Yesterday was not a bad day. There were many sunny spells through the day, and the only rain I can remember seemed to only fall for a very brief period of time. The temperature hit 20° C by mid afternoon.
       

  The Met Office shows the sunshine and sunny spells finishing at 2pm in the latest revision. The BBC say sunshine or sunny spells will last all day. The temperature should reach 22° C today. So not a perfect summers day, but still very good, and maybe even excellent compared to most days recently. Tomorrow should just about hit 20° C for an hour or two, and there will be only white cloud all day (Met Office) of some lightweight sunny spells all day (BBC).

   I have already described my morning, yesterday - how my CT scan was cancelled at the last moment, and similar stuff. I tried not to let it get to me, but it did leave me feel a bit pissed off, or at least unsettled, for the rest of the day. While it is great, and painless lazing around the house all day, there are things, or walks I would like to do, and at the moment they are difficult, or impossible to do when I start to get angina pains. I hope to have this malady cured, or at least well controlled as soon as possible - ideally before the summer is over !

  I didn't really do anything for the rest of the morning, and into the afternoon until Jodie arrived for a beer tasting session. I must confess that I did have a starter of a single large whisky to liven me up a bit, and maybe to calm a sort of ache, before Jodie arrived, and we could hit the beers.

  Yesterday's beers ranged from the awful to the delicious. While Jodie had a few acid sour fruit "beers" I had some ordinary lagers and IPA (almost) style beers. Jodie did open one or two beers that were not so bad, and one of them was a delicious, and very strong (11%) Imperial stout. I suspect it might have had a high sugar content. It certainly tasted very sweet and delicious.

  I can't think of much more to say about the beer tasting. Jodie left here for the 6:12pm train to Elmers End (where she could get a tram to Croydon, and to a pub where she was meeting Alan). As soon as she left I got my dinner together. I had had a very late breakfast of a double portion of instant noodles. I also had some sort of lunch, but apart from rice crackers and strong cream cheese, I can't remember what else might have been involved.

  Dinner started off as a very simple dish of microwave in the bag flavoured rice on top of the contents of a quite small pack of sliced ham that I grilled until the top slice was curling up, and starting to get crispy on the edges.  It was a modestly light dinner, or so I thought, but I did top it off with the rest of the tub of plain vanilla ice cream that I had been eating in modestly small portions over a period of days. It is also possible that I had that ice cream as part of my lunch instead of after my dinner.

  My poor sleep the night before, plus the booze combined to make me feel very sleepy early in the evening. I was having a hard time concentrating on anything after 7pm, and I was in bed at 8pm. I was quite surprised how fast I fell asleep, although I didn't realise it until I woke up a couple of hours later with bad indigestion. I didn't think I had eaten that much in the evening, but I suppose the booze added to it to make me feel quite bloated.

  It took ages, plus several doses of antacid tablets before I started to get comfortable. It must have been almost midnight when I decided that on top of all the belching and stuff (but thankfully no desire to vomit) from one end, the other end was urging me to visit the toilet. It seemed to be nearly 75% gas, and 25% poo, and there seemed quite a lot of it. I'm sure it was gone 1am this morning before I was comfortable enough to get to sleep.

  I did seem to sleep OK after that, and may have only woken once to go for a pee, before waking up about half an hour before I would ideally get up. I managed to get about another 45 minutes sleep before giving up, and getting up. I can't say I felt too good when I did get up, and maybe even now, but I also can't really say why I didn't feel very good. It was lots of little things.

  There was some minor good news in that while my weight would seemed to have crept up again, it was quite a small rise. Some quite minor bad news was that my blood glucose was up a bit this morning, but 2 out of three readings were still under my old target. The Contour meter was worst. It read 8.7mmol/l. The GlucoRX reading was not that bad at just 8.0mmol/l, and the Sinocare meter almost agreed with a reading of 8.1mmol/l. At least my blood pressure was nice and low just now. The first, and only reading (a second might have been a bit lower) was an impressive (I think) 108/41.

  The thing about today is that is should be bright, even if it does cloud over, and it should be warm. In other circumstances it would be a great day to go out exploring, but I feel too restrained by the prospect of angina pains if I walk too far or too fast. I could do something that involved a lot of stops to take pictures. Another possibility would be exploring the train and tube network where the train can take most of the strain.

  I think the reality is that I will only be going out to Tesco today. I want to see what cook in the bag in the microwave rices they may have, and then experiment with dinners like rice with beef burgers, or maybe sausages. Sometimes rice seems safe for me, but maybe last night it wasn't - although there were some other good possibilities for raising my blood glucose levels.

  What I may also do today is some more kitchen cleaning. Since having got the mixer tap changed I have got the sink area sparkling clean. One area I have neglected too long is behind the microwave oven, and mini grill/oven. Who knows what filth could be lurking behind those ! One special set of filth is the dirty windows, and they deserve a clean and polish. If I had the perseverance for it all I could do an awful lot of cleaning today - including hoovering a few rooms. There is a probable incentive for this - it must be getting close to the time when Patricia will be coming to the UK, and may want to stay here a night or two.


 





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