09:27 BST

  Despite all the promises of the weather forecast, yesterday was another dull day, although there was one occasion when some thin cloud let through some diffuse and watery sunshine through for at least 5 minutes. After 11° C in the morning it warmed up to a less than impressive 14° C. I used the heater a bit more than I liked yesterday.Once again it was a dry day.
  We have already had some sunshine this morning, and although there is a lot of cloud, it looks to be a bit streaky, and an occasional ray of sun may break through again.... On the other hand the forecasts says 11am will see drizzle, and from midday to 10pm there will be non stop light rain. The temperature may peak at 15° C for just one single hour at 2pm, and then again at 9 and 10pm. Most hours tomorrow may feature light rain, but 9am to midday could feature heavy rain. Tomorrow may only see a high of 14° C.

  Yesterday started with me feeling rather depressed, but that turned to optimism later. I hope I have found a way to skirt around the thing that made me feel very depressed. It was a bit like "retail therapy" but on a higher level. I did do some retail therapy as well.

   My lack of sleep the night before meant that yesterday morning seemed very slow, and it was easier to spend a long time resting, and even snoozing, than to get motivate, but that did happen eventually. It was not soon enough for me to wash my hair, as I said I intended to do, and I didn't even bother to have a shower. It was a day to stay in and sulk, rather that going out to mix with the world.

  The sulking did not last that long once I went on line and connected to an online pharmacy I had used before with Amazon being man in the middle. Tucked in with my packet of blood glucoe test strips was a bit of paper saying it was cheaper to go to them direct. I had looked around their web site, and as well as a lot of blood glucose meters and test strips I was sure I remembered that they also stocked GTN spray.

  I also thought I had read somewhere that a pharmacist could ask a few simple questions before selling GTN spray without a prescription. I answered a few simple questions on the web site (mostly drop down boxes to be ticked or otherwise), and my answers seemed to satisfy the digital pharmacist. I managed to order two cans of GTN spray. I have not had confirmation of the order, but the web site said I would get an email to say when it had been despatched, and give details for tracking my package (possibly sent via Royal Mail, but that is just a guess).

  One thing I did do a bit later was to check my transactions for my credit card. It shows pending transactions for the pharmacy, and the other bit of e-commerce I did yesterday. I hope that on Monday I will get the notification that my parcel of GTN spray (plus some spare test strips for my latest blood glucose meter, which should have been in with my repeat prescription on Friday, but were another thing that was not in with the drugs).

  My next bit of e-commerce was to order some beers from Left Field Beers. This time I tried to get mainly lagers and pilsners - they are a bit more universally acceptable. I did order one or two beers that I doubt I will want to drink more than a thimble full to confirm my worst fears, but they should appeal to Jodie - except she will have had them just last week (or maybe a lot earlier) and is no longer interested in them - even if she say they are delicious. I never did work that one out - not wanting to repeat a good thing, but that is Jodie for you.

  I refused to get excited about ordering the GTN spray, and I won't until I get it in my grubby hands, but I did feel a lot more relaxed. That still did not mean that I was a hive of activity - and that included not bothering to shower or shampoo. There were just two things I did in the afternoon. One was to have some lunch. Yesterday saw a large jump in my weight, and I should have gone on starvation rations until that was corrected, but I had it in mind there was more to that weight increase than just eating badly.

  I can't fully remember what I had for lunch. I seem to think it was not that big, but it was not selected to be low in calories or sugar. It was all junk/snack food. I am sure it included crisps, and a couple of sticks of Aldi's version of hot pepperami. I can't remember any more, although I suspect it might have included a little chunk of cheese.

  While I was hardly rushing around, I did do one useful thing. I started, and this time I finished in the same session, hand washing a hand towel. I did take a 10 to 30 minute break halfway through, but by mid afternoon (I think) that towel was hanging on the big clothes horse to dry overnight. I have yet to check but I am sure it is perfectly dry this morning.

  That seemed enough excitement for the day, and I reverted to going into extreme lazy mode until dinner time. I ladi on my bed and read for a while, and when I felt my eyelids drooping, I put the book down and had a nice snooze. At least I assume it was nice. I don't remember anything about it, but that is the joy of being asleep. I can't say that I felt that refreshed after it, but with hindsight it was definitely a good idea.

  The next thing was dinner time. I started off with two cheese and onion crispbakes. They sound nicer than they actually were. I found them blander than what I hoped for, but I guess they were nothing to complain about...well, not much. I followed them up with rather a lot of lemon and pistachio ice cream. It was more than I had planned, but I was so near the bottom of the carton that I could not stop until the carton was empty.

  I ate that dinner while watching the news, but it may have been the 5.45pm news instead of the 6 O'clock news. It was a weekend, and all the TV schedules are all over the place at the weekend. Somehow I found enough stuff to watch, and in a few cases to enjoy, that kept me up until about 11pm last night. It felt good to go to bed, but it did not feel good to be on my bed.

  My main problem was my guts. They seemed a bit unsettled. I had a hint of heartburn, and so I got up to have some Rennies, and hope that sorted out that problem. They did not sort out what was happening further down my digestive tract. I didn't exactly feel uncomfortable...well not at first. I did become increasingly aware of deep gurgling sounds, and also a feeling like the tide was coming in when I turned over onto my side.

  I could not sleep like that, and eventually I got up again to go to the toilet. At first nothing happened. It may have been on the third visit that something did happen - a quite a lot of something. It was not quite bad enough to be called diarrhoea, but it was not far off. It was probably around 1am, and maybe even 2am when that happened. Some "after shocks" kept me relaxing until it was gone 3am.

  Once again I missed out on a lot of sleep last night. Once I was asleep for over 15 minutes I carried on sleeping well.  In fact I slept so well that it was well after 8am before I got up. This morning must have been my latest morning for ages and ages. It was not surprising that very little happened when I went to the toilet, although I was not completely empty. The pee I had was neither big or small, but sort of average.

  When I got on the scales I was relieved to find I had lost a whole kilogram since yesterday morning. I doubt that I flushed all that down the toilet in the small hours, but I can't think of a better reason for losing that much weight in 24 hours. Plus there was the fact that if I wanted to lose a lot of weight I would not have eaten what I did yesterday.

  It was not just my weight which was looking good (for some values of "good"), but my blood glucose was looking like I hadn't had a whole lot of sugary ice cream last night. The Contour blood glucose meter read 5.9mmol/l. That puts it into yellow on my spreadsheet colour code, and that is the only time that meter has read that low so far this year. The GlucoRX meter read a magnificent 5.3mmol/l. The GlucoFix meter read 6.4mmol/l. That is still very good, but I was hoping I would get three (yellow) cherries up this morning.

   It still gave an average for all three three meters of 5.87mmol/l, and that is the lowest for countless years - probably before I kept proper records. When I see the nurse tomorrow I think I will have to ask her if I can get a HiBC1, or what ever it is called, blood test so that these wonderfully low readings can go on official records - assuming the full lab test get the same readings as my home measurement readings.

  I see the nurse at 10am tomorrow, and so tomorrow is going to be a rush until I am home again. That means I really do have to wash my hair today, as well as having a shower. Later this afternoon I should be joined by Jodie to do some beer tastings. Hopefully I can have some sort of control on my diet after having some (hopefully) delicious beer, and I still get good readings tomorrow.