Today has started as gloomy as yesterday, but rather colder at just 2° C. From 2pm the dark grey clouds could change to white clouds. There seems no chance of any sunshine breaking through, but the temperature should reach 5° C from 4pm onwards. Tomorrow should feature white cloud all day, but there is a 30% chance of a shower at 3pm. The temperature should peak at 6° C.

    I think I could describe yesterday as a very odd day. Apart from ruling out a gig I would have liked to go to on a warm and dry evening, I didn't have any plans or ideas for yesterday. I have a feeling that even if I had thought of some plans, I probably wouldn't have done any of them. It was that sort of day.

  There was one thing I might have done if there were some sunny spells to cheer me up, and that would have been to go to Poundstretcher for a few bits and pieces. That would have included but more of the bitter orange chocolate I tried last week, and found it had no negative impact on my blood glucose (or at least I didn't notice any peak the next morning). In the end I just stayed in and moped.

  One thing that made that easier is that I am enjoying reading my latest book purchase, "Roving Mars" a great deal more than the often drudgery of reading Brian Aldiss' "Heliconia trilogy".  One thing I tried to do yesterday was to have a few snoozes, but I think only one of those attempts actually ended with a decent snooze. A snooze was a cheap way of passing time, but it was also an expensive way of passing time because in these winter temperatures it is no fun waking up shivering. When even I thought I might snooze I turned the heater up full.

  I think it was around midday when I did do something more than laze around, and it was to go down into the freezing kitchen to do some washing up, and also to do some cooking. I thought I was going to cook a chicken casserole until I realised what I had in the fridge was a pack of 6 skinless, and boneless chicken thighs. It seemed that three of them would be enough for a casserole, although I have my doubts now.

  I decided that I would see what happened when I tried frilling the other skinless, boneless chicken thighs with some herbs and spices. I thought it might make a nice snack. In a way it did, but while looking quite small, it seemed to feel a lot more when chewing it. I had those grilled thighs with some thinly sliced onion. If I had added some sliced red cabbage I would have a fairly similar meal to a chicken shish kebab. With just the raw onion it tasted nice enough, and I got this odd idea in my head that I wouldn't need a dinner after it.

  Had I decided I would have dinner I had the cooked chicken in the casserole dish that just needed another 10 or so minutes in the microwave to cook some cauliflower. I never used it yesterday, but I shall have it for dinner tonight. All I had for the rest of the day was an occasional small serving of salted peanuts, and several large whiskies. I was further distracted from eating by a phone call from a friend who always stays on the phone for hours  - even when I wanted to watch my usual Star Treks !

  When I finally got off the phone I turned the TV on to see if there was anything worth watching - and there was ! Sky Arts were showing, or should I say re-re-showing David Gilmour's Pink Floyd concert in Gdansk. Most of it was very good, but once again they were showing their edited version which cut out the song "Fat Old Sun", one of my favourites, and was listed in the Electronic Programme Guide. I guess if I ever want to watch it performed, and I would like to, I would have to buy the DVD.

   I went to bed last night with a fairly empty stomach, but somehow I didn't feel hungry. I though that without any bloat or burping, and over heating because of chilli and spice consumption, I would get to sleep easily, and stay sleeping. I didn't ! It seemed to take ages to get to sleep, and then I didn't seem to sleep well at all. I seemed to be awake for ages, but some of that was an illusion because I realised some of the times I thought I was awake I had been dreaming. Maybe some of the dreams were about being awake, but mostly it was teh fact that I had dreams means I must have been sleeping.

  The very last dream I think I had was well worth recounting here, or at least that is what I thought because it seemed interesting, but dreams can be slippery things, and just as I am about to put pen to paper (so to speak) I realise I cannot seem to remember a thing about it. Oh well, at least that means a bit less typing to do this morning...

  I really thought I would have some exceptionally good blood glucose readings this morning. They were all good, but not magnificent. One oddity was that at 9 or 10pm last night I took a single blood glucose reading with the cheapo Chinese Vivachek meter, and I am sure it said 6.9mmol/l. That seemed good, and maybe almost expected after eating so little earlier. It was on that basis that I expected some super low readings this morning.

  In reality my Contour meter read 6.6mmol/l, and that was the best reading. At least it was lower than last night,but I had hoped for more. The GlucoRX meter read 7.0mmol/l - good but not as good as hoped for. The Vivachek meter read 7.3mmol/l - higher than it read last night despite not having eaten anything for 12 hours or so. Oh well, it was all good enough that I didn't think I needed to make any excuses to have two medium sized bowls of instant noodles for breakfast.

  One interesting thing about my breakfast was that one bowl was of tomato and bacon flavour noodles made by Knorr. The last time I had some Knorr noodles I was not impressed. They seemed to taste floury, and were sort of chewy. I think the only thing I might have done differently this morning was to pour more freshly boiling water on them than last time. They still had an initial odd taste, but otherwise they were quite enjoyable this time.

  Maybe this afternoon will be brighter, but this morning is as dull and depressing as yesterday. However, this morning I am going to make a bit of effort to go out, but only to one single local shop. I want to go to Poundstretcher to get two more boxes of 10 330ml cans of Lime Diet Coke while they still have them. That won't leave much room in my rucksack, but I will easily be able to fit in a couple or more of the bitter orange chocolate biscuits, and probably some other flavours from the same maker. Hopefully the other flavours will use very dark chocolate that has very little sugar content. I expect I'll but other stuff too, but I'll find out what when I get there !