I feel sure the single heavy shower shown for 8am didn't happen. The ground outside looks dry. The sky looks mostly clear, and that is why this morning started off so cold, but it also means the sun is shining as I write this. It even looks like we will get full sunshine now, instead of having to wait until midday for sunny spells to turn into pure sunshine. Sadly, all the sunshine will still only raise the temperature to 9° C. Only a light breeze is expected today, and so that 9° C may not feel too cold (but still not warm). Tomorrow sees a return to rain, but while the BBC say lots of it, the Met Office just shows light rain in the afternoon. The temperature will probably be at least 10° C.

    There were two notable things about yesterday, and a whole lot of nothing more to write about. Maybe it also notable that I had a shower on a day I probably needn't have bothered (I was going nowhere, and seeing no one - as far as I knew). maybe that little bit of doubt was the reason for it.

  After my shower I started to wash three t-shirts and three pairs of underpants. Although it is possible to cram more into the big builders buckets I use to do my laundry, those 6 items seem to make full load for two reasons. One is that leaving a bit of space to move the stuff around in the soapy, or rinse water, seems more efficient. Secondly is that any more can get a bit tedious and tiring. I did it all in one go, and hung it on the big clothes horse to day aided by a fan heater on low.

  The more notable thing I did was to fast after my breakfast until dinner time. Once upon a time that was routine when I was at work, and distracted from food. It meant using some sort of will power yesterday when I was often bored, and had to try and find distractions from my rumbling stomach. Reading help a lot, but only because it was a nice simple book that it was easy to get lost in.
  The difference that fast made is best illustrated with the above extract from my spreadsheet of blood glucose readings. It is the bottom row that is of interest - 9.30, 9.40, and 10.8. The first two numbers are shown in pink, and that means they are just under the danger line, but unacceptably high. The 10.80 in bright red shows it to into the danger zone. That last reading is almost ignorable because it was taken with the often insane Viva Chek Meter.

  To the right of the chart are the figures 6.1, 6.8, and 8.1. The first two are shown in green because they are about the most perfect I can achieve these days. The third figure, also taken with the Viva Check meter, is left with no colour code because readings starting with 8 are so typical and so sort of neutral (although I aim for, but very rarely achieve, readings starting with 7).  The red and pink readings were taken before breakfast, and the greens, and uncoloured were taken just before 6pm after fasting since breakfast.

  I had got my blood glucose down lower than expected, and I was able to enjoy my dinner without having to worry about it. It didn't need a lot of worry anyway because it was a chicken salad. This time I cooked the chicken perfectly, and drained off all the fat before cutting it into small bits, and adding it to a salad. I will admit that I did have some sugar free "Fibre" biscuits as a sort of dessert after the salad.

  I'm almost forgetting that there was one other thing I did to help pass some time in the afternoon. It was to take the USB thumb drive out of my big TV in the front room, and edit several of the recordings I had made from it. It is now sort of routine to cut out the adverts that mar the recordings. Usually they come out perfectly seamlessly. The only major annoyance is that so many cheap Freeview channels mess up the credits at the end by squeezing them to one side, and showing promos for later programs. It is so messy, and bloody annoying.

  Despite having about 5 recordings I could have watched, I only watched a little bit of TV last night. By 7.30pm I was reading in bed, and I don't think it could have been much later than 8.30pm before I was asleep. Apart from waking up every 2 to 3 hours for a pee, which is odd considering how low my blood glucose was, I seemed to sleep very well. I can only just remember a very short period, perhaps 10 to 15 minutes, of insomnia during the night.  I thought I was going to have something to say about the dreams I had, but I find I can't remember a thing about any of them.

  I was up a little earlier than usual this morning. I think it was very soon after 6am. I was quite keen to check my blood glucose this morning. In one respect I was disappointed because I hoped it might have been lower, but 7.8, 7.7, and 8.1mmol/l is still pretty good. This morning the final figure was from the Sino Care meter. On this occasion it was a slightly higher figure, but still roughly agrees with the other figures. For the moment I have part retired the Viva Chek meter. i may still take the occasional reading if I am curious, but I can no longer trust it's readings.

  One thing I hope happens today is that I get notification that the beer I ordered, and accidently paid for next day delivery when it should have been free, has been despatched, and in theory should arrive tomorrow. One thing that I think definitely has to happen today is that I shall go shopping in Tesco. I think I will be buying a lot of salad stuff - but not too much because it doesn't have a long shelf life.

  Today could be one of the best to go for a walk in sunshine. In fact it could be the only day for the next week or two when there is some sunshine. It would be great for photography, but on the other hand, with only 9° C, and that not before early afternoon, it will still be rather cold. It could be worse than cold - it could be cold and hot ! Boiling hot inside a black coat that is soaking up the heat of the sun, but cold enough to numb my ears and fingers. Maybe I will, probably I won't.

  On the subject of going out.....On Saturday I wished I had been feeling like going out to see at least half an hour or more of a gig. On the plus side it was Chain, and it was one occasion when for some or more songs, Chris would be playing with the band again. On the down side it was in The Partridge pub in Bromley. Normally I dislike, and usually avoid gigs there because it is usually too crowded, and the light is usually bad for photography. I expected it to be relatively poorly attended because there was so much competition in the local area, and that was a potential reason for wanting to go. I am now glad I didn't go because I subsequently heard it was actually extremely well attended. Far too crowded for my liking.