The weather forecast for today looks to be very similar to that for yesterday, and which didn't match reality. I must admit that looking at the sky does rather suggest that it is going to be a grey morning, but like yesterday there still might be a chance that the clouds could break up to give a nicer day. The forecast does say sunny spells from 4pm onwards, and maybe it will happen sooner. This morning felt chilly enough to make me close my bedroom window, even if it was 18° C according to my thermometers. It is expected to rise to 23° C this afternoon. Tomorrow could start a degree cooler than today, and there might be some light rain at 10am, but otherwise tomorrow could be the same as today, which might, or might not, be the same as the day before yesterday.

 Yesterday was a mostly quiet, mostly lazy sort of day. I ended up doing very little, and I was even still sober after a Sunday afternoon beer tasting session. One good thing I did do was to mostly be careful about what I ate - but I did take a chance on one thing.

  I think that after I finished writing I laid on my bed to read, stare at the ceiling, and contemplate a snooze. I am fairly sure that I didn't have a snooze, but I guess it is possible I faded into and out of sleep for a short while without noticing it - particularly during the staring at the ceiling period. As midday approached I decided that I ought to have a shower because I was expecting to see at least Jodie, and maybe Alan later in the afternoon.

  After my shower I thought I could detect the first hints of my bath towel going stale. I left it soaking in detergent, and planned to finish washing it later, and getting it hung up to dry so it would be bone dry this morning, and I could use it when I shower today. I have several other towels I can use, but that one is my favourite because it is just big enough, but still small enough to make washing it fairly easy. Tomorrow I will have to use another towel because after 5 or 6 rinses I got bored, and the towel is still in it's last bucket of rinse water, and I'll have to do the final 3 or 4 (hopefully) rinses today before I can have a shower.

  With the probability of drinking many beers later in the afternoon, it seemed prudent to make sure my stomach was line with a nice lunch. It was to be my first spare chicken shish kebab, part of my takeaway order from the previous night. I didn't attempt to warm it up, and so make the salad very wilted, but ate it cold. It was still very nice.

  It was sometime between 1 and 2pm that I got a message from Alan - Jodie's partner. He said that Jodie had had another episode of phone madness, and he was taking her into Croydon where she hoped to buy a new mobile phone. She made the stupid mistake of going to the EE shop (her service provider). Like most service provider mobile phone shops they tend to sell the lowest spec versions of phone at the same, or higher prices, than the higher spec versions of the same phone. Also, as Jodie found out, they were trying to con her by saying she would have to get a new contract instead of just selling her a phone (which may well have been locked to EE for 6 months).

  I was sure that if Jodie even turned up here it would be quite late. In fact it was very late - 5pm ! The good news is that Jodie didn't buy a phone from EE, and is now considering everybody's  advice, and buying it from Amazon - and saving over £100 for a better specced version of the phone she nearly bought from the EE shop. In fact she may not even need a new phone. From the way she describes it, it is possible she caught her phone in the middle of an update, and only appeared to be dead. The next morning it was working perfectly normally, but she says she does not trust it. With luck the phone will continue to work normally, and every day will make the desire to replace it smaller and smaller.

  One usual problem is that every time Jodie comes here for a beer tasting session she wastes a lot of time preparing her lunch/dinner. Extra time was spent washing a load of blackberries she had picked on her way here, and more time wasted when a small punnet of edible flowers she had bought said to wash before use, and she had already added them to a pasta salad before she realised it. More time was wasted picking all those flowers out, washing them, and then adding them back to the salad.

  All this wasted time meant she only had time to open two beers before she had to leave to get the train after the one (30 minutes later) she should have got to meet Alan at Clockhouse. The two beers we did manage to drink were the two she was most excited about, and was the reason for the beers we ordered on Thursday, Both were from the Omnipollo brewery, and oddly enough, both were fairly pleasant.

  At 7pm, the time she should have already met up with Alan, Jodie left here to catch the 7:12pm train. I immeadiately got my dinner out of the fridge. It was the third and final part of the takeaway order from the previous night - a lamb shish kebab with salad. I have to admit that the cold lamb was nit as tasty as the cold chicken I had eaten at lunchtime. One sort of interesting thing was that in the past I have eaten both a lamb and a chicken shish for dinner, and it has almost had a positive effect on my blood glucose the next morning, i.e. I got lower blood glucose readings.

  After eating almost nothing but the two shish kebabs (and throwing away the pitta bread they came with) I hoped I would be safe eating some ice cream. It was not only that I fancied that ice cream because it would be a delicious dessert, but because I was eating quite late at night I hoped the ice cream might be some sort of barrier to any heartburn when I turned over to go to sleep. It possibly worked.
  I had about an hour to kill before heading for bed last night, and I suddenly remembered I had intended to show three pictures I had taken in portrait orientation (although no really portraits). The easiest option was to make one composite picture of all three. The result is above. On the left is a picture of Jo that I think I took using just ambient light (no flash). It was almost bright enough, but horribly grainy. I did some serious noise reduction, plus a lot of sharpening, and I thought the end result was rather good. All the smoothing makes Jo's skin look a lot younger, and yet there is loads of detail in he hair. The other two pictures are of Greg, the new guitarist.

  I think I was on my bed reading a little before 9pm, and I read until maybe 9.20pm. I seemed to feel OK until I turned out the light, and turned over to try for sleep. There were two problems. One was that I felt very hot, and the other was that I could feel heartburn starting. Before it got too uncomfortable I took a couple of antacid tablets, and this time they seemed to work very well. The pain very soon faded to a very low level. Putting the fan on low helped cool me off.

  Unfortunately, a few hours later, when I needed a fairly large pee, I found the fan to be a bit too cool. it was tricky because it still felt a little too sticky without it, but I just had to endure that. I woke several more times in the night, and each time I had to go for quite a volume of pee in the toilet. In theory this suggested that my blood glucose readings would be high, and once again this theory would turn out to be wrong.

  I can only remember 5 seconds of a single dream last night. Now that is a big shame because what I remember was undoing the first buttons on a long frock worn by a young lady was was laying down - possibly on my own bed. I was just about to get a glimpse of parts normally hidden when I woke up. Damn !!! I am unsure when that was, but it could have been when I needed to go to my last pee of the night just before 5am.

  By then it was light outside (although not exactly bright light), and I didn't think I was going to be able to get back to sleep......Suddenly it was about 6.30am, and I thought it time to get up. It is also worth noting that I did that 80 to 90 minutes sleep under the duvet because it did seem very chilly this morning even if less than a couple of months ago I would have been very happy to have seen 18° C as an afternoon temperature.

  I didn't pee much after getting up, and I didn't seem to need to go for a poo (and as I write this, still nothing has happened). I weighed myself, and even without a poo, I seemed to weight exactly the same as yesterday - which was modestly good/satisfactory. I am unsure if I am going to do anything today that might add to any weight loss, but I suppose it might be possible.

  I am happy to say my main two health measurements were good this morning. After very high blood glucose readings yesterday morning, I am happy to say that this morning my blood glucose is back down to a good area. The Contour meter read 7.9mmol/l, although that was a second reading after the other two meters gave much lower readings, The forst reading was actually 8.4mmol/l - which is still good, but not as good... The GlucoRX meter read a better 7.8mmol/l, and the Sinocare meter read an almost ideal 7.6mmol/l. It was getting all three readings in the light green zone. My blood pressure reading continues to be nice and low. This morning it was 107/49.

  Last night I was having fantasies about going out to take some photographs of stations and train today. It is not impossible that could still happen today, but I don't think it is very likely.  It is currently not that dull outside - probably good enough for some flat looking photography - but it still doesn't give me any great feelings about going out. I really don't know what I am going to do today - apart from finishing rinsing the bath towel, and hanging it up to dry. I probably should have a shower today, although if I am not going out anywhere, and it is unlikely anyone will be visiting me, it isn't strictly needed. Today is just going to be another day when I make it up as I go along.