This morning started just a few degrees too high for a frost. It should warm up to 10° C this afternoon thanks to some sunshine and sunny spells - hopefully. There was some sunshine filtering across the house roofs to the east at about 8am, but it didn't seem to last very long, and since then most of the sky has been looking very grey. The Met Office forecast partly agrees with the BBC forecast (the screenshot above), and both say today should feature sunshine and sunny spells. Fingers crossed ! Tomorrow may start wet, but from 11am it may be dry, but the sky will remain grey for the rest of the day. 13° C is forecast for tomorrow afternoon.

   Yesterday was another day where nothing special was happening, and I had to find things to do to keep myself amused. One non amusing diversion was waiting for an Amazon delivery which triggered a double disappointment when it arrived. More about that later.

  During the morning I did little more than relax, read, and probably snooze. At about midday I had lunch, and it was a healthy sort of lunch. It was nothing more than an apple and a chunk of cheese. I would say it was quite satisfying, but that would be a bit of a distortion to reality because it wasn't much later that I had a palmful of peanuts to munch on. Lunch was followed by a bit more resting, but I decided I ought to do something more productive, and not just doing a little bit of washing up.

  It was time to get back to my pointless task of finding pictures I had taken of tube trains in the past, and adding the train numbers to a spreadsheet, together with a link to a picture of the train. I don't think I realised how many such pictures I had taken in 2017, and 2015. Yesterday I mostly covered 2017, and probably some in 2020 (I think). I ended up with loads of pictures from all different tube lines. Unlike yesterday when I almost showed every one, I have limited today to mostly just one train from each tube line.
  Starting out with a fairly brightly lit District line train of S7 stock taken at Blackfriars station.
  Taken on the same day at the picture of the District line train, a rather special day - that I'll come to soon, this is a Central line train departing eastbound from Mile End station.
  Daylight photography in a short bit of the District Line/Hammersmith & City line that is out in the open after the train has just left Bow Road station. This train is almost identical to a District Line train, but is a Hammersmith & City line service.
  The special day I mentioned a few pictures ago, 21st April 2017, was the last day of service for the last D78 District line train. It is seen here at Upminster as the driver changes ends to drive it back to Richmond, westbound.
  A more plasticky looking S7 stock district line train heading westbound to Wimbledon from Blackfriars station.
  The last picture today is of a Piccadilly Line train seen in daylight at Sudbury Hill hill station. These 1973 stock trains are the oldest running on the Underground now, and will soon be replaced, and I hope their replacement will wear an easily seen train number with pride. It is annoying to have to add these to my spreadsheet as "unknown".

   It was in the middle of doing the selecting and editing of the tube train pictures when my delivery from Amazon arrived at approximately 3.30pm. I must admit hat was earlier than I feared it would arrive. It was just a few ready made leads with mini HDMI connectors at each end. They seemed to be a rare sort of lead, and I soon learned why.  I was convinced my new 10 inch TV had a mini HDMI connector. It didn't. It was a standard sized connector.

  So the first annoyance was that I already had a suitable lead to connect the TV to quite a few of my cameras. Having found the correct, and more useful length lead, I connected my Nikon P500 camera to the TV. It worked fine, but not how I hoped. I had hoped I could see live pictures from the camera, but all I saw was what was already on the memory card. I tried it on a couple more cameras, including my best camera, the Nikon D610, and all with the same result.

  Some camera do have a separate A/V output, and I wonder if that provides a live feed. I feel sure I have seen pictures of my Nikon D610 camera being used for video, and with an attached monitor to use as a big viewfinder. Maybe/hopefully that feed comes out the A/V output. One other possibility is that maybe my Sony camcorder may provide real time video from it's HDMI output. I have yet to get that camcorder out of the cupboard to try it, and nor have I actually found much use for that camcorder - it may have been wonderful at the time, but apart from the nice smooth zoom control, it is not better than a decent mobile phone camera !

  I once again found it quite tedious going through my archives looking for the best pictures of underground train, and doing any needed editing before adding them to my spreadsheet, plus making a few lower resolution version to show hear. I hadn't finished when I took a well deserved (or so I thought) break for dinner. Dinner was an experiment. It was boiled potatoes, part steamed broccoli with cheese melted over the top.

  I must admit that my original intention was to use cauliflower instead of broccoli until I realised I had bough just a bag of broccoli instead of mixed with cauliflower. The broccoli just didn't really work because it's taste, and smell (!!!) was too overpowering. Oh well, it was an interesting, and theoretically a healthy experiment. I did have a couple of packets of crisps as a sort of dessert to part ruin the healthy properties of the meal.

  I watched a documentary about the classic album Bat Out Of Hell from Meatloaf. It was an interesting documentary. That album had all the ingredients for being terrible, but was actually great. Who ever thought what was to all intents and purposes an opera could also be a classic rock album ! I'm not sure what time it finished, but I do know the following programme was of no interest, and I was feeling dog tired.

  I think I almost went straight to bed after I turned the TV off, but I did check on a few things on my PC first. When I was in bed I read for maybe 20 minutes before putting the book down, turning over, and trying for sleep. My bedroom was at that funny temperature where it seemed too cool without the duvet, and too hot under it. I think I fell asleep partly uncovered. I then woke up and tried to sleep under the duvet because the room had cooled down enough to make it chilly to leave more than one arm outside the duvet, and yet it still felt too hot under the duvet.

  At that point I turned the heater on low, and seemed to sleep a lot better like that with the heater on low all night. In the morning it was feeling too cool even with the heater on low, and for the first time this autumn I turned the heater up full blast for a while so I could feel comfortable wearing very little as I went through the usual routine. During the night I think I may have only woken twice to go for a pee. If true, that is a record for recent times.

  After getting up and going to the toilet I had a good pee, but only passed lots of gas instead of poo. Nevertheless, when I got on the scales I seemed to have lots 400gm, and it seemed I was well on my way to getting back to the lower weights I achieved recently. I guess I didn't eat a lot yesterday, but it should have been enough for a good poo worth about another couple of hundred grams - it would have seemed an even better weight loss. I've eaten breakfast now, and so there is no point bothering to weigh myself when I (hopefully) inevitably go later.

  The lack of peeing in the night suggested I might expect very good blood glucose measurements this morning. I did get two good and one not so good readings. The Contour meter read 7.8mmol/l - a bit higher than my current target (7.5mmol/l) but still very good. The GlucoRX meter read 7.7mmol/l - a bot closer to my target. The Sinocare was the joker in the pack again with a reading of 8.2mmol/l. I guess that is still under my old target of 8.5mmol/l, but just high enough to miss out on "three cherries" - aka all in the light green zone. My blood pressure is nice and low this morning, at 101/44.

  One thing should happen today. One thing may happen, and one thing should definitely happen. I should/definitely need to, wash my hair and have a shower this morning. If there is enough time I hope I will get some shopping in Aldi. Later this afternoon I should be getting a visit from Jodie for a beer tasting  session. There are plenty of beers in the fridges, but I bet she brings more - and they will all be nasty fruit sours !