It was a mild night with the outside temperature as high as 11° C. There was some rain earlier, but I am not sure it was heavy rain. The rest of today should be dry, but much of it will be dull, or duller, although the sunny spells for 2 and 3pm seem to have survived at least one revision to the forecast. At 3 or 3pm the temperature will briefly peak at 12° C, but much of the day will be just 11° C. Tomorrow could be grey, but dry with the temperature at 11° C again.

   Yesterday was another day that seemed to pass smoothly by, and yet it is hard to recall just what made it so. I can remember the important stuff, but there were lots of little, generally inconsequential, things that mopped up useful amounts of time, that I would have to strain my brain to remember.

  One of the first important things was to do some laundry. I washed two t-shirts, 4 pairs of underpants, and two face flannels - all by hand of course.  I have to admit I did it in three stages. The first was to leave it all soaking in detergent for maybe an hour or two as I did other stuff. "Other stuff" was usually reading. I am starting to make headway, and have already seen hints of more interesting stuff coming up in the book. The main problem is that the huge, 1200+ page book is very heavy and cumbersome to read in bed.

  Back to the laundry, and I did three rinses before another distraction. Earlier on I did some cleaning and tidying in the kitchen, and while doing so I considered my dinner. After rinsing most of the laundry three times, and an extra three rinses for the face flannels ( I don't use fabric conditioner on towels and flannels now) I left the laundry to start my dinner. It was to be a lamb stew, and I was going to cook it in the microwave. I started off by giving the meat, plus water and stock cubes and mint, 20 minutes in the microwave.

  I then returned to the laundry, and did the final stage of treating it with fabric conditioner. I could then hang it all up on the clothes horse in the front room. There had been no sunshine to warm the room, and I just relied on a desk fan to blow air at the laundry. I haven't fully checked, but it seemed to be dry this morning. With that done it was back to my bedroom, and my big heavy book. I think I might have had a short snooze after reading a couple of pages.

  One of those little jobs that I thought I had forgotten was to synchronise my mp3 master and slave back up hard disks. Apart from setting the process up, it needed little supervision except a few spot checks to see if it had all gone OK - it seemed to, but there is always the worry that something may have got lost during to process.

  It was probably just after 4pm, just after the forecast rain, that I did the next bit of preparation of my dinner. This was to chop up a whole Pak Choi (Chinese cabbage) plus half a red onion, and add them with a few extra spices to the mostly cooked meat. I then gave it 15 minutes in the microwave. Just before eating, a few hours later, I would give it another 5 minutes in the microwave.

  The one thing I can't remember is having any lunch. I have reason to think I didn't have any. I did have a couple of small handfuls (maybe little more than a heaped dessert spoon) of peanuts during the day, and at about 4.30pm I had a few sugar free biscuits to hold down the taste of the cod liver oil capsule I had taken, along with the other pills I usually take some time after 4pm.

  Being a boring old Sunday, there was almost nothing to watch on TV last night. Eventually I settled on a truly awful documentary/investigation about Tesla's (the man who invented three phase electricity, and pioneered ultra high voltage generators) so called lost inventions. A few bits were interesting, but mostly it was a pair of Americans posing questions to each other, and never even suggesting any answers. It went on for two hours (I think) and came to no conclusions at all - except Tesla may have done this that of the other !

  That awful programme was on the Quest channel. I think it is possible it is the first time I have watched anything on that channel, and it would possibly be a good idea to never subject myself to it ever again ! It was while watching the blasted programme that I ate my dinner. It turned out to be very tasty, although it was predictably very fatty. I made sure not to drink to much of the gravy. This morning the casserole dish has a hard layer of congealed fat on top of the gravy.

  I had probably almost read a sixth of my book last night, and as I get further through it, and the weight either side of the spine starts to even up, it is getting very marginally easier to read in bed.  I may have managed a bit more than half an hour of reading last night before I put the book down, and tried to get to sleep. It was no later than 8.30pm when I tried.  At that time the heater was completely off, and had been for almost an hour earlier.

  By the time I was trying to go to sleep my bedroom had cooled off enough to feel very cold after being under the warm duvet. I think the thermometer was reading 19.5° C for some of the night. When active that would be perfectly comfortable, but it felt freezing if I popped an arm or leg out from under the duvet. I had to stay well wrapped up under the duvet, and that made for a very sweaty night. I think I had to turn my pillows around twice in the night, and the top edge of the duvet was feeling cold and clammy.

  I can't decide if I had a good or bad night. I know I had some periods of insomnia, but the chunks of missing time, and some vivid, but now forgotten dreams suggest I was sleeping a lot more than it sometimes seemed like. The very annoying thing is that I know I had a great dream before waking up sometime around 2am. I remember waking up and thinking it will be wonderful describing that, but this morning I can't remember a single thing about it.

  I had a very similar experience when I woke up at 6am, and turned the heater on full. Then I did it again when I woke up at almost 8am. The very fact that I slept until almost 8am is proof that I had a sleep deficit - possibly from last night, but also the previous two nights. even after that lay in I still didn't think I had a bundle of energy. Had things been different I might have taken an early morning walk through the park to get my Covid booster shot.

  One very good thing was my blood glucose readings. The first readings were two very good, and one not so good. I decided to re-do the latter reading with a fresh finger prick, and this time it closely agreed with the others. To my amazement the Sino Care meter gave a reading of 6.6mmol/l. That is exceptionally good, and it was the first time I have seen the green LED light up on that meter. Maybe it is also good that I have never seen the red LED light up. I don't know how high a reading it needs to light that one up.

  The other two meters, the Nexus GlucoRX meter on my second attempt, both read exactly the same  - an extremely good 7.1mmol/l. It is almost as if the healing from my fall injuries is now finished, and yet yesterday, and this morning, I have felt some pain from my tailbone area if I sit down in a certain posture. Maybe the oddest thing is that I don't seem to recall feeling hungry yesterday, and so maybe eating less was easy, although....I did feel peckish now and then.

  Oh, and one more very significant thing is that I got those low blood glucose readings after have a few strong beers to wash my dinner down. One was 7%, and another was 12% (very, very strong !!!). I think I had two other beers, but they were in the region of 4 or 5% and so not really memorable.

  It seems this morning is another morning when I have no idea what I am going to do....or maybe almost no idea. I do know that I want to wash my hair and have a shower. Yesterday I just had a flannel wash, but I did have a shave. I was almost in need of a shave, and I wanted to test some new shaving foam I bought when I was last shopping in Aldi. This stuff was foam, instead of gel. It worked OK, but it seemed to forced out the can by compressed farts judging by the smell !

  After my shower I could do some more laundry. I have a few clothes I could wash, but I also have some bed stuff, maybe a sheet, and maybe a couple of pillowcases, but also a duvet cover in need of a wash. I had intended to do the duvet cover during summer when it could have dried on the line in sunshine, but now it will be dried indoors. I can't put it off much longer, and maybe today is the day.....maybe.