At the moment there is full sunshine, and it has been shining since sunrise. A lot of the sky is currently blue, and so it looks like the sunshine could continue for some time. It will probably degrade to just sunny spells as the afternoon approaches, and like yesterday, rain will fall in the afternoon. The latest revision to the forecast shows heavy rain for 1pm, and then light rain at 2pm. It may then just be gloomy, but dry until sunset. Clear skies overnight meant that this morning started with a thick frost, and it seems it may only rise to 7° C today. Tomorrow could follow a similar pattern to today and yesterday - sunny spells in the morning, and rain in the afternoon. It may be very slightly warmer at 8° C.

    Yesterday was one of those days where little of importance happened, but I seemed to be very busy to do anything I thought I would do. It was also a day where my eating went a bit strange. In effect I reversed lunch and dinner. It had bad and good results which will be described in due course.

  I decided not to waste money on a service I didn't really need, although because tethering (maybe connecting a laptop to the phone for mobile data) is fully allowed, it would be a good fall back if my broadband connection failed. I spent a bit of time yesterday buying just a £6 package only offering 5GB of data, just to retry it.

  As soon as the old phone had mobile data service it wanted to download loads of updates. That was the first clue that the download speed was truly awful. I eventually had to turn on WiFi to get the updates done quicker. Once everything calmed down I went to speedtest.net, and the results were pretty crap - just 1.44Mbps. That is fast enough for simple stuff like rail timetables, and downloading maps, but otherwise is a bit primitive in this day and age.

  It so happens that I have another old phone that has a working Three sim in it. I don't know how it is still working, but I once loaded it up with a lot of credit, and occasionally make a test call on it. That seems to keep it active. I used that to do a speedtest.net using the Three network, which in theory is what Smarty uses, and I got a download speed of just under 5Mbps. That is still not terribly fast, but is a lot more usable than 1.44Mbps. It is possible it is something to do with the phone the Smarty sim card is in, but I don't remember it being slow when it was my main phone.

  Playing with that phone, and revived Smarty sim card may have used an hour of the day. The rest of the day seemed to be spent doing odd little jobs like a bit of washing up, or maybe preparing lunch. As suggested at the top of the page, lunch turned into dinner. I had two cans of soup, although one was officially described as Irish stew. The other was pea and ham with some added cheesed and (ready made) crispy fried onions. Both were moderately low sugar and low calories.

  I'm not sure when it was, but I thought up, and somehow got it lodged in my brain, that I would not have a conventional dinner, but would have a tub of ice cream. I've done this once or twice in the past, and generally got away with it. The difference was that in the past it has been "salted caramel swirl" ice cream. That has just 82 calories per 100ml, and seems to have a very low sugar content.

  Sadly, the "double chocolate brownie" ice cream, by the same maker (Oppo Brothers) has a slightly higher calorie content, but is still mild compared to more usual ice creams. Having bought the Double Chocolate Brownie ice cream, pictured on the left, I had to eat it some day - even if I had read the nutritional information before hand, which I didn't yesterday. It has loads of sugar in it, and I was eating it at a sensitive time - mid evening.

  TV was a bit boring last night until I started watching a film documentary about Suzie Quatro on Sky Arts. It was quite interesting. I can't say I was ever a fan of her, but I sort of liked most of her early singles. I didn't realise she had done so much more after her successful singles. She had hit records all over the world except, for some strange reason, in America. There was a lot of footage trying to "break" America. I don't think I ever knew that she also did a lot of acting work, and even wrote one play. It was all interesting enough to keep me watching until the end at 11pm.

  11pm was a bit late for me to go to bed, and maybe that was a good thing because I fell asleep really easily, and slept easily through the night. One thing about last night was that I spent almost the entire night under the duvet, and it felt fine. That allowed my to keep the heater on low, and I only turned it up high a couple of hours before I got up. I look forward to the night when I can keep the heater off all night, but with the temperature dropping low enough for a thick frost, I most definitely needed some heat on.

  I seemed to have another very inventive dream last night. I think it may have been in the early hours of my sleep, but I can't be sure because I remember very little about my sleep apart from that I can't recall being troubled to get up for a pee more than 2 times. The bits of dream I remember seemed to be set on something like a small moon, but still had full gravity and normal air.

  It seemed my job, and that of a woman colleague who I fancied (and who may have actually been a girlfriend) was something like, but different to a tax collector. The first bit of dream I remember was sitting in something like a sitting room, and thinking her white, mid calf length, boots, with barely 1 inch heels, looked very sexy, but we had work to do. We had to go up the hill to takes some stuff from someone who lived there.

  My colleague didn't want to go, which was a pity because I thought we could do some serious cuddling on the way, and so I went alone. The stuff I had to get was iron bars, and they needed to be distributed to others. It wasn't anything to do with socialism, but physics. If too much weight accumulated in one spot it would cause the moon to wobble. It all had to be evenly distributed to keep every thing balance.

  The odd thing about the dream was that I was not sure if I dreamed it all, or later explained some it too myself when awake. One thing I later realised was that the white boots were influenced by the documentary about Suzie Quatro I had seen before going to bed.

  The lack of waking to pee, and maybe less need to drink in the night, could have been a good sign of low blood glucose, but I felt sure that wasn't the case. It definitely wasn't ! When I checked the Contour meter read a truly terrible 9.8mmol/l. The GlucoRX meter read only 8.6mmol/l, and that was strange because the Sino care meter reading a truly appalling 10.5mmol/l - well into the danger zone.

  There is nothing for it but to fast for most of the day with readings like those. The big paradox with all this is that without even having a poo this morning (so far) I seem to have lost a little weight. That paradox is that low calorie does not equal low sugar (and vice versa). Most, but not all, of what I ate yesterday was fairly low calories. Today, if I can stick to fresh air until dinner time, it will be an even lower calorie day, and in this case, fresh air also equals low sugar !

  I don't know what to do today. The continuing sunshine says I should go out, but the earlier frost (which still has not melted when untouched by the sun) says stay in, turn the heating up, and relax. Maybe I am going to do a lot of relaxing today. The worst thing about it is like happened yesterday, it may not rain until much later in the afternoon, and sunny spells could continue beyond the forecast time. It feels like I missed an opportunity to go out yesterday, and yet it would have been no fun when it is so cold, and that cold can leave a legacy of aches and pains. Maybe I'll do the video editing I meant to do yesterday.
 







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