Yesterday was rather a nice day. The BBC forecast came closer to reality with it's prediction of sunny spells all day. Reality was a bit better with several hours of non stop sunshine. The temperature definitely reached the predicted 21° C, and maybe hit 22° C for a brief period of time.
       

  There was a lot of rain last night, although it didn't seem to be heavy rain. The early forecasts said it should be raining again now, but the sun is shining ! The latest revision says 9am could be very dull, but the look of the sky, white fluffy clouds, and patches of blue, suggests otherwise. The BBC says it should by medium bright, and raining now, and at 9am. For 10am they predict a thunderstorm, but The Met Office says sunny spells, and that the heavy rain, with no thunder and lightning, will be at 11am. It seems obvious that no forecast can predict what today will actually be, although there is a common agreement that the temperature will be 18° C this afternoon. On the other hand, if it should turn out that there is more sunshine than forecast, then it could get a bit warmer. Tomorrow is going to feel almost cold at 15° C. There could be random sunny spells and random showers tomorrow - hardly what I expect with June now less than a week away.

   Yesterday was nothing like I expected it to be. As well as not going for a morning (or afternoon, or evening) poo, I was also suffering from really bad lower back pain (maybe even hip pain). I don't think the two things were related, but I guess it is possible. The two changed the day for me.

  The biggest event of the day was a beer delivery that happened a few minutes earlier than the 2 hour estimated time window that started at 9.23am. It was because I had started to write so early, and didn't have a lot to say, that I was able to squeeze in a shampoo and shower before the beer delivery. Maybe it was the hot water, which wasn't that hot, but also all the "exercise", like getting into and out of the bath tub, plus bending over the bath while washing my hair, but it all seemed to lessen my lower back pain.

  After my shower I tipped the entire contents of my laundry bag in to soak in detergent. It was not a great amount, and it turned out to be mostly underpants for some reason. It would not be until mid afternoon before I got back to that laundry, did the usual three rinses, dunked it into fabric conditioner, and finally hung it up to dry. Had I done it earlier I could have dried it on the washing line, but while it seemed warm and sunny for most of the afternoon, it didn't seem that great, and so I dried it overnight on the clothes horse.

  I have now described most of my day. I never went out, not even to the shops. I seemed to spend a lot of the time reading, and even having a snooze or two. On reflection, there was one more thing I did - it was a few days of washing up, although it didn't amount to much. Probably washing Thursday's beer glasses was the majority of it.

  The biggest crimp on my possible plans of going out - either for a short walk, or maybe taking a few train rides - was the knowledge that I was overdue going for a poo. I did not feel uncomfortable at all, but it was the anticipation that something was bound to happen sooner or later. It didn't ! Something that sometimes gets things moving is a hot meal with lots of liquid in it like gravy. I could have, or maybe should have had a can or two of soup, but I opted for another single portion of instant noodles for my lunch. It had no effect.

  Fast forward to dinnertime, because nothing else happened in the afternoon, and I made myself a rather tasty salad. On the base of a big pile of mixed salad leaves I added some ready cooked, and ready sliced sticky* BBQ flavour chicken, some baby plum tomatoes, a couple of small sweet peppers, some coleslaw, plus a generous sprinkle of Aldi oil and balsamic salad dressing. I had two small apples for a dessert.

* I was a bit worried that the "sticky BBQ flavour" might mean it had loads of syrup or sugar in it. It may have had some, but it didn't seem to cause any blood glucose problems this morning.

  Saturday evening is when Great TV! re-show all the episodes of The Avengers they have shown during the week. That does mean I might have seen most of them, or in at least one case I had not seen that episode of a long time, and that was my major amusement for last night. I think the last episode finished at 9pm, and I went straight to bed - albeit to read until almost 10pm. My bedroom was warm from the day's sunshine, and I didn't get bothered by any heartburn, so I was soon fast asleep.

  I think it was around 1am when I woke up feeling cold, and I turned the heater on low. Apart from that I seemed to sleep well enough that I almost could have got up at 5am, but I forced myself to sleep, or more like a series of short snoozes until it had gone 6am.  I can't really recall enough of any dreams to describe any of them, although for some reason I seemed to think they were happy dreams, but why they seemed happy is a mystery now.

  This morning I felt more or less OK when I got up, but I still have not had a well overdue poo, and now I am starting to feel slightly constipated. I hope that is good news because it must suggest things are on the move at last. Curiously enough, I do not seem to have put on a single gram of weight. This morning I weighed exactly the same as the last couple of days. Admittedly that is almost a full kilogram more than the best reading a week or less ago.

  My very first blood glucose reading seemed very high, but after the other two meters read far lower I redid the first one, and the second time it matched the others. The Contour meter, on second attempt, read the same as the previous two days, 7.7mmol/l. The GlucoRX meter read a very similar 7.8mmol/l. Only the Sinocare read a bit different with a still OK-ish 8.7mmol/l. That latter reading does make me wonder if the the first reading, taken with the Contour meter, might have not been that wrong. It read a terrible 9.3mmol/l, but I am going to blame that on either a bit of contamination, possibly some soap not fully rinsed off my finger, or a faulty test strip.

  In theory, this afternoon should be a beer tasting session where Jodie and I will try a few of the new beers that were delivered yesterday. The only fly in the ointment is that there are no trains to Elmers End today, where Jodie gets her train. If she found such things exciting she could get a bus to Beckenham Junction where trains from Catford Bridge are being diverted while engineering work takes place near Elmers End. If Jodie comes today she will probably get the bus all the way here.

  If Jodie declines to use the bus it is possible I might just get the train to Beckenham Junction because of the novelty of it. Once there used to be a train once a day that went to Beckenham Junction, but they stopped years ago, and so today's diversion is a chance to do a novel train ride (and back the same way). I hope to be ready in time to go out this morning to the local shops. It seems that getting a bit of shopping in Savers, and then crossing the way to buy more stuff in Poundstretcher, is becoming a Sunday tradition.


 





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