Both the BBC (screenshot above) and The Met Office forecast mist of fog for this morning, and The met Office saying it would not lift until 1pm ! In reality it has been perfectly clear since first light. It does look damp outside, and maybe there has been some very fine drizzle. The forecast says there could be both drizzle and light rain until this afternoon. Incidently, the latest update to the Met Office forecast now has mist shown right through until 10pm this evening. If I squint a bit I can just make out a very slight haze in the far distance ! The highest temperature today, agreed on by both forecasters, will be just 15° C, and with no sunshine that is going to feel quite chilly.  Tomorrow could feature clear blue skies with non stop sunshine, but it will only raise the temperature to 14° C outdoors, but it could raise the temperature to quite comfortable behind the glass in my front room windows.

   The great achievement yesterday was finishing washing a fairly large bath towel. I had left it soaking after having a shower the day before yesterday. I finally finished it, and hung it up to dry, a bit later than 3pm yesterday. The rest of yesterday is mostly about eating.

  Yesterday's breakfast was two small, 50gm, packets of instant noodles. They were made in Pakistan by Knorr, and weren't too bad, but there are plenty that are better, and I doubt I will buy any more of them.....unless heavily discounted to clear ! The rest of the morning was quite slow and very lazy. I read some and I might have had a snooze.

  My lunch was just fruit, but quite a lot of it, although I didn't have any cheese with it to improve the flavour. I had the last sweet and sticky Persimmon, a red apple, and a large orange. The red apple and the large orange were from the mini supermarket on Catford Bridge. The orange was very nice, although I have had nicer. The red apple was a bit disappointing. It was head and shoulders above the terrible apples I bought from Aldi, but not nice enough to say it was very enjoyable.

  As I tried to convince myself to go and finish washing the semi large bath towel, I had a tasty snack of rice crackers and cream cheese. Finally I went into the bathroom, put on rubber gloves and started with the horrible chore of lifting the towel out the ice cold, almost slimy feeling, detergent, and wringing it out. From then on it was hot water for all 10 or 11 rinses. I have to confess that after 5 rinses I had a break, and nearly didn't go back to finish the job afterwards.

  That is all the actual physical work I did yesterday, but I did do a few other things that were important. I paid off both off my credit cards. Both were a bit expensive this time, but nothing to worry about. The only sort of worry was getting an email just as I logged off one bank. It warned of dire retribution if I didn't pay off the minimum payment by the 1st of November. Evidently, at least I hope evidently, we had done the equivalent of letter crossing in the post. On Monday, if I remember, I will check to make sure the payment did go through.

  With (hopefully) both credit cards zeroed it seemed like a good time to spend more !  As I said I might do, I went on to Amazon, and looked at blood glucose meters. I was hoping for a decently priced European blood glucose meter that was different to the two I already had (as provided by the diabetic nurse over the years). The only one I could see was £61, and I thought that a little high for my purposes. However I did see another Chinese brand that seemed to look a bit different.

  That blood glucose meter had a nice big LED display, and was only £16.99. That is the sort of price that seems reasonable for an experiment. I want to see how it's reading compares with my other blood glucose meters. On the whole, although not every time, my two European meters tend to roughly agree with each other, and the two Chinese meters agree with each other, but do not agree with the European meters.

  It is possible that sooner or later the diabetic nurse will say my current "official" meter is now getting too old, and will provide me with a new meter. It won't exactly be a free prescription, but the makers provide free samples because they know that can make the cost back by selling inflated price test strips for them. Another thing I ordered yesterday was more test strips for what may end up as obsolete if the new meter agrees with the European meters better. It is the sometimes right, and sometimes wrong, Sinocare meter.

  There was one other thing I ordered that I have been thinking about for some time. It is a potato storage container. I'm not sure if it will be that useful because I do tend to eat potatoes so slowly that the best place to keep them is in the dark of the bottom of the fridge. That seems to even stop them sprouting when stored for weeks on end. At least the new storage container is basically light proof, and that should make potatoes last a fair time. Just 15 minutes ago I got a notification it has been despatched via Royal Mail. The estimated delivery is November 6th. I am sure it won't take that long to arrive unless it is being sent from the Outer Hebrides !

  I did my best to have a dinner that was like most of the food I had eaten during the day of being fairly low calorie and low sugar. it was just two cans of soup. One was pea and ham, and the other was chunky vegetables and lamb. Both cans reported a low sugar content, and fairly low calories content. Both were fortified with chilli sauce. I was quite tempted to have some sort of dessert, but I somehow resisted the idea.

  As usual, I ate dinner while watching some TV, but soon after 8pm I was heading to bed to read. I didn't think I read for all that long, but the last time I saw on the clock before falling asleep fairly fast, was 9.40pm. I didn't seem to suffer from any indigestion, and last night the bed seemed comfortable. I had turned off any heating soon after I had finished eating. The added chilli sauce seemed to keep me feeling hot enough to feel sticky under the duvet. By 1am the effect had worn off, although bits of the duvet and pillow felt damp. It was time to put the heater on low.

  I seemed to mostly sleep well last night. I didn't seem to get up to pee more than a couple of times, and each pee seemed quite small. It seemed to suggest my blood glucose was quite low last night - which was the plan when I was eating. I can't describe what my dreams were about, but they seemed nice. The only think I can really say about them is that each seemed to follow logically from the last, and yet there were very frequent changes of location. I can't say if this is actually true, but I am sure there was one occasion when I stepped outside a door for some reason, and when I turned around, and went back in, the room, or scene, or whatever, was completely different, and yet it seems the storyline, whatever that was, continued seamlessly.

  My sleep seemed so easy that I went for the maximum, and didn't get up until almost 8am. It seems like it was the longest sleep I have had in ages. I am not sure I feel better for it - particularly after weighing myself after going to the toilet. I thought I had eaten quite carefully, and yet I seemed to have put on even more weight. Fortunately, after I had dished my pills out for this morning, and this afternoon, I went back to the toilet, had another poo, and a bit more wee. That reset my weight to exactly what it was yesterday morning.

  My careful eating (or so I kidded myself) did seem to reflect in my blood glucose measurements this morning. This morning's average was a little lower than yesterday's. The Contour meter read 7.7mmol/l, and that was pretty good. The GlucoRX meter read a rather magnificent 7.0mmol/l. As Usual, the Chinese meters read higher, although not by a lot. Both the Sinocare and the Vivachek meter read 8.1mmol/l (although one of them only read that on a second attempt). That is not a bad reading, and not a lot higher than the Contour meters 7.7mmol/l.

  One thing I must do today, although it could easily be midday before it happens, is to wash my hair and have a shower. I intended to do both yesterday, but by the time I had finished hand washing the semi big bath towel, and the bath was free, it was gone 3pm, and it just didn't seem worth it. There is no great reason to do it today. It is highly unlikely I will be seeing anyone, but it is possible I might go to Poundland, and at the same time see if any work had started on the now closed Wetherspoons pub in Catford. I meant to do that yesterday as well. Whether I do it today, on anther very dull and damp day, is anyone's guess !