Like yesterday, this morning has started out with blue skies, and bright sunshine. The Met Office says the last sunshine will be at 11am, and the BBC say at Midday. The Met Office say a single hour of light rain at 4pm, and the BBC predict 3 hours of light rain at 6, 7, and 9pm. Both forecasters predict 17° C. Tomorrow is the Petts Wood May Fayre (that I intend to try and get to), but the outlook looks either bad, or atrocious. The Met Office say lots of mostly light rain in the afternoon, and the BBC predict thunder and lightning ! Both predict it will be about 15° C, although the Met Office say it might be 16° C in the early evening.
 
   Yesterday started out OK. The bright sunshine was very cheerful, but the dullness, and light rain in the afternoon killed that cheerfulness. I think I started to feel depressed, and thinking that I would not be wanting to go out in the evening became a self fulfilling prophecy.

  The morning sunshine spurred me on to have a quick shower before getting ready to go out, but only to Poundland. The walk to Poundland is longer than to Tesco or Aldi, and I managed to keep up quite a decent pace without suffering any significant aches or pains except for a few mild hints from my legs to slow up a bit. I considered I was testing more than my legs, and did my best to keep up a fair walking pace. maybe not the full theoretical 5 mph, but closer to what seems to have always been my "standard" comfortable walking speed of just over 3 mph.

  Poundland was slightly disappointing in so much that they didn't stock any balloon style beer glasses. I feel sure I have seen them there, or somewhere local, some unknown number of years ago. On the other hand they did have packets of Gollom sugar free choc chip cookies. I bought three packets of them. They also had a 3 for £3 deal on some tortilla chips. I bought three assorted packets of those. They seemed to suggest a very low sugar content, and that seems to have been the case.

  There were a few other things I bought, and there were some things I might have bought, but didn't. The latter included some tealights that had nice scents when not alight, but very offten they dodn't seem to smell of anything but wax when alight. The next time I go there I may buy a few of them to confirm my worst fears - or maybe to be pleasantly surprised. After paying for my stuff I tried to walk home even faster, but that barely lasted a minute before I was forced to walk even slower because I was starting to get some unwanted aches.

  I had lost the sun before I started walking home, but it was at least another hour for the first rather light rain began to fall. It never really got much worse, but the dullness was depressing, and it made it feel cold, which was also depressing. I know that yesterday I reported my bank balance was looking quite healthy, but I was sort of counting on not burning much electricity to keep it that way. I think I had the heater on low, just in my bedroom, where I seemed to spend most of the day, for nearly all the afternoon, although I did turn it off a few times from late afternoon and in the evening.

  I think I had intended to eat very carefully yesterday, but I chose to start off with a lunch of tortilla chips with a small tub of spicy feta cheese dip. It was nice, but not terribly exciting. A few hours later I had more tortilla chips with a small tub of spreadable Cheddar cheese as a dip. That was a bit nicer, but still not wonderful. Later on, at around dinner time, I changed the order of things and had an apple for a dessert first. Then I had the main course of herb infused new potatoes with some corned beef. That seemed very nice for the first few mouthfuls, but once the novelty was over, and with just two flavours, it became a bit boring.

  I seemed to have passed over all I did in the afternoon, and the reason for that was that my afternoon was quite boring....well maybe not boring as such. Reading is all very nice, but it is hardly the stuff that action films are made of, and neither is snoozing. I also read quite a bit on the internet. However, I did do some genuine work - editing, and archiving three editions of Secrets Of The London Underground.

  One thing I noticed about Secrets Of The London Underground is that the firsts series was presented as if Tim Dunn, the slightly loony, and frankly often annoying presenter was the star, and Sidi Holloway was there just as a side kick with access to the hidden parts of the Underground. In series 2 they seemed to get more equal billing, and in series three she was the star, and he just the annoying sidekick - as it should be !

  I had originally hoped to go out yesterday evening. In fact I had grand ideas that I might be able to get to two gigs last night, and hopefully get some great pictures, but in the end I could not raise the enthusiasm to do so. Maybe I might have if I had known what the alternative was. That alternative was to answer a phone call from Lee who started off with a genuine question, and then collapsed into verbal diarrhoea. As well as yammering on about his happier life when he was almost sane, he also told some tales which seemed to challenge reality. That including saying that he had received much praise for some repairs he attempted on some guitar amps. He said one person in particular praised him for his work, but other sources say that Lee was lucky not have had a punch in the teeth !

  At some time in the day I ate more from the same, single bag of tortilla chips. I can't remember when that was, but I do know that as I was heading for bed I was still burping the taste of those tortilla chips rather that the corned beef and potatoes that was the last thing I ate. That got me quite worried because I thought that sooner or later I would get heart burn, and that would ruin my attempts to get straight to sleep. It did happen in a milder way later in the night.

  I think my biggest difficulty last night was that once again the temperature was at that critical level where it was too warm under the duvet, but not warm enough without. I can't seem to remember if I turned the heater back on then, or if it was when I woke up at around 1am. By 4am I was definitely feeling like my bedroom had cooled down to the level which justified the heater going on full blast. As the room got warmer I slept ever sounder.

  Before that I had not slept that well at all. I was having dreams that were annoying because they seemed so bland and lifeless. To make matters worse, I did have some heartburn, but it happened in a weird way that I can't really explain. My mouth was dry when I woke up, and so I took a gulp of water. It may have been that I burped at that moment, but it was as if the water had bounced at the bottom, and came back up again mixed with some bile. It was most unpleasant, and I took a couple of Rennies as a precaution. Maybe they worked, or maybe I didn't really need them, but I was able to get back to sleep again after a while.

  From 4am, with the heater running full blast, I fell into such a deep sleep that I didn't wake up for nearly 4 hours, and amazingly, after all that time I hardly needed to pee when I got up. On reflection, I didn't seem to pee much at al during the night. Maybe this time it was a good sign, although often it seems to be like a false clue.

  Last night the clue was actually true - that I didn't need to pee much because my blood glucose was nice and low this morning. The Contour meter read 7.5mmol/l, or right on my dream target. The GlucoRX meter read very good at just 7.1mmol/l. Even the Sinocare meter joined in the good news with a reading of 7.7mmol/l. The average of all three meters was 7.53mmol/l yesterday, and today it was slightly lower at 7.43mmol/l. The running total of all three for this month currently stands at 7.91mmol/l, and that is better than last month's 8.17mmol/l, and in turn that was lower than all the months before. It seems that tortilla chips, despite being not that nice, really are a low sugar snack. Maybe also low calorie too because despite not having a poo so far this morning, my weight has dropped back down after a recent small peak.

  I am not really sure how I will spending most of today. Possibly I'll be doing nothing of note, but this afternoon the trains are running (no weekend engineering work again), and Jodie should be joining me here for a beer tastings session. I have my doubts that it will be anything but mildly boring, but it might be better than another boring Sunday. Oh well, tomorrow could be exciting, if standing in the middle of a possible thunderstorm, taking pictures of a band I may not know or like, could be called exciting !
        







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