We're off to a good start. I think the temperature was closer to 12° C at 7am, but the sky was blue (which caused the temperature to drop so far), and the sun was shining (albeit below the roof line of houses to the east). If the forecast continues to be correct, which seems unlikely at the moment because the sky seems to be almost covered with thin white cloud, we should have at least sunny spells until midday. After that it may be too cloudy for any sunshine, but at least it should stay dry. The temperature should peak at 3pm, but with no sunshine it might feel cool enough, at 21° C, to maybe need a light coat if I am outside. Tomorrow may start with some sunny spells, but most of the day may be dull, and for much of the afternoon it could be extremely dull. The temperature is only predicted to rise to 19° C, but it should stay dry. The long range forecast still predicts some quite warm days towards the end of the month, but tomorrow it is probably going to feel that Autumn is just around the corner.
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   In case you are curious, my packet from Amazon, with my class 5 Bluetooth USB dongles, and a few other things, did not arrive yesterday. By midday I was 99% sure I would not be getting a notification to say they had been despatched, and one their way. That left a rather large gap in my afternoon plans.

  One thing I made a definite point of doing yesterday morning, was to have a long overdue shower. That felt very good after not having a decent wash for a couple of days. Once I had finished my shower I put my big buckets in the bath so I could start to soak a few items of laundry. I would not get to finishing this laundry until over halfway through the afternoon.

 One significant diversion that started yesterday was reading the book whose cover is shown in the photo on the left. It is a very large format paperback, and not easy to read when laying on my back, but I seem to be making good progress. in fact it is quite an addictive book, and it filled up almost any spare minutes I might have had yesterday - and there were plenty of those !

  This book, as the title implies, is three books between one cover. The first was a prequel to the very funny "Stainless Steel Rat" stories by Harry Harrison. It tells of how he started his life of crime. The next two are also prequels when Harry Harrison realised he had more to tell about The Stainless Steel Rat's early beginnings. Each of the whole series of books (see wikipedia article for a list) is a complete story itself, but it increases your (mine) enjoyment to know some background stuff. It could be argued that knowing how he did things before takes the mystery out of some of a new story, but I still find it very amusing to read it.

  By the time lunchtime came around I was fairly sure I would not be hearing with Amazon, and so I could relax for the rest of the afternoon. Of course there were times when I couldn't relax, and having lunch was one of those times. I had a very simple lunch of cheese flavoured rice crackers and two different flavours of cream cheese. On reflection, I think I might have enjoyed some sliced real cheese more than the cream cheese.

  After lunch I read for at least an hour, and I think I might have had a snooze too, although whether it was a one minute, or one hour snooze is something I seem to have forgotten to have made a mental note about. What I should have done next was to get back to my laundry that was soaking in it's big bucket in the bath. I think I probably spent as much as another hour readings some tech news from https://www.theregister.com/.

  Eventually I knew I had to get back to the laundry. When I first started on it I felt like I was going to get angina pains. There was a slight feeling of chest pain....actually no more than a mild itch. It seemed to go away after I had wrung out the first item plucked form the soapy water - a mere pair of underpants - one of three pairs. The other two items were a pair of t-shirts. It seemed too late, and too grey outside (although sunshine was promised for later) to hang the washing on the washing line, and I reverted to drying it overnight on the big clothes horse in the front room.

  I feel sure I must be deceiving myself, but I can't recall eating anything between lunch and dinner. I was making a conscious effort to keep my blood glucose down (which did work) and to lose a bit of weight (which didn't work). My very special dinner, which I ate while watching Star Trek: Enterprise (or was it Deep Space Nine ?) was to be no more than a tub of low calorie and low sugar ice cream. Somehow I couldn't keep up the pretence that that was enough, and I ate a few Pepperami sticks afterwards.

  Straight after all the Star Treks had finished there followed a brand new episode of Secrets Of The London Underground that I wanted to watch, and record. I did both, and now I have another video editing job to do, cutting out the adverts and top and tailing the recording, when I feel in the right mood, or I am desperate for something to do. That finished at 9pm, but I did not go to bed until I had also watched a moderately good edition of QIXL.

  That finished at 10pm. I had already got myself ready for bed, brushing my teeth, etc, during one or more commercial breaks, and I was in bed within minutes of turning the TV off. Before trying for sleep I couldn't resist reading another short chapter from the Stainless Steel Trio book. I then put the book down, turned out the light, and tried for sleep. Sleep didn't come instantly. I had to re-fluff my pillows, and get them just right, and then I quickly fell asleep.

  I don't have a lot to say about my sleep. I remember I was dreaming about something, but no memory of any details has survived. I know I got up three times in the night, and each time I did quite large pee. I was slightly concerned that I might be a bit dehydrated when I finally got up after all that peeing, but two things said I did not get dehydrated. I didn't have a poo this so far this morning, but I still weighed myself. I found I had put on another 200gm. These small gains are getting depressing because it seems my slow weight loss had now gone into reverse.

  If I had eaten enough to put on weight, there seemed a good chance that I would have ruined my blood glucose measurements, but apparently not. Instead they were extremely good. The Contour meter read a magnificent 6.6mmol/l. I've only had one other reading in that area so far this month, and two like it last month. The GlucoRX meter was not so good, but 7.2mmol/l is still very good, and the Sinocare's 7.0mmol/l was even better. It makes me wonder what could possibly have caused my weight to rise. I guess I am overdue a major visit to the toilet !

  There are just two important events for today, and the annoying thing is they could overlap. Today is the last day of Amazon's estimate for the delivery of my last order. The chances are that I will be informed about it in the next hour or two. The other thing is that it being a Wednesday, I want to, and will go to The Jolly Farmers for my weekly Guinness infusion, and a bit of banter in the pub. I am thinking I might go and leave early to lessen the chances of missing my Amazon delivery. Sod's law could be involved here. If I don't get home early I will miss the delivery. On the other hand, if I am in and waiting, I'll have to wait until something stupid like 8pm before the delivery happens !