This morning started off very mild, even mildly warm at 16° C. I'm unsure if there was full sunshine at 7am, but there definitely is now, and it should, or could, last until 2pm when we may only have sunny spells until sunset. It is possible we may get a shower at 6pm. The temperature should peak at 25° C. That is not as good as yesterday, but still pretty good. Tomorrow may only see sunny spells, and will be a few degrees cooler. Just 21° C is forecast, but that is still just t-shirt weather. After tomorrow the weather reverts for what we are told is more typical for May. That mostly means temperatures under 20° C (but maybe not by much) for a couple of weeks.

  Yesterday was another mixed day - mostly good, but it went wrong in the evening, or more accurately, I went wrong in the evening, and of course booze was to blame......at least 50% ! This morning I don't feel like writing much, but possibly will.

  Yesterday started off rather well. There was the usual writing, rest and then shower, but after that I went to the pharmacy to collect my latest repeat prescription (something I had intended to do on Wednesday). After getting that home I had a brief sit down, and then I went shopping in Tesco. I didn't measure these two walks, but experience suggests I was walking for at least 24 minutes, and probably several more. That seemed good enough for my daily exercise, although I didn't bother to record it.

  I bought some nice, very fresh seeming, Ciabatta rolls in Tesco, as well as a few more small tins of mackerel. I think I was probably intending to buy sardines for their apparent lower sugar content. When I got home I made my lunch. It was fairly light for a pre-boozing lunch, and maybe that was a mistake, or maybe not. Just one small tin of mackerel split between two rolls, with some pepper and a bit of mayonnaise on one half of the roll, made for an unexpectedly delicious lunch.

  After lunch I did the usual mix of resting snoozing and tidying up the kitchen and dining room ready for the boozing session. This time Michael joined Jodie and me. He had plenty to say - mostly negative stuff about Lewisham Council ! I don't think we had any particularly strong beers yesterday, and maybe slightly less than usual. That was partly because Jodie was going to a gig in the evening, and didn't want to get too soused beforehand.

  I was definitely feeling "mellow" after Jodie and Michael had left, but I don't recall feeling drunk enough for the bad decisions that followed. I suppose the rot really set in while I was shopping. I could not resist getting a small tub of BBQ chicken wings. By themselves they would only have been mildly bad for me, but I ended up having nearly a full big bag of crisps with them. I made matters worse by following that lot with some ice cream - possibly nearly 2 scoops worth.

  After some evening TV I went to bed, but I felt too uncomfortable for sleep. I felt bloated. A few of the beers I had in the afternoon were very gassy lagers, and that seemed to fill my stomach with gas. I'm not quite sure how I seemed to be full of gas at the other end of my digestive tract, but as I laid in bed I was burping and farting, and yet neither seemed to stop the feeling of bloat.

  I seemed to have no choice by to get up for a bit and try to let it all settle down. Even when it seemed I was falling asleep at my PC, I still couldn't seem to fall asleep in my bed. It may have been past 1am before I got about an hour of sleep. I suppose I woke for a pee, but as I recall it was not a very big pee. I think I may have been waking about once an hour until 6am, and each time I never seemed to do a big pee until 6am. After that I went back to bed instead of getting up.

  I almost managed 2 hours of sleep then. When I got up I did a fairly big pee, and a very large poo ! That was sort of handy because obviously it made me more comfortable, but also it meant that when I got on the scales I didn't get an awful reading. In fact it seemed like I had only put on 200gm, and was still close to the units digit dropping by one. If I am careful I might achieve that tomorrow morning - if I am good !

  While my weight was basically satisfactory, my blood glucose was all over the place. Depending on the meter it could have been very good or very bad. The Contour meter was the bad one (and I tried it again with the same result). It said my blood glucoe was a very bad 9.1mmol/l. On the other hand, the GlucoRX meter read a very good 7.9mmol/l. The Sinocare meter read a little higher, but not too high with a reading of 8.8mmol/l.

  I do find it odd that after feeling so bad last night, and feeling quite creaky this morning, my blood pressure is still very good this morning. It was 98/43 just now. My pulse rate was a little higher than usual, but 58 bpm is still very acceptable in a semi resting state (or so I believe without any real knowledge of these things). Even with that bit of semi good news, I still feel lousy. It is probably mainly missed sleep, and aches and pains from sleeping in awkward positions or something.

  Even without how I currently feel, I had been thinking of taking a sort of rest today, and by that I mostly mean not going out for any exercise. Instead I could do stuff like washing some clothes, and if I can raise the enthusiasm to wield the strimmer, I could cut a path (over the actual path) to the washing line to hang it in the sun to dry. The only fault with that idea is that the sun went in 15 or 20 minutes ago, and the breeze coming through my open windows is feeling almost chilly.

  I've just closed the windows, and had a good look out the front. It looks quite grey outside, and the sky is looking very cloudy. It looks the same out the back of the house, although in that direction it is easier to see that it is not very dense cloud, and there still are some small gaps that the sun could shine through if they happened to be in the right place. This is not the full sunshine that the BBC is forecasting.

 However, I note that the Met Office forecast does show mostly "sunny intervals" for today. I am thinking I may opt to dry my washing indoors.....on the other hand, it is still forecast to reach at least 25° C today (possibly 26° C) and that should be good enough to dry stuff if there is a bit of breeze.