Yesterday's sunny spells lasted longer than forecast, and I think they resumed in the early evening. Most of the day seemed fairly bright with or without sunshine, but the temperature was still only 17° C in the afternoon.
       

  Like recent days, today has started out bright and sunny, but it may only last until 11am. After that it should stay dry, but will be a little duller. On the other hand, the latest revision to the met Office forecast now shows sunny spells for 3 and 4pm. Maybe they will fill more gaps in later revisions. It should end up a little bit warmer today with 19° C 20° C now forecast. Tomorrow may be mostly slightly dull, but there could be one or two sunny spells during the day, and more in the early evening. The temperature will probably be cooler at just 18° C,

   Yesterday was not a very productive day. The only productive thing I did was to finish washing a hand towel that had got very smelly for some unknown reason. I added a bit of disinfectant to the wash, and, fingers crossed, it is now nice and fresh.

  The afternoon was reserved for a beer drinking session with Jodie, but she didn't turn up. I had a feeling she had mentioned going to a gig, and couldn't make it, but maybe because of the beers, I couldn't be sure of it. By 4pm I was indeed sure that she was going to a gig. I did have a possible plan to go out somewhere, but I could not be bothered. I just went into lazy mode.

  It all added up to a great deal of laziness yesterday, but oddly enough, I didn't feel like I was bored. It is hard to say exactly what I was doing. A lot of it was just reading - mostly from a book, but also a few things on the internet. It was enough to distract me from feeling hungry, but I did have half a bag of greasy crisps to help line my stomach against a possible onslaught of beer.

  There was one other thing that distracted me from food, and it was actually food itself. I am not sure when the idea first started to tickle my brain cells, but towards the end of the afternoon I had my mind set on a shish kebab for dinner. In fact I ordered two shish kebabs, and they were a lot nicer than expected. With a discount for ordering over £20 the final bill, including delivery and stuff, came to £20.05. That is a fair bit for one rather big meal, but it could have been a lot worse.

  I ate my dinner, and continued to entertain myself during the evening, by watching 3 or 4 episodes of Captain Scarlet. I must admit that when first released in 1967 (was it really that long ago ?) I was not a great fan. I guess I am still not exactly a fan, but I will admit I enjoyed the episodes I saw. I also realised how sophisticated that generation of puppets had got. They looked close to realistic. The background sets were very sophisticated as well. The only thing that let it all down was how bouncy the miniature road vehicles were.

  I'm not sure when I went to bed, although I know it was still light outside. I did read quite a lot in bed before I fell asleep, and the process was lengthened by needing to take a couple of antacid tablets before I could get comfortable. I( did seem to wake up more often then recently last night, and I think every time was for a pee. It was curious that I seemed to not pee much before going to sleep.

  My dreams were very odd last night. It seems like all I can remember is static, almost snapshots, of a few dreams. One was about a farmer teaching his children, and grandchildren, to take a lot of good care of the cows, pamper them, and keep them as happy as possible to maximise the milk yield. It was almost as if I were reading it rather than watching it take place. It may well have been influenced by something I had been reading before I fell asleep, although there was nothing exactly the same as it in the book.

  Another dream where no action took place was almost certainly influenced by the book. In this dream I was definitely me, and I was awaiting a late Tesco grocery delivery. It was to stock up a spaceship that was due to take off in the very near future, and if Tesco's delivery didn't arrive the spacemen would be going hungry. I think there were two more dreams that were just of a situation where no action took place, but they seem to have slipped my memory.

  A strange thing happened this morning, and it was something I have seen before. It was part of what often seems to be a conflict between blood sugar control and my weight. This morning my blood glucose readings were good, but not nearly as low as yesterday, but I seemed to lose almost 600gm of weight. I am now back to the point where a bit more weight loss would take me down to weights not seen for a at least a few years.

  My Contour (brand) blood glucose meter read 7.8mmol/l, and I guess that is still pretty good. The GlucoRX meter read 8.0mmol/l, as did the Sinocare meter. Considering that until maybe 6 weeks ago, 8.5 was the target I set myself, 8.0mmol/l was pretty good, but after a string of readings around 7.5mmol/l, my new self set target, it is very slightly poor.

  The first thing on today's agenda has already happened. A little after 9am I had a visit from Lee to change the mixer tap in the kitchen. He reeked of booze, allegedly from last night, and the first thing he asked for was a shot of whisky to calm his hangover ! The job of changing the mixer tap was slower than it might be because he couldn't stop chatting, but at least he seems to have got it right first time. I can't see any dribbles this time. When he fitted the original mixer tap, which was one that one of his girlfriends reject as being a bit crappy, it was possibly one he had found in a scrap metal place. That one he had to tighten and re-tighten a couple of times.

  Now the job is all done, he has gone, and my water bill should start going down. The next thing on my agenda is having a shower. After that I might dash out to Tesco, but I have had a text message to say to expect a delivery by DPD between 1:53 and 2:53 this afternoon. I think it is a spare battery I ordered from Amazon, that started it's journey in France. The last tracking info was from a few days ago, and said it had reached a French sorting office. If it is not the battery, then I can't think what it could be.

  I don't really know exactly what I will do for the rest of the afternoon, but I do want to watch what I eat quite carefully. Tomorrow I want to spend several hours at the top of Hilly Fields watching a couple of bands (and doing my best not to hear or see one band in the middle). I seem to remember there are toilets up there, but with a lot of people potentially attending, I dread to think what state they will be in. It would better if I had nothing that might cause me to want to have a poo in the afternoon, and on the day, to not drink while I am there.


 





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