08:16 BST

  This morning started with almost clear sky - I think the sky looked more hazy than blue, but it is looking blue now, and we have strong sunshine. The sunshine may give way to just sunny spells soon, , but full sunshine may be back at 7pm. For all that sunshine the forecast says this afternoon will only reach 21° C.  Even tomorrow, which is currently forecast to have over half a day of full sunshine, may only see 22° C. By the weekend we may see 25 and 26° C.

  Yesterday was another bad day, although the worst of it was the morning when my schedule was set back 3 or more hours thanks to long phone calls. Neither had to be that long, and the second one could have been answered by a simple yes or no.

  It was my original plan to finish writing by at least 11am, and with luck, maybe 10am, but it was almost 1pm before I finished. As mentioned above, and also yesterday, I had two long phone calls. The first was Sue, who if I didn't put my foot down, would have been talking halfway through the afternoon too. It was all the more annoying-ish because she was asking questions about stuff I have no experience with. As far as I am concerned, doing stuff on her iPhone is her speciality, while I do all the stuff on my PC, but even then there is stuff I have just never done even on my PC.

  Lee started off asking a simple question which I answered with a simple no. Then he went off at a tangent and started talking bollocks. I think he just wanted to talk or something. I can usually grit my teeth and let him spout off, but not when I was busy. It was not a super long call like Sue's but it was probably a good half hour when it should have been no more than 5 minutes.

  I had been hoping I would have a shower, and make a start on selecting and editing photographs I had taken of (The) Ferrets - Punk Rock Band at Chatfest on Sunday of the previous week, all before midday. That never happened, and having a shower never happened at all ! I put paid on that when I decided I should put a couple of t-shirts and some underpants to soak in one of my big buckets sitting in the bath.

  I can't quite remember, but I think I probably had a quick relax after I finished writing, but I did two things. The first was to see how my blood glucose was doing. In the morning it had been dangerously high, but by lunchtime it had come right down to 7.6mmol/l - according to the single reading I took on my most friendly meter, the Contour meter. That gave me the green light for some lunch. I had two brioche rolls with corned beef and horseradish sauce, which were delicious.

  After eating I laid on my bed and read and I think I also snoozed. I was not really sure how I felt yesterday. I knew I felt less achy than the day before, but I wasn't sure just how much better I might be. The test came when I got back to my laundry. I had visions of doing it in maybe three parts (not including the period of soaking). Once I started the rinsing and wringing out, I soon realised that I could probably, and did do the whole thing in one go. I hung it up on the big clothes horse, with fan on it in the front room. It seems perfectly fresh and dry this morning.

  At this point I should have got back to my photo editing, but there were two things I wanted to do first. The first was to have a mid afternoon snack, and it was a couple of scoops of raspberry ice cream. Maybe that was fooling considering how high my blood glucose was in the morning, but on the other hand there is anecdotal evidence that somehow, against all the rules of physics and chemistry, ice cream can lower my blood glucose (it may not have worked this time).

  The other thing I was itching to do was to get back to reading more of the book I am reading. It is the third book in a trilogy written by Roger MacBride Allen in the style of Isaac Asimov, and it is a very authentic style too. I am getting near the end now, and the pace and excitement are building, and it is very hard to pace myself. I may have spent half an hour reading it yesterday afternoon. When I put the book down it was getting close to dinner time.

  I ate my dinner while watching The BBC 6 O'clock News. It was a simple, and I hoped a low calorie and low sugar meal. It was based on rice crackers - some with pâté, and some with cheese and sliced jalapeño peppers. I suspect the ready meal I might have cooked and eaten would not be much worse than what I did have - except I may have felt a single, rather small, ready meal was not enough.

  When the news finished I made a start on my photo editing instead of watching Star Trek: The Next Generation. I can't seem to remember what the episode was, but I think I recognised it as a not so good episode. I did watch Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. It was one of the better episodes, but I did do photo editing during the commercial breaks. I did more during the commercial breaks when watching Have I Got News For You.

  Before Have I Got News For You had finished I had finished the very last photo album taken at Chatt Fest the weekend before last. I could finally relax...semi relax because I now have a shed load of photos taken at Petts Wood Calling last Saturday. Many of those pictures may be better than most of the Chatt Fest photos because I didn't hesitate to use some flash fill in if the light was bad at Petts Wood Calling - as it was until mid afternoon.
  This picture looks a bit lack lustre, but at least I did get the whole band in the frame, and my flash gun has lit up the back of the stage so you can see the drummer even if he is looking away. One curious thing about Ferrets is that I have seen them 5 or 6 times in the past, maybe even more, but I have never seemed to find out the names of any but one of the members of the band. The one I know is Keith Eggldon who plays the bass, and he plays bass in more than one band, and I know his name from one of the other bands.
  This is how I aim for most of my pictures of bands to look - bright and contrasty, with no distraction behind. I think I still had the flash on for this photo, but I turned the power down to just help light up the foreground. For want of a better name I call this man Mr Ferret, but being the frontman of the band I should definitely know his name.
 That front man, "Mr Ferret" seems to be one of the genuinely nice guys. I told him I was intending to leave before he had finished his set, and so wondered if he could round up his band and all pose in a quieter bit of the pub garden. I couldn't think of anything more artistic at the time. He instantly agreed, and rounded everyone up, and this is one of two band photos I did. The second is similar, but without the most authentic looking V signs :-)

  I was most happy to go to bed with the last of the Chatt Fest pictures taken, and shared with Chatt Fest social media pages. Like the previous year, and possibly the year before that, my photography  almost monopolises Chatt Fest's photo pages. It is almost like I was the official photographer. Luckily nearly all the photos I have shared have been fairly good pictures (and the dross stays on the cutting room floor - as they say in the movies).

  Last night was quite a typical night. I seemed to sleep quite well, albeit getting up to pee 3 or 4 times in the night. I feel sure I had some dreams. I even have an idea that one dream may have been very enjoyable, but I can't seem to remember a single thing from any dream. The only thing I really remember from last night was a period of insomnia at about 5.30am. It felt far to early to get up, and yet I didn't fall asleep until about 10 minutes before I woke up again and got up.

  I seemed to pee enough last night that when added to the pee I had just before I went down to the kitchen to prepare my breakfast of Chilli flavour instant noodles, the scales said I had lost 100gm. (Before that last minute pee it looked like I had put on 100gm). Sadly I still need to lose 2kg to get back to my minimum weight so far this year - which I first reached for just a single day or two in June, but half a dozen times, or more, last month.

  I had hoped that my blood glucose would have been lower today, but at least it is not crazy high like yesterday. This peak make me feel it is being affected more by my recent health than anything I have eaten. This morning the Contour meter read 8.8mmol/l. That is not good, but is acceptable. The GlucoRX meter almost agreed with a reading of 8.9mmol/l - just slipping under the first warning area of 9 to 9.9 mmol/l. The Contour Plus meter read much higher again. I am sure it was in broad agreement with the other two when I first tried it, but not now. It read a horrendous 9.5mmol/l, but at least that is an improvement over yesterday when it read a very dangerous 10.2mmol/l.

  I feel a lot better in terms of aches and pains this morning, but I still don't feel very dynamic. That is a shame because most of my health indicators are returning to normal now. Even my blood pressure, which has been a bit higher than usual recently, is pretty much back to normal this morning. It was 117/52. I hope to be testing my legs with a shopping trip to Tesco today. All being well it will be a nice walk in some sunshine (or sunny spells).

  Apart from having a shower, which after not washing at all yesterday, will be essential before going out shopping, I expect that I will manage to steel myself to getting down to a lot more photo editing. I have a lot to do after going snap happy at Petts Wood Calling. In the longer term I want to try and get out on Saturday night to take a few gigs snaps, and some time, on a sunny day, I finally want to get to the seaside. Ideally I would try and walk 3 or 4 miles, but I doubt I could manage that.....although it might be possible if I kept stopping to take pictures, and that would be easy to do at the seaside.