07:59 BST

  My weather station barometer says it is 1012mb, and the icon next to it is a yellow sun. It suggests that today may be a nice day. The BBC forecast says the first three hours of today would feature rain. It is dry as a bone outside, although it is rather cloudy. Later on it shows some sunny spells. The next chance of rain may be 8pm, although it does show a low chance of rain for almost every hour today. The temperature may briefly peak at 23° C today. Tomorrow may start with a few sunny spells, but most of the day may be dull. Light rain is forecast for 3 hours from 2pm, and the temperature may only reach 21° C. Just recently it seems we have seen the last of summer, and are now in mid autumn.

  I spent the first half of yesterday debating what to do. In the end I gave up and just decided the weather was far too variable, and tending towards the bad side, to even consider doing anything but staying in, and being mostly bored. I did end up doing two useful things. One was discovering that some coleslaw I thought should be safe, was actually loaded with sugar !

  Before leaving the subject of the weather: We have just had some very light rain. I only noticed it as a light speckling of rain on my bedroom window. I doubt it lasted more than a minute or two. I fear that today may be like yesterday - too variable to make any proper decisions.

  Yesterday morning I had no idea what the weather was doing, but with some mild intention to go out shopping, I had a shower after I had finished writing, and had had my usual post writing rest. My intention had been to go to Aldi via Michaels house so I could drop off his birthday card (he was 78 yesterday), and also a birthday present of 4 cans of strong lager. I feel a bit guilty about it, but when it came to it I just could not bring myself to go out in such unpredictable weather.

  I was almost about to write that I had an ultra lazy day yesterday, but I did three useful things (I've just remembered the third thing, but didn't go back to correct what I had written about just two things a few paragraphs back). After I had had my shower I put in a small hand towel in to soak in Bio detergent. It was in use to protect my pillows during some of the sweatiest nights recently, and was very greasy.

  I would come back to that towel later. My next little job, which slightly expanded in size as I went along, was to take out the bag of stuff for the recycling bin. At the time the sun was almost shining, and it seemed nice to stand outside, Stanley Knife/box cutter in hand, and slicing up two bit cardboard boxes from previous beer deliveries, to put in the green recycling wheelie bin.

  While it was almost sunny, there were still some dark looking clouds to be seen. It was probably little more than 5 minutes after I went back indoors that I heard several peals of thunder. I ever saw any lightning flashes, and although some of the thunder seemed moderately loud, it did seem to be coming from far away. As the last peal of thunder was fading away we had a really heavy downpour. The odd thing is that looking out both the front and rear windows, I could only see light cloud. It was as if the cloud responsible for the heavy downpour was sitting directly over my house.

  By now it felt like time for some lunch. I started off with some ice cream. I knew it was fairly high sugar, and that my blood glucose would probably peak very high, but it never seems to leave any trace of it the next morning. The ice cream was nice, but it is hardly filling - particularly when I made sure I only had a small amount. I should have had the ice cream after what I ate next - it would be more conventional the other way around.

  The second part was something that I thought should be very safe. It was some crispbread like flat bread, with pumpkin seeds on it, and a small tub of coleslaw. The third thing I did yesterday was to look closely at the nutritional information for that particular brand (Delphi) coleslaw, What I saw was horrifying. It said that there was 6.8gm of sugar per 100gm, and the whole tub was 230gm. Just that tub along had 15.64gm of sugar in it, That was higher than the ice cream I had eaten. I've had my suspicion about that coleslaw before, but it was only yesterday that I seeked the truth. In the future I will stick to Tesco coleslaw - it is very low sugar by comparison.

  I might have allowed an hour for my lunch to settle before I went back to the hand towel that I had left soaking. The soapy water it was soaking in looked very greasy. I gave it about 6 rinses, but I took a break after that. It may have been an hour later before I went back to it, and it seemed that two more rinses were enough. I hung it on the big clothes horse in the front room with a fan on it. It was fully dry only a few hours later.

  After I discovered the truth about that coleslaw, and had eaten it on top of the ice cream, I decided that my dinner had better be nice and simple, and ideally safe. It was going to be two packets of instant noodles. One of them was supposed to contain zero sugar. The other I think was fairly low. It was not a terribly healthy dinner - being fully processed food with no real fruit or vegetables, but I enjoyed it.

  I will confess that a bit later (20 minutes later, maybe) I had a snack like "afters". It was some more of the crisp flatbread with some cheese on it. It was probably not very filling, but it tricked my mind into thinking I had a full dinner.  I must admit that I was tempted to have more snacks later because all that was on TV last night was pretty tedious. About the only programme I paid that much attention to was an old repeat of QI, but even that was not really an attention grabber.

  I think QI finished at 10pm and I went straight to bed. From then it was a very familiar story. I read a couple of pages from my current book, and 10 or 15 minutes later I was fast asleep. I think I woke at about midnight to go for a pee, but it was 3am when I woke next time, and that time I did not get straight back to sleep. I was feeling cold, and I grabbed the empty duvet cover to cover me. That part worked, but at 4am I was still feeling cold,

  I then decided to give in and turn the heater on low. I don't think it was until 5am before my bedroom was feeling warm enough for deep sleep. I had been awake for most of the hour waiting for it to feel warm. I didn't sleep for much more than an hour until it seemed to be time to get up. I still felt very tired, but I didn't think I would be able to get back to sleep again, and didn't really try to.

  Some of my later pees were fairly big, but some in the start of the night were hardly worth bothering about, and I think it was just force of habit to get up and go for a pee.  By this morning it felt like I had done enough, but more would have been better - even if that would be a cheat. This morning, just over 200ml more pee would have seen my weight drop enough to register a 100gm loss. Sadly it turned out to be a 200gm gain. It is still in a fair place though.

  Resisting eating more yesterday worked in one respect. There was a small drop in my blood glucose this morning. Any drop is good, but I would have liked a much bigger drop more. The Contour meter read 8.1mmol/l, and so did the GlucoRX meter. The Contour Plus meter read 8.2mmol/l - slightly higher, but in the same ball park. The average of all three was 8.13mmol/l, and that is an improvement on 8.4mmol/l the day before. The day before that it was 8.2mmol/l, and so this morning was very slightly better than that too.

  Today's plan is quite simple. It is a Wednesday, and as I'll be taking a walk through the park, diverting to Ladywell station to pick up two copies of The Metro, and then on to The Jolly Farmers. Once there it will be the usual 2 pints of Guinness, do as much of the crosswords in The Metro as I can, and listen to, and maybe take part in some banter. I am hoping to take a chance of not putting on a coat, although it might be not such a bad idea. As well as the possibility of rain, it is currently a bit cool outside -  currently about 19° C.