08:27 BST

  Once again, today will be a lot like yesterday (statistics say that saying today will be like yesterday is usually more accurate than the weather forecast !). Having said all that, reality is not like the forecast at the moment. Much of the sky is quite dark, and there has been on and off drizzle since the small hours of today. It looks very damp outside ! As I write this it seems that a thunderstorm is more likely than the forecast sunny spells until 11am. The afternoon is definitely shown as featuring light rain until 5pm. By 7pm the chance of rain will have fallen to just 6%, and down to zero at 8pm. The afternoon will be 17° C again. Tomorrow may start bright and sunny, and that may include full on sunshine, but it all goes wrong after midday. By 2pm there will probably be some light rain to start with, but 4pm that light rain may change to heavy rain. For once, the "Weather Warning" is about wind instead of thunderstorms, and doesn't apply until Monday.

  Yesterday seemed anything but relaxed. Thanks to my "friend" Lee's talent for verbal diarrhoea when on the phone, my morning was ruined, and the knock on effect was to pretty much ruin the afternoon, although by the afternoon I had just about given up on the idea of doing anything useful.

  I was in the middle of writing yesterday when I was interrupted, and so I have already, partly, vented my spleen about it. It was awkward cooking my lunch, and feeding the fluffy cat while listening on the phone, and uttering the occasional yes, no, or maybe. The cat was quite annoyed about it all, and laid down across the door out of the dining room to the rest of the house. While gently trying to entice the cat to move I accidently brush my hand across his belly, and managed to get another scratch and bite - all done semi gently, but not gently enough not to draw blood.

  I left the cat in the dining room with the window open so he could go out if he wanted. He got bored of waiting for me, and did go out, but not before eating the food I had put down for him. I doubt t was much more than an hour later when I saw him eating more food that had been put down by my neighbours. He spent the next hour or two dozing off while the food was digested. He was, of course, curled up on their garden chair under the shelter of the overhang of their shed roof.

  After I had my lunch of two slices of cheese on some tomato paste on toast, I had a lie down to read. It is so common place these days, and I assume that like most days, I ended up snoozing for an hour or two.  When I felt ready for "action", the only thing I could think of doing was to do some preparations for today. Today, if the weather is not too bad, I will be going out bus spotting - vintage bus spotting.

  One little, but routine task was to select a lens for my lightweight Nikon DSLR camera, and the charge the battery for it (and to top up the spare). The lens I selected was already on the camera, and is the same one that works so well when taking pictures of trains - the Genuine Nikkor 18 to 200mm zoom lens. It was the replacement for the crappy Tamron manufactured lens with roughly the same specifications. The odd thing is that I have a version of the Tamron lens for my Canon cameras, and that seems to work well. The Nikon version never seems to get a sharp focus for some unexplained reason.

  The other thing I did was to print out the timetables for the vintage/older buses today. There are about 20 buses, all in private ownership, that will be taking part today. They could be passing the end of my road at about every 10 minutes around lunchtime. Unfortunately the weather forecast does not look good for standing at the side of the road with camera in hand. I'll have to suck it and see - maybe I'll be home again after half an hour in the rain.

  Some of yesterday afternoon was taken up with doing little more than waiting for dinner time. I had a special meal lined up, although, in the end, it was not that special. It was more little spare ribs, but this time they came from Aldi instead of Tesco. One big difference is that this time I used all the sachet of sauce, but I did not follow the cooking instructions. I started the cooking much earlier in the afternoon, and the cooking smells made me want 6pm to arrive as quickly as possible.

  It was mid afternoon when I gave the ribs, which were all stuck together, their recommended 25 minutes in the oven. They were ready long before I was going to eat them, and I left them in the oven to cool down, and protected from flies and stuff. 15 minutes before I was going to eat the ribs I poured the sauce, which was mustard flavour rather than the "Chinese" flavour of the Tesco version, over the ribs and gave them another 10 minutes in the oven to get the sauce dryer and stickier.

  They were quite nice like that, although I should have broken the big chunk up into individual ribs. Maybe the only difference would have been getting less sauce in my beard when I picked bits of it up to gnaw on several ribs still stuck together. It was nice-ish, but I think I will get the Tesco version the next time I want spare ribs. For dessert I had some Dubai style chocolate ice cream - an ice cream that seems to have a decent, or useful, amount of Sodium Alginate in it - which had the desired result this morning.

  I was going to spend much of the evening watching TV, because I had nothing better to do, but I slightly different. Those utter, utter bastards at Sky TV, who have loads of sports channels (or so I imagine) decided to replace the early evening Star Treks with bloody football on Sky Mix. Fortunately the E4 channel were showing some repeats of repeats of old Simpsons episodes.

   Even they ran out, and I laid down to read for almost an hour before watching QI and Have I Got News For You until 10pm (or was it 11pm ?). I then went to bed, but before that I made sure the heater was on low, and the thermostat set high enough to keep my bedroom mildly warm. I picked up my book, and then put it down again without opening it. I seemed to fall asleep in a few minutes.

  I had a very uneventful sleep - almost. I remember having a dream, and it seemed enjoyable, but not a thing about it seems to have stuck in my memory.  I do remember getting up at about 1am (possibly 2am) and going for a pee. That was semi memorable for two reasons. One was that it took my a few moments to realise that it wasn't time to get up, and the other was that I seemed to pee about a full pint.

  A couple of hours later I did the same - including thinking it was time to get up until I checked the clock. I can't recall having any trouble getting back to sleep. I think the next time I woke up it could have been time to get up, but I went back to bed to try and sleep more. I almost managed. It felt like that for almost an hour I was drifting in and out of sleep.  I should have finally woken up bright and fresh, but it took me over half an hour before I stopped yawning (and having just written that I am fighting another big yawn !).

  It was handy to have another big pee when I got up (and a smaller one soon after). When I weighed myself after I seemed to have stopped peeing (although I still have not had a poo) I found my weight was quite good. I found I had lost 300gm since yesterday morning, although I am the same weight as I was on the first of this month. My weight has been bobbin up and down like this since the last week or so of last month. It is bad there has been no real cumulative weight loss, but good that my weight has been effectively stable for that length of time.

  The chocolate ice cream I ate yesterday was not a great deal, but it seems the Sodium Alginate in it worked well enough to block the uptake of sugar in it. This morning my blood glucose is better than hoped for. All readings are in the light green on my spreadsheet, but that is not as good as dark green. The latter seems a rare treat this year. The Contour meter read 7.8mmol/l. That is just a tad too high to be called excellent, but "good" would be fair enough. The GlocoRX meter read a slightly better 7.5mmol/l, and that is spot on my current (self set) target, and so maybe better than good. The new meter, the GlucoFix read 7.9mmol/l. That is slightly odd because that meter often has the lowest reading, but it is still a good reading - just about.

  As I write this I should be doing my bus spotting because it has stopped raining and the sun is shining. However the sky still looks very grey, and I doubt the rain has stopped for long. I still intend to have a lie down, and then have a shower, and wash my hair before going out. There is a tiny possibility I may go to a gig tonight, and so washing my hair is definitely needed. I don't know when I'll start bus spotting or even if I will take a ride on any of the buses, although I would like to. I have a mad idea of going to Blackheath, and taking photos of some of the buses while they are crossing the heath. Such pictures may look good if there was some sunshine, but it seems a stupid idea if it is tipping down with rain !