It is cold and grey as I write this. However, I can see some large patches of blue sky, and so the sunny spells forecast from 9am look very possible. By midday they may be over, but it should remain dry until maybe 10pm when light rain is predicted. The temprature should slowly rise from this morning's 5° C to 10° C by midnight, but the afternoon may only be 8° C.  Tomorrow may start very wet, but it could be dry from 8am to 3pm when more rain will fall. There might even be a few sunny spells around midday. It should be warmer too with a magnificent 13° C forecast !

  Not a lot happened yesterday, and that should make writing this a bit quicker than recently.  Maybe it was one of those days when there was little pressure, or indeed need to do much, and so being quite lazy didn't seem boring. As far as I can remember, the day passed quite quickly.

  After breakfast, writing, and the traditional short rest after writing, I went to the bathroom to give my new improved patch over the crack in the bath a good test. I washed my hair, and I had a shower. I am happy to say that I detected no leaks through the new patch, and so no damp, or wet patches under the mats next to the bath.

  Once I had finished with the bath tub for washing myself I filled one of my big builders buckets with hot water and detergent to wash a couple of t-shirts, and over half a dozen pairs of underpants. I was content to let them soak for hours because I wanted to blow dry my hair, and then have some lunch.  Lunch was a very unhealthy portion of oven cooked chips with grated cheese on them. I must confess they were very nice.

  Once I had eaten I laid on my bed, and read while I started digesting that lunch. I think I may have even had a short snooze, or maybe I didn't. I can't seem to remember - maybe because I was asleep when I had the snooze ! It was several hours later that I went back to the washing that was soaking in detergent. I had a probably self fulfilling prophecy that I wouldn't do all the rinses and fabric conditioner in one session - and I didn't.

  With the laundry in the last rinse water I stopped work and I had a snack, although I am unsure what it was. It may have just been a handful of peanuts while I read some news stories on the internet (mostly https://www.theregister.com/). Having been rather busy yesterday, and the day before, I had quite a backlog of news stories to consider. I skimmed some and deleted them because they just seemed boring, but other were at least a bit interesting.

  After a break of 30 minutes, or thereabouts, I went back to the laundry, and finished it. I hung it up to dry on the big clothes horse in the dining room. There were still plenty of hours to go before I closed down downstairs, and so I started the dry with the fan heater set on low. From about 7pm I switched to just a desk fan to help the washing dry, and I ran that overnight. This morning I think it was all dry, but it felt cold to the touch, and so maybe it was still very slightly damp. I left the fan on, and will check later.

  I think I have a better idea of what I had for dinner - it was a couple of wholemeal deli roll with tomato, ham and mustard. It was quite tasty - sometimes I forget that simple is often better than throwing everything in the kitchen into a roll ! A short while later I had my last large orange. It was nice, but I think the novelty of eating oranges has now passed, although as they sit in the shop looking big and orange, it does seem very tempting.

  I watched, or semi watched, three different Star Trek's last night, The original series, Deep Space Nine, and Voyager. None of them was exactly gripping, and I often found my mind (and eyes) wandering. One interesting bit of news I saw during that time was that The Granite Band thanked me for my "brilliant pictures". It makes it all seem worthwhile to have my ego tickled like that.

  Later on I watched QI, and also the first few minutes of Have I Got News For You. The latter definitely didn't grab my attention, and I turned the TV off after those first couple of minutes. QI was OK, but maybe I was tired or something because it didn't strike me a great episode. I was in bed reading by about 10:15pm. I think I read to beyond 11pm before I turned the light out, and was soon asleep....or at least I think I was, but when I try to remember I find I have doubts.

  I seemed to have a fairly good sleep, and I can remember having quite a selection of dreams, but only a bit of one seemed "interesting". In this dream I had two brand new, identical button up shirts hanging on hangers. They were basically red with a slight stripy background. I tried one on and it seemed to fit beautifully. I then must have taken it off and left it on a small table. There was an almost identical shirt on that table, except it was a black version. It belonged to my (now dead) friend Nigel.

  I have no idea why we didn't have shirts on at the time, but when the time came I accidently picked up Nigel's shirt, and with no other choice he picked up mine. Nigel was at least 6ft 2in, and in later years he lost some of his slimness for a very small paunch. I am only about 5ft 10in with a rather large paunch. Somehow it seemed that my shorter body meant there was more girth in the shirt, and the opposite for Nigel. The stunning peak of that dream was that we were both wearing identical sized shirts, and both seemed to fit like gloves. It was weird, but pleasing.

  This morning I seem to have put on 400gm, but that was without a decent poo, and if I had got up an hour later (it was back to the earlier time closer to 7am when I got up) I would probably have had another small pee, and possibly a small poo. It is is possible (says he hopefully) that there was little to no increase in reality, but on the other hand it seems the inverse law was working for my blood glucose level.

  This morning my blood glucose level was not great, but all three meters showed it to be very average - except for October and June this year (and possibly other months) which had lower averages. The Contour meter and the GlucoRX meter read 8.4mmol/l. That is just under my old target of 8.5mmol/l, and I guess that makes them good readings, The Sinocare meter was a bit higher, but not by much. It was 8.9mmol/l. Meanwhile, at least my blood pressure was definitely very good at 104/52.

   There is just one important thing for today - it is a Wednesday, and I'll be heading for to The Jolly Farmers for a couple of lunchtime pints of Guinness. I doubt I will be seeing Kevin today, but you never know... We still have not seen a sunny spell yet, and maybe there will be one as I am travelling between Catford Bridge and Ladywell stations. That could be nice for some photography along the way. I must remember to take a bag with me, and go into the little supermarket on Catford Bridge so I can buy some nice fruit from there, and probably some instant noodles too.