The temperature was 16° C at 6am, but it is falling towards just 14° C now. It seems like it rained all night, and it is raining now, but it may stop at 11am. From then on we may see some sunny spells, and even full sunshine until it is all quenched by sunset at 4.45pm today. The afternoon may peak at 15° C, but it is going down to 9° C tonight. Tomorrow should start clear, and there may be full sunshine at sunrise. By 11am it may only be sunny spells, and they will be intermittent with some hours left with no sunshine at all. Tomorrow afternoon may reach 15° C.

  I am unsure why, but I think of yesterday as being a semi good day - which is odd considering most of the day was cold, grey and wet. Maybe it was because I did some experiments with my diet that seemed to work out well when I checked my health readings this morning.

  Yesterday started with terrible diarrhoea, and that was the reason why my diet was different, and a bit experimental. I did not want to start the day with any spicy instant noodles. I didn't think they would fit well on my sore guts. What I did was to reverse my eating through the day. My breakfast was a couple of slices of Bakewell Tart flavour cake slices. They were not really filling, but at least it made me think I had at least eaten something. Best of all was that did not cause any negative effects.

  The after effects of my stomach upset were mainly just a feeling of tiredness rather than obvious discomfort. I had lost some sleep in the morning because I could not relax until I was sure I would not have to dash off to the toilet at a moments notice. The end result was once I could relax I did it in abundance. That fitted in well with the horrible grey and wet weather. The idea or laying on my bed either reading, or snoozing, seemed like the perfect thing to do.....or at least it suited me well, and with a good excuse for it, I felt no guilt.

  The first bit of "productivity" came at lunchtime. Once again I shied away from anything that would be too spicy, but I did not follow that 100%. My lunch was a couple of home made cheese rolls, but to add a little "zing" I put some Indian lime pickle in with the slices of cheese. They seemed to sit quite well on/in my stomach. My experience of almost living on nothing but cheese sandwiches, while on the special low fibre diet in the 5 days before my Colonoscopy (which didn't happen in the end), was that they were a lot lower calorie and sugar than I imagined them to be.

  I spent so long being deliberately lazy, purely as part of the healing process (of course) that I never did get around to finishing, or even touching, the laundry I had left soaking overnight. It is now a job for today. It was a bit annoying to ignore that laundry, but as I said somewhere above, I felt I had a good excuse, and so I didn't feel bad about it. If I somehow ignore finishing it today I may feel bad about it, but I don't think that will happen.

  With my diet being backwards - starting with the sort of thing I would have finished the day with, I had to complete it by having breakfast for supper ! I had two portions of instant noodles for my dinner, and I added some very hot Scotch Bonnet pepper sauce to one of the portions. It was nice, and had no ill effects.

  I spent the evening doing the usual - watching TV, but at 10pm I decided not to watch Have I Got News For You (starting at 10pm on Dave), and went to bed early. I did read for a bit, but despite all my resting and snoozing during the day, I did not seem to have any trouble falling asleep when I turned out the light, possibly as early as 10.30pm, but it may have been 11.30pm.

  I can't really remember much about my sleep. I think I got up to pee once and maybe twice, and I think I had a dream, but these memories are so insubstantial, or dream-like, that I can't even say for sure that anything happened in the night. I did wake up early this morning, and I seemed to feel OK to start writing this at 8am - one of my earliest starts for ages.

  One result of my stomach upset yesterday was that this morning it was almost the opposite - constipation, but it wasn't quite that bad. It was most pleasing when I finally had a poo - it was just enough to make the scales, which were teetering on the edge before hand, finally come down on the lower side, and I can claim to have lost 100gm since yesterday. That is not much, but it takes the kilogram units digit to one less, and in my chaotic colour coding scheme I was able to change the colour of the reading for today.

  My blood glucose was a tiny bit less than yesterday, but yesterday my readings were "plain good" (not wonderful or terrible or any other adjective, but just good....or maybe "satisfactory" is the word I am looking for. Yesterday the average of all three meters was 8.47mmol/l, and this morning the average was 8.43mmol/l - or hardly different at all. Had I taken a second reading using any of my three meters, it could have tipped the average to slightly higher, but even that would have been OK.

  As I write this I have no had my breakfast, and I have not had my morning medication. Even without either my blood pressure is pretty good. I just read 113/73 with a heart rate of 84 bpm. In an ideal world I would prefer my heart rate to be as low as 70, and maybe even a bit less, but my research shows that unless I can become a super athlete it is about where it is expected to be.

  Once again the grey sky and rain puts me off going out. I may still go out though. I can think of several things I would like to buy from Aldi, but none are essential, and so I may resort to some intensive resting today - except for finishing that bloody bothersome laundry that I didn't do yesterday. I could blame that on my recovery from diarrhoea, but I don't have that excuse today. I had better grit my teeth and get to it sooner or later, but first I feel breakfast calling.