Both forecasters are giving dire warnings of thunderstorms today, but neither say when they might occur. The BBC say light rain between midday and 2pm, and The Met Office say heavy rain at midday followed by light rain at 1pm. Other than that, both forecasters say it will be dry, and even suggest a few sunny spells. Today's temperature will peak in just a few hours time when it will reach 13° C for a few hours before it slowly falls to 10° C at the end of the day. Tomorrow could be very sunny, but only 11° C.

   Yesterday was yet another day when very little happened. For a while I was tempted to go out, but in the end I stayed in and did very little except playing with a couple of cameras, and doing some maintenance of a few camera accessories. It all started when I tried to take a picture of the still rather feint bruise on my upper right arm.

  I did take a picture of the bruise, but the bruise stubbornly refuses to look as tender as it feels (or felt). I think it will soon fade away, and it will never have gone through the purple and yellow stage. To take the picture I was using my mobile phone on a selfie stick mounted on  a mini tripod. To take the picture I used my little handheld bluetooth device as a remote shutter control.

  That little device is handy on occasion, but I wondered what I might do if I wanted to use one of my big DSLR cameras. I do have a wired remote shutter button that works on my Canon DSLR cameras, but I thought a wireless device might be good. I couldn't find a very simple Bluetooth transmitter and receiver, but I did find a slightly more sophisticated (where "sophisticated" is almost over the top) device on Amazon.

  It was £29, and that is not too bad for a toy that will only have a few uses in it's life......or will it ? It could be useful for wildlife photography. There were times when I had my bird table well stocked (until I realised rats were eating most of it) I did think it would be useful to have the camera on a tripod looking at the bird table while I operated the shutter from indoors.

  While I was looking at my cameras I also looked at a few accessories. I once bought, but on use on the rarest of occasions, a couple of GPS receivers for my Nikon and Canon cameras. It is rare that I don't know where I am taking a picture, and so they get very little use. However it feels a good idea to make sure the lithium batteries are kept charged, possibly to keep them ready for use, but mostly because if lithium batteries discharge too much they can refuse to charge.

  The final things I played with were my flashguns. I have two that can be triggered remotely from a device that sits on the camera. On occasion I have use one for very good effect. I once used both, and that produced very good results. The big problem is finding somewhere safe to place the remote flash guns - somewhere where they won't be trampled on by the audience.

  One thing I was only remotely aware of was that the power of the flash can be controlled from the remote transmitter. I had a little play with that, and I have probably learned how to do that for future use......although when I think back, I feel sure I have often done that anyway. Maybe it is the reverse, setting the power on the flash gun itself that I rarely use. The time when it would be useful would be when using two flash guns - one for main light, and the other at less power as fill in light. The only flaw in all this is that the opportunities to do more "advanced" stuff like this are so rare. I need a big studio and horde of nude models......or something.

  The only other thing I did yesterday was like the day before when I did a bit of washing up, and a bit of cookery. At lunchtime I made a rather big snack of two cheese sandwiches with onion and cabbage "salad" in them. My dinner was Tesco "Finest" (but reduced price) pork belly strips on a bed of white cabbage and white onion. I think I over did the quantity of cabbage, and maybe the onion as well.  Oh well, it is all healthy raw vegetables and very safe...or was it ?

  I spent the evening watching TV - two and a half lots of Star Trek. The "half" was because Deep Space Nine didn't seem as entertaining at a half hour episode of The Simpsons on Channel 4. Star Trek: Voyager was, I think one of the better episodes because it feature not one but two Q. One Q was the one we became  very familiar with on Star Trek: The New Generation. It could have been good but for the simpering, social worker like voice, of Captain Janeway.

  After Star Trek: Voyager I watched an episode of "Abandoned Engineering". It had it's moments, but was not a good episode. I went to bed straight after, but I read for another half an hour to finish reading the book I was reading - Frankenstein Unbound. A lot of the book was a good read, but the ending just fell flat as if the author, Brian Aldiss, had run out of ideas.

  I am happy to say that I had another good sleep last night. I cannot recall any periods of insomnia, and I didn't seem to need to get up to pee more than twice...or was it three times. I remember having some enjoyable dreams, but just as I was about to describe them all the details seem to have faded. I think one involved a pub, but I just can't seem to recall any details. Oh well, they probably weren't very interesting unless you were in them.

  I took extra care this morning when checking my blood glucose readings, and I did get a better grouping of figures. They were all annoyingly high ! The best was 9.1mmol/l on my Nexus meter. That is too high. The other two meters gave even higher readings of 9.6mmol/l and 9.8mmol/l. Both are far too high, and while below the red line (10.0) are in the region where bad things could happen. I have to assume that my continued healing must account for some of it, but apart from continued, but fading, soreness in my tail area, most other injuries have faded away - almost.

  It make me wonder if that white onion I have been using for several days now has a lot of sugar in it. Sugar does accumulate in root vegetables, and that white onion was as big as a big orange, or even a grapefruit. That is why it has lasted so long, but now I wonder if it could be the source of the mystery sugar. I still have almost a quarter of it still too use, and maybe I'll use it more sparingly today. That would probably be a good idea for no better reason than the very strong onion taste it leaves lurking in my mouth.

  This morning I have decided to skip breakfast because of those high readings. At around midday I'll check the readings again, and if they have gone down enough I will have a light lunch. Today, although I expect it will be mid afternoon, after the rain, I will see if I feel like going out shopping. I could survive for another day or three days, but I am getting low on a lot of stuff, and maybe it would be a good time to go shopping in Aldi.