Both forecasters broadly agree that this morning will be very sunny, and that there will be a few hours in the early afternoon when it will cloud over. The sunsshould break through again for a few hours in the early evening. It should be a nice warm day. The BBC predict a high of 19° C, and the met Office predict a high of 20° C. Tomorrow, according to the BBC should be sunny all day, and the temperature might reach 20° C, but The Met Office say all the sunny spells will be in the afternoon, and the temperature will only reach 19° C - which is still very good.
 
   Yesterday was a pretty miserable sort of day - thank you crap weather ! On the other hand it was a great day to catch up on missed sleep by snoozing whenever I felt like it. In theory this means there is very little to write about yesterday, but maybe there are a few notes about the day that I can make.

  One thing I thought I might be proud off was how I limited my eating on a day with almost no distractions from eating. I started the day with instant noodles, as usual, but I didn't have a double portion of one of the bigger packets. I did have a double portion of one of the smallest, 58gm, packets. I then held out until around 1pm when I had some ready to eat, sliced BBQ chicken with some tortilla chips.

  Shortly before dinnertime, at around 6pm, I did a single reading of my blood glucose level. I used the Contour meter, which is usually very reliable, and it read 8.4mmol/l. I had hoped it might be a bit lower, but it was probably about right considering I had spent a very sedate day. I used that figure to allow myself a very small luxury....sort of. My dinner was two cans of soup, and both contained a fair bit more than the standard of 0.8gm of sugar in Tesco cream of chicken soup.

  I think one can contained 2.3gm per half a can, and the other was 2.8gm per half a can. Those figures may seem high compared to the Tesco chicken soup, but they are very low compared to, for instance, Heinz cream of tomato soup which probably has ten times the amount of sugar in it. At least the soups I ate didn't contain many calories, and I think my entire calorie intake for the day was lower than usual.

  Apart from adding that I did a fair bit of reading yesterday, both from a book, and from the internet, I think I have covered the whole day up until the evening, and even then I can just about cover that by saying I watched an episode of Secrets Of The London Underground on live TV last night. I am unsure what time I went to bed, but I do know I spent quite some time reading in bed.

  One thing I didn't suffer from last night was any acid reflux after only eating two cans of soup for dinner. When the time came, I turned out the light, turned over, and pretty soon I was fast asleep.  As far as I can remember, I slept really well last night. I can only remember getting up to pee twice, but it could have been more because I can barely remember the two times I am sure I went for a pee. The last time was more notable because I turned the heater on full, and I was soon sleeping deeply again, and after waking at 6am I turned over and then slept on until 7am.

  I have a very foggy idea that I might have had quite a few dreams, but I only remember what one was about, and a fraction of another. One or more dreams were about what happens next in the book I am reading. It is possible I was not actually dreaming, but thinking about what I can remember from the last time I read the book during a period of wakefulness. The one tiny bit of dream I do remember was about walking towards the Tesco in Catford, and bumping into a friends wife (as she was in the 1980s). She asked "how did the pictures come out ?", and I replied they were good. That was the dream in it's entirety as fas as I can recall.

  I was hoping for better, as in lower, blood glucose readings this morning. In conventional terms they were very acceptable, but I have raised my expectations over the last few months. The really great thing was the very tight grouping. Both the Contour, and GlucoRX meters read 8.3mmol/l, and the Sinocare meter read 8.2mmol/l. I was hoping I might have lost at least a few grammes, and maybe I have, but my scales only read in increments of 100gm, and basically nothing has changed.

  It is already 14° C, and it is very sunny. It is going to get warmer still, and the sunshine should continue a little way into the afternoon. I think I have to go out today. There are no trains today because of a rail strike, and so I am reduced to walking. I think I'll just be walking towards Sydenham, probably just as far as the bow string bridge in the Linear Park. That is about 3 miles, and is probably about the best I can manage right now (and it will have to include many stops to get my breath back/take photos). Sunny day may be getting more frequent now, and maybe I will slowly get back into shape for some longer walks with angina being the limiting factor instead of aching legs.
        







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