The latest revision to the forecast has changed all but the midday dark cloud to white (or light) cloud. There is a 10% chance of rain at any time, but no actual rain is forecast The latest revision shows that the temperature will not go above 12° C today. Tomorrow could start with heavy rain until 9am when light rain will fall until almost sunset. The temperature should reach 12° C, but not until sunset. before that it will be generally 10° C.

    Yesterday started out so dull that I could not believe the day could ever be nice enough to tempt me out for a walk - even to the shops. I was most startled at midday when instead of having a shower, I decided to wash some clothes, and the sun suddenly burst through the clouds while I was just finishing adding the clothes to the detergent.

  For a while, and it turned into a short while, I thought I had misjudged the weather, and instead of doing laundry I should have been showering prior to going out. It didn't seem long, maybe 15 minutes or less, before the sky clouded over again. Despite the very optimistic idea that the afternoon could even feature 3 or 4 hours of non stop sunshine, I remember the afternoon being mostly dull - although there were more sunny spells.

  That laundry, consisting of a single t-shirt, a pair of lounge pants and some underwear, was about the only really significant thing I did all day. One less significant thing, although not really insignificant, thing I did was to make up a short coax patch lead so I could play my VHS machine through my big TV via the RF connection. It seemed to be a good clean signal, but my hope that the TV's inbuilt recorder could record it turned out to not be possible. I am very certain that the problem was that the TV has no inbuilt digitiser, and can only record Digital TV which is already in a digital format.
  I was checking the status of an order on Amazon, and as you do, I flicked around a few pages of bargains, warehouse deals, and also a section I had not seen before - bulk deals. I noticed big packs of Duracell batteries, and two presumably supplied by different third party vendors. It would seem that buying more costs less. This is often the case in real life, but a difference of just two items doesn't seem to make enough difference for buying more for less than the price of a smaller amount.

  I think the only other thing I did yesterday, besides quietly reading, was to wash up the beer glasses used on Sunday, and to prepare my dinner. The first step in that was grilling/roasting a pack of diced beef. This time I did not let it burning, and most of it was quite soft when I ate it later (with a few exceptions that may have been a bits of gristle, or crispy roasted fat).

  It turned out to be a fairly nice salad, and in theory it should have been modestly low calorie, and also modestly low sugar. Maybe the two tomatoes and three large radishes, made it not quite a sugar free as hoped. I ate it while watching Star Trek: Enterprise. It was a well remembered episode, but still enjoyable. later on I watched an episode of The Simpsons, and an edition of Have I Got New For You.

  I could have watched more, and after going to bed I could have read more, but I seemed ready to fall asleep not long after 9pm.  I feel sure that by 9.30pm I had been asleep for some time. I also feel sure that I slept very well last night, although I do have a sort of itchy feeling that maybe I did suffer from 20 minutes or something of insomnia at some time during the night. What I am sure about is that this morning was another case of 10 minutes more sleep turning into at least a hour !

  I have a sort of reason the think I had a dream that featured a woman, but if I did I have no idea who she was, and how I might have interacted with her. I did have a really mixed up dream that seemed to be about me being in Dulwich telephone exchange, doing very little. Suddenly (obviously a different dream) I was in the old BT training school near Old Street tube station. I was ready to go home, and wanted a pee before I left.

  The first toilets I came to where effectively out of order, and I decided to try a different floor. In the dream only one floow was used by BT, and so were weren't strictly allowed to visit other floors, but needs must..... I was waiting by the lift when I noticed an almost concealed outline of a door in some wood panelling. There was a small handle, and as I touched it the door opened by itself. Inside was a wonderfully clean, well appointed toilet. The only trouble is that every time I went to lock the door my hand would be detected, and the door would start to open again. Fortunately the door put up little resistance as I grasped the lock and pulled to keep it shut while I latched it.

  Evidently I had done my business, and that dream turned into another dream. I was outside, and considering my options to go home. I was in a small, rather grimy street. There was a bus stand and a number 50 bus waiting at it, but not in service. I had an idea that the 50 might take me towards Charing Cross where I could get a train (in real life I don't think I have ever seen a number 50 bus, and have no idea where it comes form or goes to).

  I thought I would walk to the next bus stop and see what other buses stop there. When almost there two buses passed me, and after they passed I could see the entrance to a Northern Line tube station. That would definitely take me towards Charing Cross or even London Bridge station. At first I started looking for change to buy a ticket, and then remembered I had a Freedom Pass.

  I want into the entrance, and didn't see any ticket barriers. I followed the signs saying "to the tracks" (which didn't sound like Underground or National rail terminology). I went down some steps, and then up some steps before going down more steps. At the bottom there seemed to be a sort of barrier that only let people out one at a time, but it wasn't checking tickets. I seemed to think it was counting passengers. I then went up some steps and found myself out on the road again without seeing any underground trains !

   It seemed like a good time to wake up. I think that was at just before 6am. It was then that I decided I ought to try for just 10 minutes more sleep, and woke up again after 7am. I am happy to say that once again, after continuing to not take the Turmeric, Ginger and Black Pepper pills someone (I think it was Michael) recommended to me, I once again passed another large stool completely painlessly.

  There was almost, but not quite, good news about my blood glucose readings this morning. The first reading taken with the Contour meter was very high (9.6mmol/l), but the other two gave far better readings. The GlucoRX meter read 8.1mmol/l, and the Sino Care meter read 8.6mmol/l. I decided to retake the Contour meter reading. On the second reading it read 8.4mmol/l, and was now in the middle of the other two readings. These readings were neither good nor bad, but just average while I had hoped they would be below average.

  Oh well there is always tomorrow for lower readings, except tomorrow they could be higher ! Today I really must go out and get some shopping from Tesco. That is always dangerous, and I will try not to get anything too stupid for lunch, but if I see something with a reduced price sticker on it....... Tonights dinner may be a very simplified salad. It could be as simple of iceberg lettuce and corned beef, but it will probably have a tomato or two in it, and maybe some celery if they have some nice sticks of it (the last lot I saw seemed to be like shavings from a celery tree !).
  I've been saving this for a day when I feel very depressed, but I forgot it the last time. I'll probably forget it next time, so rather than it cluttering up my desktop I have used it today, and now I can remove it to part of my file system where I doubt I will where it is when I need it.