The grey start today was over at least an hour before the forecast said it would be. It is now very sunny. The latest revision to The Met Office forecast shows a few less sunny spells than the screenshot above, and it has added heavy rain for 2pm, and light rain for 3pm. After that the sunny spells resume. The BBC is far more optimistic with many hours shown as full sunshine, and all other daylight hours as sunny spells. Today could reach 22° C, and maybe 23° C according to The BBC. Once again The BBC and Met Office show different forecasts for tomorrow. The BBC shows a lot of sunny hours, and the rest as sunny spells. The Met Office are far more pessimistic, and say that the first sunny spells won't happen until 10am. Until 3pm everything looks good, but than at 4pm they predict a thunderstorm ! Both give a maximum temperature of 20° C.

   Yesterday included another 1 hour and 45 minute phone call from Sue. Most of what she said was almost incoherent, and I had to be very bluff and end the call before she drove me crazy. Anyway, I did managed to do a few useful things during the day, and I even managed a quick snooze.

  The most significant thing I did was to do quite a bit of laundry. I hand washed two t-shirts, a pair of lounge pants, and several pairs of underpants. I had left all of it soaking in detergent after I had had a shower. I felt much nicer for that after not bothering to have one the day before. Unfortunately I got back to finishing that laundry a bit too late to hang it on the washing line to dry. On the other hand it wasn't until it was far too late that I realised I could have dried it all outside.

  The other bit of useful work I did was to edit three more recordings of Secrets Of The London Underground. I now have season 3 complete, and I only have a few missing episodes of season 1 and 2. The way Yesterday are continuing to repeat all the episodes in random order, there is a fair chance I will complete my collection of series 1 and 2 before long.

  One thing I couldn't do during the day was to eat. My super blood glucose readings in the morning meant I shouldn't have even eaten any breakfast. At least I did manage to limit that to on small packet of instant noodles. I did a check on my blood glucose in the afternoon, just using one meter, and it was still dangerously high, but I was getting seriously hungry by late afternoon.

  A bit earlier in the afternoon I prepared some red cabbage, and some onion, to add to a simple salad. The onion I doused in some vinegar to make it a bit milder. A little later I sprinkled it with some virgin olive oil. The rad cabbage I doused in olive oil, and also sprinkled on some purple basil. That was not a good idea because that purple basil was very woody textured.

  I held out until about 6.30pm before I had my dinner. As well as the red cabbage, and sliced onion, I added some Tesco, ready to use "aromatic salad leaves" and half a dozen cherry tomatoes. Apart from finding bits of woody purple basil, it was quite nice - except for the feta-style cheese. I don't know how long that cheese has been in the fridge. It was still in it's sealed container in brine, but I feel sure it's taste had changed to something not that pleasant. I think I might throw away the rest.

  Last night was the night when Great TV! repeat all the single episodes of The Avengers that they have shown through the week - 5 episodes back to back. There was one episode that I can't recall seeing recently, but none was anything new, and I only watched it for something to do. At 9pm there was other stuff I could have watched, but I decided to go to bed (and to turn my phone off before I went to bed). I read for maybe half an hour before I turned over, and seemingly went straight to sleep.

  I think I slept well last night, although at about 4.30am I woke up feeling a bit cool. At that time the heater was on low, and so I turned it up full before going back to sleep. I think it may have been in that last 90 minutes of sleep that I had the only dreams I can remember a few scraps from. In fact I can only remember a few snapshots of the dream(s), and they don't really make up a story line I can write anything about.

  The most I can say about that dream, or series of connected dreamlets, was that it seemed to involve some students. At one point they seemed to be living in my house, which was a far bigger house than in reality. At one point we went to a pub by climbing out of rear window for some reason, but before we got there we stopped at a cupboard, or lock-up, and one of the students said "we mustn't forget this" and picked up a bottle, and then said "it's cost £4.15 a shot. It is very nice, but makes your vomit black !".

  There is a shorter story from during the night that I can tell with some accuracy. I think it was around 2am that I went to the toilet for a pee, and saw a HUGE spider on the wall. It was lucky that I was not desperate to go, and in a semi relaxed manner I grabbed the small glass with a beer mat on it - strategically placed for such a situation. With one quick movement I had the glass over the spider, and had slid the beermat under it. A quick tap on the beer mat got the spider to the bottom of the glass, and I could throw the spider out the open window. All done with no fuss before I could pee in peace.

  I am happy to announce that this morning my blood glucose had come right down to slightly better than normal. The Contour meter read a very good 7.3mmol/l. The GlucoRX meter wasn't quite as good, but 8.0mmol/l is still rather good. The Sinocare meter more or less agreed with a reading of 8.1mmol/l. It seems I am back to good health again. Hopefully I can keep my blood glucose this lower, or even lower for some time to come. I even allowed myself a double small helping of instant noodles for breakfast.

  Today is, at least so far, bright and sunny, and if the BBC forecast turns out to be correct, it will be like this all day. I won't be seeing Jodie today, and so I ought to take advantage of the good weather to see how well a double dose of my increased dose of the anti angina drug is working. It is possible I might still do that, but my first task has to be to get some shopping in Tesco. I'll try and only buy safe stuff, but I might be tempted to a little indulgence if I see anything with a reduced price sticker. After that I may have a short rest before going out again for a walk - maybe just a simple walk to Ladywell and back, but maybe something more ambitious, or maybe no walk at all. We'll see.








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