There is enough light cloud in the sky to occasionally dim the sunshine, and today may only see a high of 27° C, and while not as hot as yesterday, is still going to feel warm, and possibly a bit muggy. At 7pm there is an 18% chance of rain, and so it will probably stay completely dry again. There is a very small chance of rain in the early hours. Tomorrow could start dull, but there may be a couple of hours of sunny spells that will be followed by non stop, full sunshine from 9am. The afternoon temperature may only reach 25° C, and that is probably a nice temperature - not too cool, and not to hot.

  It is now late in the morning, and I need to keep this short. I had a busy and lazy day yesterday. The busy was mostly photo editing, and the lazy was being very lazy.

  The main photo album I was working on yesterday was of Emma And The Invaders. They were the last band I stayed to see most of their set before I literally limped to the bus stop. I was cooked in the sun, and my feet were killing me ! I didn't seem to take much care about taking the pictures, and I just banged out about 64 quick snaps. I didn't expect any to be any good, and yet it turns out a few were rather good.
  Not a great picture of the guitarist, but Emma is doing a fair pose in the background.
  I don't think the band set out to be a Blondie tribute band, and indeed that did do some non Blondie songs, but Emma did do a fair impression of Blondie, and sung some Blondie songs rather well.
  There is no doubt about it, Emma was more photogenic than the rest of the band, and the smile is the icing on the cake.

  I also started to go through a huge pile of unused photos of The Life Of Brian band. Most of the ones I had uses were taken on my Canon camera with the new (secondhand) Sigma lens. Initially I didn't think I was happy with that camera and lens combination, but most snaps seemed pretty good once I started to look more carefully while editing them. It mean that I almost ignored the 253 (yes, 253 is no misprint) snaps i had taken on my big Nikon. I don't want them to go to waste, and I was, and will try and get some use from them before I am overwhelmed with all the pictures I expect to take at petts Wood Calling next Saturday.

  I was really tired after all that photo editing yesterday. Maybe some of the things I ate didn't help, and I am thinking mainly about the "overdose" of triple chocolate ice cream I ate. It would have pushed up my blood glucose quite high, and that is enough to sap my energy. Other than that (very enjoyable) stupidity, I did seem to eat fairly carefully. For instance my dinner was just chicken meat with low/zero sugar baked beans.

  I watched some TV in the evening, but I think I gave up around 10pm and went to bed. Like the last couple of nights, I was asleep before I had tucked my arm back in bed after turning out the light. As far as I am aware I slept like log until maybe 6am. From then on I had one of those morning where I would get up to go for a pee, and then go back to bed. I may, or may not got fully back to sleep, but I got up a again to take screen shots of the weather forecast. I then went back to bed again.

  After getting up for another pee, but nothing doing from the poo department, I weighed myself. It was pleasing to see I had lost 800gm, but while that was good, my blood glucose was bad. Once again I got three very different readings from my three blood glucose meters. I got 9.6mmol/l (bad), 8.2mmol/l (good enough) and 9.7mmol/l (very bad). That gave an average of 9.17mmol/l. That is higher than I aim for, and high enough for possibly negative effects, but at least it is under the red line at 10.0mmol/l when things can definitely be bad.

  I must admit I am getting very lax about recording my blood pressure, and there are big empty areas on my spreadsheet for this month. This morning my heart has seemed to feel odd in a way that I can't describe. It just sort of felt different. So this morning I have just checked my blood pressure, and if anything it was very slightly low (but not untypical with the medication I am on). It was 119/72. I would be a bit happier if my pulse rate had been less than 80bpm. That very simple check says everything is fine, but an electrocardiogram might say different, and possibly an echocardiogram too.

  As far as I know, this afternoon should see a beer tasting session with Jodie and Michael. That means I need a shower and ideall to wash my hair. At this moment I have some laundry in a big bucket in the bath. Like happens far too frequently, I started it yesterday and didn't finish it. My excuse was it was too hot (33° C yesterday afternoon). At the moment it is waiting to be have the final rinse water wrung out, and the fabric conditioner done. Once that is done I can have my shower and wash my hair. I also need time and enthusiasm to clear the kitchen sink of a pile of washing up. Other than that I can some how find time to relax !