09:38 BST

  The forecast shows only a few sunny spells for this morning, but I have had strong sunshine pouring through my windows for several hours now. It is now too warm in my bedroom, and I have opened the window to let in some of the 12° C air outside. The sky is looking about 80% blue, and the strong sunshine will probably last long beyond 10am when the forecast says it will be cloudy until 1pm when sunny spells, or maybe strong sunshine, will resume. Despite all the sunshine, the forecast only shows a high of 15° C. The view to the north shows just a few small fluffy clouds in a clear blue sky. Both my weather stations say the pressure is rising, and they predict a sunny day. I have a feeling we will see more than 15° C today. The forecast for tomorrow shows a very cold start - just 8° C - but there could be loads of sunshine all morning, and the afternoon will feature sunny spells, but only 15° C is predicted again.

    Yesterday was another day when I did less than intended - a lot less ! I don't know why, and which feeling ruled the other but I felt like I had little energy, and little enthusiasm. Maybe I had no enthusiasm to find any energy. One possible reason was that after a lot of sunny spells, the sky became very grey earlier than the forecast suggested, and it looked as if there could be some heavy rain driven along by some strong winds.

  The heavy rain never happened, but it was quite windy. My morning shower never happened again, and that was partly because I couldn't see myself going shopping. I couldn't even imagine myself going for the walk that would have been very handy, although maybe the walk was not essential as I expected it might be. Yesterday turned out to be a day best filled by lots of reading. I am unsure when it was, but I finally finished the book I had been reading. The ending seemed a bit weak, and that great revelation hinted at for the end was most underwhelming.

  It would not be far from the truth to say that yesterday was a day that centred on eating. It was eating that marked the highlights of the day. My lunch was a very naughty, very bad for me, and very delicious helping of ice cream. I think the main ingredient, or at least headline feature of the name/description was "Angel hair". It was essentially candy floss - at least I think it was, but once mixed in with the ice cream and other ingredients it lost it's identity.
 
  Other ingredients included chopped up strawberry, and some green bits. I don't really know what they were, but they seemed nice enough. It was a very sugary ice cream, and once again it didn't have the the "wonder" ingredient, Sodium Alginate. I am starting to think that maybe it is mostly ice creams bought from Tesco that have Sodium Alginate in them. A reminder that Sodium Alginate is supposed to block sugar uptake in the digestive tract.

  I seemed to spend most of the afternoon reading and snoozing, and there is nothing else to really add to that. Next came dinner, and it was another not very healthy meal, but not in terms of sugar content this time. It was some lamb quarter pounder burgers served on toast with extra mint sauce (the burgers were alleged to be flavoured with mint). It was probably a bit stodgy, but quite nice.

  By doing a lot of channel hopping I found stuff to watch on TV before having an unusually early night. I was in bed very soon after 9pm, and it is possible I was fast asleep by 9.30pm, but I can't be sure. It was one of those times when the clock was ignored, and time ran wild. I think I am certain that I was asleep as much as an hour earlier than recent nights. Maybe I needed that extra sleep because I only woke up for long enough to go for a pee, a few times in the night.

  This morning was yet another morning when I woke up early, but chose to try and get more sleep before I woke up. It didn't feel like I had slept for more than a few minutes, but the clock said over an hour. Apart from my usual health measurements, I didn't do much for at least an hour, and maybe it was two. It seems my health is slightly good, slightly bad, and mostly indifferent this morning.

  The first health measurement was my weight after I had had one (or two ?) pees, but no poo. Yesterday I noted I had lost 700gm without really trying. Yesterday I partly took a few simple precautions, but only because I know I had gone a bit over the top and was trying to balance things out a bit. The end result was that I only lost another 100gm. That means that if I can do the same again tomorrow, which should not be too hard, except for one thing I'll come to later, I will be changing from dark green to light blue (which is better) on my spreadsheet colour coding. I last saw a light blue on the 24th of last month, and after that I have been heavier.

  My blood glucose was not good, In fact it was a bit bad, and worse than expected despite knowing I had eaten some bad things. The Contour meter read 8.9mmol/l, and that is teetering on the edge between almost good and almost bad. The GlucoRX meter read 8.5mmol/l, and that is blandly in the middle of "(not very good) usual". The GlucoFix meter, usually the kindest meter, turned on me this time with a terrible reading of 9.0mmol/l (but there could have been a lot worse).

  My blood pressure is pretty good. This morning's first, and only reading because it was good enough, was 119/50. That is very close to my rolling average for this month, and not far off all my morning averages for the last 4 or 5 months - back to where it was suggested by the doctor I stop taking Indapamide because my blood pressure readings were sometimes a bit lower than ideal - which makes a mockery of one of my doctors from many years ago who seemed to be aiming for my blood pressure to be zero !

  The main event today could be a Sunday afternoon beer tasting with Jodie. There are doubts about it because there are no trains to Catford Bridge today, and a rail replacement bus service. Sometimes this means Jodie may give it a miss, but she could get the 54 bus, and from the 54 bus stops she can get easier access to Lidl or Aldi than from Catford Bridge station. The bus also stops outside Marks and Spencer in Beckingham, and she occasionally goes there on her way. I expect she will get here on the bus.

  The are two consequences of a probable beer tasting session this afternoon. I ought to wash my hair today, as well as have a shower before I do much more. The other consequence is eating too much and/or the wrong things when drunk. I may be able to side step that because I need to go to Aldi for a bit of shopping. I am just finishing my last bottle of Diet Coke, and I need to buy more. In an ideal world I would look out for very safe food to buy for my dinner tonight. I have no idea what that could be, but I'll keep my eye out for something.