08:19 BST

  This morning has started nice and bright with strong sunshine. The sky looks very clear and so it may last a little longer than 10am when it is forecast to start to cloud over. By 11am it may be dull enough to feel gloomy. It may also reach the highest temperature forecast for today, just 19° C again. 3pm may see the start of light rain that will continue until midnight. Tomorrow may be quite bright with a mix of sunshine and sunny spells, but it may be no warmer. Just 19° C is forecast again.

  Yesterday was a sort of good day for all the wrong reasons. I went shopping in Tesco, and an event there could have made me feel very grumpy, but I seemed to choose to feel happy about the outcome - even if it did limit my food choices for the day.

  I wrote 1,624 words yesterday, but it seemed like I had written a lot more. I feel it took as long as some of my longer pieces, but after I finished, and had a rest, I saw that it was only around 10am, and so it was actually an earlier finish. I don't know hy or how, but it left me feeling confused, or disorientated, or something. Maybe I just couldn't keep track of time or something.

  It felt quite late, even if the clock said different, when I had finished resting, and went for a shower. I thought I intended to wash my hair as well. I don't know why I didn't. maybe it just seemed OK as it was when I gave it a brushing to help make washing it easier.  When I was dry and dressed I headed out to Tesco earlier than usual, and it made a strange difference that I didn't seem to realise until it was too late.

  It seemed semi quiet in Tesco, and I guess that was why they had only opened two tills. Despite it being quiet, there was still a queue several people deep, and all with big trolleys with a lot in them. That did make me feel grumpy, and I did not feel like I wanted to wait for ages. I gave it a few minutes to see how things were moving, and it was either the lady on the till, or the customers, but they seemed to be incredibly slow moving.

  Another minute or so passed before I did something that turned my grumpiness into happiness. I, of course, ignored the possibility of going to a self steal service checkout. I was actually surprised that no one had come and suggested we all go to the self service checkouts. What I actually did was to dump my heavy basket onto one of the unstaffed tills, and walked out. Sticking to my principals made me feel rather happy instead of grumpy.

  I must admit I was also silently amused thinking that by the time some staff member found my basket, the three two litre bottles of Diet Coke on top would have crushed the tub of starting to melt ice cream at the bottom. It had the potential to cause quite a mess. I walked home almost whistling. Of course there were downsides to this. It limited my choices for stuff to eat, and I thought it meant that I would have to go shopping in Aldi in the afternoon.

  I may actually do that sometime today, but there may be difficulties. I have stuff to eat in the freezer, but the worst thing is that I could run out of soft drinks soon. I started padding out my drinking with chilled water, and apart from having to keep it chilled, it is almost as nice as many soft drinks. Just now I checked, and I see I still have almost two and a half 2 litre bottles of Diet Coke. Suddenly there doesn't seem to be a rush.

  One thing I did have to eat was a loaf of sliced sourdough bread. It provided several meals yesterday. My lunch was kippers on buttered sourdough toast. Sadly it was not very nice. The kippers seemed very wet, and while you could never call kippers tasteless, they did not seem very tasty. With hindsight I could have put those kippers under the grill after being cooked in the bag in my microwave.

  Later on I would have a lot more of that sourdough loaf - maybe too much with the benefit of hindsight. After my kippers I had a lie down, and that turned into a snooze that seemed to last a long time....but maybe that was just my imagination. After that snooze I returned to something I started after my earlier shower - I had left the smelly lower bed sheet, taken off my bed the previous day (or was it two ?) in to soak in bio detergent.

  All the sheet needed was a lot of rinsing. I think I may have done 4 rinses when I felt like I deserved a breather. I could feel a sensation that made me think my blood pressure had risen quite high. I seemed to feel my heart thudding away, and maybe I had some sort of sensation in my ears. It may have been 5 minutes before I could check my blood pressure, and it could presumably have dropped a lot in that 5 minutes if I had been resting, but I was still rushing around, and rushing to get the cuff of the blood pressure machine on.

  I should have made a note of my blood pressure, but I think it was just 125/50, and my meter diagnosed that as "normal". Evidently I had not been working as hard as I thought. I went back and did two more rinses before hanging the sheet over the top of the big clothes horse in the living room. I know it is dry this morning, but I haven't checked to see if I got all the stains out. It doesn't really matter if some still exist. They would probably be blood stains, and will need special treatment if that sheet would be seen by anyone else but me.

  The afternoon seemed to fly by, and it felt like it was time to prepare my dinner. It was not a very exciting dinner, and it would seem it was not very safe, but it was quite nice - at least to start with. I started with cheese on onion and sliced chilli pepper on toast.  It had been too long since I last had something similar, and that seemed to make it extra nice.  I think I had two more slices of toast, but I can't seem to recall what they had on them. One thing I definitely had was a raw onion and cheese sandwich. It was nice, but also a bit dull. I think I needed some ice cream after that.

  I think the only thing I did after that was to watch rather a lot of TV. I watched some or all of the BBC 6 O'clock news, and followed that with the usual Star Treks. Both had semi good plots, but still not good enough to make them classic episodes. After Star Trek I watched QI and then Have I Got News For You. I think it must have been me, but neither seemed to be that funny, but both had the odd thing that raised a small titter.

  I think Have I Got News For You finished at 11pm, and by then I was feeling sleepy. My bedroom was neither too cool or two hot, and my bed looked terribly inviting. I can't seem to remember anything about 3 minutes after my head hitting the pillow, until I woke up at around 4am. That was an unusual time to wake, but the reason was simple - I needed a pee - and it seemed to be a very big one.

  I woke up again at around 6am, and once again I had a large pee. I weighed myself, and saw I had lost 400gm. That was a pleasant surprise, and I was keen to see how my blood glucose was doing. All that peeing suggested it might be high, and this time it was. I am unsure what portion of blame to put on the bread or the ice cream.

  The Contour meter read 8.8mmol/l, and while not terribly high, it was a bit higher than I would like. The GlucoRX meter read 9.0mmol/l, and that is definitely too high. The Contour Plus was worse with a reading of 9.3mmol/l. Even the new, and usually benign, GlucoFix meter read 8.4mmol/l. That is actually not bad at all. It could even be described as semi good, but without the others to back it up, I feel sure that my blood glucose was too high this morning, and I ought to be more careful today.

  One thing that took a bit of time this morning, and is one reason why I started writing later than average, was checking up on the progress of some orders that should arrive today. At that time none of the deliveries had enough information to give any real hint of when they might be delivered. Two things, both cheeses, are being delivered by Royal Mail, but I can't tell if they will be delivered by van or by my usual postman. It could be the latter even though both will be a bit heavy.

  One delivery, my new khaki shorts will be delivered by Evri, and it could be some time before they send me an estimated delivery time, but once they do it can usually be relied on. The final deliver is, I think, being delivered by Amazon, and the best estimate they can usually give is the useless "before 9pm". This makes planning today rather awkward. I am not sure I even dare to have a shower until I can be sure a delivery won't turn up in the middle of it. I don't think I can go shopping in Aldi today. The worst thing, and it will only matter if it is Amazon delivering the final item, is that it may stop me going to a triple band gig in The Catford Bridge Tavern tonight. It starts at 7pm, and has the potential to be quite good, but I will almost certainly be there by myself, and that means it will have to be really good if I stay there until the end.