It is only in the last 10 or 15 minutes that the sun has finally burned it's way through a misty looking sky, but the temperature has already reached 14° C. It is possible we may lose the full sunshine by 6pm, but that is plenty of time for the sun to really raise the temperature. Both forecasters agree that this afternoon should reach 22° C. The BBC thinks that tomorrow may be very similar to today, but the Met Office say there will only be occasion sunny spells. Both still agree that the temperature should still rise to 22° C again.
 
   Yesterday should have been a great day, but it didn't get off to a great start when I found my blood glucose was dangerously high, and after that there were many disappointments. Fortunately there were a few, rather minor, good things too.

  The most newsworthy thing about yesterday is that for the first time since the start of last autumn, I went out out in a pair of shorts !!

  One very good thing is that once I had woken up, and started moving, I turned the heating off, and didn't turn it on again until about 3am this morning. That will have saved a lot of electricity. Of course to turn the heater off first thing in the morning was only really possible because I had been running the heater  full blast for the last few hours before I got up, and the room had soaked up a lot of heat

  One thing that wasn't a disaster, and so was a positive thing, but also a negative thing, is that the beer delivery I was expecting either yesterday, or Saturday, didn't turn up yesterday. The real positive thing is that it didn't arrive while I was out, or in some ways even worse, when I was in the shower with shampoo in my eyes and stuff. With the hoped for possibility of it being a special lunchtime, I made sure I was clean shaven, washed and conditioned hair, plus well scrubbed all over while showering.

  It was good that I was able to walk to the station with no chest pains, although the final bit of walking over the footbridge did start to cause some discomfort. I had actually allowed an extra minute or two to walk to the station, but I am fairly sure I didn't use them. What was a huge disappointment was getting to the station and finding there were no copies of The Metro there.

  The same was true at Ladywell station. I did hear a bit later that someone was sure they saw some on a bus, but it is possible those might have been left from the previous day. I did the walk from Ladywell station to the pub at a reasonable pace, and I arrived at the pub with only the merest hint of angina starting. I must admit that I did take a very brief break in the walk when I stopped to give directions to a woman who didn't seem to know where she wanted to go to - tricky !

  No copy of The Metro meant no crossword to fill in the silent spaces. It made me doubly hopeful that Angela would make it to the pub. Even Ayse agreed that Angela has said that she expected to be there yesterday, but alas, there was no Angela. In between drinking, and a bit of banter, I spent the time reading news stories on my phone. It just didn't feel right, and I was sort of happy when I finished my second pint of Guinness, and headed for home.
  At least some good came out of this outing to the pub. I got two more snaps of trains to record in my spreadsheet of train numbers that I had taken snaps of. To be exact, I only got one new pictures, and one far better picture to replace a rather poor quality picture. I can't remember if the replacement was 707028, as pictured above, or 707015, as pictured below. While entering the details in my spreadsheet I noted that I hadn't as to close to getting picture of the entire fleet as I thought. Although I have only a couple of numbers left to photograph, there are still quite a few of these trains in their Southeastern livery to get - I have them in their old Southwestern Railway livery.
  I don't know whether standing up on the train (for just one stop it was hardly worth sitting down), was teh cause, or at least didn't help, but my legs felt very stiff as I walked home. Maybe not as bad as after my 3 miles walk the day before, but bad enough. I ended up walking behind someone, and I just could not find the energy to overtake, and pull ahead of them. I eventually crossed the road before I usually would so I could set my own pace - which was only fractionally faster than I had been walking when behind the dawdling man.

  I only had two pints of Guinness, and that, plus the fresh air, hadn't given me a raging hunger, but I most definitely felt very peckish when I got home, and I could easily have devoured something really inappropriate. Fortunately I didn't have anything too tempting available on a day when I was supposed to be fasting until dinner time. What I did have should/may have been safe if only I had one apple, instead of two, and maybe not eaten a small orange as well.

  Things got a bit vague after that. I know I wanted to lie down, read for a bit, and then, ideally, have a snooze, but I feel sure I was doing a few things that stopped me taking the lazy way at the first opportunity. Maybe it was just checking the pictures I had taken I got about a dozen snaps of trains, but only the two shown here were of any interest. Anyway, after a delay of an unknown amount of time, I did lay down, and I am sure I ended up have a short snooze.

  Dinner was a tricky time. I had the second half of my takeaway from the previous night to devour. The grilled chicken, and a double portion of salad, should have been very safe, but there was also a portion of potato wedges. Maybe I could have frozen them the previous night, or at least saved them for today, but I elected to heat them up in the mini oven/grill, and finish them off last night. They were a bit overdone, but still nice, but may not have been a wise choice.

  After dinner, last night was very similar to the previous night. I watched "Secrets Of The London Underground" on live TV, and then went to bed to read for as much as an hour before trying for sleep. It was actually a bit less than an hour, and I think I was asleep, with no heartburn/acid reflux pains, slightly before 9pm. Although as I write that I am not sure of that is true, and it may haver been later, but if it was later I am not sure how I passed the time.

  I slept pretty solidly last night, and as noted further up the page, I didn't have any heating on until about 3am this morning, and then it was only on half power until my last couple of hours in bed when I turned it up full blast, and could kick away the duvet for even more comfortable sleep. I do remember having a very long dream that was set in what I think was a college, but it was the sort of dream where I seemed to watch other people doing stuff while I did nothing.

  There was some improvement to my blood glucose this morning, but it was not a big enough improvement. All but one reading was in the pink area - just a small notch down from the red danger area. The Contour meter initially read 9.2mmol/l, and I thought that was too high, and so I tried it again. This time it was worse with a reading of 9.8mmol/l. The GlucoRX meter read 8.8mmol/l, and even that is higher than I am comfortable with. The Sinocare meter just rubbed teh salt in again with a reading of 9.9mmol/l. Oh well, at least I am out of the danger area by the skin of my teeth.

  Today is another day when I should be fasting until at least dinner time, but I have already got off to a bad start by having a large bowl of instant noodles. Today is a very tricky day for fasting. For one thing I ideally need to to go shopping in Tesco today. That always brings bad temptations. The second thing is that this afternoon should be a beer tasting session with Jodie. Getting drunk is never a good way to try and fast !
        







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