08:25 BST

  This morning did start bright and sunny as per the forecast. This may mean it is snowing by midday, but maybe the forecast will turn out to be correct and we will have undiluted sunshine until sunset. The temperature will only go as high as yesterday at 26° C, but we may see much higher by Sunday. Tomorrow is currently forecast to be almost as sunny, and the temperature may reach 27° C.

   Yesterday was a day when I really should have done a lot more, including some sort of walking exercise. For some reason I just could not raise the enthusiasm for that. I did very little, and yet the day seemed to pass very smoothly. The best thing is that I seemed to achieve lower weight and blood glucose this morning.

  I really don't know why I didn't feel good yesterday. I half blamed it on a hangover that was so mild I was hardly aware of it, or because I may have slept in draft, and a few muscles and/or joints seemed a bit sore and/or creaky. I now think it more likely it was mild depression after seeing my blood glucose and weight measurements. The depression idea doesn't seem right either because that would usually make me eat more, and I ate less.

  Maybe I just thought I deserved to be lazy. I must admit I did enjoy laying on my bed reading, although I did feel restless now and then, and did other things. One such thing was to investigate other sources for a protective case for my new Honor mobile phone. I did not want to pay almost as much as the cost price for postage if I bought it from Amazon. I feel they are taking the piss recently because I will not sign up to Amazon Prime. I very much doubt one customer among millions can make any difference, but I think I have cancelled at least three orders in the last month or two because of excessive postage costs.

  One of the first sources of a case for the phone was Aliexpress. I did, and still do feel very dubious about this Chinese outfit, although I think they now have an almost global presence. I know it was a loss leader - something cheap to draw the customers in, and I am sure it was a new customer discount, but it was hard to resist 75p for the protective case, and free postage and packing.

   I guess I am also impressed that it has been shipped already. I am unsure where it has shipped from, but it has an Evri delivery consignment number. On the other hand, the tracking info says it is at an airport, and so is probably coming from China. It predicts it will be delivered on the 23rd June. I guess I am happy to wait that long if I save about £4 from the Amazon price, and about the same for Amazon's delivery charge.

  It was about 1pm when I seemed to have already shed half of my weight gain from the previous day to yesterday morning. I didn't check my blood glucose, but experience suggested it would have fallen nearer a safer amount by then. That was all the excuse I needed to stop fasting, but I still played it as safe as I could. I had a double portion of the small packets of instant noodles that claim zero sugar content.

  Having those hot, and spicy, or maybe "peppery" is a better description, noodles did make me feel quite warm, and that made me feel a bit sleepy. So it was back to my bed and book. If I can't explicitly remember it, then there is a good chance that I fell asleep without actually trying to, although I can't actually remember waking up either. Nevertheless, it seemed like a lot of the afternoon evaporated, and it was getting ever closer to dinner time.

  I feel sure there was something useful or productive that I might have done before dinnertime arrived. but I don't seem to remember anything notable. I ate my dinner while watching the 6 O'clock news on BBC 1. It was a chicken salad - two small ready roasted chicken breasts with a heap of salad leaves, a few small tomatoes, some low fat coleslaw, and a scoop of potato salad. It seemed pretty nice and as unlikely as it seemed, it seemed filling enough to make me not want any more.

  Bother Star Treks that followed the news on TV, Voyager and Deep Space Nine, did not hold my attention completely, and I kept going back to read a backlog of technology news stories from https://www.theregister.com/. I did pay far more attention to Have I Got News For You when that started at 8pm. It finished at 9pm, and I turned the TV off and thought about bed.

  It was very warm in my bedroom last night, but outside the temperature was dropping. I closed the window before attempting to sleep, and I had the fan heater on just blowing cool air (but not at me). Mainly I seem to have come to like the soothing rattle of the fan.  At this point things get very vague. I think I had turned the light out at around 10pm, and I think I was probably fast asleep 10 or 15 minutes later.

  One notable thing about last night was that apart from some sweaty stickyness, I seemed to feel OK for sleep. Nothing seemed to ache, not even any hint of heartburn. I had a completely drug and antacid tablet free night. On the whole it seemed like a slept well last night. Of course I did wake maybe 4 times in the night to go for a pee, but that is just normal these days.

  I can only remember some bits of a dream. I seemed to be in a supermarket, but it was mostly in darkness. It could have been a trick to save me having to imagine more details inside the place. All of the checkouts were unstaffed, but there were no self service checkouts. It seemed that if you stood at a checkout, someone would appear to serve you. The bit I remember most of, but even so still a bit hazy, was buying an load of small soft drink cans. There seemed to be enough to fill a small bin liner, and that was what I was trying to carry them in. I can remember waiting to see if the bag would burst or split, but I woke up at that point.

  I seemed to visit the toilet for small poos many times yesterday, and so it was no surprise that I didn't poo when I had my first pee of the waking day. I suspect a poo is on it's way, and could be here soon. Maybe that meant that I seemed not to have lost any weight this morning, but that is OK because my weight is not too bad this morning, and if I do the exercise I will probably do today, I might see a useful improvement tomorrow.

  One thing that had definitely improved was my blood glucose. The Contour meter read 7.9mmol/l, and that is only slightly above my rarely achieved lately, target. The GlucoRX meter read very slightly better at 7.8mmol/l. The first Sinocare meter reading was insane. It read 9.5mmol/l - ridiculously higher than the other two. That was using the last test strip in the pack, and I opened a brand new pack. I also pricked a different finger for the blood sample. That time it read 8.4mmol/l, and although higher, it is not a lot higher than the other two meters.

  There is one thing controlling my day today, and it is the expected delivery of the stuff I ordered from Premier man - which includes a pair of shorts I probably don't need now except for them being black. I prefer black shorts for some occasions. The only info I currently have is that my parcel is at the "final delivery station". That should mean it will be out for delivery some time today. I think that Evri are not good at giving estimated delivery times. The last delivery from them was supposed to have been between 3 and 4pm, but it was amended to 3:30 to 4:30pm. It was actually delivered at 6:12pm. It was 3:15pm when they sent the email to say it would be delivered between 3pm and 4pm. They do not give much advanced warning of the delivery.

  It would be easy to believe that the delivery driver would keep a similar schedule to last time, and that I would be safe to go out provided I was back home before 3pm today. I seem to be finishing this writing earlier than typical, and maybe I can get out for a walk before midday, and if I only walk to Ladywell and back, I should be home in plenty of time - unless the Evri driver had a row with his wife, and left for work extra early this morning. This is is why delivery days cause me so much stress. I just don't know when I can relax, and when I have to be on high alert. The only good thing is that it seems fairly definite the parcel will come today, and it won't interfere with my usual Wednesday lunch time visit to The Jolly Farmers.