08:52 BST

  Yesterday the forecast for today was for a very wet day, but this morning it seems less severe. Admittedly the whole afternoon could feature light showers, but only two hours, 5 and 6pm, show more than a 50% chance of rain. The temperature could be another day when only 21° C is forecast (although yesterday did reach 22° C). Tomorrow could start semi-chilly at just 14° C, but it may be sunny, and it may be the first of a series of days featuring more and more sunshine, and rising temperatures, although tomorrow may still only peak at 21° C. 

  Yesterday was not a good day for me. I did not feel well, and by lunchtime I was wondering if I had 'flu or something. All sorts of bits of me, mostly joints and muscles were aching. I'm tempted to say this improved during the day, but on reflection, I am not sure it did.

  One trouble yesterday was that it felt like I should be in a mad rush. I wasn't really, but it did mean I got up earlier than I later seemed to think was a good idea. As well as aching muscles and joints, I seemed to feel something among the choices of weary, tired, fatigued or knackered ! It made writing yesterday's piece a bit of a drag, and I couldn't even pad it out with any pictures.

  Once I finished writing the temporary relief felt good enough to finish editing one of the small photo sets from Chatt Fest a week ago yesterday.  The band were the assorted, and I think their entire photo album only had 6 pictures in it. I can't remember exactly, but I think it was when I was having a lot of trouble with poor light, and resorted to using flash. Some pictures came out OK, but many were terrible. There was a string of them that were desperately out of focus.
  This was one of the best pictures I took of the band (or the two front members of it). It is a shame that it is only technically OK, but as a photo it lacks any pzazz, or something. I think the awful stage and poor lighting sapped any slight creative skill I might have.
  I did manage to get a pretty fair group picture of the band standing in a quiet corner of the Chatterton Arms back garden. Even here I had to "force" the picture to make it look a bit shiny under a grey sky. (Note that there are no shadows in this pictures because of the bland grey light from the sky).

  Having done with The Assorted band I did make a small start of the next band who were on - The Four Horsemen. I don't remember them as being a very exciting band....in fact I don't remember anything about them. What I do remember was that I think I got fed up with the poor light, and started using flash. I have not fully checked yet, but I think it improved the pictures a bit.

  I had to give up photo editing for the time because I needed to have a shower, and get prepared for an afternoon beer tasting session with Jodie. I had a fair bit of washing up to do, and I had to empty both the ordinary rubbish bin, and the recycling bin to make room for more empty bottles and cans. The ordinary bin was getting a bit whiffy and so emptying that was definitely needed.

  Jodie arrived a bit later than expected, and I had started boozing at least 15 minutes before she got here. I was still suffering from aches and stiffness, and stuff, and so I had opened a can of 7.5% Carlsberg Special Brew. I'll admit it was a sort of desperate measure to take, but on the other hand, when chilled it is fairly pleasant. I am dubious about it's sugar content, and will soon be assigning some blame to it.

  Jodie was in one of her very uncommunicative moods. She preferred to spend 3/4 of her time glued to her phone - checking Untappd, the beer recording website to see who was drinking where and what. If she wasn't scanning through that she was scrolling through Instagram looking for cat and squirrel pictures. On top of that, she was not drinking much. I think I had two more cans to drink by myself. It was one occasion when I not only not minded getting drunk, but intended to do so.

  Jodie left to get the 6:30pm train to London (on this occasion), and I was looking forward to tucking into my dinner. It was supposed to be just a single Tesco Chicken Jalfrezi curry. It was nice, but probably because of the booze, it felt like no more than a snack, and I wanted more. The quickest and easiest thing was to make up a portion of instant noodles. To my mind (at the time) it didn't seem like much, but it was enough to fill an empty space in my stomach.

  It was not long after eating that I brushed my teeth, and almost, but not quite, went to bed. I had intended to read for a while, but I didn't even open the book. I laid down with my eyes closed, and I fell asleep. I woke up an hour later, just before 9pm, and I seemed to feel OK. I watched Have I Got News For You, and then, instead of going to bed, I started on my photos again. I hadn't taken many photos of the next band, The Four Horsemen. (possibly spelled Hoarsemen).
  They were another band whose music didn't leave any impression on me, but my flashgun made an impression on my photos. I wish I had started using my flash gun much earlier in the day when it was equally dull outside.
  Using flash I got a fair picture of the whole band on stage. I thought I also took an off stage line up of the band as well. Maybe that picture is in the middle of the pictures I took of the last band that I saw, The Ferrets.....Hmmm, on second thoughts, the picture above is not very good at all.

  With that last set of 13 pictures done I hurried back to bed, and it was not long until I was fast asleep. I don't think I slept all that well last night because as well as some heartburn, I was still bothered by aching joints and muscles. The heartburn was the worst thing because it is so similar to the start of angina - and that could be possible if, as I still wonder, I had done some more damage to my heart after another busy weekend.

  I didn't seem to pee all that much during the night, and that was a shame because when I weighed myself I found I had out a huge amount on in the last 24 hours. By huge I mean a fantastical 2.1kg. I know that yesterday I had lost 1.3kg, and that amount was a bit of fluke, but even so.... I am not sure what to blame for it. I don't recall eating that excessively during the day.

  The lack of peeing suggested that maybe my blood glucose should have been very good this morning, but it was actually a complete disaster. The Contour meter read 9.1mmol/l - a quite bad reading. The GlucoRX meter read 9.5mmol/l - a truly terrible reading. The Contour Plus meter was over the red line with a reading of 10.2mmol/l - well into the danger zone. One difference to previous good readings is that I had no ice cream, or cakes yesterday - either should raise my blood glucose because the amount of sugar in them, but somehow seem to do the opposite.

  In some respects I do feel better (but maybe not good) this morning. I definitely ache less - with one exception, my right shoulder was generating a bit of pain earlier, but upon testing it before writing this, its seemed to feel OK. In other respects I still feel bad, or maybe annoyed a bit this morning. While trying to write this I had a mega long phone call from Sue, and I have had a long-ish call from Lee. I have also had a couple of text messages from Angela, but I can easily forgive her.

  It is now 1:15pm, and I should have finished writing over 2 hours ago. As yet I haven't had a shower, and now I am feeling that I can't be bothered to have one. So unbothered that I have got my big buckets out, and have put two t-shirts and some underpants in to soak. I maybe get back to them after I have had a hopefully very safe lunch. After that, or maybe in the middle of it, I must start to do the photos of The Ferrets Punk Rock Band that I shot at Chatt Fest on Sunday before yesterday. Once they have been done I can start on the pictures I took at Petts Wood Calling last Saturday (2nd August).