There is another double weather warning for today - both an amber and a red warning of extreme heat. However, this afternoon may only see a peak of 31° C, and that for only an hour. That is 3° C less than yesterday was supposed to have reached. On the other hand, my thermometers say this morning is around 26 to 27° C, but the forecast says it should only have been 21° C at 6am. It did feel fresh outside, but I am not sure it was that cool. Anyway, today should be dry, and we can expect non stop sunshine. The wind is from the east, and that is usually a cooler direction. Tomorrow may see a return to 34° C, but a respite is on it's way. Saturday may still see 29° C, but most of the day will be dull, and most of the day should see rain. Most of it may be just light rain, but the heat could brew up a thunderstorm, although none are shown on Saturday's forecast - yet !

  Yesterday was another day where it felt too hot to do anything. Once again, and just as surprisingly, that included eating, although I think I ate more than the day before yesterday. One thing I didn't do was a brief cure for the heat. It was to have a shower and to wash my hair. I definitely needed both after almost not stop sweating. I wouldn't dispute anyone who said I stank. I knew I must stink, but the nose just seems to compensate as the stink of sweat gets worse and worse. Luckily I knew I would not be seeing anyone, although it did stop me going shopping.

  There is very little to say about yesterday because most of day was divided between reading, snoozing, and watching some TV (followed by sleeping). I can say more about what I ate. For breakfast, and for lunch, I had a deli roll with corned beer and lime pickle - except one roll had some blue cheese instead of lime pickle. I guess that means I ate three rolls before dinner.

  My dinner was roast Mediterranean style vegetable with grated cheese on it to give it some flavour. I also had the very last bit of ice cream in the freezer - a tiny taster pot of blueberry flavour Hagen Daz. I know that as some time during the day, possibly while watching TV in the evening, I had about 4 sticks of extra hot Pepperami. Oh, and I just remembered I had some peanuts at some time during the day. Listed like that it sounds a lot, but this morning I think I have proof it was not as much as many/most (normal) days.

  Last night's TV was not exactly thrilling, but it served to distract me, and that was a shame because I was trying to finish the book I was reading. It was Isaac Asimov's "Robots And Empire". I did finish it before I went to sleep, and I even had time to pull the next Asimov book off the shelf. I may be mistaken, but I think "Robots and Empire", and the book before it, "The Robots Of Dawn" were written after Asimov had written the Foundation series. I think he thought it would make for some good stories to describe what lead up to the Foundation series.

  One curious fact (which I hope I have right) was that between writing the Foundation Series, and what could be called the "prequel" of the series, Asimov got married, and in doing so he could finally write about sex. It was a subject he barely mentioned in his earlier books because he had no experience of it. In these later, post-marriage books he did not describe things in great detail, but in sort of strong hints, and in a curious way that made them almost erotic.

  If it were not for my desk fan blowing some air across the room and my mostly undressed body, it would have been too hot for sleep. With the aid of the fan I had no trouble sleeping. The only real interuption to my sleep was around 3am when I woke for a pee (possibly the second time last night). It was not light outside, but neither was in dark. I spent a couple of minutes looking out the back bedroom window, feeling the slightly fresher, and looking out for Cous Cous (fluffy cat).

  Even now I have not seen him since I let him out my front door at near midnight a few days ago (it was after he managed to get through the part open back bedroom window). It was his choice to go out the front, and I was not worried because I had seen him out there many times before. I hope he has just been staying in the cool these last couple of very hot days, and did not come to harm when he was out the front. I would feel terrible if I had been the cause of something bad happening to him.

  This morning, while on the toilet, I did hear the sound of something, could have been cat, or it could have been fox, going over the fence. It is quite a distinctive sound, but there was nothing to see when I looked out the back window. It might have been Cous Cous, but I'll never know.

  My attempt to eat less, helped on by the high and sweaty temperatures, did seem to almost work yesterday. This morning, after a second poo and pee, I found I weighed 400gm less than yesterday morning. It is not a lot, but it is something ! My blood glucose was good enough, but not as low as hoped - maybe because I had run out of plain vanilla ice cream. It seems completely illogical, but plain vanilla ice cream seems to decrease my blood glucose somehow (well the somehow is probably the seaweed derivative, Sodium Alginate - which is known to block sugar take up in the gut).

  This morning I got readings of 7.7, 8.0. and 8.2mmol/l. That averages to 7.97mmol/l, and is pretty good. It also seems to be the mean between the highest and lowest averages this month (although that is not a mathematical fact, but just rule of thumb).

  I seem to feel fairly OK this morning, and maybe the slightly fresher feel of the air outside is helping. Although I wonder how long it will feel fresher before it warms up. My main plan for today is to finally have the shower and shampoo I meant to have yesterday. Once that is done I can go shopping. I think I'll probably just go to Tesco, although I am tempted to consider Aldi. Other than that, I doubt I will do anything else notable today.