Today should be like a slightly (one degree) warmer version of yesterday. The sky is, and should remain blue, and the sun should be burning down all day long. It may still only reach 24° C. Tomorrow should stay dry, but the morning may be very cloudy. The cloud may start to thin at 1pm, and we'll get the first sunny spells of the day. 7 and 8pm may feature full sunshine. It will be a much cooler day, but not cold. 17° C is forecast.

  I think I can describe yesterday as "satisfactory" - again ! It was not very productive, but it was productive enough. I didn't take a lot of advantage of the hot sunshine, but I did take some advantage of it. It was probably the evening that was least productive.

  Like the day before, yesterday was another mostly relaxed sort of day. There was no rush to do anything, and maybe that helped to get a bit more done....possibly. I seemed to write quite a lot yesterday morning, and so it was around 10.30am before I finished and could put my feet up for half an hour (or was it an hour ?). Once I was back in action I had a basic shave, and then washed my hair, because it was feeling greasy from some sweat in these warmer days. I then had a shower.

  One of my worries was that I was expecting an Amazon delivery yesterday, and I had a feeling it might come early rather than mid evening. I wanted to get some shopping in, and feared I might miss the delivery. I got myself dressed, and as I was about to go downstairs I spotted what could be an Amazon delivery taking place down the road, but I could not see the delivery van. I pondered the idea that it might have just been someone re-using a box with the Amazon logo on it.

  I polished the lenses of my sun glasses, stuffed an extra bag into my rucksack, and then put on the rucksack. I opened the front door, and before I could turn around to lock the door a man, evidently from Amazon, handed me my packet. The timing, mine and his, was very right yesterday. It was a pack of 24 Duracell AA batteries - some of which I would use later.

  My original plan was to walk to the station to pick up a copy of The Metro, and then walk to the shopping centres to go in Savers and then Poundstretcher. Now my new, wide fitting, trainers are starting to get comfortable I thought I would do a bit more walking in the trainers I bought from Tesco. They did get more comfortable after changing the laces to those that would allow a bit more movement, but yesterday they seemed very uncomfortable - not exactly painful, but they seemed to make my ankles ache.

  Instead of going to the station I walked directly to Savers. Apart from the foot and ankle ache, it was nice walking in the sunshine (until I went through the gloom of the multi storey car park). Maybe the sun was a bit more enjoyable because I was walking slower than usual because of those trainers. It was like wearing wooden boxes instead of a shoe. I think it is only when trying to take long(ish) strides that they are uncomfortable. They seem fine for standing still in.

  In Savers I bought a typical selection of vitamins, toothpaste, personal cleaning stuff, and household cleaning stuff. I then crossed the way to Poundstretcher. I was hoping to get some zero sugar fizzy drinks in there, but all they had was some sugar free Irn Bru cans, and I already have a few of them in the fridge. I did buy a few food items, and some large sticking plasters to go over my bunion.

  One thing I wanted was going to be something like a large salad bowl. I actually wanted it to use as a fruit bowl to help keep things like apples out of easy reach by mice - not that I have seen any evidence of the mouse ever touching fruit that was just left on the work top. All I found was described as a mixing bowl. It looks a bit weird, but it seems to do exactly what I wanted. With hindsight, I think Tesco have some large pyrex mixing bowls that would look rather better than plastic.

  The walk home was just as bad as the walk to the shops, and I was very happy to get home again. Once indoors, and only walking very short distances, those trainers seemed to feel mostly OK. After putting my shopping away I changed into indoor clothes. While I was stripped to my underpants I got on the scales again. My weight seemed nice and low (comparatively speaking).

  I had an idea that I would try and keep my weight down. Instead of a couple of rolls for lunch I had a couple of small (60gm) pots of instant noodles. The nutritional panel on the pot says they have less than 0.5gm of sugar, and only 54 calories per pot. That should have been a better option than a couple of filled rolls.  Later on I did have a couple of small (25gm) packets of crisps, but even they should not have been all that bad.

  One of my tasks yesterday afternoon was to finish washing a couple of hand towels, and hang them on the washing line to dry in the sunshine. I am not sure what time I finished the job, but it was probably a bit after 3pm. That allowed plenty of time for them to dry in the strong sunshine. I brought them in just before 6pm, and they were bone dry and feeling warm to the touch.

  Another little job for the afternoon was to get out my two trail cameras, and set them up. That included fresh batteries, and setting the correct time. I wanted them to watch two views in the kitchen. I knew they were sensitive enough to activate on the heat of a small mouse, and I wanted to see if I could catch the mouse in action. I had not seen any new droppings for a day or two, and I wondered if the mouse was even still active. I am happy to say that the cameras were not triggered at all, except by me, from about 7pm last night to 7am this morning. Maybe the mouse has somehow moved on, or it has finally died. It may have starved to death because I made it very difficult for it to get to any food, or maybe it has stashed a lot of food in some discrete place, and doesn't need more food for now. I will set the cameras for the next few nights to see if they catch anything.

  It had been my intention to spend a bit of the afternoon reading The Metro, and attempting the crossword puzzles, but I didn't get a copy. Instead I filled in some gaps of the day with laying on my bed reading. The afternoon seemed to pass very smoothly, and before I knew it, it was time to put my dinner in the microwave in time to eat it while watching the BBC 6 O'clock news. It was a Tesco, Chicken Vindaloo ready meal.

   It was probably the most unhealthy thing I ate all day (in terms of sugar content and calorie content), although it didn't seem to be that bad. I followed it with some fruit - an apple, a large orange and a pear. I put the peal into the temporary waste food "bin" (a 2 litre ice cream container), rinsed the curry container and put that in the bin. I got a 2 litre bottle of chilled tap water from the fridge, turned the train cameras on, and then locked up downstairs.

  I tried to watch Star Trek: Voyager after the BBC News, but it was a rather tedious episode, and I probably spent more time looking at the internet. After Voyager I read my book for some time, but returned to the TV at 9pm to watch another repeat from 2017 of Have I Got News For You. That finished at 10pm, and I went to bed. I was going to read, but realised I felt too tired of that, although I did stay awake for long enough to go to the toilet. I had only done one small poo during the day, and it seemed like I might need to do another - and indeed, with some patience, I did do another small poo.

  The fact that I remember so little about it suggests that I probably fell asleep very quickly once I had turned out the light, and found a comfortable sleeping position. Last night felt different, and I am not sure why. I woke at similar intervals to pee as usual. I can't remember any good dreams, but I can remember that I did have dreams even if none were memorable enough to try and remember them.

  Maybe the only real oddity, although there is precedent for it, was that at about 4:50am I woke up, went for a pee, and then it took well over half an hour before I got back to sleep - at least I think it did, but I have to admit I could have dreamed I was awake. I woke again at about 6am, and tried to go back to sleep again, but this time I failed, and I got up at about 6:20am.

  After checking and recording my body temperature (35.2° C) I went to the toilet, and only did a pee. I then weighed myself, and I seemed to have gained a lot of weight despite believing that most of what I had eaten didn't add up to anything bad. A bit later, after counting out my daily pill, I went to the toilet again, and this time did a trickle of pee and a small poo. When I weighed myself again it wasn't quite so bad, but I still seemed to have put on 500gm in 24 hours.

  It initially looked like my blood glucose was a bit higher than hoped for, but I re-did the Contour meter, and on the second attempt it said a very good 7.1mmol/l. The GlucoRX meter read an almost as good 7.3mmol/l. Even the Sinocare meter was playing the game again. It gave a good reading of 7.7mmol/l, although that is a bit higher than the other two. With a string of warm and sunny days (except tomorrow) ahead it might be possible, if I try really hard, to start getting some readings in the rarely seen sixes, but it would need a lot of discipline.

  The main thing on the menu today is to go for my regular lunchtime in The Jolly Farmers, for my 2 pints of Guinness, and trying to do the quick and cryptic crosswords in The Metro. I think I am going to walk to the pub and back again rather than get the train. I need nothing from the little supermarket on Catford Bridge, and so I may as well go straight home through the park. I shall have a camera with me, and I expect I will make frequent stops to take pictures, and have a very short breather...probably.