Today will be hotter than yesterday. Full sunshine from sunrise will raise the afternoon temperature to 33° C ! Tomorrow will be almost the same except as today, but the wind will be coming from the east, and despite all day sunshine the temperature may only reach 24° C. That should feel much fresher after today, and the previous few days.

  The best thing about yesterday (and also today) is that the weather forecast was so similar that I could reuse what I had written just be changing the temperatures by a degree or two. The rest of yesterday was not such a good day, although I did manage to to two things.

  There were two things I had to do yesterday. One was to finish the laundry I had started the previous day, but I felt too hot to finish it. I finished it yesterday, and after hanging it up to dry it is bone dry this morning. The other thing I was going to do was to go for a walk in the park, but I was not sure I felt up to it. One problem is that while I was not uncomfortable as such, I had not passed a poo yesterday morning, or the day before. On top of that I had chilled myself in the night by laying on my bed with the fan pointing at my bare chest. My chest felt creaky, and that did not feel good. It reminded me too much of heart problems, and I am still not 100% sure it wasn't that.

  I still went out, but I did not go far. I have a birthday card for Miranda, lead singer of The Life Of Brian, and Angela's daughter. I had intended to give Miranda the card last Saturday when I wanted to go to the gig they were playing on the far side of Blackheath, but I didn't feel up to it. My only option was to send the card, care of Angela, through the post. I walked as far as the post box, and as I walked I passed lots of wind in very smaller amounts. I thought I would definitely manage to go to the toilet when I got home, but once again nothing was moving.

  I'm not sure when it was that I walked to the post box, but at a guess it was around midday - just as the day was reaching it's peak temperature. Apart from my bottom trouble. and my chest trouble, I did start to think along the lines that it was too hot to walk very far. I have evidently got soft in the last few years - not helped by my heart problems. In the past, some of my longest, and most enjoyable walks have been done in 30° C temperatures. Admittedly my feet felt like they had been lightly sautéed when I got home, but the rest of my felt tired, but also exhilarated. I had hoped I could do the same this summer, but now I have big doubts about it.

  I spent the rest of yesterday practising to be lazy at a professional level. I spent hours laying on my bed reading and sometimes snoozing. Of course I did stir when meal times approached, although I didn't want to because I didn't really want to eat. Sadly I gave in to whatever braincell it was, or other bit of me, that was nagging me about how nice it would be to eat something.

  I didn't give in completely about eating. I did manage to avoid some snacks that were tempting me. Fortunately I do not have that many possible snacks left in the cupboard. Like the day before, I can't accurately remember what I had for lunch. I think it was a chicken and lettuce, with some mild mustard, deli roll. It was a roll left over from before I bought the previous pack, and it was getting a bit stale. I lightly toasted it, and it seemed fine.

  I wasn't quite as inactive during the afternoon, although it was hard to tell the difference. At one point I wanted to check one of my cameras (even though I was wondering when I would ever be able to actually use it), and that used up half an hour or so. I also spent a bit of time looking on the internet for news about the Artemis mission that will eventually land some mostly American humans on the moon again - a feat last accomplished in 1969 ! I find it so hard to believe that it has taken NASA half a century to build on the lessons learned from the Apollo moon missions.....but then again they have been hampered by bad and even insane presidents who have cut their purse strings, and left them working on a budget not much bigger than our own UK government could afford if they tried hard enough. It is rather sad that we launched our first satellite in 1971, and then just gave up because it was too expensive. See > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Arrow

   For dinner I resorted to using up some more deli rolls that were starting to go stale, or at least I thought they were, but the one I stuffed with lettuce and chicken seemed fine. Another one, the last of a previous purchase was definitely past it's best, and had got damp from condensation inside the packet (it was stored in the fridge). I gave that one a good toasting - more than intended - it was starting to go black. I filled that one with grated cheese, and it was rather nice.


  As seems boringly normal, I passed much of the evening watching TV.  By 9pm I was starting to think about bed. It was still very hot and sticky in my bedroom, but the window was open, and I had the fan on. After reading in bed for a while I noticed that maybe there was slightly cooler air coming in the window. I checked one of my thermometers (pictured on the left), and it said that while it was still 30.4° C indoors, it had fallen to "just" 26.7° C outside. That is still hot, but it did feel fresher than 30.4° C.

  One thing I was doing a lot yesterday, and maybe a bit more in the evening, was drinking chilled water. I may have drunk at least 1.5 litres of water from about late afternoon, until I tried for sleep. I expected that to keep me up half the night getting up to pee, but I think I lost a lot of moisture from sweating - and not heavy sweating. I did notice the towel on my pillow was getting damp, and I got up and replaced it around midnight. Earlier on it was just a dampness on my skin, and the desk fan blowing at me dried me off as fast as I could sweat.

  I think that chilled water (some of it had ice crystals in it) did help me stay cooler, although it was not immediately noticeable, but I think it did help me sleep. To my surprise I was not up half the night peeing. In fact I didn't seem to pee that much at all. I did seem to dream a lot though. One dream was rather odd. I seemed to be in charge of looking after eggs - human eggs - in a large white shell.

  The eggs were stored on rock shelves cut into black volcanic rock, and were electrically heated. At least I think they were electrically heated because the main theme of the dream seemed to be alarms going off saying they power allocation had been exceeded, and I had to try to request more from some unknown authority. It was one of those dreams where a lot of nothing actually happened.

  Another dream was about a new place of work. That is the simplified explanation, and I must confess I have no idea what the full explanation was. As far as I can recall, the bulk of the dream was about travelling to work. The new work place was where Hither Green Hospital used to be (and in fact it is now a housing estate). I was travelling on a bus from Lewisham, and had intended to change buses in Catford for a little mini bus, but apart from not existing in the real world, were known to be very unreliable in the dream. I decided I would get off the big bus at George Lane, and walk the rest of the way. That meant walking past where I used to live, and in the dream my brother and sister still lived. I wondered if I would have time to say hello. Of course there was no need to worry about it because I think I woke up before I had even got off the bus.

  When I woke up I felt like I had slept well. I went for a pee, and then I took screen shots of the weather forecast for today. After that I thought I might lie down on my bed for a few moments to think about the rest of the day. An hour later, and possibly 90 minutes later, I woke up after not even realising I had fallen asleep. I went to the toilet again but nothing much happened. It was then time to weigh myself and check my blood glucose level.

  To my astonishment I had managed to lose 600gm. I am still way over what I should be, but it gives some sort of hope. It was also before I managed to have a poo. In fact I have had two now - both fairly solid, but despite some effort getting them moving, they passed with no discomfort. By then I had had a single small packet of instant noodles for breakfast - and this morning I did not add extra hot pepper sauce and maybe I feel a little less sweaty because of that.

  My blood glucose was slightly down this morning, but still higher than desirable. Once again, two of the meters gave "good enough" readings of 8.2 and 8.5mmol/l.The other meter, and once again it was the same one which has a habit of reading high, read 9.4mmol/l. That latter reading spoiled it all.

  My blood pressure is pretty good this morning, 126/71, but my pulse rate at 90bpm is higher than I'd like. I am unsure why it is high like that. Maybe it is all the chilled water I am drinking, or maybe it is because I think I might need a pee. Perhaps it will have dropped when I am ready to do something useful today.

  I think my starting plan for today is to have a rest, read a few pages from the book I am reading, possibly have a snooze, after I have finished writing this, and uploading it to my web server. The next thing will probably be to wash my hair and have a shower. If I can manage to cool down after that I may go out for a walk in the park. Another possible alternative is to use my Freedom Pass to have some rides on air conditioned trains - that would be cool (literally !).