The weather forecast for today is almost the inverse of recent days. Today has started with blue skies and nice sunshine, and after a 10° C start it is already starting to warm up. Unfortunately the full sunshine is forecast to give way to just sunny spells from 1pm. The sunny spells may continue until sunset. The afternoon temperature should reach 22° C. Overnight cloud means tomorrow may start a little less cool at 14° C, but it may only rise to a maximum of 17° C in the afternoon. The reason will be a lot of cloud, and quite probably a lot of inconvenient rain !

  Yesterday turned out to be another day that turned out to be completely different to how it was supposed to be. Instead of going out I stayed in all day long. The cool, grey and miserable morning was a strong reason for this, but there was one other that I'll come to later.

  I did lots of small things yesterday that didn't fill a tenth of the time available, but it still seemed like a semi-productive sort of day. Just for a change, I'll try and keep the details of most of my day brief, but there was one thing I did yesterday that can trace it's roots back to last Friday night/Saturday morning.

  It was while I was getting up to pee last Friday night and early Saturday morning, that I spied a large bodied, fat legged spider sitting on the ceiling. After getting up I felt in a better position to do something about it, but it seemed to have disappeared. I did not see it on Sunday, but yesterday morning it was back, but I only noticed it after using the shower. It had been sitting almost over my head. Once I was dry and part dressed I used a long stick to knock it off the ceiling into the bath. I could then get my glass and beer mat to trap and pick it up and dispose of it !

  One important thing I almost forgot to mention was that about 11am I phoned the surgery to see if I could make an appointment with the nurse for my annual diabetic check up. I was expecting an attempt to get me to use their app or website to make the appointment, but although that was suggested, it didn't become a barrier, and while it was a bit of wait to go through all the recorded announcements, I finally got reception. There was a long period of silence as she was filling through all the time slots until she found a free slot. I see the nurse at 9.30am on the 5th of June !

  From the above it is obvious that after I had finished writing, and having my usual rest, I washed my hair and had a shower. Once dressed I was theoretically ready to go out, but there was a problem. On Sunday I was constipated, although I was not actually uncomfortable, but I knew I could soon be. Before bed I took a laxative tablet. That did the trick, but maybe a bit too well yesterday.

  After a few visits to the the toilet I thought that maybe I was OK, but it was about 1pm, when I might have gone out because we had had a few sunny spells by then, that I felt the need to go to the toilet again, and this time it was only a notch or two less than diarrhoea. I thought it would be foolish to go out, miles from any toilet, in case that was not the last of it. It actually was just about the last of it, but last night I did do one tiny poo.

  It was just gone 1pm and if I wasn't going out I may as well have some lunch. I had two Ciabatta rolls with ham, mustard and salad leaves. Very enjoyable. As usual I had a lie down and did some reading for a while. I then went into action to do something I have been meaning to do for a while. It was to sweep most of the kitchen floor to clear any crumbs that the resident mouse might find.

  I have been using my trail camera to see it in action - usually in the small hours. It is interesting that it stays well clear of the traps I have put down for it. It is possible that as I do my best to eliminate all sources of food it may have to visit the baited traps. For the moment it seems to only stay at floor level, and without the trail cameras I wouldn't even know it was still there after I stopped seeing droppings on the work surfaces. I'll get it one day !!

  I was about to write that I was sure I had done more, but couldn't remember what it was, but I remember now. I also emptied the recycling bin, and the general waste bin. I had a few small boxes that needed breaking up and putting in the green recycling bin, and I did that too. At some point I had an afternoon snack of "whipped cheese", flavoured with chilli and cherry tomatoes. I had never seen anything like it before. I ate it using rice crackers to scoop it out of the pot. It was nice, but not as wonderful as I hoped, and I feel no desire to buy another pot.....but that doesn't mean I never will.

  My dinner was a Creole inspired chicken with rice ready meal. It was quite nice, but it did seem very small - smaller than the container it was sold in seemed to suggest. I followed it up with a large Conference pear, a red apple and a large orange. That fruit top up finally left me feeling full. I had a fairly typical night of watching TV, but there was an extra attraction, or maybe something to repel me - it was the very first episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. It was an awful episode. Thankfully it was the only Star Trek that featured a religion in a very big way - the awful Bajoran religion with it's prophets and corrupt priests and stuff. I only like the "evil" side - stories that revolve around Quark the Ferengi bar keeper.

  Once again I was in bed soon after 10pm, and once again I was asleep soon after 10:30pm. I think I slept well, but I can't remember a single thing about any dream I may have had, although I can remember that I did have quite a few dreams. I know I still woke up every 2 or 3 hours for a pee, and most time it seems I passed quite a lot of pee - which was handy when I came to weigh myself.

  I got up almost on the dot of 6am - a bit earlier than usual. I went for a  pee, and thought I would do a poo, but it was just wind. Maybe that poo will happen sooner or later. When I got on the scales I was quite surprised to see I had apparently lost 900gm ! That made my weight low enough that on my spreadsheet I recorded it in dark green - a whole kilogram lighter than light green !

   There were too many conflicting indicators to predict what my blood glucose was doing. It turned that that it was not too bad, but not too good - sort of a bit average really.  The Contour meter read 8.4mmol/l, and that is completely unremarkable. The GlucoRX meter read a good 7.4mmol/l. The Sinocare meter read 8.6mmol/l, and that suggests the Contour meter was probably about right, but the lower GlucoRX meter reading was some sort of fluke.

  The original plan for today was to try and do what I was going to do yesterday - go out to take pictures of trams and investigate Wandle Park. However there is now something that will take precedence. Sometime today I will get a delivery of a big box of beers I ordered on Sunday. The delivery is being made by DHL, and sometimes they deliver around mid morning, but sometimes later in the afternoon.

  If I am lucky enough to get a morning delivery than I might still go out in the afternoon, and if not I will have to stay on high alert until the beers are safely in my hands. Unlike Amazon, but like most other courier companies, DHL do send out a notification of a one hour slot when they predict your order will be delivered. I am no waiting on that before considering anything else.