil the healing, which was obviously happening, and go traipsing off to buy heavy shopping. My cupboard was far from empty, and if I had been satisfied with just soup, I had enough here to last a week - possibly. One thing I did have was a £9.92 discount on a kebab meal ordered via Just Eat from a specific shop/restaurant.

  I have no idea what time the place opened, or if indeed it did ever open, but at 6.05pm it was still reported as not being open. I had a very strong inclination to get a kebab dinner, and if for no other reason than to (usually) end up with a nice low blood glucose reading in the morning. In the end I chose another place to order from. They were physically nearer home, and I expected an earlier delivery than I got.

  The estimated time for delivery was something like 6.45pm to 7.35pm, and the delivery was just a couple of minutes before 7.35pm. That was fair, but still annoying. The meal was delivered in a strong paper bag, and the kebabs came in compressed cardboard boxes instead of the usual styrofoam. One odd thing is that the meat was between two whole bits of pitta bread. I had a chicken and a lamb shish kebab, and I don't think I can fault the meat.

  The salad was disappointing. It came in cardboard tubs with plastic lids. My one complaint is that the cabbage and onion, being the main ingredients, were too finely chopped, and would have been easier to eat with a spoon, other than that, there was nothing wrong with the salad. My main worry was the chilli sauce. It was far from hot, and I think it was a sweet chilli sauce made with syrup - a lot more sugar than is ideal for me.

  As well as the three Star Treks I also watched a repeat episode of Secrets Of The London Underground last night. As I say, it was a repeat, and so there were no revelations, but it was still interesting. I went to bed straight after it finished at 9pm, and I think I was fast asleep very soon after that. I seemed to sleep solidly for maybe two hours before I woke up for no good reason.

  It is an odd thing I have experienced before, and probably nothing to do with my injuries. It felt like I had had a full night's sleep, and was ready to get up. In the past I have often remained in bed, tossing and turning, and feeling like I would never get back to sleep again. Last night I chose I different idea. I got out of bed, and sat in front of my PC reading stuff (and looking at pictures). After 30 or 40 minutes I began to feel tired, and went back to bed. There was no tossing and turning, and I think I fell asleep in 5 or 10 minutes.

  From then on I seemed to sleep quite well with only a couple of interruptions such as getting up for a pee. In the last hour(s) of sleep I had a most entertaining dream. Almost everything in it was inspired by stuff I had seen during the day - including some good pictures of vintage cars taking part in the annual "old crocks" London To Brighton car rally. Some the dream may have been inspired by my walk through the park after dark, but it didn't feature any drunkenness or falling down !

  The first bit of dream I remember was walking through the park, towards Ladywell. The light was curious - more like twilight than darkness. Before long I was aware of a sound behind me. Looking around I saw two vintage cars, one was a three wheeler, coming towards me. I step off the path, onto the grass to let them pass, but both did a quite fast U turn before reaching me, and headed away.

  A minute later another vintage car approached, and stopped near me. I hadn't been aware of it until then, but I had my Canon DSLR camera with me, and a flash gun. I called to the driver and warned him I was going to use flash because itw as dark, and he gave his full approval, as did the driver of a second car who pulled up to "pose" for me. Having taken a couple of pictures I saw that there was what looked like a vintage train in a siding (which has never existed in reality) of Ladywell station.

  I never did get to the train because I was distracted by the park cafe.  I noted several woman in vintage outfits as part of the general vintage feel of the occasion. They said, or I was told (it is all a bit unclear this morning) that they were going to re-enact scenes from the Folly Begeres (which I can't seem to spell) and do a topless and nickerless can can. To my great annoyance I think I woke up before they started, and before I had my one chance to be an amateur pornographer !

  That was sad/annoying, but waking up did have some good plus points. It was very obvious that I was feeling a lot better, and was healing well. The most annoying pain, that being the (presumed) bruise at the base of my spine, was very attenuated, and unless I was very careless, it was, for the first time in several days, not painful to sit down (provided I hit the right spot first time, and didn't wiggle around !).

  There was less good news about my blood glucose readings this morning. The only significant thing I ate before dinner was a single can of soup for lunch, and a few small snacks during the day should have been harmless, and yet I got a wide range of blood glucose readings, and none was as good as hoped, and one was rather high. The Sino Care meter gave a reading of 9.3mmol/l. That was well under the red line, but still far higher than ideal, and rather odd for the next day after a kebab. the other two meters gave better, but still a bit higher than hoped, 8.6mmol/l and 8.1mmol/l. The latter reading was closer to what I had hoped for.

  Healing a battered body, or an ill body, often plays tricks with the bodies blood glucose control, and that could have been the case here, but my suspicion still fall on the rather useless chilli sauce on my kebabs last night. I think I am going to give that place a miss in future. While my blood glucose may be a bit high, I do feel quite good this morning. I am obviously not fully healed, but almost all the pain has faded to nothing unless I put pressure on quite a selection of tender place. The very worst thing this morning is something I was aware of last night, but didn't see the full affect until this morning. The graze on my left knee is now looking very scabby, and I think the scab broke open while in bed, and I have a couple of mild blood stains on my bed sheet.

  There are a few things I would like to do today, but maybe the first should be to get that bloodied bed sheet soaking in bio detergent after I have had a shower. I must admit I am not looking forward to doing any laundry today, but needs must.....unless.....unless..... I think that bedsheet is showing wear, and becoming rough. Maybe I might just throw it away rather than battle getting out blood stains. It still has some from some previous misadventure. I think it is only Poundstretcher quality, and maybe it is time for a new sheet.

  Of the things I want to do today, one is what I wanted to do yesterday, and that is to go to Tesco to get some shopping. I had been hoping I might get a few bits from the Tesco Express store if I went there to use the Tesco "hole in the wall" cash machine. I may get there today, but I think I'll go for a full range of shopping from the main store. Once I have got some grillable meat I can have "fun" in the kitchen chopping up onions and cabbage and stuff for a home made kebab meal.