There was heavy rain during the night, and it didn't finish until about 7am, although there is still a bit of drizzle even now. The BBC forecast, in the screenshot above, is pretty pessimistic, but the Met Office forecast says it will be dull, but dry from 11am to 5pm. After, just when the BBC says rain will stop for a while, it will probably rain until the end of the day. The afternoon temperature should reach a slightly cool 17° C, although the Met Office says 18° C. Tomorrow may be a generally dry day, but the chances of seeing any sunshine at all seem to be just about zero. It will be another coold day with just 17° C predicted.

   Yesterday was a day that was probably boring because I didn't really do anything, and yet it was a successful day. After writing I had my usual rest, laying on my bed reading, and then I had a shower. I could have done a bit of laundry after that, but I didn't.

  I can only describe the rest of the day in terms of what I ate because I just didn't seem to do anything notable. It should have been very boring, and that would normally mean doing lots of snacking. That didn't happen. For lunch I had some rice crackers which I used to scoop up cream cheese straight from the little pot it came in. I did have one or two snacks of quite small amounts of peanuts.
    Skipping forward to dinner, and my dinner was accidently a vegetarian dinner. I didn't read the box well enough when I picked it up in Aldi. Oh well, it was always intended to be just an experiment.

  Several things on the box were fantasy. The picture was nothing like the real thing, and in my book it was not a single generous portion. At 8.2gm of sugar per pack, it was not particularly low sugar. At least it didn't seem like a low amount, but maybe it was fairly low.

  One thing I do know was that it didn't seem very filling to me, and as soon as I finished it I decided to have a dessert of two "no added sugar" choc chip cookies, and a couple of "40% less sugar" ginger oat biscuits. The latter, despite being 40% less sugar (than what ?), did seem to still contain a lot of sugar. That is why I am making a single packet last a lot longer than other biscuits.


    There was a bit of entertainment on TV last night, but not a lot. I watched two one hour (or 40 minutes when all the adverts are extracted) of Guy Harvey's "From The Vaults". Both were on the theme of Brit Pop (not Brit rock) from the 1990s. I probably recognised about three quarters of the band names, but I don't think I recognised a single song. The 1990s were a dire time for music, or maybe my preferred music.

  I was in bed fairly early again last night, but I spent a fair time reading, and I even got up again for a short while to check a few things on the internet. I think I was probably fast asleep before 10pm, and it could have been closer to 9pm. On the whole I slept well, but I still needed to get up 2 or 3 times in the night for a pee. The temperature in my bedroom was just low enough that I could half cover my body with the duvet for most of the night.

  I do remember some of a dream, but it is possible that some of what I remember may have been while awake, and thinking about the dream. It all seems rather confused. The dream was a sort of Sci Fi dream, and was inspired by the book I am reading. I dreamed I was on a planet that had developed rockets powerful enough to get a satellite in a low orbit. The big problem is that the first launch was perfect, and the next three failed.

  This lead some people to believe that some higher power didn't want rocket launches. They still persisted, and got much better at them, but it lead to a strange sort of non violent war between two factions. One believed that they were not welcome in outer space, and the other did not believe that idea. Their beliefs were split between two paragraphs in their big how-to-do-it manual on space flight (that was being continuously added to by each triumph or failure). Somehow the idea of two people split by their interpretation of a single book sounded depressingly familiar.

  I was up extra early this morning, and it is because I heard an odd noise this morning. It sounded like a mouse trying to chew through a floorboard/wainscoting, but I am hoping it was just rain hitting the window. It did seem to stop when the rain turned to just drizzle. On the other hand, I am sure I can remember a few crumbs under my computer desk that don't seem to be there this morning......

  I was sure I was going to have a poo as well when I went for my first pee of the morning (after getting up) but is seemed to be just wind - which has happened a few more times since getting up. On the plus side, without a poo, it seems I have lost another 400gm since yesterday. Another 500gm to go and the last digit will flip over to one less, and I will entering rarely charted regions for many years.

  My blood glucose readings were made tricky because this morning they were to come from my right index finger. That finger has quite tough skin on it, and it is usually tricky to get a decent bead of blood squeezed out when I prick it. However the readings, or two of them were very good. The Contour meter read 7.9mmol/l - in the light green, but only just. The GlucoRX meter read a perfect 7.5mmol/l. The Sinocare meter read only a bit higher at 8.2mmol/l, but that takes it out of the light green area, and so no "three cherries" this morning.

  I'm not sure what to do today. If the weather was a bit dryer and bright I might fancy jumping on a train to go somewhere exotic like Chingford, or Epping. I am fairly sure that won't happen. More likely is that I will do some laundry - for drying indoors. I expect I'll read a lot, but I suppose I ought ton try and enthuse myself to do some computer stuff like trying on of those new M2 sized solid state hard disks I bought almost a fortnight ago, but have done nothing with them yet.