If we are lucky there may be a sunny spell at 2pm, but otherwise, today is just going to be a slightly cooler version of yesterday - dull, but dry. The afternoon temperature may only reach 13° C.  Tomorrow may see a couple of hours of drizzle in the morning, but then it will be another dull but dry day, although, having said that, some of the cloud could be thick and darker in the morning.

  This morning must feature one of the latest starts I have made when writing this electronic diary. I had a bit of an unexpected lie in this morning - one minute it was just gone 6am, and in the blink of an eye it was 8am ! After that there were a few things that stopped me writing sooner, and one was composing some positive things to say to Angela who messaged me to say that she was feeling bad as a result of the radiotherapy.

  Side effects to both Chemo and radiotherapy are well known, but that is no comfort to those suffering from it. The worst side effect can be nausea, and my advice to Angela was to try to ignore as much as she could, and make sure she still eats properly, and to no miss any chance to have a snooze. Both will help to keep up her strength. I said a little more than that, but they was the two most important things. Angela replied that my reply had helped her feel better, and maybe a bit more prepared to face today's radio therapy.

   One good thing is that today is her last treatment for this week - the end of her 2nd of 6 weeks of therapy. I am very sure she originally said it was 6 days a week or treatment. Maybe it was going to be that originally, and the hope is that they are so pleased with her progress that it is now just 5 days a week. That gives her a full weekend to gather her strength again.

  Back to yesterday, and after such a late start I will just briefly say that I had a good drinking session with Jodie and Michael. I thought I had been careful in what I ate, but after a lot of booze my intended light dinner was bigger than intended, and it ended with a dessert of a couple milk chocolate coated hazelnut biscuits. They were from the same series that includes the bitter orange flavoured dark chocolate biscuits I like. The latter have a very low sugar content. I now think that the milk chocolate version is most definitely not  low sugar.

  One added problem was that it was quite late, gone 7pm, when I had dinner, and that extra sugar so late would have it's consequences. In fact everything I ate for dinner had one other big consequence - heartburn ! I lost track of time, but I think it was around midnight when I was finally comfortable enough to fall asleep. Once asleep I seemed to sleep very well - so well this morning that I slept through to 8am.

  I did seem to pee a lot last night, but then again I had drunk a fair bit of beer, and on reflection, I wonder if a few of those beers had a high sugar content. They were fruit flavoured beers, and unlike those nasty sour beers that Jodie likes, these were almost, and maybe actually, sweet tasting. Anyway, after getting up I went for another quite big pee, and also a rather large poo.

  I expected that after all that excretion my weight would possibly have dropped a little. In fact it went up. The worst thing is that my blood glucose was very high again. It was a strange wide mix of readings. The Contour meter read 10.3mmol/l. That is in the danger zone, but at least it was less thane yesterday's 10.5mmol/l. The GlucoRX meter read a far more reasonable 8.6mmol/l, and that was a fair bit less than the day before (9.6mmol/l). This month I am using my recently bought Exactive meter. That gave exactly the same reading as the Sinocare meter yesterday, and which was 9.9mmol/l - just on the low side of the borderline into the danger zone. This is all very unsatisfactory, and I shall try and do better for tomorrow's readings.

  Today I have nothing special planned. I did consider trying to drag myself out for some sort of walk, or even to do some pointless but interesting rail travel. I don't think that will happen. One thing I think I will more definitely do is a bit of laundry. I notice that the laundry basket is getting a bit full again. Apart from the usual instant noodles for breakfast, I may make my lunch and dinner just cans of soup. I have a feeling I won't be able to resist any snacks today, but I will try and keep them to a minimum.