It was definitely almost mild this morning, but my measurements suggested it was only 12.5° C instead of 13° C. In maybe another half hour it could be over 14° C. While it may be nice having a mild morning, the price of it is the moist and warm air is shedding all it's moisture as a lot of rain this morning. The latest version of the forecast suggests there should be hints of sunshine during some heavy rain at 10am, and full sunshine at 11am. The rest of the day will be bright with more sunshine or sunny spells, but paradoxically it will be cooling down. The peak temperature of 15° C will be at 9 and 10am. The temperature at 3pm, and for a few hours before and after that, will be 14° C. Most of the daylight hours tomorrow may be 12° C, but for half or more of those hours there could be light rain.

   Yesterday I reverted to intensive resting and laziness to help the healing process of all my injuries - mostly just bruises and scrapes, but I am still not completely sure I didn't break a bone in my "tail area". The short version of today's stuff is that I did seem to heal further.

  The long story is.....well, there isn't really one because I really did so very little yesterday. The gloom filtering through my windows took away any desire to do much else. The one thing I did do was a bit of washing up, and a bit of cooking in the kitchen, although heating up a can of soup is hardly cooking. On the other hand, I did most definitely cook some beefburger. Of course the timer in my mini oven/grill did most of the work.

  After my lunchtime "chunky vegetables and lamb" soup I did have a few small snacks in the afternoon. Possibly the biggest snack was some ready sliced Gouda cheese on sugar free oat biscuits. It is a shame that I put those oat biscuits in an airtight container, and threw away the box they came in, because I would like to double check they are actually "sugar free" or just "no added sugar". I fear the latter may be the truth.

  My dinner was an almost healthy 4 beef burgers served on a pile of white onion and red cabbage "salad". It was a sort of variation on a home made shish kebab, and seemed very nice with one caveat. The white onion that has been in the last two helpings of "salad" (last night and the night before) is rather powerful, and maybe the lingering after taste gets a bit annoying. I still have half that big white onion to use up before I start on the milder red onions I have ready for use.

  I checked from mid afternoon what was on TV, and I couldn't see anything for the rest of the day I would go out my way to watch. I still wanted some entertainment, and resorted to old recordings. I started with the first episode of the final series of Black Adder. It was good, but after all these years still very predictable. After that I thought I would watch a few old episodes of The Avengers (the real ones, not the cheap American Avengers).

  It was during that time I made two discoveries. One was that if I became a bit to relaxed, and allowed myself to slip forward, and slouch while watching, it really made my tail area hurt - a lot for one moment ! Until then I had suffered very little pain during the day. My bruised shoulder didn't seem to hurt at all, and my bruised right hip was mostly unnoticeable except when trying to rest/sleep on that side. My bruised (or possibly broken/cracked) Coccyx, on the other hand was a simmering volcano just waiting to explode is provoked in the wrong way. Fortunately changing my pose to sitting upright again allowed it to simmer down, and be almost, but never, forgotten.

  The other discovery was that many of my old recordings of The Avengers were poorly encoded to avi files. In some instances the sound would be out of sync, and in more cases a small disturbance would make the picture break up, and take a few seconds to recover. I tried re-encoding the worst files using Handbrake, and it worked really well to correct the coding errors.

  I took the precaution of taking a couple of Paracetamol tablets, and also a couple of Ibuprofen tablets before going to bed. The former to dull any pain, and the letter to help reduce any inflammation before it produces pain (both "hopefully"). I think they worked really well because I did sleep extremely well. I don't remember any period of insomnia, and I don't think I remember waking up more than once or twice in the night for a pee. The latter may have been significant. I think I may have woken up for just long enough to check the clock, and then fall asleep instantly afterwards, but maybe those are false memories, perhaps dreams.

  I did have what seemed like a very long dream, but there were jumps in the action which suggests it was a series of shorter dreams. It is hard to describe it all, but a few snapshots might be explainable. It was another dream (series) based upon being back at college. It included the idea (based on fact from one or two places I have been) where the top stories of rooms are not linked, and you have to use the right staircase to get to them. There was also a tunnel between two adjacent buildings that was usually only used in wet weather.

  In the dream that tunnel emerged not in the adjacent building, but in a sort of market square, or retail area. My memory is too vague to say which it was. At some point the dream jumped to a sort of square at the top of a gentle slope that had a selection of shops around it. I wanted to buy some cigarettes, and I wondered where I could buy them. I turned around and found a newsagents and Post Office right behind me. I went in, and the Post Office counters were stripped bare (a sign of the times !).

  The other side of the shop still had stuff, but mysteriously there were several railway platforms in the way. It was either the case of going around the trains, or going through, from side to side, the trains and hoping the doors didn't shut while going through the train. I opted to go around the end of the trains/platforms. I remember catching full sight of the shop counters then, but I don't recall buying anything.  The rest of my dream(s) are only remembered as sort of snapshots, and are probably pointless trying to describe.

  I think it was at 5am that I woke up feeling slightly cool because I had partly kicked off the duvet. I got out of bed just long enough to turn the heater up, and then got back into bed, and quickly fell asleep again. I didn't even bother to go for a pee. I do remember going for what seemed like a huge pee quite early in my sleep, probably before midnight, but I peed very little after that. The significance is that it could signify a low blood glucose.

  Sadly it didn't, or at least not a very low reading. Once again I found my new Sino Care, cheap knock off copy of a blood glucose meter, gave a reading much higher than the other two meters. it gave a very dangerous reading of 10.2mmol/l. That was the second or more times that it's reading was very different to the other two. They said 8.3mmol/l on the Nexus meter, and 8.8mmol/l on the contour meter. That is still quite a spread of readings !

  After taking those readings I took my morning pills, and then went down to get my breakfast of tomato flavour instant noodles. While doing that my mind was considering possibilities about the rogue reading on the Sino Care meter. I wondered if the batteries in it were failing, although it does have a battery icon on the display. Once back in my bedroom I put two fresh AAA batteries in the meter, and took another reading. This time it said 9.0mmol/l, and that was sufficiently close to the 8.8mmol/l reading on the contour meter. It seems that Sino Care meter is more sensitive to battery voltage than it seems. Curiously, my battery tester said the old batteries were still well charged. It's all a bit of a mystery.

  Somewhat earlier than expected, the sun is already trying to break through the clouds. It makes it feel likely that we will get the sunshine and sunny spells later that the forecast promises. I am unsure if that will tempt me to go out today. There is nothing I urgently need, but there are a few things it might be useful to stock up from Poundstretcher. On the other hand, a short walk around the park might be nice.  It would be round the local park where there are many opportunities to loop back if it became too much.

  While stretching my legs would be good in some respect, I am very mindful that going out shopping to tesco was quite a set back to my healing. My "tail area" was quite painful after that shopping trip, and it took the whole of the rest of the day, plus all of yesterday to get back to where I was. Maybe the extra rest yesterday has actually improved things, but not fully cured my wounds. it is tempting to use that as an excuse for another day of intensive laziness, but yesterday was starting to get a bit boring. On the other hand, I have often said that Sunday is the worst day of the week because it is a very boring day !