My right elbow, and the barometer function on my thermometers say rain is on the way, and it seems the forecast agrees, but not until 7pm tonight when it should start with drizzle. After that there will be 3 hours of light rain. This morning didn't start at 6° C. All my thermometers say it was around 9° C. The afternoon may only see 10° C. It is currently, and will stay this way all day, very dull. Tomorrow may be even cooler, with a high of just 9° C, but it is possible there will be many hours of sunny spells.

  Yesterday may have started with me feeling horrible, but somehow I was feeling good from early afternoon. It seemed like all aches and pains had faded away. Of course that did come at the expense of burning a lot of electricity to keep the room, and much later, two rooms warm.

  Yesterday I wrote one of my longer electronic diaries (2342 words), although not the longest by any means, but it took a fair bit of time, and left me feeling very lazy, and in need of a rest when I finished uploading it all. After maybe as much as an hours rest I had a shower, and then got ready to go out. I had put off, or was just unable to go to Tesco for too long, and while it still wasn't absolutely essential to go, it did seem most important.

  I was expecting the walk to Tesco through the cold air to be quite painful. I did get a few twinges, but it was not a lot worse than some days. Once inside the store I had a few definite needs in mind - chilli sauce, instant noodles, and Diet Coke. I also had a naughty urge to get something super nice, and inevitably terribly unhealthy. What I got was actually only a bit unhealthy. It was a mature cheddar and onion quiche.

  One other thing that I wanted was something meaty, and I bought a (cold) ready cooked chicken. I'll break that down into parts and and roast the bits for extra flavour. I also bought extra fruit - some kiwi fruits and some Persimmons. From the reduced price shelf I bought a Chicken Jalfrezi ready meal, and that will probably be dinner tonight. The final things were two different wholemeal rolls - I had a fancy for some cheese and something rolls.

  The walk back home seemed extra hard work because my rucksack was full to the brim (sort of) with 8 litres of diet coke, and three cans of soup (another thing I bought). I also had a shopping back and somehow that seemed very full. By the time I was home I was feeling tired, quite sweaty, but otherwise not really in that much pain. It was definitely very good to put all the shopping down and take my coat off.

  After putting all the shopping away, except for one item, I took that one item, the mature cheddar and onion quiche, and had it for my lunch. It was nice, but not great. I have no idea why I thought this one would be any better than all the ones I've had in the past. After eating I had another lie down, read a couple of pages, and then I snoozed. That snooze may have lasted an hour. I know it ended at 3pm, but I have no idea when it started.

  I had to kick myself into action when I woke up. After my shower I had left some laundry soaking in detergent, and I was determined that I would ignore it, and have to do it today. The detergent actually still felt slightly warm after maybe 3 hours since I had started soaking the laundry. The "laundry" was actually nothing but underpants - a whole 10 pairs of them. No wonder my box of them was getting low, although if I had done nothing I could still have worn fresh underpants for maybe another 10 days, and perhaps a few more days if I resorted to some that are not as comfortable at the rest.

  While wringing out underpants does not cause much difficulty, it still means bending down to fish them out the bucket to wring them out, and that caused some aches when having to do it 10 times for each stage. I got as far as the last rinse, and took a break to straighten out all my muscles. It might have been half an hour later when I finished the last rinse, and then did the conditioner. I hung all the underpants on the small clothes horse in the dining room, with a fan heater on low blowing at them to help them dry.

  It wasn't long after that before I started to prepare my dinner. I started off with two wholemeal rolls with cheese and ham, with mustard, in them. With hindsight I think they would have been far nicer with cheese and onion instead. After eating the rolls I went back down to the kitchen to wash some fruit as a dessert. I had two small apples, a kiwi fruit, and a small "easy pealer" orange.

  The orange was not all that good, but everything else was. One of the small apples was the last one from a pack I bought from Aldi at least a fortnight ago. Initially they were hard and sour, but a fortnight of extra ripening made that last one rather tasty. I think it was on par with the Cox apple I had, although a slightly different taste. The Kiwi fruit was nice, but very messy to easy. My hands were covered in Kiwi fruit juice my the time I had eaten it, and I had to use soap and water to get them clean and non sticky.

  After my dinner, and maybe before it, I was feeling really good, in so much as I didn't seem to have any aches or pains. That feeling persisted, and when I went to bed, after watching QI on the TV, I got into bed, and read without any hints of acid indigestion, or aches from anywhere. I am not sure how long I read for, but I started to feel sleepy, and for the first time in ages I seemed to just fall asleep soon after I turned the light out. My guess is that was around 11pm.

  I didn't wake up again until almost 2am, and that was for a pee, or at least I did have have a pee, but it seemed small enough that I could have slept for another hour before it became important. It was only around 5am, and when I finally got up at about 7.20am that I seemed to do a big pee. It could almost have been that my blood glucose was low enough to not need to frequently pee.

  After the pee, but sadly not a poo, when I got up, I weighed myself, and I can't quite understand how it could have happened, but it was as if I had lost over one kilogram. I did do a couple of very big poos yesterday, but it doesn't seem likely they were much to do with such a large weight loss this morning.

  When I checked my blood glucose I found the strange inverse rule was in operation again - large weight loss, large glucose gain ! The Contour meter read a very bad (but still not extremely bad) 9.2mmol/l. The GlucoRX meter read a bit lower at 8.8mmol/l - acceptable bit still higher than desirable). The Exactive meter was sort of sensible this morning with a reading only a bit higher than the Contour meter, although on second thoughts, 9.8mmol/l is more than a little bit higher.

  Another illogical surprise is that my blood pressure has returned closer to it's average this morning. It is 106/49. The illogical surprise is because this morning I am in pain again, although this pain has a sort of real reason. The ache from my right elbow and wrist sort of mirrors the reading on my thermometers with built in barometer functions. Neither give a numerical display of atmospheric pressure, but they do show a trend, and a suggestion of what they trend means. This morning that say rain is coming, and although I don't think a full scientific reason for it has ever been satisfactorally explained, it is a well documented thing that many people, particularly older people, say their joints start to ache when bad weather is on the way - and I am included in with those older people !

  There is nothing I have to do today, and there is nothing I want to do. It looks like I can have a really lazy day. Maybe that might be a bit too boring, and I'll find some stuff to do. One thing is likely to be more laundry. Only about 5% (and a completely wild guess) of my t-shirts are in the laundry basket, and I could probably see the new year in before I need to worry about having a fresh t-shirt, but I may as well wash a couple, or maybe all three (!) today. I can't see myself going out today, although I am sort of curious about how well my very thickest, hooded winter coats fit this winter. I am theoretically about one single, measly kilogram lighter than some days last winter, and so those coats may be ever so slightly less tight. Maybe, just maybe I might do a short walk to Poundland or something if I feel the urge to stretch my legs.