07:23 BST

  The change happened in the early hours of this morning. Rain was forecast to start at 2 or 3am, and in one version of the forecast (the BBC's of course) a thunderstorm was forecast for 4am. I doubt if I would have slept through it, and so I don't think it happened. I am not sure I would describe this morning's rain as heavy, as per the forecast, but it is definitely persistent. At the moment it is somewhere between heavy and light rain. The so called heavy rain should finish at 10am when the thunderstorms (may) start. Of course they will usually be with very heavy rain. I think the current forecast just shows the worst that could happen rather than what will happen. One thing that seems almost certain is an early evening high of 22° C..... now shown as just 21° C My thermometers say it is already 20° C. Tomorrow replaces the heavy rain with light rain, and there may only be two hours of thunderstorms. Once again the temperature will peak at 21° C.

  In one respect, that being controlling my food intake rather well, yesterday was a good day. In most other respects it was a mix of bland, boring, and generally not much good.  In many ways it could be described as a day of missed opportunities. On the other hand I suppose I felt fairly good, as in not depressed, for most of the day.

  It was because of weight and blood glucose gains that I shipped breakfast yesterday. I didn't really miss it until maybe 11am when my stomach started to growl. I had had a bit of lie in yesterday, and so I started to write fairly late, and I didn't rush what I was writing. In theory I should have made less mistakes, but if I bothered to carefully read it all back, I am sure I would find plenty of typos, missing words, and some words spelled correctly, but not the word I meant to use !

  I wrote just over 2,000 words, and I was happy to finish writing. I looked forward to a nice shower because I was feeling quite sticky and smelly. Before I could do that I gave in and had some breakfast. I had just one small packet of instant noodles instead of the more usual two packets. I treated it as a very early lunch, and so it was quite some time before I had a snack instead of lunch. It was still a light lunch of rice crackers and apple and cider pork pâté.

  By this time I should have had my shower hours ago, but in the end I new I was going nowhere, and I would not be seeing anyone, and I was happy (sort of) to wallow in my own filth, so to speak. It turned into another day where I amused myself by rotating between book reading, snoozing, and reading assorted stuff on my PC. It was surprisingly easy to snooze in the same conditions that would have made sleeping at night hard - e.g. hot and sticky.

  I had a few ideas of what I might have for dinner last night. I had some reduced price (so near, and maybe just past their use by date) sausages that I considered eating. I started cooking them quite early in the afternoon in a couple of stages. When fully cooked I decided I did not want them for dinner, and so once they were cool I put them in the fridge for another day - probably today.

  My actual dinner, eaten when watching the BBC 6 O'clock News, was two small portions of different flavour instant noodles (not eaten mixed together). It didn't make for a balanced diet, but I had some sort of semi insane confidence that they contained only a small amount of sugar, and not many calories. This morning my mad guesswork was vindicated !

 After the BBC news I part watched Star Trek: The Next Generation. It was a semi interesting episode, but it failed to completely grab my attention. It was followed by Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. It was a very tedious episode about Bajoran religion and politics. I probably heard most of it, but my ears were sort of closed, and my mind was on reading more stuff on the internet.

  Later on there was an episode of QI that was a poor episode. I think I watched a fair bit of Have I Got News For You, but maybe I was feeling tired, and I had trouble paying attention to it. I have no idea why I should have been so tired considering I had done almost nothing during the day. I turned off the TV at 11pm, and then tried to read in bed. I'm not sure I managed a single page before turning out the lights.

  I did two things before I went to bed. One was around 10pm. I checked my blood glucose, and I was happy to see that it was below the red line, and the prospects of it falling a lot while sleeping seemed good. The last thing I did before getting into bed was to weigh myself. If I managed to pee about a full litre during the night, which usually happens, I was confident my weight would be OK this morning.

  Despite feeling hot and sticky, but also a bit cold where the fan was blowing at the top of my body, I seemed to fall asleep very quickly and easily. I thing nearly 3 hours passed before I got up for a pee. After that I only expected to sleep for little more than an hour because of the heavy rain, and thunderstorm that was forecast. I slept soundly until about 5.30am, and if there was a thunderstorm I must have slept right through it.

  I had a pee when I woke up at 5:30am, but it did not seem to be a very big pee. I managed to get some sleep in the next hour, but not a lot. When I got up at 6:30am I had another pee, and this time it was quite a lot, but still not enough - or so I thought. It was maybe 20 minutes later, and after I had recorded my weight, and blood glucose readings that I went for another small pee. I had to weigh myself twice because I misread the scales the first time, and may when I had weighed myself a bit earlier. The final tally was that I had lost a full kilogram since yesterday morning.

  I am now almost back to where I was before Thursday's boozing made my weight go up by a large amount. But there is more to come. Just after I finished the previous paragraph I had to go to the toilet again twice. The first time was quite normal, but the second time was a mad dash. It seems like I have almost completely emptied my digestive tract, and it is possible there is more to come. My weight now, after drinking a couple of glasses and eating two portions of instant noodles, is exactly what it was before I did that eating and drinking. If I am careful today, which might just about be possible, I might see a useful weight loss tomorrow morning.

  Sometimes it happens that my blood glucose goes up when my weight goes down, and vice versa. I am happy to say that was not the case this morning. My glucose is not as low as I would like, but not bad. The Contour meter gave the lowest reading at 7.4mmol/l - which is very good. Both the GlucoRX meter and the Contour Plus meter agreed that my blood glucose was 8.3mmol/l. That is higher than I would aim for, but quite good enough.

  Now comes the interesting question. What am I going to do today ?  I have strange perverted fantasies that I will put on a light, hooded raincoat, possibly one of my not worn for many years, light plastic raincoats, and go for a walk in the park. I suspect that my lightweight plastic raincoat, not worn since I was last at work, and then possibly several years prior to retiring, may be nasty and smelly. Maybe checking it would be a good idea even if I am unlikely to want to go for a walk in the rain.

  On the other hand, I am running very low on Diet Coke, and it is either just drinking chilled tap water, or maybe just going to Tesco in the rain, or maybe during a lull in the rain. I would prefer to go to Aldi, but that is a slightly longer walk. regardless of whether I go out or not, I really must have a shower this morning, and ideally I will take a bit of extra time to wash my hair. Both my body and my hair currently feel very sweaty. It is all the fault of the humidity. I have the window open, and in theory it should feel almost cool outside, but it still feels very close. A walk could get very sweaty. If I was just walking in the park I could just go out in a t-shirt and nothing on my head, and let the rain wash me clean.