At  6am the temperature was just 10° C. This mornping the sky is clear, and as I write this there is strong sunshine. The forecast only predicts sunny spells, and maybe the sunshine will turn into sunny spells later in the morning. The afternoon may be dull, but from 4pm the sunny spells may return. The afternoon may only reach 14° C.It will be another cold night with the temperature down to 10° C in the small hours.  Tomorrow may start at just 9° C, but there may be some sunny spells to warm the day up a little, but most of the afternoon will be dull. Just 15° C is forecast for the afternoon.

  Yesterday was a fairly dull day, as in not a lot happened. I did a few minor things, and I tried to eat sensibly, but both failed and succeeded. I'll explain that much further down the page !

  One thing I did yesterday was some preparation for today. My original plan, and it may still happen, was to go to two gigs today, but one has been cancelled, and the other is early afternoon, and my current rate of progress I am not sure I'll be ready to go out for it. The actual preparation was topping up camera batteries, and considering which camera(s) and lens(es) to take with me.

  I wish I could remember all I ate yesterday. It is lunch that seems to have left no memory. Dinner was Pizza followed by ice cream. The Pizza was the ready made, cook at home, from Aldi Pizza that I had initially cooked for Thursday night after the beer session. I didn't fancy it on Thursday night, and I could only eat half of it last night.

  I guess all the gaps in my description of yesterday were filled in by reading, snoozing, and TV. One brief distraction was the arrival of a small package from Aliexpress in China. It was three new USB to mini USB leads, plus a 16GB compact flash card. The latter did use up a bit of time because I didn't trust it, and I spent a bit of time testing it. I then had a brain wave (sort of). I wanted the Compact Flash card for one of my cameras (I have three cameras that use them).

   What I realised was that the best camera to use it in is my Nikon D300s. It has two slots - one for a Compact Flash card, and the other for a SD memory card. The Nikon D300s camera is classified as a professional camera, and it can be set to use one memory card as a back up for the other. I have it set as using the SD card as the prime location, and the CF card as the backup location. It is still a bit of a gamble, but the chances of both memory cards corrupting the same files is very small. Considering most cameras only use a single memory card, I think my photos will be very, very safe using the two cards in the D300s.

  My newest camera, a Nikon D700 is almost identical to the D300s, but has a newer and (probably) faster processor in it, and an improved image sensor, but otherwise is almost identical - even down to what looks like an opening for a second memory card, but isn't. My theory is that it is only the circuit board inside that is different - externally it is easy to mistake one for the other.

  I have still not christened the D700 - it has never been to a gig, and it has not even left the house. One day I will have to lug it, and the D300s, both quite heavy cameras, to a gig or something, so I can take some pictures to compare the results. I suspect it will be almost impossible to tell the difference between them. I know the specs say the D300s is a 12.3 megapixel camera, and the D700 a12.1 megapixel. In practice it works out that full resolution pictures on the D300s are 4288x2848 pixels, and the D700 4256x2832. That is not a lot different.

  Of course, the biggest difference might be not in the cameras but in the lenses used. I can use the same lenses on either camera, and in one instance I have two identical lenses that I can use one on each camera. All this desire to do a real test of the D700 is one reason why I keep saying I ought to take a walk in the park despite never seem to get around to it. The last time was when it was raining, and if I had gone out I would be using my Fuji waterproof cameras.

  Fast forward now to dinner time, and I had half the big (it was about A4 paper size, and half of it was probably equivalent to a 9 inch round Pizza) Pizza with some extra cheese melted on it. I thought I could eat it all, but maybe the alleged effect of the Ozempic (wonder slimming drug) was actually doing it's stuff. I did not feel like eating it all, and just had half of it. Admittedly I did follow it with some strawberries and cream flavour ice cream.

  From dinner onwards it was the usual TV watching. I think I watched until 11pm before going to bed. I could have stayed up later reading in bed because it seemed ages before I felt comfortable enough to get to sleep. It was a typical too hot with the duvet, and too cold without it sort of might. It is hard to say how much sleep I got last night, but I am sure it was several hours less than would have been ideal. I even managed to sleep to 8am, and even a little past it.

  This morning I seem to have gained another 800gm, although since weighing myself I had a fair sized poo. Despite the weight gain, presumably caused by bad eating, my blood glucose is extremely good - presumably caused by good eating ! My average blood glucose of all three meters was just 6.73mmol/l - that is "gold star" very good ! My blood pressure is pretty good this morning. It is 120/78 with a heart rate of 82 bpm.

  The plan for today was to have a shower, and possibly wash my hair. Then I would get a train to Shortlands station where it is probably about a 10 minute walk to the Bromley, Churchill Theatre gardens, and in particular the Amphitheatre where the band Thursday's Child will be playing between 2 and 3pm. The trouble is that my late start means it is now 12:20 as I type these words, and I seem to be running out of time.

  Maybe 15 minutes ago I wasn't even rushing because it looked really grey and nasty outside, but now the sun is shining. Maybe I could still get myself together to get to see Thursday's Child, but I am very close to thinking I just can't be bothered. It is the wrong attitude considering that I was once thinking I could get to a second gig tonight. That was to be Chain playing in The Coach & Horses in Beckenham. That gig has been cancelled, and although no official reason has been revealed, there is speculation that Jo is still not over her cold (it could be the latest Covid strain).

  If it gets too late, but the sun is still shining, maybe I might finally take my Nikon D700 for a walk in the park, or maybe I'll just choose to be very lazy. Regardless of anything else, I still intend to have my usual post-writing lie down for some reading and snoozing !