08:37 BST

  I think it was around 8am when I opened the curtains to see outside, and I don't think there was full sunshine then - more like an extended sunny spell. The sun is shining as I write this, but some of the sky is cloudy, and the sunshine may turn to sunny spells for a while - which is exactly what the forecast says for 9am (which it is as I write this). There could be a couple of dull hours from midday, but sunny spells will be back later, and full sunshine by the end of the afternoon. 26° C is forecast for today. Much of tomorrow will be dull, but there may be some sunny spells, and the last couple of hours of daylight may feature full sunshine. By then the temperature will have peaked at 28° C, will be on it's way down again.

  For reasons that I might try to think up more fully later, yesterday was a day when not a lot happened. The odd thing is that when I look back, the day seemed to flash by, but that is an illusion. I am sure I remember times when it seemed like time was only trickling by,

  I have to confess that yesterday was one of those semi rare days when I never did get around to having a shower. It was partly because I was too busy doing nothing. Although......on reflection I did spend a fair bit of time after I had finished writing yesterday's piece, and I spent that time doing yet more writing.

  I wanted to thank my two sisters for my birthday cards, and because my older sister is always asking about my health (I suspect she thinks my cardiovascular problems are more serious, more terminal, than reality) I spent quite a time writing (typing) probably something equivalent to a couple of A4 pages about my recent health, visits to the doctor and stuff. I saved time when writing to my younger sister by copying and pasting a lot of when I had written to my older sister. I also asked if she could send me a better version of a picture from either 1966 or 1967 of me, her and my mum in Leysdown.

  One of my next tasks was to call the Vampire line to book an appointment to give a blood sample. I specified I wanted to go to the place in the same building as the Group Practice I go to. The receptionist mis-heard me and booked an appointment for a different place, but was very happy to change it to the right place when she confirmed it, and I said it was wrong. I guess that call only took 5 or 6 minutes.

  One cause of great anxiety yesterday was uncertainty about a packet delivery. Earlier in the day I had ascertained that the next thing I had ordered from Aliexpress was in a local depot, and seemed like it would be out for delivery. It was a long wait, but at 15:17pm I got an email to say it would be delivered between 16:30 and 18:30. It was 17:42 when it was actually delivered.

  I learned a good lesson from that delivery. When ordering from Amazon, what you see is what you get. Aliexpress is different. What you see is what options you could select from to be delivered. The picture I saw showed three different sized nano SD cards, and a USB reader for them. I thought I had ordered all three cards plus the reader, but I had only ordered one 128GB nano SD card. That was obviously disappointing, but the price I paid for it was still about half the price that Amazon was charging - so a useful lesson for the future.

  During the long wait for my packet to be delivered I had a light-ish lunch of blue cheese and rice crackers. When I came to dinner my fridge was almost bare, but I did have a pack of Tesco "Firepit" mini baked potatoes with a spicy (and sugary) dressing. It was quite a big pack, enough for two even at my preferred sizes, and I had half of them with a small tin of Tesco pork and ham (essentially Spam, but that is a registered trade name). I also had some mustard with these slightly odd dinner.

  That dinner was not quite big enough for me, and I fancied a dessert. What I nearly had was the last 4 or 5 sugar free "Fibre" biscuits from two opened packs. I don't really know how I came to have two opened packs, but it may have been because I thought those last remaining biscuits in one pack were probably getting stale, and I opened a new pack. I don't know if the stale pack was really stale when I opened the second pack, but it was most definitely extremely stale yesterday. My dessert was only half the size it might have been.

  I ate my dinner while watching the BBC 6 O'clock news. I then watched Star Trek: Voyager and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. Neither was excellent viewing, but they passed the time painlessly.  At 9pm I headed to bed to read for a while. I think I only managed a couple of pages before I put the book down, and as far as I can remember, I was soon fast asleep. The fact that I can remember quite a few dreams in varying detail - the worst being little more than a single still frame of a dream - all suggested my sleep may not have been as deep as I think.

  One dream had one interesting (for me) bit in it. I was visiting a friend back in the day when he lived with his parents in Dulwich. Maybe it was the first time I had been in his big back garden (as dreamed), and I saw that there was a railway line in a cutting next to the side of the garden. It evidently when through a tunnel under the house, and also the road at the front of the house. The really odd thing is that I am sure I was thinking that when I woke up I would check some maps to see where that railway line went. Back in the real world no such railway line exists.

  Another dream was all mixed up, but had one common thread. That common thread was the band Ransom. They popped up several times in the dream, and usually the lead singer would remind me they were playing that night, and that I should go. Towards the end of the dream I bumped into the lead singer again, and he was urging me to go. He actually driving a small flat bed lorry with loads of stage gear on it. he said one of the others would soon be following him in another lorry, and I should join him, and pretend to be a roadie to get full back stage and front stage access for free - a tempting offer. I think I said yes just as I was waking up.

  I may have woken up a now typical amount of times inn the night for a pee, but as far as I can remember, I only passed a small amount of pee each time. I had one more medium sized pee when I got up. I pretty much knew I had not lost any weight since yesterday morning, and it turned out that I had actually gained 400gm. I know I probably had a few snacks that would have helped this, but water, and also poo, retention definitely didn't help. For now this small gain in weight is of no worry. I have stayed in the same whole kilogram range for 10 days now, and my weight always has these small ups and downs, and for some time now, more downs than ups.

   Not seeming to pee much in the night may, by the skin of it's teeth, have suggested lower blood glucose this morning. It almost is, but not as low as I want. The Contour meter read 8.3mmol/l, and while it is not low enough to get into the green (on my personally designed spreadsheet) it is fairly good. The GlucoRX meter read exactly the same, and that is a fairly good check on the accuracy. Sadly the (possibly soon to be retired) Sinocare meter read 8.9mmol/l. That Sinocare may soon be replaced by a Contour Plus meter if I managed to order what I thought I was ordering from Aliexpress.

  There are several things I have to do today, and possibly most of them before the afternoon is more than an hour old. I have to pay off one of my credit cards. I have to have a shower (although I don't think I'll bother washing my hair), and I thing I definitely think I have to go to Tesco to stock up my empty fridge - which will include 8 litres of Diet Coke to lug home.

  I also still have a few things left in the kitchen sink to wash up, and I have a slowly growing pile of laundry to do. It would be good to get that done some time early in the afternoon. The trouble at the moment with predicting the afternoon is that I think I may be expecting a delivery. The Evri website can be a bit vague, as can the Aliexpress web site when it comes to tracking the progress of a parcel. I can't quite work out if Evri have my parcel at the local delivery depot, or are going out to collect it from the incoming airport and customs. Until they definitely say it is actually out for delivery, which only seems to happen as little as 15 minutes after  the earliest delivery time, I feel left in the dark.

  There is one other thing I would like to do, and it is to go out to a gig this evening. Chain are playing in The Partridge in Bromley tonight. It is easy to get to, if a little tedious spending about 30 minutes on a bus. The downsides are that it usually gets very crowded inn there, and I usually give up trying to do any decent photography, plus there is likely to be one or more people in there that I would prefer to be in a different pub. They are harmless, but I find them deeply annoying. The very biggest hurdle is that the gid starts at the really stupid time of 9pm (if it actually starts on time) and by then I have trained myself over the last year to be in my bed by then on most nights, and if I am not actually in bed it is because I am watching something on my TV already dressed for my bed just two paces away !