07:52 BST

  At the moment the sky only has a few fluffy clouds, and most of the sky (I can see as I write this) is blue. We have the full sunshine that was supposed to finish after 7am. At this time (almost 9am) it should be getting very cloudy, and in the next hour it could rain, but somehow that doesn't seem likely, and at 10am when the first rain is shown, there is only a 32% chance of rain. All the rain shown on the weather chart is either light rain or drizzle. Unfortunately the rain clouds will block most sunshine, and today the maximum temperature may only be 17° C. Tomorrow may be very wet, and the BBC have thrown in some of their favourites - thunderstorms. Tomorrow's temperature may be back to peak at 19° C.

  Yesterday was quite a good day for one, unexpected reason. Without that reason it may have been another day when I could hardly bother to do anything. I didn't seem to feel all that bad yesterday, but I did feel a bit bad, and that was enough to dampen my enthusiasm for almost everything.

  One thing was terribly annoying yesterday morning, and it was that somehow I managed to completely screw up the formatting of this page. I have no idea what was going wrong. I am no expert at html coding, but I can often correct a few errors, but not yesterday morning. It all started when I copied and pasted something without using the "paste without formatting" option. That something was a temperature copied off my spreadsheet of body temperature measurements. I have no idea what else was included in the copying, but when I did the paste the entire page when wonky. The fonts used changed into something different, and something tiny.

  I had been looking forward to a nice rest after writing - assuming it all went as usual - but yesterday morning I probably spent a couple of hours or more, trying to get back where I started. I did experience something similar once and I think on that occasion I just ended the program, and started from fresh. had I done that yesterday I might have saved myself a lot of time (although I would have lost a fair bit of work).

  Had I written yesterday's piece at the right time, and saved it to my web server at about the normal time, I would have looked forward to a half hour, maybe a little more, rest, and then I would have gone back to some laundry I had left soaking overnight. I did have a sort of half hearted rest, but my brain was still thinking about how I might correct the mangled web page. After a while I went to the bathroom to finish washing my laundry.

  It was a pair of lounge pants, and my favourite pair of usually indoor, but they have been outside of very warm days, shorts - with the most important belt loops on them (unlike the two new pairs I ordered recently). I am actually wearing one of those new pairs of shorts right now, and provided I don't try and put anything heavy, such as my mobile phone, in a pocket, they don't slip down. They are very comfortable, and perfect indoor drinking shorts - if I don't try and carry my mobile phone in a pocket. If I do they would end up around my ankles in minutes !

  It was my intention to sew some belt loops on those shorts. It would be hard work to hand stitch them, and I don't have a sewing machine (I am also unlikely to get one). My latest thinking is to perhaps try sewing some belt loops on one pair, but to pay a lot more attention to the descriptions and pictures, and order another couple - with belt loops ready for one of the spare belts I have. I doubt I would be wearing shorts like these (quite flimsy, and above the knee) until next summer, and so there is no rush - unless there are any saving to be made by buying them off season.

  I finished that washing, and hung it up to dry on the big clothes horse in the front room (which was nice and warm from the sunshine). I could have had a shower after that, and finally gone out to Aldi to get the shopping I've been meaning to get for days now, but I had another lie down, and read some more from my book. I'm not sure what time it was, but my rest was disturbed by my doorbell ringing.

  It was a builder/roofer who wanted to point out that my guttering was leaking. I would have said thank you and goodbye, but that leak is quite spectacular during heavy rain, and I have been thinking about getting it fixed for at least the last 12 months, and probably more. I decided to hear him out. I'll give him one thing, he was not pushy like some builders/roofers, although like most he did claim to be working just down the road - and old trick that I was well aware of, but maybe this time it might have been true.

  The last time this happened I was quoted a rather large price, and I said I would think about it. Yesterday the initial estimate was for £560, and I said that was a bit rich for me. He said that if he did it another way, which sounded a lot like the original way, he could do it for £360. That sounded more reasonable, and we shook on it. He, and his two sons drove off to get new guttering and now joints for it.

  They came back about an hour later, and got to work. I reckon that the three of them, with dad, who was a fairly chunky man, staying firmly on the ground, while one son did all the work up the ladder, and the younger son doing all the fetching and carrying. I didn't oversee most of the work because I only had a limited view from ground level. In a way it didn't matter because just as they were finishing the heavens opened up, and my new guttering got a very severe test - which it passed.

  When it came to payment one of the sons asked if I could pay some or all of it in cash. I said I could manage £100, and the rest would be by bank transfer to the bank account that I was given the details for. It was all quick and simple, and provided the new guttering doesn't start to leak, or fall off in the winter, then I guess I am happy.  I was finally able to relax - a bit.

  In an ideal world I would finally have had a shower, and gone shopping in Aldi, but it didn't seem very important, and plus I had to come down from a sort of stressful few hours. I never did have a shower, and I never did go out. I spent the next hour reading, and I think this time I also managed a brief snooze. Before long it was time to think about dinner. I still have 3 or 4 days worth of frozen food in the freezer, and picked a Sri Lanka style curry for dinner.

  I think I had dinner a little earlier than my usual aim of 6pm (but it might have been after that - it all seems a bit hazy now). The curry was a bit nice and a bit not nice. The chicken had a slightly odd taste - presumably some sort of unfamiliar curry taste. The coconut rice was good, although a little dry. I had some lemon flavour ice cream for dessert. I didn't eat any more for the rest of the day except about a cubic inch of mature Cheddar cheese.

  I watched the usual Star Treks last night, but I went to bed at 9pm instead of watching QI or Have I Got News For You (of which only the latter was being shown, and not until 10pm). before going to bed I put the heater on low, and set the thermostat to just keep the room warm with it getting too warm. I almost got it right, but I think I turned the heater fully off at 3 or 4am. It seemed like my night was very restful despite being punctuated by getting up for semi large pees every few hours.

  It was either 4 or 5am when I turned the thermostat up on the heater to get my bedroom nice and warm before I got up, although I don't think it needed that much heating despite it being quite cool outside (just 13° C). I got up just after 6am, and the first thing I needed was a big-ish pee. I thought I needed a poo as well, but as is common a lot lately, it was just wind. Even my last visit the toilet only produced wind.

  I thought I had eaten pretty much what I would usually eat yesterday, but maybe not. The sugar in the ice cream would have raised my blood glucose a lot, and caused a lot of peeing - in theory, but maybe not in practice. I did pee enough that when I weighed myself I found I had lost 100gm. That is very little, but at least it is the right direction. A few more mornings like this will see me back on track after a small rise in the last 3 or 4 weeks.

  I thought that the extra peeing, or so it seemed, would indicate very poor blood glucose readings, but they were fairly good (although short of being great). The Contour meter, and the new GlucoFix meter bother read 7.4mmol/l. That is pretty good, and not too far from excellent. The GlucoRX meter read 7.7mmol/l, still the light green on my spreadsheet colour code, and so pretty good too.

  Today I really must have a shower, and if I felt inclined, which I don't seem to, I could wash my hair too. Once clean I could finally go shopping in Aldi as I have been meaning to do for almost a week now ! The only downside is that the sun has recently gone in, and some horrible looking dark clouds are building up. Only light rain is forecast, but the clouds look ominous enough for a thunderstorm. I doubt I will go out in anything worse than very light rain. I still might make it though. I'm not sure what else I might do today. I guess one possibility is to order another pair of shorts, but his time make double sure they have belt loops this time !