So far this morning it has been cloudy, and I don't think I have seen any sunshine, although there are some blue areas of sky that the sun could shine through if they were in the right position. Both the BBC (as above) and The met Office predict full on sunshine all day today. Maybe the sun will appear soon ! Both forecasters predict the temperature to soar to 32° C today. Clear skies tonight will allow it to cool down overnight, and tomorrow may start at a fresh 16° C. It should start sunny tomorrow, and the sun is predicted to shine all day long, but the temperature may only peak at 26° C. The day after tomorrow will be duller, cooler, and may even feature a spot of rain.
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   Yesterday was one of those days when I didn't do all that much, and yet I did do a lot of what I intended to do. One thing didn't happen. At about midday I got a call from Jodie to say she had spent the previous 2 days at beer festivals, and felt she had had her fill of beer until maybe much later in the day than when we usually sample beers, So no Jodie yesterday.

  As per my plans, I washed my hair, and had a shower yesterday morning. After drying me and my hair I allowed a good half an hour to cool off, and then went out shopping to Tesco. As I mentioned yesterday, top of my list was a new kettle to replace what is now my old kettle, and which has developed a leak. Tesco did have a range of kettles, and the branded ones could cost £32 or more. The basic Tesco branded kettle was just £13, and I bought one.

  It is a bit of a strange kettle in so much as it doesn't have an obvious heating element in it. Instead it seems the heating element is somehow fitted to a metal plate at the bottom of the inside of the kettle. That plate obviously gets extremely hot because the water seems to roar like it is sitting on a hot plate - which I guess it is. I washed the inside when I got it home, and boiled some water in it, but that was just to wash out any contaminants.

  I also bought two 2l bottles of Lemon flavour Coke Zero, and two 2l bottles of Diet coke.  I didn't buy a lot of food, but what I did buy included some basic salad ingredients - baby tomatoes, some lettuce leaves, and some "fiery" beetroot. Other stuff included some ready cooked and sliced flavoured chicken, and some plain vanilla ice cream that seemed to have more sugar in it than I hoped for.

  If I had had a lot less shopping to carry, I might have enjoyed the walk home in bright sunshine, but the shopping did weigh me down a bit, and I was quite sweaty when I got home. I might have had some of the ice cream when I got home, but I didn't. It was still a bit early for lunch (maybe 11.30am), and so once I put my shopping away, and rinsed out the new kettle, I did a few rinses of a small bath towel I had left soaking after my shower.

  It became obvious that the towel was going to need an awful lot of rinsing - which was sort of odd because I hadn't been using it for long, and by washing it well before it even hinted at becoming stale, I had hoped to not get it too impregnated with soap which it seems I never manage to rinse off my body no matter how I try - and I've been trying a lot recently. I think I gave that towel at least 4 rinses before I decided to take a break.

  I prepared, and ate my dinner. It was two of the very little, but quite tasty Iceland cheese and bacon quiches with some baby tomatoes, iceberg lettuce, and little fiery beetroots. The one thing which spoiled it was the balsamic dressing I put on it. The bottle of Aldi balsamic dressing had been opened ages ago, and the oil was starting to oxidise. It slightly spoiled the flavour. Fortunately it had not gone rancid.

  After eating I had a lie down, and read for maybe half an hour. There is a bit of missing time about then, and I suspect I had a snooze. It may have been 3pm when I resumed rinsing the small bath towel, and I probably gave it another 5 or 6 rinses before I hung it on the washing line to dry. I think that was about the same time as the worst of the clouds were making it quite dull outside. Fortunately the sun re-appeared, and 3 or 4 hours later when I brought the towel back in it was bone dry, and warm.

  I had put a couple of strong Polish beers in the fridge to drink in the afternoon, but I never did bother to drink them. I almost wonder if I might be getting bored with beer....but surely not ! Perhaps I just didn't want to drink by myself. I didn't feel in the right mood for that. I think the bright warm weather was making me feel almost happy.

  However, I still had to find something to do, and there was nothing on TV to amuse me, but I did have some TV recordings to archive. They were four episodes from the new, fourth series of "Secrets Of The London Underground". It sounds quick ans easy to do what I had to do before adding the recordings to my archives. I had to snip off the start and end of the programme, and then snip all the adverts out to leave nothing but the actual programme, It is simple, but it is not that quick. Seeking out the start and finish of each advert break takes a little time, and once all the rubbish has been pruned, it takes 6 or 7 minutes to render it all to one single video file. Just those four episodes kept me busy for maybe a couple of hours.

  By dinner time I was finished, and I think I just read stuff off the internet when I had a very simple dinner. I deliberately went for a very small dinner, and although I was tempted, I easily managed to resist eating any more.  It was a dinner that was supposed to aid a bit of weight loss, even if, as actually happened, it was not good for my blood glucose level. It was nothing more than 3 small Satsuma like oranges, and maybe about a fifth of a one litre tub of plain vanilla ice cream.

  After dinner I checked to see if there was anything on TV, but there was nothing that screamed "watch me", and I ended up reading some stuff off the internet before heading for bed at about 8pm, or maybe half an hour later. I got a 2 litre bottle of chilled tap water from the fridge, and then locked up downstairs. I then brushed my teeth, and I then laid on my bed reading until it was almost dark outside. I think it was close to 9pm when I turned out the light, and once again with no aches and pains, I turned over, and I was soon asleep.

  I know I got up 2 or 3 times to pee, but I mostly seemed to sleep so well that I was awake at about 5.30am, and I struggled to go back to sleep again until it was at least a bit after 6am. I only remember a bit about my dreams. Once again they seemed to be almost repeats, or at least on a common theme. I seemed to be back at work in my days when I repaired telephone exchanges because that was the only job where we had to fill out time sheets.

  It is the time sheet I remember from my dreams, and not what had happened for it to be recorded on the the time sheet. It seems I had been sent to Australia for a week, and this made filling in a time sheet rather complex. I put down as much as I could, and then handed it in. The one part of the dream I do remember best is my boss coming to me to say he had corrected quite a few things on my time sheet, but not to worry because his corrections were to me advantage.

   One strange thing is that I am sure I never saw the face of my boss, but the way he said he had corrected my time sheet to my advantage, reminded me of one boss I had. I don't think I knew where he came from, but he considered us to be an excellent team, and while he was getting great results he was always rewarding us in small ways. There were several times when he took us over the pub on a Friday afternoon, and the idea of making sure we were properly rewarded for work we had done, but making sure our timesheets included every last minute of any overtime, was just his style.

  When I finally got up, at about 6.30am, I went for a pee, and then a little later I went for a very small poo. My attempt at losing a bit of weight had worked, and I seemed to be about 700gm lighter than yesterday. I was back to where I had got to a few week or more ago. Unfortunately it was another example of how calories and sugar do not always match up. My weight was down, but my blood glucose was up. I could attribute both to mild dehydration, but this morning my 2 litre bottle of chilled tap water was almost half empty.

  Both the Contour, and GlucoRX meter agreed my blood glucose was too high at 9.3mmol/l. Only the Sinocare meter gave an almost OK reading of 8.8mmol/l, and even that is higher than I like. I had hoped that eating such a small portion of ice cream for my dinner would not have any, or at least few bad effects, but I was wrong. I'll have to eat any more of that ice cream no later than lunch time to allow my body to process the sugar. That is, of course, a cheat, and it is only shifting when I get a high, and not good for me, glucose peak. This high blood glucose seems to be going on too long to be just the effects of what I am eating, and I wonder if my pancreas is finally failing.

  Today should be steaming hot ! The sky is now finally looking mostly blue, and the sun has started to shine. I really out to get out in it, but I feel reluctant because I won't need to walk much before angina pains spoils it all. What I might end up doing is spending some time in the garden doing some clearance under the hot sun. The first thing I will need to do is to dig a trench to empty the super foul and stinky slurry from the garden waste bin into. Than I can start to fill the bin up with clippings and weeds and stuff that will hopefully mop up some of the stinky spells. First of all I think I will do a bit of reading once I've uploaded all this writing.