07:56 BST

  It's another very dull start, but it is a less cold start than yesterday. My thermometers say it is 19° C as I write this, Sunny spells are forecast, and hopefully they will start in the next few hours. From 2pm we may get full sunshine until sunset. The afternoon should reach 27° C, and stay that warm for 4 hours....maybe.  From midnight there could be rain, but tomorrow may start dry, although there is a fair chance of rain at any time tomorrow. There may be some, but not many sunny spells, and the temperature may be a disappointing 24° C.

   Today is the day I see the doctor at 9:30 this morning. It means I will have to stop writing soon, and then pick up where I left off when I get back - hopefully after collecting my next repeat prescription after seeing the doctor. Yesterday was a semi good day, but I had hoped it might be better.

  Yesterday morning started out in a typical way - my usual writing, resting and showering. I then got ready to go out. I thought I was going to try for a long walk in the River Pool Linear Park. I hoped I might even manage just over 3 miles, but it never happened. For unknown reasons my feet, mostly the soles of my feet, seemed to feel uncomfortable. It felt like I had got sand in my trainers, but I hadn't.


 I got as far as Catford Bridge station, and decided that was enough. I had accomplished one thing - picking up a copy of The Metro. I also took a picture of the front and back of a train, but it was nothing new or exciting. It would have been a 10 minute wait for the next train, but I couldn't be bothered to wait that long because I had an idea - I would go home via Thomas Lane, and see how the building work was progressing to refurbish the old Catford Constitutional Club (pub). For the last year or two it has been covered in scaffolding, and very little could be seen.

   I was sort of happy to see a lot of the scaffolding had come down, and I was able to see some of the many repairs to the building. The Council, who now own the place, say part of it will reopen as a pub, and other parts of it will be devoted to "the arts", and interestingly enough that may include live music. I must admit I dread to think what sort of live music. I have strong doubts that it will be any type that will appeal to my musical tastes.

  I wasn't exactly feeling great when I reached the side and back of The Constitutional Club, but I didn't feel that bad, and decided not to take the shortest route home.

  This was my first view of the (old) Constitutional Club building. There was still quite a lot of scaffolding up, but just peeping over the wall is one part that seemed clear of scaffolding.
  Another 50ft down the road, and more is revealed. A new feature is what looks like it might be a terrace bar one day. It is on top of what used to be the kitchens for the club/pub. The white painted building is the oldest part of the building. I think it was originally a farmhouse dating back to the 17th or 18th century. It is apparently the oldest surviving building in Catford.
  I got this shot through a gap in the fence. The old farmhouse has quite a distinctive roof, but it is not so apparent in this view. I'm not 100% sure that the refurbishment has retained the roof profile, or maybe it is just the angle of the photo. One new feature is the iron staircase going up to what might, or might not become a terrace bar enclosed by the new iron railings.

  After taking the above picture I could have gone straight home, but I had it in mind to go just a little further. I walked around the corner into the open air car park next to Tesco to see if I could get any snaps from the other side. Unfortunately, at this time of the year the trees are too dense to see much. Next I headed to The Black Cat (the old Catford Ram) to see if anything was going on there.

  The sandwich board outside still says they have live music, but they only musical (by a warped definition) stuff they showed was karaoke on Friday nights (I think). I carried on my way, but still did not go directly towards home. I went to the high street to see if there was anything happening at the second Catford Constitutional Club. There were a few lights on inside, and still piles of beer barrels just inside the place, but the most significant thing was a notice on the front to say the place had been seized and secured by the owners of the building because of huge rent arrears.

  At that point I could have crossed the road to see if anything was happening to the old Wetherspoons pub, the London & Rye. From across the road it was obvious it was still closed, but no obvious changes could be seen from across the road. There were reports, third or fourth hand reports, that another pub chain had bought the place, but obviously have done nothing with it. I expect it will be replaced by a block of flats.

  The whole of the high street is slowly dying. More and more shops are closing, and many just remain boarded up, but a new one will open soon. It is called the Catford Indoor Market. Fitting out work was going on as I passed it. Quite what will go in it is a mystery, but the owners are presumably optimistic, although I would rate them as a dodgy bunch purely because they have a hotmail email address !
   I finally arrived home after a 1.155 mile walk - rather more than I thought I would do (once I realised I was not up to doing a far longer walk). I didn't do anything of any great significance once home, and I am going to skip describing any more of my day apart to say I managed to get to sleep very slightly earlier than most nights so I could be up bright and early for today, and my doctors appointment this morning.

  I thought I had eaten very carefully yesterday, and so I was a bit surprised to see I had put on 100gm instead of losing several hundred grams. In fact before it was time to leave to go to the surgery I passed more pee, and two lots of poo, but it was too late to record any details and print off the spreadsheet. Had I done so I might have recorded a loss of at least 200gm.

   I was also rather surprised that my blood glucose readings were not lower.  Bother the Contour and GlucoRX meters gave an identical reading of 8.7mmol/l. It was very surprising to see the Sinocare meter read just 8.8mmol/l. I will try and remember that this figure must be where the Sinocare meter starts to read nearer the same as the other two - as long as it is lower figures. Higher figures get further and further apart for some reason.

  It seemed fresh out when I walked to the surgery, but I noticed I was not the only person in the waiting room with a slightly shiny (from light sweat) forehead. I waited long enough, although probably only 10 or so minutes, before I was called to see the doctor, and by then I had cooled down OK. I am sure I have seen the doctor before, but I didn't recognise her name. She had a sort of Asian appearance, but spoke perfect English.

  It was a very interesting appointment. One reason for it was there was a slightly elevated serum reading on my last urine test sample. She didn't think it was of any great significance to it yet, but worth keeping an eye on. She definitely said that my resting blood pressure was too low - not something you expect to hear from a doctor after years of being told it was too high. She has said to stop taking the blood pressure control drug, Indapamide. It is the drug that only has a small affect on blood pressure, and apparently it could be having a small effect on my kidneys, and causing the small rise in serum level.

  Apparently it seems that when I saw the nurse near the beginning of the month it was only a diabetic foot check. I am supposed to have a more general diabetic checkup, and an appointment has been made for 4th July. On the 11th July I have an appointment with a doctor who specialises in cardio-vascular problems. I said that I am supposed to be under the care of the hospital Cardiologists, but with my next appointment not being until October she thought some interim ideas might be good.

  Finally, today's doctor asked if my GTN spray (almost nitro glycerine spray) was effective. I told her that doctors have been asking my that for the last 15 years, and yet no one had ever prescribed the spray - until now ! I am now in possession of a GTN spray. Apparently it is not just for when I get angina pains, but also to help the feeling of breathlessness I get when walking too fast and too far.  I am looking forward to trying it soon - and that could be soon if I don't get this uploaded to the web server very soon !