This is bright and sunny, but it is slightly hazy sunshine coming through a milky white sky. The forecast says it should be 16° C right now, and that seems correct. The afternoon may be dull, possibly very dull at 3pm, but the temperature should still reach 20° C. The rest of the day, and through the night, will see cloudy skies, and at 8pm some drizzle is possible (although with only a 31% chance it actually seems unlikely to me). Tomorrow afternoon could see full sunshine, but it will only raise the temperature to 21° C, and for for maybe just a single hour.

  Yesterday had it's good points, but I didn't make much of the day. I just didn't feel inspired to do much. However I did finish my laundry and hang it up to dry, and I did go shopping.

  My shopping trip, just to Tesco, served as my test walk in my new Chinese trainers. I can't say they were fully comfortable, but they weren't actually painful, and I expect they may improve as they wear in. I don't feel I would trust them for a longer walk just yet.

  I think the news that the gig I wanted to be at, but didn't want to travel to it, had been cancelled somehow set the whole tone of the day. I felt like I had been set free of a task I didn't want to do, and could do anything else - including doing almost nothing. I guess I chose the latter.

  Actually there was one thing I did do, and I have no idea how. As unlikely as it sounds (and I for one can't believe it) after shopping in Tesco, and buying lots of delicious things, I seemed to restrict my eating to a healthy level. This is very odd because one of the things I ate was actually bought in Aldi (although that is irrelevant) and it was a heat-in-the-oven pizza. I added some extra cheese to it for extra cheesiness. It was the first time that I can ever remember eating a heat/cook at home pizza, and I can see me getting more because it was tasty, and the type I bought was small enough to fit into my big, mini oven.

  I think at this point I can fast forward to the evening, and the usual TV before going to bed. Nothing of any note happened before then, and I guess there was nothing after either. It was not a boring day because if nothing else, I did have my book to fall back on. I seemed to have read quite a lot of it yesterday, and I am now getting very near the end. The book is Isaac Asimov's "Second Foundation", and it was the third book of what was originally a trilogy. Isaac Asimov later added two more books, as well as further books that tied several story strands together. I still have a lot of (re)reading to do before I get to the end and can, if I want, start from the beginning again.

  I've just realised I have forgotten there were a few things I was going to say about my dinner last night (at my usual time of 6pm). It was a Tesco (or Aldi) ready meal of a chicken vindaloo. Usually a vindaloo is made with beef, but I am sure last night's was chicken. For a supermarket ready meal it was surprisingly hot. I must have made a subconscious decision that it would go through me like a rocket, and I didn't have to eat any of the delicious looking black plums I had bought in Tesco. It did indeed work, but a couple of plums may have worked better.

  I turned out the light at either 10 or 11pm last night. I can't recall having any trouble getting to sleep, but for some reason I don't think I slept that well. It could have been dreams, but it seems I woke up a lot in the night. Maybe that Vindaloo was stirring things up inside me and making me feel uncomfortable. I definitely had one long seeming dream about searching for a toilet.

  I am not sure where the dream was set. Sometimes it seemed like it was a work place, and sometimes it could almost have been a hospital. All I remember was that I new where at least three toilets were, and they were all in a state of disrepair. The weirdest thing was one toilet cubicle had been repair, and the toilet bowl had been moved so far forward that my knees were rubbing on the cubical door.

  I also knew that there were a couple of individual toilets hidden behind unmarked doors. I thought there would be a better chance of finding one of those that was pleasant to use, but they seemed to have been bricked up and/or built over.  The oddest thing was that when I woke up I did need to go to the toilet, but there was absolutely no urgency about it. When I finally got up, around 8am if I recall correctly, I went to the toilet, and I was almost pleased that I had both a pee and poo. I would have been more pleased if I had done a bit more of both.

  When I finally weighed myself I found that somehow, despite eating Pizza and some cake (plus other stuff that maybe I shouldn't have) I found I was 500gm lighter than yesterday morning. That was rather unexpected and rather pleasing. My blood glucose was very similar to yesterday, and also the day before. The average of the three readings I take was 8.17mmol/l (the previous 2 days were 8.07 and 8.03mmol/l). My blood pressure is 106/75, or very similar to yesterday, except the diastolic pressure (the 75) is a tiny bit higher. My heart rate is 86, and that definitely seems a bit high to me, but once again, it does not seem to concern my doctors.

  In theory I feel good this morning, and maybe I almost did until I had a pot noodle type breakfast (actually a Nissin "cup noodle"). That has left me feeling almost sleepy - quite a big effect for what I would call a small, almost snack like, meal. I look forward to my usual lie down, perhaps some reading, or perhaps a snooze (sometimes both) for an hour or more once I have uploaded this to my web page server. I have no idea what I am doing after that. Maybe I'll do more "nothing", or maybe I might find the enthusiasm to go out for a wander with a camera.