09:01 BST

  It is another bright sunny morning, but from 10am it may get a little cloudy, but we may still get sunny spells until we (may) return to full sunshine at 6pm until sun set. All the afternoon is shown as being at a constant 19° C. Tomorrow may see the return of light rain, although some hours may see sunny spells. Once again the afternoon temperature may only peak at 19° C.

  I did hardly anything yesterday, but several important things happened - and they were all deliveries of stuff I had been patiently waiting for. One significance of all the waiting was that I never got a chance to shower, and I never went out - even though I could have done both later in the afternoon when everything had arrived, but I never really felt like it by then.

  The first delivery was my order for two pairs of shorts from Premier Man. My doorbell rang, and 30 seconds later I opened the front door to see my order sitting on the step, and the delivery van nowhere in sight. It is not for nothing that Evri have a bad reputation. The new shorts were good...and bad. It is my own fault for not looking carefully for one crucial bit of information about what I was buying. Having said that, the only thing I may have seen was in the picture of the shorts being worn by some so called model, and not in writing anywhere.

  There was a clue that should have triggered more research, and that was that both pairs of shorts were described as elasticated waists. I missed that clue because I have at least one pair that also has an elasticated waist, but still has belt loops ! The new shorts do not have belt loops. While new the elasticated waist is sufficient to keep the shorts up, but I would not want to rely on it if I was out shopping, an had a shopping bag in each hand. One sneeze and I could be displaying my wares to the greater public !

  One pair is made from a strange material. I suspect it is waterproofing, or water repellent. I think it may be OK after a wash, but at the moment it is not bad enough to stop me wearing them. I am actually wearing the other, ordinary cotton, pair right now, and they seem very comfortable, and yet I have noticed some slight slippage when, for instance, going up and down the stairs.

  One possibility is to only wear these shorts indoors, and buy another pair that has belt loops, or.... It would be a hell of a job to do it by hand stitching, but I could sew on my own belt loops. If I start now I may have finished in time for next summer when it would be nice to wear them out in the sunshine. Maybe I could do the second pair in time for the summer after that ! Back in the real world, the pair of shorts I am actually replacing, I usually only wear them indoors. I wear them with a belt, but they are not elasticated and would soon fall down without a belt. The new elasticated pair should be fine as they are.

  The next delivery was delivered by my regular postman, and I think it was at around 1pm. It was two little parcels/packets of exotic cheese. Both needed trying as soon as I had taken the wrapping off. The first was a cheese made in a Swiss monastery, and it was very nice, although not that special. I think there are similar cheeses from places like Turkey on sale in the little supermarket on Catford Bridge. I think the simple description of the taste is that the cheese is firm, but not hard, and has a sort of nutty taste.

  The other cheese came from Norway, and it was very different. It was the colour of caramel, and even has a sort of sweet, caramel like taste. There is more about it here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brunost. I liked it, and had quite a lot of it on rice crackers, but I can't see myself ordering any more, although I note that some supermarkets like Waitrose do stock it from time to time. If I see any in shops I may buy it, but generally my curiosity has been satisfied.

  With all my deliveries delivered I could have taken the time to have a shower, but there was another factor at work. I only needed to shower if I was going out to Aldi, and/or going to see a few bands playing in The Catford Bridge Tavern last night. That other factor was a random rumbling from my belly....very low down in my belly. I felt sure that sooner or later I would be dashing to the toilet - something I would not want to do, or just couldn't do if I was out.

  I did go to the toilet a bit later, but it seemed quite "normal", and not the maelstrom I was expecting. I did note that I did some very vile farts now and then after going to to the toilet. Evidently all that rumbling was probably just trapped wind, and it did not want to stay trapped for too long. The odd thing was that I was never actually uncomfortable, and apart from my farts clearing the pub, I probably could have gone to see the three bands.

  By 6pm I was feeling hungry. My late lunch was mostly just rice crackers and cheese, and although I had rather a lot, it was not exactly filling. Without going to Aldi I was left with whatever I had in the freezer. There was stuff in there that might have been nice, but I felt like I should have something a bit lighter. What I actually had was sort of lighter, but also spicy. The latter may not have been a good idea on my already complaining stomach, although in the end it seemed o make no difference except to stop one source of rumbling tummy.

  I had two portions from Aldi's "Protein" ready meals - higher in protein, but less fat and sugar. The only downside was that they were both the same flavour - Peri Peri chicken. I thought they were two different flavours, but it didn't really matter because they were nice enough. They were "lightly filling" and maybe that was all I needed. I ate them while watching one of a series of back to back old episodes of The Simpsons. in fact I think the only TV I watched was old episodes of The Simpsons.

  I'm not sure what time it was when I went to bed, but I don't think it was very late. Like the night before (or was it the night before that ?) I slept very peacefully last night. I left the heater on low, with the thermostat set low, all night, and it seemed to keep my bedroom just warm enough to sleep in perfect comfort. Apart from being a little surprised at how big some of the pees I had in the night (and also this morning), I barely remember anything about the night. That might be a shame because I might have had the super erotic dream I had wished for a few nights ago, and not remembered it.

  As mentioned above, I had a very large pee when I first got up. Only 20 minutes had passed before I had another, smaller pee. This all happened before breakfast, and so I weighed myself a couple of times, and the best result was that this morning I was half a kilogram lighter than yesterday morning. I found that a bit surprising, because I had not eaten very carefully. It must have all been down to all the pee I passed. To be honest I don't care how it happened, but I am happy it did. My records show that my average weight for this August is 2.5kg less than in January. Put like that it is not terribly impressive, but it could have been worse - it could have been a gain of 2.5kg.

  All that peeing could have been because my blood glucose is a bit high this morning, but only a little bit higher. The Contour meter read 8.6mmol/l, and that is a typical/average reading - not that far off (just 0.1mmol/l) from my old target. The GlucoRX meter read 8.5mmol/l, and that was my old target until I found I could do better. The Contour Plus meter read 9.4mmol/l, and that is much too high - which is typical for that meter (which is why it is being retired today). The GlucoFix meter, my new 3rd meter, read a much better 8.5mmol/l, or exactly the same as the GlucoRX meter.

  This is an excerpt from the weather forecast for 2 days ago (the 29th August), and I meant to show it yesterday. The significant thing is the forecast for thundery showers, and how the next one would be at 5pm (I took this screenshot just after 4pm). At 6.25pm I took a photo out of the bathroom window, looking south, although the north looked almost the same. It was just easier to take the picture from the bathroom window.