One of both forecasters predicted heavy rain in the small hours of this morning. It did look slightly damp when I opened the curtains, but I was never aware of any heavy rain. This morning it is very dull, but it is not raining (although the damp appearance may have been drizzle at 7am). It will stay very dull until maybe 2pm when it will change to just ordinary dull ! It is going to be another cool day. One single hour of 17° C is predicted, but generally it will only be 16° C.  There could be mostly light rain from 3pm onwards tomorrow, but before that it should be dry, and mostly dull. Tomorrow's temperature may only see 16° C for two hours, and most of the day could feel quite chilly.

   I think I seemed to feel fairly OK yesterday, but it was another day when not a lot got done - and anything that did get done had nothing to do with computers, my new M2 solid state hard disks, or anything like that. I did do some laundry though.

  I was not expecting to go out anywhere, and I was fairly sure I was expecting no visitors, but I did feel a bit grubby, and so I had a shower late yesterday morning. Ideally I should have washed my hair, but maybe I'll do that today, and also include a wet shave to save time tomorrow. After I had finished showering I got my big buckets out and put in some laundry to soak. It would be quite a few hours before I finished it.

  After I was dried and dressed I went into lazy/relaxation mode. I laid on my bed, and read for a while....quite a long while. The next thing I did was to have some lunch. It was a novel lunch of tomato and herb flavoured bruschetta (basically small diameter toasts) which I used to scoop up some cream cheese. It was all probably a bit unhealthy, but it was sort of nice until it became a bit boring after the novelty wore off.

  It may have been as late as 4pm before I returned to my laundry that had been soaking it detergent for hours, and was now stone cold. However, I was not feeling stone cold. There was almost no wind, and by then there had been many sunny spells. They had got my bedroom quite warm. Before I did the (potentially) sweaty job of finishing off the laundry (all by hand) I opened the bathroom window to let some cooler air in. It seemed to be quite nice outside, but only for short spells.
  I tried to capture a shot of looking from the bathroom window while the sun was shining. Towards the north there was a lot of mostly white cloud, with the odd small patch of blue. To the south the sun was shining while I took the picture, although it is not terribly obvious, but the brick faced house on the left of the picture shows some nice shadows that prove it was bright and sunny for a while.

  My dinner last night was a "Protein" Paella. I guess this is a similar idea to Iceland's "My Protein" ready meals, but this one was from Aldi. The main thing wrong with it was the size of the serving. It seemed quite small to me, and not really filling, but it was quite tasty. It might have been even better if it had some seafood in it as I believe real Spanish paella has.

  At just 321 calories it was a definite help to lose weight - providing just that small portion satisfied. The 6.9gm of sugar initially seemed like a lot, but I am starting to revise my ideas about that. Maybe it was reasonably low. Ideally I should wait until there is room in my freezer, but I am thinking that the next time I am in Aldi I will probably buy another, plus one to keep for another time.

  I have to say I am a bit disappointed by Michael. I know he has a lot on his plate (some of it self inflicted), but it would have been nice if he had just sent a brief message to thank me for ordering the large sized wet wipes for his wife so he can clean her up in the care home instead of leaving it to the (probably imagined) lesbians to clean her intimate parts. I was also rather miffed to have to message him to ask if he had successfully received his  order, or if it was still at the bottom of the recycling bin where the courier left it because he was out. Several hours after asking he did finally respond to me, and said thanks.

  Last night was the usual eating dinner while watching one of the Star Treks being shown, and then continuing to watch until the fourth of the four Star Treks shown had finished. The last was Star Trek:Voyager, and the only good thing about it was the Borg Queens boobs - not that we actually saw them, but I liked the way her plastic/rubber/leather costume is moulded to act like a sort of bra. A nice rounded shape. Shame the rest of her is so hideous.

  After Voyage finished I headed to bed so I could read in comfort. I am not sure how long I read before I began to feel very sleepy. It is possible that I fell asleep slightly before 9pm, but I would not be surprised if it was actually an hour later. One thing that slightly delayed getting to sleep was keeping an ear open for any hint of any mouse activity. I think I am now convinced that what I heard yesterday morning was just the rain hitting the window even if it did sound like a mouse trying to gnaw through the floorboards.

  An unseen mouse did feature in my dream(s). I can't really remember all that happened in the dream, but one feature was that a mouse was being used to somehow validate tickets of gigs. In the cold light of day I wonder if it was the pattern of the mouses teeth that validated the chewed ticket. In the dream it wasn't really any more than a stated fact. On the whole I seemed to sleep well again last night. I didn't even seem to pee all that much, although I probably got up to pee the usual 3 or 4 times in the night.

  I was, probably subconsciously, dreading waking up to mysterious gnawing sounds, but I needn't have worried. I was possibly still sleeping quite deeply when I was woken up by the short noise (bleep !) of a message arriving on my phone. I was not aware it had happened until I got out of bed, and put my phone on charge. As I did so I saw that there was in message from Angela on it.

  Her massage said she had had her biopsy, and it had been done under a general anaesthetic. That makes for a far more comfortable procedure, but an uncomfortable morning after coming around from the anaesthetic.  She reported that she was in pain, and felt very weak.  She couldn't be too bad if the first thing she did was to start sending messages on her phone ! I have no idea how many she might have sent, and to whom, but I have a feeling I might have been privileged enough to have been the first, and at the time, only recipient.

  I must confess it was hard to conjure up some properly sympathetic words 30 seconds after I had woken up, and quite keen to go to the toilet ! One thing I didn't want to do was to raise her hopes up too much, but I did wish her a good outcome. I was thinking of Ayse (my favourite barmaid). She had some treatment for what she believed was a polyp up her nose. The surgeon who was going to do a quick operation on it didn't. Instead he took a biopsy sample, and told her he thought there was a chance it was a cancerous growth. The biopsy proved it was not cancerous growth, but was an abnormal growth that might respond to steroids. I will have to ask Ayse if there has been any improvement when I am in the Jolly Farmers tomorrow.

  It seems my own health, ignoring the angina problem, is still reasonably good this morning. Had I passed the large "stool" before I had my breakfast, it is possible that my weight would not have appeared to have gone up by 200gm. I can't help but feeling there was one significant thing I ate yesterday which I can't remember. Based on what I do remember I might have expected my weight to have either not changed, or gone down a little this morning.

  At least my blood glucose measurements seem pretty good again. The contour meter read slightly over the light green area with a reading of 8.1mmol/l. The other two reading were both in the light green "very good" area. The GlucoRX meter read 7.8mmol/l, and the Sinocare meter reading a slightly better 7.6mmol/l. Sadly not a single reading equalled or bettered my new target of 7.5mmol/l.

  I nearly said my blood pressure was a tiny bit higher this morning until I saw that it is equal or less than another half dozen morning readings so far this month. It would have to go up a little more to leave the "Optimum" area, and enter the "Normal" area, as diagnosed by the blood pressure meter itself.

  It's another day, and once again I have zero plans, or even ideas, about what I might do today......almost. One thing I might do, and probably will, is to continue cleaning some nasty looking splashes of old gravy, or something, from the doors of the (hardly used) cupboards under the kitchen worktops. I did one completely yesterday, and it looked nice, but it is hard work at an awkward stance to scrub those doors. Today I could aim to do just one door, and leave the rest until tomorrow or something.

  It is very hard to get enthusiastic about anything under this cold grey light, and it is feeling slightly cold in my bedroom now. With no sunshine to warm anything up, I may be thinking about a warm top. If I should go out today, and I could even though at this time I have no idea why, I had to give in and admit we are now back in wearing a coat season.....and it can only get worse !