09:00 BST

  Even the latest revision to the forecast for today's weather says it should be full sunshine as I type this. When I look out the window I see a milky grey sky, and not a hint of sunshine. Oddly enough, the temperature forecast is about right. It has just reached 20° C. At 6am it was just 16° C and feeling very fresh. Maybe we will get the full sunshine forecast soon, or maybe it will only be an early start to the sunny spells forecast for the afternoon. The temperature should rise to 28° C - the same as yesterday. Tomorrow may see more sunny spells than full sunshine, and the temperature may only rise as high as 26° C. There is a small, 10 to 14% chance of rain tomorrow afternoon.

  Yesterday was a good day, although not specially productive. The really good thing about was that I seemed to have recovered from my health difficulties the day before. I felt slightly wary, but I probably felt very close to normal, if not actually normal for much of the day.

  I think in response to the previous day's troubles, I had a mostly relaxed day yesterday. I don't think I wrote as fast as I usually do, although I will admit I probably made just as many typos as any other days ! Once I had finished typing, and having a short rest, I had washed and conditioned my hair, and had a shower. Although I had rinsed my hair, and had a shower (with soap) the day before (just in case I ended up visiting A&E, and went on to a couple or more days in hospital), it did feel good to have a more thorough clean - particularly after a stick night.

  The first big test of my health, and in fact it was probably the only test, was to go out shopping. I got myself dressed in shorts and t-shirt, plus my newest Adidas trainers (once again without socks), and took a walk to Savers. there were quite a few things I wanted from there - enough to make the walk worthwhile, and enough to make trying to extend my range a bit pointless.

  With hindsight I probably should have taken my rucksack. I had a bit of a weight to carry home, and it would have seemed far easier if it was all in my rucksack. Most of it was liquid, including two one litre bottles of bleach, bottles of shampoo and conditioner, a bit (but not the biggest) bottle of Listerine, and also some bottles of shower gel. It all added up to a fair weight, although compared to 4 two litre bottles of Diet Coke I suppose it was fairly light.

  The walk to Savers seemed fine. I was getting a little sticky in the heat and probably humidity, and I was just reaching my limit for non stop walking at a fair pace. Carrying my one, moderately heavy, shopping bag slowed me a bit on the way home, but not enough to make me want to pause for a rest (although I did have a short rest as I stood at the kerb waiting for it to be safe to cross the road).

  As I approached home I was feeling like I had just about reached my limit, but I still have a bit of stamina left - just enough to go upstairs when I got home. All I bought would be stored either in the bathroom, or in me bedroom. It was good to get out of my outdoor clothing, and into just a pair of shorts - which felt a lot cooler. When I had put everything away I thought about some sort of lunch.

  I was quite keen about the idea of lunch, but I was less clear as to what to have. I wanted something relatively "safe", and thought that maybe I would have rice crackers with slices of cheese (but not with pickle this time - with hindsight I realise the pickle I had the day before was probably instrumental in raising my blood glucose yesterday). What I actually had should have raised it even more, but by some unknown voodoo ice cream seems to sometime help and not hinder. It was great to finish off the tub of choc chip mint ice cream I had managed to make last nearly a week.

  After my lunch I had a lie down to read, and to almost have a snooze. I don't think I actually fell asleep, but I did lie there with my eyes closed for a while. What I was supposed to be doing after a short rest was to continue to wash some laundry. It was all pairs of underpants, and there may have been more than a dozen pairs ! Wringing out one pair of underpants is not a lot quicker, or easier than wringing out a t-shirt. I was not looking forward to the job, and so I left it for another couple of hours.

  I don't think I can boast of doing anything productive during the whole afternoon, and I guess the even was no real difference, although I did watch some video recordings - although that is not productive either. I think it was slightly before dinner time, say, around 6pm, when I went back to my laundry. By then it was about as hot as the day would be, and plunging my rubber gloved hands into hot water was not a great sport ! I wrung out the detergent from the underpants, and got them all into the first rinse water before I gave up.

  I did have some fanciful idea I would get back to the laundry later in the evening when it was cooler, but of course that never happened. before even considering that I had a fairly light dinner. It was some semi/lightly spiced ready cooked lumps of chicken with coleslaw. The chicken was OK, but nothing to get excited about. The meal was not that filling, and later I had a chunk of cheese, and I am sure I had something else, but I can't remember what.

  There was some TV entertainment last night. Sky Arts were showing a repeat of the semi wonderful concert "Mick Fleetwood And Friends - a celebration of the life of Peter Green". Having seen it once already I knew it to be very wonderful in places, and sometimes a bit tedious. After a while I thought something lighter would be better, and started to watch more of my old recordings of Red Dwarf.

  At 9pm it was still light outside, but it felt like time for bed. I read on my bed for little more than 10 minutes, and soon after that I was fast asleep. I had a very normal sleep. Of course I woke every 2 or 3 hours to have a pee, but that is normal for me now. It was only towards the morning that I had a few bigger pees. Before that they were often small. I can only remember the theme of one dream. It was about a train that was very unusual in so much as it was an Underground train (although not deep tube) that was hauled by an electric loco instead of having electric motors on each carriage. Most of the line it ran on seemed to be single track. Any other details seem to have evaporated like most dreams do.

  It was feeling noticeably cool when I got up this morning - which felt nice. So far this morning I have not passed a poo, but I did have a big enough pee to make my weight a whole 400gm lighter. I am back in the light green on my spreadsheet colour code, and I am hopefully on my way to drop more weight, and end up in the dark greens again after an annoying blip in my weight. After dark green comes dark blue, and I managed a couple of those before disaster struck.

  The very good thing this morning is that my weight going down didn't mean my blood glucose going up. This morning the Contour meter read 6.5mmol/l, and that is excellent. It is a shame the other two meters weren't so good. The GlucoRX meter read 7.0mmol/l, and that is very close to very, very good. The Contour Plus meter still had a good reading, but it let the side down with a reading of 7.3mmol/l. Of course that would have been considered extremely good until I started to get the occasional reading in the sixes.

  The Met Office forecast is less optimistic than the BBC forecast this morning. The BBC says we should be getting full sunshine, while the Met Office says just sunny spells. The reality is that the whole dome of the sky is still a slightly dirty white, and there is no hint of even a single ray of sunshine. I guess it is probable the sun will eventually break through - if it doesn't rain ! This is only for academic interest, and may have no bearing on the rest of the day.

  The most important thing once I have had a rest is to get back to the laundry, and get it out of the bath, and hanging up to dry. I can then take a shower. I had contemplated going to Tesco today, but I don't think I really need to. I will probably just be lazy until mid afternoon when Jodie should be over for a beer tasting session. My intention is to have one very strong beer, but mostly drink some of the weak beers from my latest orders, and maybe even have a soft drink or two.