I usually try and take a decent picture of all station names or roundels, but on Friday's outing I only took these two.
  The trouble with my pictures of Underground trains is that somehow the sun conspired to be behind them, or at least at a not ideal angle.  I took this picture at Kilburn station. I can't be sure, but I think Metropolitan Line trains used to stop there many years ago, but now they just pass by on an outer set of tracks, with the Jubilee line trains on the inner tracks either side of the island platform.
  This time the sun was in the right position to light up the side of the train, buy the front is in shadow. it was beginning feel like I would never get any good pictures in the north of London !
  This picture, which is the rear of the train in the previous pictures, was almost good. The sun is part lighting up the back, and a lot of the side is in full sunshine - except for the huge shadow cast by the platform canopy. This is fast turning into a lesson on how not to take good pictures !
  Almost a good picture in terms of lighting, but it seems a bit gritty, or grubby. Maybe it is actually grubby, although the rear windshield glasses look clean enough. These trains are easy to identify. The number seen in the bottom left breaks down to (19)96, the year this stock was introduced, and 072 - the 72nd train of the series.
  This picture doesn't seem too bad. This was actually the train I got to go from Kilburn station to Stanmore station. All the pictures of underground trains show so far were taken at Kilburn station. It is quite a busy station !
  I think this was the train I had got off when travelling from Stanmore back to Wembley Park station. I had decided to change here to get a Metropolitan line train to travel to Farringdon where I could change to a Thameslink train.
  While waiting for a Metropolitan line train I saw the next Jubilee line train approaching just mere minutes after the last one had departed Wembley Park station. Once again, what might have been a good picture was marred by bad shadows on the train.
  I didn't have long to wait at Farringdon station for a train to London Bridge - where I took this picture of another Thameslink, class 700 train, 700104. Trains with a number greater than 700100 are all 12 car trains, and we never see them going through Catford station. The Catford Loop Line can only take 8 car trains, and they have numbers less than than 700100, That means I still have plenty of 12 car versions still to "spot" and add to me grand spreadsheet of trains and their numbers photographed.

  Although I didn't end up using many pictures on the second day of photos from last Friday, it seemed like really hard work to do all the selecting and editing. I was feeling dead tired, and wanted to stop. I had to grit my teeth, and carry on until I had got these pictures ready to show here. I could have showed even more, but none would have shown any more than those I have shown.

  It was a huge relief to stop work, and have a lie down. I read for a bit, but I don't think I snoozed.....although I wouldn't be surprised if I had had. One thing that partly kept me alert was hunger. I felt quite peckish, and even though dinner was only about an hour away, I did have two small (25gm ?) packets of Hula Hoops plus a naughty biscuit or two.
  My dinner was to be the Salmon & Broccoli Melt (as shown above). It only provided 294 calories, and contained just 6.1gm of sugar. This ready meal, which should have been kept frozen, but was slowly defrosting in the bottom of the fridge for 2 or 3 days, was the reason I didn't carry out my idea of going to the Poundshop, and then going home via the House of Noodles. I had to use this ready meal up before it spoiled.
  In some respects, it was a very small meal, and it was not that great that such a small, snack-like, meal should still have so much sugar in it. It took a hell of a lot of will power not to have more to eat after eating this tiny meal. It was lucky I didn't eat any more because it seems I ate more than I have listed if my health measurements this morning are anything to go by.

  There were a few programmes on Sky Arts last night that were (multiple) repeats, but still worth another watch. First on was Dave Gilmour at the Gdansk shipyard concert in 2006. Sadly it seems that Sky has edited it down to fit their schedules, and one song I would really like to have heard, "Fat Old Sun" was not shown (unless it was the very first song, and I missed it). It was followed by the story of the making of the Pink Floyd Album "Wish You Were Here". It is possibly my favourite Pink Floyd album, and much of it was written in memory of the younger Syd Barrett whose brain died from too much LSD years before his body died.

  I'm unsure what time I went to bed, but I think it was probably a bit before 11pm. I know I took a couple of Gaviscon tablets because I was burping a bit, and a few burps seemed acidy.  Once I felt comfortable I quickly fell asleep, and I guess that was very near 11pm. I seemed to sleep well, although I did get up to pee quite small amounts about 3 times in the night, and at around 3am I turned the heater on low.

  When I got up at around 6.15am I could remember some bits of dream that I could have probably described, but now, quite a few hours later, I can't remember almost anything about them. I think one was possibly about a woman in the book I am still reading. Although the story was set in the 1970s, the everyday morals were still very Victorian, and so her realationship with the hero of the story was very staid and virginal. I think my dream might have been a sort raunchy re-telling of the story !

  I had a still seemingly slightly small pee when I got up, and then another smaller one maybe 15 minutes later. I didn't have a poo until well after I had had my breakfast. When I got on the scales I found that superficially I had put on weight, and I suppose I actually had put on weight, but if I ignore yesterday's weight as being particularly low because of the circumstances the day before, my weight has dropped in a nice progression for the previous few days. Considering I was hardly trying to watch my weight yesterday, I think of it as a success.

  My blood glucose readings were, once again, spread over quite a range. The Contour meter read 8.0mmol/l, and that is good enough. The GlucoRX meter read 8.5mmol/l, and while lower would be better, it is fine. Once again, for reasons I don't understand, the Sinocare meter gave another high reading of 9.0mmol/l - high enough for my colour code of pink to show it is heading towards the danger zone. One unlikely possibility is a bad batch of test strips, but that Sinocare meter may be more sensitive to how strong or dilute the blood is through dehydration.   My blood pressure is very good again this morning, and so that is good. It was 104/60 when I checked it a little while ago. 

   Today is already semi gloomy, and if the forecast is correct it will be very gloomy soon. That does nothing to inspire me to be very productive, or to go out. I think I still may have a shower, and wash my hair.....just in case. I may do some laundry afterwards, but there is no special rush for that, although not letting it build up too much may be a better idea. One thing I could do today will certainly eat up a lot of time, although I will probably not be very exciting/enjoyable. Now I've started this dreaded new spreadsheet listing all the Underground trains I have photographed, I could go back through all my old photos to add more photos to the spreadsheet. It probably sounds like madness, and it definitely feels like it, but it is something to do, and I might come across the odd snap that I am proud of. The catch is that some of the photos are so old that they will feature obsolete trains, and those demand a separate sheet in the spreadsheet - the job just gets bigger and bigger !