Today will be a lot like yesterday. After a cool start it should warm up to 24° C thanks to lots of sunshine. Tomorrow may start a degree cooler after night of mostly clear skies, but apart from that it should be another day almost identical to today, and almost the day before yesterday. Tuesday could be as warm, but could feature a mix of sunny spells and showers, but by the time Tuesday arrives it could be completely different to today's forecast.
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   On the whole, yesterday was not a great day. The main, maybe only bone of contention was not going to Chislehurst Rock. I would have liked to have gone, but just too many negative aspects stopped me. I am maybe even more peeved now because some pictures I have seen of it suggest the front of the stage was not jam packed as I feared it would be.

  Of course heaving crowds in front of the main stage were only part of the problem, albeit the most significant. I don't like all the security at the entrance with bag searches, and the emptying out of any bottles you try and bring in. Maybe the straw that broke the camels back was the new £5 entrance fee. In the grand scheme of things it is not much money, but paying to enter to do what I consider to be work seemed more than my brain could stand.

  Another big bone of contention was that last year when I tried to get a backstage/photographer pass I was rebuffed. They said they had an official photographer, and they did, and he mostly ignored all the bands. I would have been happy to have paid £10 to enter with a backstage pass, but I could not be bothered to be rebuffed again. Maybe I should have tried because John Bull managed to get back stage. Maybe he managed to get Hot On Tap to add him to their retinue.

  Back to yesterday morning, and after a shower I went out shopping again. This time it was to Tesco, and it was almost a pleasant walk in the sunshine. I had mostly bought enough food when I went to Iceland the day before, but I still wanted bottles of Diet Coke, and I wanted to replenish my almost empty box of packets of instant noodles. I got all that, plus a few other things like some cheese, and ready made Caesar salad.

  I wasn't paying a lot of attention to the time yesterday, but I think I got back from Tesco after midday, and so once I had put all my shopping away it seemed to be time for lunch. I had the Caesar salad for lunch, but only an hour or two passed before I had "afternoon tea" of completely sugar free "Maria" biscuits with cold milk. I have to admit I was feeling edgy enough to be bored, and both were reasons for some slightly excess snacking - just a nibble at a time, but lots of nibbles add up to too much.

  Although I listed a few things I might possibly do when I was writing yesterday morning, I didn't do any of them. I was mostly lazy apart from the shopping trip to Tesco. I did end up doing some useful video editing, but that can be a bit tedious, particularly when doing a lot, and that inspired me to nibble a bit.

  I am unsure just how much time I spent editing videos, aka TV recordings, but I think I probably did about 5 almost one hour (before I cut all the adverts out) episodes - maybe three of 4 episodes of The New Avengers, and one of the original Avengers. I also edited one episode of Secrets Of The London Underground. As I usually mention, "edit" in this case really means cutting out anything which is not the actual programme. So cutting out all adverts, and and crap off the start or end of the programme.
  Pictured above is what I had for dinner. It seemed like a good idea when I bought it. Seemed like a bad idea when I started to cook it, but turned out to be a lot nice than expected. The main problem was that it seemed to be very heavy on noodles, and quite light on other stuff. Once cooked and stirred, it didn't look as good as the picture, but it did seem a better balance between noodles on meat after.

  When choosing this in Iceland I think my brain was confusing me. I really like "Singapore Fried Rice" from Chinese takeaways, and I think that despite NOODLES appearing in bold on the label, and the picture showing noodles, I think I was probably expecting a rice based dish. Fortunately, it was quite nice, and a lot better than the Chicken Teriyaki with Yakisoba noodles I had the day before - that was not a good dinner.

  There was one other thing that was not so good. Like the days before's dinner, last nights did seem to have a lot more sugar in than I would have hoped for. It may have been officially classified as a low amount, but it was still higher than I was happy with, and I think it, and maybe some of the nibbles I had, left their mark on my blood glucose this morning.

  I watched a couple of episodes of The New Avengers last night, and that included an episode that I had watched before, but it turned out that the electronic programme guide was wrong, and it was an episode I had not watched before - ever ! - I am unsure why now, but I watched very few episodes of The new Avengers when originally broadcast. I am not sure if I was busy doing something else, or if I just didn't seem to care for it at the time. I must admit that most of them have a very thin plot line.

  I was saved from further boredom, but also doomed when Sue phoned me up out of the blue a little after 8pm. She said that she had managed to call before my bedtime, and I agreed, while emphasising that I regarded 9pm as my bedtime. That didn't stop her yacking away until half past midnight ! While some of the call was interesting, I was not really happy to get to bed so late last night.

  Once I (forcibly) finished the call, I brushed my teeth, and went straight to bed. I did think about reading for a bit, but it was so late I just turned out the light, and very quickly fell asleep. One thing I did not do earlier in the evening was to close my bedroom window. I knew it would be almost chilly by this morning, and should have closed the window before going to sleep. Apart from waking up once or twice to go for a pee, I woke up feeling cold at about 5am. I had to pull the duvet over me to get back to sleep.

  Last night was another night where I remember having dreams, but cannot remember even the subject of the dreams, let alone any action in them. This morning I tried to sleep late, but with only mixed success. Once daylight, possibly even sunshine, started peeping around the edge of the curtains, it was hard to get to sleep and stay asleep. I can foresee another day when snoozing might be my prime objective.

  I didn't feel all that good when I finally gave up, and got up. The first negative is that I have yet to have a morning poo, although there are hints I may not have to wait much longer, but that will be too late to improve my weight, which seems to have risen by another 200gms again. At least my blood pressure remains nice and low. Just now, admittedly on my second attempt, it was 102/46 - which is nicely in the "optimum" area.

  My blood glucose measurements are not so good, and I think I probably put most of the blame on the Singapore Noodles. The Contour meter read 8.3mmol/l, and while that is not too bad, things got worse. The GlucoRX meter read 8.7mmol/l, and that has crossed the first invisible line, although not terribly bad. The first reading I got with the Sinocare meter was 9.2mmol/l, and while that is still comfortably below the red line at 10.0mmol/l, it was significantly higher than the other two meters. I cleaned my thumb, which I had pricked to get the blood to test, and tried again. This time I got a reading of 8.9mmol/l. That was a bit of a cheat, but at least it was a reading in the eights, and so generally OK even if not desirable.

  I've just missed, by literally 10 minutes as I write this, the chance for some railway photography. The Haye's line is closed today for engineering work, and I could hear a noisy track maintenance machine cranking and clanking it's way down the line towards Ladywell. It might possible come back, possibly on the other line, and if so I hope I am in a position to drop everything, and rush outside with a camera.

  There is only one other thing I think I might do today, and that is to go out shopping again. This time it would be to Savers for some toilet cleaner, and to top up any of my vitamin pills I might be getting low on (I think I'll be needing more cod liver oil, of just "fish oil" capsules soon). As usual, I'll probably cross the way and have a rummage in Poundstretcher to see if they have anything new in there.