08:11 BST

  The current temperature is 18° C, and that agrees with the forecast. The forecast also says there should be a clear sky and full sunshine, and there is ! If the rest of the day follows the forecast we should see full sunshine all day (except maybe at 1pm), and the temperature should peak at 26° C. Tomorrow should be almost the same except the temperature may reach 28° C. The next few days should see similar, but towards the end of the coming week may see it start to cool off a bit.

  Yesterday was a fairly good day. I achieved a few useful things, but I was feeling lazy a lot of the time, or at least I think I was probably lazy because I can't recall doing anything important or useful for big chunks of yesterday. One extra thing I did achieve was to slightly spoil my diet.

  I started writing fairly early yesterday, and wrote 2,151 words, but I don't recall finishing very early, or even early at all. I do remember a nice rest after I finished writing, and I recall my eyes being closed for a while, but I am unsure if I had a morning snooze, although I wouldn't deny it. After my rest I washed my hair, and had a shower. I definitely intended to go shopping, and there was, at that time, still a chance I might go to a gig in the evening.

  I definitely did go shopping in Tesco. The walk there seemed OK, but nothing exciting. The walk home was a bit slow because I seemed to have bought a lot of shopping. I had found several "bargains" on the reduced price shelf, and I also bough 3 small tubs of ice cream. Other heavier bits were a bag of pears and a bag of apples. I'll have more to say about those very soon.

  After getting home I had some lunch. Actually it was more than "some" lunch. I started off with two packs of chicken wraps. One was chicken and sweet chilli, and the other was chicken with something in a creamy dressing, but I can't remember what that something was. The best thing was a far too small for something so delicious. It was crunchy tuna mini sub roll. I was surprised it didn't have cucumber in it, or if it did I didn't notice it.

  It made for a rather large lunch, but I had a sort of dessert. I wanted to try an apple and a pear that I had just bought. Some recent irregularities in my bowels suggested I needed a lot more fibre in my diet, and fruit seemed a good option. The Conference pears said "ripen at home", but the one I tried was deliciously ripe. I can imagine in another day or two the rest will be over ripe. The apples said ripe and ready to eat, but they were hard, very tart, and while they were an unfamiliar type of apple, and are supposed to be like that, I still think they may be nicer if given a few days, or more, to ripen more.

  After that big lunch, plus the walk to and from Tesco, I felt I needed another lie down....well maybe not exactly "needed", but the opportunity was there, and I took it. After my rest I forced myself to get back to some laundry I had left soaking in one of my big buckets after I had my shower. It was 2 t-shirts plus some underpants (maybe 5 pairs). I got as far as just starting the third rinse when I had the perfect excuse to take a break - I needed to go to the toilet.

  I finished in the toilet, and instead of going back to the washing I went and read some stuff on the internet, and then made a start on some photo editing. It was the remaining pictures I had taken of Chain on the stage at Petts Wood Calling. I got the impression that many of the pictures I had taken seemed very lack lustre compared to the first lot of Chain pictures I had done the day before. Much later I realised that a few were actually quite good, although many were still not terribly exciting.

  I got back to my washing, and finished it in plenty of time to prepare for dinner. I tried to make dinner small and simple after my large lunch, but it was not that simple. It started with a ready made salad piles with some ready flame grilled skinless chicken and a big dollop of potato salad. My dessert was a small amount of honeycomb flavour ice cream. I thought it would be riddled with sugar, and to some extent it was, but looking at the small print I found it was no worse, and maybe a tiny fraction less sugar that the lemon flavour ice cream I have been praising recently.

  Being a weekend (although I don't see why that should make a difference) I had to watch the news on the BBC news channel. I am unsure why I bothered because most of it was pretty tedious. There were no Star Treks on after the news, and all the TV schedules looked pretty grim for the rest of the evening. I continued to edit my Chain pictures. When I had finished all the pictures taken on my Nikon D610 camera I checked a few pictures I had taken on my Nikon D300s camera, but the latter camera had not caught any good pictures.

  My biggest excuse for not taking good picture of Chain was because of the way they arranged themselves on the stage. Greg, who plays lead guitar was on the left of the stage. Jo on vocals and electro-acoustic guitar, plus Martin on keyboards, Steve on bass, and Jo's friend on electro violin were all hunched together at the other side of the stage. it made getting an all band photo hard, and most of the time they just got in the way of each other. I am trying to think of a gentle hint to suggest they consider their stage craft when on a big stage. I guess they are far too used to a cramped corner of a pub.

  I finished the Chain photos, and had a very brief look at the next band, The Shenanigans, but I couldn't raise the enthusiasm to start on them last night, although I was slightly enthused by the three main member of the band spreading themselves out equally across the stage. reading some stuff on the internet probably took me up to around 9pm, and I headed for bed. I read in bed for a while, but was soon asleep - possibly some time between 9 and 10pm.

  Last night's sleep was very different than the current normal. The big difference is that I didn't put the heater on at all until for half an hour after I got up. I didn't even have the "soothing" sound of just the fan rattling along with no heat on. Apart from getting up to pee 3 or 4 times in the night - which seems normal now - I seemed to sleep very soundly. In theory it was a great sleep, but the more I describe it as such, the more I am yawning.

  I only remember one dream, but is all seemed very vague. I was in a supermarket with somecthings being sold by men sitting at desks. I was initially asking if some sort of plant, shown in one of their leaflets, was actually in stock. The man said yes, and I was about to ask for one when I started looking through my pockets for money. I found one small bank note tangled up in a snotty tissue. I knew that would not be enough, and so I asked if he took cards, and he said yes. I looked in my wallet, and saw I had a great wad of banknotes in it. The dream seemed to fade out at that part, and I have no idea of I paid cash or card, or even what the plant was that I wanted to buy (or even why I wanted to buy it).

  The fruit, and also the salad, didn't seem to have worked the way I thought they should, and this morning I didn't have the big poo I expected. I may not even have peed so much in the night. When I weighed myself I found I had put on 500gm. I guess that is no surprise after what I ate yesterday. It is still a bit disappointing though.

  I wondered if this was a morning where my apparent lack of quantity of pee in the night might mean another very low blood glucose readings. No such luck ! The Contour meter read 8.2mmol/l, and that is not bad. The GlucoRX meter read 7.7mmol/l, and that is pretty good. The Contour Plus meter (using fresh test strips) read 8.6mmol/l - just about OK, but still higher than the other meters. I also used the brand new meter. It read 8.1mmol/l, and that is pretty good. Maybe the new meter is going to work out fine, and I will retire the Contour Plus meter.

  Two things should definitely happen today. One will be a mid afternoon drinking session with Jodie - guaranteed to completely mess up my diet ! The other should be a deliver from Amazon. I am expecting two new trouser belts - neither immediately wanted, but I did retire a belt recently because it was close to breaking. I am also expecting two packs of test strips for my GlucoRX meter. I intend to continue using that meter, but my repeat prescriptions will only have test strips for my new meter from now on.

  I may chance a small walk if I am ready in time to get out and back before the earliest Amazon could arrive. They have been known to arrive as early as 1pm, but 6pm is more likely. A different distraction could be to wash two white t-shirts. I have had one in the laundry bag for weeks now, waiting to be paired with other white stuff. yesterday I found another white t-shirt at the back of my old wardrobe. It looks like it should fit, but it is now a historical curiosity. It is a t-shirt from the old Youngs Brewery in Wandsworth, many years before they sold their souls to Charles Wells and just became a footnote in brewing history. The t-shirt promotes Youngs beer brewed with honey, and called Waggledance.