Yesterday was not a very productive day, and I think I felt mildly depressed. It is difficult to know if my lack of doing little of anything useful caused the depression, or if it was the depression that stopped me doing much. Oddly enough, although depressed, I still seemed to be mildly happy, and even relaxed about everything.

  With hindsight I made the same mistake yesterday as I have made many times in the past. That mistake was to decide to do some laundry before I had washed my hair and had a shower. I do all my laundry by hand since my old washing packed up 15 or more years ago, and the second hand one I was given didn't seem to work. I use two big builder buckets in the bath do do my laundry, and once one of those big buckets is full of water with clothes floating around in it, it can't be simply taken out and put aside so I can use the bath tub for personal washing.

  I could, and almost did consider just a damp flannel wash so I could go out for a walk. In fact, for a walk it really wouldn't matter if I was a bit stinky because I would never be near strangers for more than a minute or less. However, I do very much prefer to be clean when there is a chance of being smelled by other people. The fact that I didn't want to go out while possibly smelly, seemed like a good excuse to be lazy, and that is what I mostly did. Although I did get as far as doing the first rinse of my laundry, the next two rinses and the fabric conditioner are still waiting for me this morning !

  Apart from preparing and eating some food, and a lot of reading, I didn't really do much yesterday. My reading was of Spike Milligan's 7th war memoirs book, and it is a bit of page turner. Lots of memories on one page mean you have to turn the page to find out what happened, and what happened next. This 7th book is less to do with the war, which had finished by then, and a lot more about how The Goon Show started from simple roots.

  At around midday I stopped for lunch. The main part of my lunch was two "tiger rolls" with ham, salad, cheese and mustard. I guess there could have been healthier options, but I enjoyed those roll. I followed then with some more of the "Made In Scotland" Mackies ice cream. I still think it is rather bland, and the downside of that is that it encouraged me to eat more of it. I expected the tub to last at least 4 or 5 days, but I finished it yesterday after only about 3 days.

  There is not a lot to say about my afternoon. It was mostly a continuation of the morning, but with at least one fairly long snooze extra. So the next thing of note must be dinner. It was cold lamb shish kebab - the last bit of my takeaway from a couple of days ago. The entire order did seem expensive, but it did do three meals, and so maybe it was not that expensive after all (although still costly compared to the ingredients used).

  It was after dinner (main course) that I finished off the last of the Mackies ice cream. I also had a chunk of very rich Madeira cherry cake. There was probably more calories and sugar in that one chunk of cake than there was in the whole of the lamb shish kebab. Unfortunately it did have consequences. Later in the evening I know I had something else to eat - theoretically a snack. I can't remember exactly what it was, but I fear it included more cake !

  Saturday night is typically a rather poor time for TV entertainment, but by hopping channels I seem to find enough to watch to keep my amused until 11pm. The last two programmes were the same as the usual weekday evening fare of QI and Have I Got News For You. It seemed very late when I got into bed, but I needed to do some quite reading to relax me enough for sleep.

  My sleep was about the same as many nights recently - generally good, and with only a few interruptions for getting up for a pee. I know I had several dreams last night, but only part of one has left any memory. I was with some one and I can't remember any names, and while I think it might have been a female, I have no definite idea of my companions gender. All I do know is that we felt thirsty, and fancied a pint.

  The nearest pub was a bit like The Railway Tavern (then The Copperfield, and now The Catford Bridge Tavern), Maybe one difference is that it was a two bar pub, and there was no connecting door between the bars. The first bar room we went in was a very big room, and most of the tables and chairs had been moved towards the wall. That left a large space in the middle, and we found out it was used as a kids play area until the evening (and only on a week day).

  The bar was stills serving for the benefit of mainly mums and dads. It was too noisy in there so we went outside and into the much smaller bar at the back. At this point my memory gets very hazy. I can remember checking the hand pumps on the bar, and found one had a beer that seemed familiar, and yet there was something odd about it. That oddness is something I just can't remember. It might have been a variation on the name, of it might have had some unusual ingredients for a traditional ale. It may have been significant that as soon as I tasted it I woke up. I don't recall it tasting nasty, and I don't think the taste, although imaginary, stayed on my tongue for a few seconds after waking up.

  I woke up only about 20 or so minutes before what I thought would be a good time to get up, and so I did get up. As usual, the first thing I did was go to the toilet. I did a fairly big pee, but despite expecting to have a poo, it was just wind. No poo was a shame because when I weighed myself I found I had put on another 300gm. Although I am still only 600gm more than my average for the whole of this month (so far) it still feels annoying. I put the blame on lack of exercise.

  My blood glucose was also up, but still pretty good. I got readings of 7.4, 7.2, and 7.9mmol/l.  Although all three readings could be described as good (or maybe good enough) the average was higher than all but three daily averages so far this month. Once again it tends to point to lack of fresh air and exercise (and mild boredom can't be ignored). My blood pressure This morning my blood pressure is very good, at the first attempt I got 114/50 with a pulse rate of 61 bpm. The pulse rate is a bit higher than I would like, but I think it is still very acceptable. (looking back over the last couple of months, it is within one or two of my averages).

  There are two things that limit me today. The first is that I have to finish the laundry I started yesterday. It should only take 10 of 15 minutes, and once it is done I could have a shower, and possibly wash my hair - except that I can't really. Today I am expecting a delivery by Amazon. Amazingly enough it is only just gone 11am on a Sunday, and they are already reported to be out for delivery. That doesn't help a lot because they could be delivered in an hour or three, or they could be delivered this evening. Unless any estimate appears to give a possible delivery time, it will just be an unknown random time some time today.  I hope it is early enough for me to at least have a shower before Jodie pops over for another Sunday beer tasting session.