Until mid evening, yesterday, the advanced forecast for today showed much more rain, and several lightning bolts, but this morning it just shows two hours of light rain. The weather warning does warn of thunderstorms, but that is a general thing that seems to cover most of SE England. At the moment I can see a lot of what I think they call fair weather cloud, but while it may have slightly dimmed the sunshine on one occasion, it feels like we have had almost full sunshine so far this morning. The chance of rain only rises to 42 and 43% at 2 and 3pm, and that is low enough that there may not be any rain at all today. It will be cooler today, but 21° C is still fairly good. The forecast for tomorrow currently shows full sunshine from dawn to dusk, and an afternoon temperature of 23° C.

  One thing I forgot to mention in advance was that I knew Jodie was busy, and we would not be having an afternoon beer tasting session. That left me free to do anything I wanted to do. That amounted to almost nothing, but I did do something that painlessly consumed a bit of time.

  I started writing very late yesterday morning, and with all the pictures I had to show, it took a long time to finish - almost up to midday. That effectively wrote the morning off. I thought I ought to go out for some exercise, but whether it was a legacy of a tiring day the previous day, or something completely different, I could not raise the enthusiasm. For a while I did think that maybe I might go shopping, but I couldn't even bother to do that.

  I was 99.9% sure I would not see a single soul yesterday, and so I didn't even bother to have a shower ! I did bother to prepare and eat lunch. It was two Ciabatta rolls filled with corned beef, sliced tomato, salad and horseradish sauce. They were very nice, but somehow they have now lost their novelty value, and I feel I will move on to something different for lunch. In my fantasy world that would be nothing for lunch, but I have doubts I will manage that.

  After lunch I laid on my bed and did some reading. I think I probably had a snooze as well. It was almost an accident that caused my remaining afternoon to filled with a new job. It started when I saw the date I had scribbled on a scrap of paper. I was pretty sure that I knew what it was - the date of my first ever picture of a Croydon Tram.
  The picture was taken 27th September 2001, and shows the tram in the orginal red and white livery I was sure I must have taken more pictures of trams in the past, and I spent ages looking without finding any other pictures until this year. For some reason I seem to have taken quite a lot of pictures of trams this year, and all without setting out to take pictures of them ! It is possible I may go out on a deliberate tram photography sometime soon.

  Checking back through years of pictures took up some of yesterday, and then making a new spreadsheet listing all 35 trams that run on the Croydon tram system, seemed to take up the rest of the afternoon. Like my train spreadsheet, and also the underground train spreadsheet that I had forgotten about, it shows all the trams I have photographed with a link to the picture I took. I think it took me until about 5pm before I had finished (until I take more pictures).

  I had to scratch around to find some TV entertainment while I had my dinner. I can't recall having any snacks since lunch, and I tried to continue the healthy way when it came to dinner. I am not sure if I succeeded. I had a three part dinner that started with dessert ! I had some ice cream as a starter. It was supposed to be just a snack until I realised how late it was. I followed that by a Sainsbury's ready made egg and potato salad. It was quite tasty. Part 3 was some fruit - one apple, one pear, one nectarine and one kiwi fruit.

  I did manage to find a bit of TV entertainment. It was film - a version of Day Of The Triffids. I am sure I have seen far better, but I may be confusing it with a couple of TV and radio serialisations of the story. Maybe one of the best was an old radio serial that more closely followed the book, and had a few extra bits, or so I believe. Maybe it helped that it was adapted for radio by the original writer - John Wyndham.

  According to Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Day_of_the_triffids#Adaptations) there has only been one film made of the story, but quite a lot of radio series, and several TV series. Many will have quirks that mean the story meanders from the original. I have recordings of one radio series that I ought to try and find time to listen to again. I remember it as being rather good.

  I attempted an early night last night, but I could not get to sleep early. Maybe sitting in front of my PC all afternoon, and a lot of the evening, left me too many aches to get comfortable in bed. I can't seem to decide if I did get to sleep for maybe an hour, but woke up again to take a couple of painkillers. I may have been confusing it with another night, but I know I definitely took a couple of pain killers last night. I am not sure they were needed because I seemed to fall asleep faster than they would have taken effect.

  Once or twice yesterday afternoon, and maybe early evening, I thought I seemed to be peeing more than usual. That may have been the case because I didn't seem to pee much during the night - either in frequency and or quantity. I did have one dream where I dreamed I was doing a big pee. I woke up from the dream, and worried that I might have peed the bed. Fortunately my record still stands at not peeing the bed for the last 67 or 68 years ! Having woken up, checked for dampness (and found none) I raced to the toilet where nothing happened.

  One other dream I remember was a bit strange because it was like I was writing a story, and considering various plot lines. It was about a school where a class was seen to be looking up at some planes flying overhead. The teacher thought that maybe the pupils wanted to be pilots. He arranged with the local RAF station for the class of 20, 10 a day, to have a go at the flight simulators there. Half the first ten who performed worse were to be sent back to school.

  The 5 from the second ten were sent back to school. The remaining 10 were there then out through the simulators more intensely. Half of those were told they may have a future as civilian pilots. The final 5 were put through more intensive simulator training. A few were put on a list of definite future RAF pilots, but a few failed because in one exercise they refused to shoot down a gunman taking pot shots at them.

  It was a very curious dream, and I am unsure how much of that basic storyline was part of a dream, and how much I may have added to it while awake - maybe even while peeing. I guess a lot of it was inspired by the book I am reading about the Apollo moon landings. Most of the astronauts were from military backgrounds and had spent time on simulators - both military and for the moon landings (although the actual details were glossed over because they were not part of the main narrative).

  Even when I got up I only had a small pee this morning, and as a result (at least I think it was a result of it) I seemed to have put on 800gm this morning. I didn't help that I didn't poo. I can't recall pooing much yesterday, and so some of the weight gain may have been poo retention too. I have had a semi decent poo since, but it was after breakfast, and there is no point on getting on the scales and weighing me and my breakfast.

  Having the ice cream and fruit in the early evening probably did little of my blood glucose. The contour meter read 8.3mmol/l, and that is fairly good, but I had hoped for a lot better. The GlucoRX meter gave a very different reading to the other two. It was 7.0mmol/l, and that is about as low as I dared believe possible. The Sinocare meter agreed more with teh Contour meter. It read 8.6mmol/l. That is OK, but nothing to celebrate.

  At least my blood pressure is very good this morning. Admittedly on my second attempt, it read 101/45. It is that time again when I wonder aloud what I am going to do today.  Although it shows no rain for 1pm, there is still a 21% chance of rain. Somehow it would seem to be tempting fate to say that means it won't rain. The chance of rain at 2 and 3pm increases to 42 and 43%, and that is in the "maybe" sort of range. It does not encourage me to go.

  I may still go out for a little bit of shopping, and will probably do it with no precautions. I predict I will probably go to the station to pick up a copy of The Metro, and then come home via the little supermarket on Catford Bridge. I definitely want some more Polish goulash flavour instant noodles. I had them for breakfast, and with some scotch bonnet chilli sauce they were super delicious. No doubt I would get other flavours too. I also want to top up my fruit , and usually that is a great place to get tasty fruit (although the last nectarines needed at least 3 or 4 days to ripen enough to be enjoyable).