There is a yellow warning of heavy rain this morning, but at the moment the sun is shining, and has been since it woke me up at just after 8am, but I will admit much of the sky is rather hazy, and the thin, patchy cloud could thicken up. The latest revision agrees with the early version shown above, and say the rain starts at 5pm, and from 6pm it could be very heavy. This morning started a lot lower than 3° C, and I think it was not much above 1° C at 5 or 6am. It had left a legacy of thick frost. The highest temperature today could be just 8° C. Tomorrow may feature mostly white cloud with a couple of sunny spells. Once again the temperature is only predicted to rise to 8° C, but it may not be so cold tonight thanks to the thick cloud.

    Once again I did not realise that yesterday would be bright and cheerful. I believed the weather forecast, and that said it would be a depressing day. Even if I had realised it would be sunny all day it was unlikely I would have chosen to spend much time outdoors with the temperature so low.

  So I stayed in, and tried to amuse myself again. I ended up doing lots of little things, and a lot of reading. As I mentioned yesterday, I wanted to fast until dinner time in the evening because my blood glucose was so high in the morning. Without any really good distractions it was very hard going, and I gave in to a handful of salted peanuts at about 2pm, and another an hour or so later.

  One of the jobs I did during the afternoon was some video editing - once again topping and tailing, plus advert removal, of stuff recorded off TV. The other important thing I did was to do with with video. I maybe spent half an hour installing extra software on the iMac 8 in the dining room so it could play, and rip DVDs. I then used it to rip a box set of 4 movies made in the old Ealing Studios. It is not a fast machine, and it's only real nice thing is it's display. I actually did 3 rips yesterday, and the last of the three was ripped over night. This morning I started the 4th disk from the box set ripping.

  From 5pm there were five back-to-back episodes of The Avengers being shown on "Great TV !". I watched all five, but it was only recently that I had watched 2 of them from my own archives (or maybe the episodes had been shown individually during the week). For those couple I kept the TV on, but read some stuff on the internet. Sometimes I would start reading off the internet during a commercial break, and not switch my attention back to the TV until well after the adverts had finished.

  The episodes showing now are the ones where Tara King has replaced Emma Peel. Emma Peel was pretty, but very rarely sexy. Tara King, her replacement started off very unsexy, but as the episodes progressed she did start to reveal some minor attractiveness. I can't recall ever finding her very attractive, although in one or two outfits there was a hint of it there. I have a funny feeling that just before the series ended she did look OK in possibly the last two episodes. Maybe going out on a high was a good thing.

  I really looked forward to my dinner after partly fasting all day (including no breakfast). It was good that I had the chance to have a double dinner because I had two opened packets of meat that needed using up before they started to turn. The first, and originally planned dinner was quite a lot of ham with no more than iceberg lettuce to accompany it. I will admit I might have been a bit free with the mayonnaise on the lettuce. Dinner part two was just a couple of beefburgers with mustard on them.

   As bed time approached, when the last episode of The Avengers finished at 9pm, I was a bit worried that I seemed to be getting greasy burps. A couple of antacid tablets seemed to curb that, and also take away the worry about possibly throwing up. Yesterday morning (or was it the morning before ?) I had an idea of what caused me to throw up last Wednesday night. At the time I wondered if the "washed, and ready to eat" Iceberg lettuce may have been contaminated. I now think it was the old bottle of mayonnaise that might have been going off. Last night I opened a new bottle.

  Last night was another night where I seemed to sleep really soundly, and well past my usual getting up time. It was after 8am when I got up this morning ! I remember having an assortment of dreams, but all details of them, apart from a short bit of one of them have faded from memory. The one remembered bit was a bit sexy, but wasn't sexual. I have no idea who she was, and why she was there, but I remember we ended up holding each other while laying on a couch (at least I don't think it was a bed). I am not even sure if we were fully dressed, naked, or something between the two. What I do remember was her hair. It was as soft as cat fur, but considerably longer. I think I would very much have liked to know her in real life.

  I didn't think I had ended up fasting to the degree I was hoping for yesterday, but the results of my blood glucose readings were pretty good this morning. Both the Contour and Sino Care meters read 8.4mmol/l. That is a bit lower than my typical averages over the last few years, but I had hoped for a bit less, and that is what the GlucoRX meter read - just 7.2mmol/l. I don't know how it could be so different to the other two, but I do know that I would be extremely happy if the other two had agreed with it.

  My plans for today include washing my hair, and having a shower. Popping out to Tesco for some extra food supplies, and trying not to buy some sort of stupid, and bad for me, lunch. Later this afternoon Jodie should be over for some more beer tasting - unless she checks the weather forecast and bottles out because she doesn't want to get completely drowned on the way home again. I wouldn't blame her. On the other hand, once again, we seem to have had not stop sunshine since sunrise, and the weather forecast could be completely wrong again !

  P.S. My fasting may not have been as good as intended yesterday, but this morning I seemed to have lost the small amount of weight I had put on recently.
 







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