This morning is not only very dull, but at about 9° C, as I write this, it is also rather cold feeling. The latest revision has added a few showers - one maybe at midday, and two more at 5 and 6pm (the sunny spell shown for 5pm, in the screenshot above, has now been replaced by rain in the latest revision). It is going to be very cold, maybe even cold feeling day with 11° C now shown as the very maximum today. Tomorrow could start with sunny spells, but it is expected to cloud over at midday, and by 3pm the clouds could darken, and mostly light rain start. On the plus side, it might reach 13° C.

   I didn't feel very bright yesterday, and in consequence I didn't achieve much. It seemed amazing that I managed to finish hand washing the single hand towel, and one face flannel, that I had left in soak the previous day. In my state of mind at the time it didn't feel like a great victory.

  I don't think I did anything constructive for the rest of the day. I seemed to spend half of it laying on my bed reading and snoozing, although I didn't seem to get the long snooze or two I thought I deserved. Most snoozes, if indeed there enough to refer to them in the plural, may not have lasted much longer than 5 minutes. The other half of my time was spent on my PC reading news, and doing some pointless research.....although I should be thinking that any research is good even if it does no more than add to the sum of personal knowledge.

  One thing I did too much of was eating. It was only too much with reference to my original idea of trying to fast until dinnertime, and then have a nice dinner. It could be said that I had neither lunch nor dinner, but a lot of snacks. In this case "lots" may only be three. All were based on about a dozen rice crackers (theoretically almost zero sugar) with first blue cheese spread, then some pork and garlic pate, and finally with sliced up, ready to eat, peri peri chicken burgers. I also had about a quarter of a biggish bag of beef and horseradish crisps as a between snack, snack.

  I watched one bit of live TV last night. It was a repeat of a repeat , of a repeat of an episode of Yes Prime Minister. It may have not been all that long since I last watched that episode, but it was still funny, and the only thing that slightly perked me up the whole day. I didn't go to bed as early I might have have done, and even after going to bed I read in bed for maybe 15 to 20 minutes.

  I am happy to say that there is not a lot to say about my sleep. It seemed I had some very long periods of very heavy sleep - just what I wanted. It was probably around 4am when the smoothness of it was disturbed when I woke up for a pee, and felt cold. Until then I didn't have the heater on, but I put it on before I went for my pee. I managed to fall asleep again before my bedroom had warmed up, but it was good to get up to a warm feeling room - until I cooled down. As I write this I am contemplating turning the heater up full !

  There is not much I can say about my dreams. What sometimes felt like a very long dream was almost certainly lots of small dreams, one after another, and I don't think there was many times there was anything to link them together. I may not remember the start of the series. The first I remember was that I think I was leaving work with a few people, and the next thing I was in a pub sitting at one table reading The Times, which I had borrowed off my dad who was sitting with mum, and (I think) a sister at another table.

  I remember finding the crossword in The Times (which incidentally was a broadsheet, I think it may now be in tabloid form in real life). The next bit in the series of dreams was trying push through a crowd of "yummy mummies", prams and feral children in the garden of the pub. I got through that lot, stepped over a sleeping dog, and then checked the change in my pocket. It was all copper coins, and all pre-decimal. One coin was an Irish coin, and I thought I knew who could spend that, and walked to the table where he was sitting, but as I got closer he had turned into someone else.

  I suppose a long series of dreams, and there was far more than I have been able to describe, where I did a lot, but actually did nothing, could be tiring, but I seemed to feel fairly fresh when I woke up, and got up at around 6,45am. It is difficult remembering nothing, but as far as I can remember, I didn't have any of my usual aches and pains this morning. That is sort of surprising on such a dull and damp day.

  Despite not following my intended diet, my instincts in going for stuff I had reason to thing was fairly safe in terms of it's sugar content, seemed to work OK. The Contour meter read 8.1mmol/l, and that is slightly better than ok. The GlucoRX meter let me down very slightly with a reading of 8.5mmol/l. I'll admit that would be good under the old scheme of things, but since last months better readings, it is merely acceptable now. The big surprise was that the Sinocare meter gave one of it's very rare very good readings. It said 7.8mmol/l, and that is the sort of area I am aiming for.

  I guess I celebrated (or gave away) these fair readings by having two small bowls of instant noodles for breakfast this morning. One thing I really ought to do today is to prepare, and part cook my dinner, hopefully a very low sugar dinner, ready for just 10 minutes in the microwave at dinnertime. I think I know what my lunch is going to be, but I have only just thought of it, and otherwise might have considered skipping any lunch. I still have an opened pack of pate to eat, and I'll probably have that with more rice crackers.

  One thing I definitely want to do before the morning is over, is to have a shave, shampoo and shower. There is no special reason for it except that I feel a bit grubby after not washing at all yesterday. Once I am cleaned and hopefully fragrant again, I might go out, but only as far as the local shops. It is too grey to enjoy just going out for the sake of it. I think there are a few things I could usefully get from Poundstretcher, but I'll have to do my best to leave some of the worst edibles on the shelves - even if they do look yummy !
      







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