Yesterday could have been another wasted day, but fortunately the meagre information supplied by Evri about my parcel delivery convinced me I would be safe dropping my guard during the morning.

  After I finished writing yesterday I laid on my bed to read for a while, and might have even had a snooze, but I don't think I did because things were a bit of a rush, or something like that. I periodically checked Evri's web site to see if there was any news about my new (secondhand) Firewire external hard drive I had bough via Ebay.

  I took this screenshot at 5.40pm, and at 16:41 it finally said my parcel was at the delivery depot. It was too late to go out then, but hopefully, once the courier has got out of bed, he will deliver it later today. Prior to that last bit of information it just said they were processing it at their hub (presumably some local hub).

  Knowing that it hadn't even left the delivery depot, and even when it did, it could be at least an hour, and probably several hours before it would get here, I felt safe to have a shower and wash my hair. Once I was clean I went out to get some shopping from Tesco.

  I was mostly buying stuff from Tesco for my 4 days of a low fibre diet. The info I got from the hospital said white bread was OK, and so was cheese. I therefore bought 4 pannini rolls, and 4 Scotch rolls (the nearest I could get to some nice crusty roll. I also bought a pack of ready sliced Cheddar cheese.

  Another thing that I can eat is ice cream. I bought two 900ml tubs of plain vanilla ice cream, and at least one meal I have during the 4 days is going to be nothing but ice cream. The Tesco plain vanilla ice cream has Sodium Alginate in it, and that slows down sugar absorption, and so it does not badly affect my blood glucose readings - although for the four days of my low fibre diet I will worry about getting painfully constipated rather than my blood glucose readings. Hopefully, at the end of the 4 days when I take the super strong laxative, it will as the tin says, completely flush my bowels out !

  I did buy stuff for more immediate use in Tesco. It included some ready made sandwiches - some of which I had for lunch. I also bought a quiche, and I guess I'll be eating that today. One other purchase was a bag of reduced price potatoes. A few may be big enough for baking, but baked potatoes are not allowed as a low fibre food, but boiled potatoes are. I presume that to be low fibre I will have to cut the skins off. It must be many years, maybe almost 40 years, since I last bothered to cut the skin off. I just wash them, and maybe use a stiff brush to get any stubborn mud (for instance) off. I think the skins give extra flavour, and may even be good for you. I might wait until my 4 day diet is over, and have the potatoes the way I like them.

  The walk to and from Tesco was OK. I think it might have been towards the end of the walk there that I felt some mild discomfort from my ankles, but I think, or hope, that is now wearing off as I do more walking. The main discomfort, if you can call it that, was that I was feeling quite hungry when I got home. I didn't waste time stuffing myself with the sandwiches I bought.

  I spent the rest of the afternoon just being lazy. I laid on my bed reading a lot, and I am fairly sure I had a short snooze. I would also get off my bed at least once an hour to see if there was any news on the Evri website. As noted above to was 4.41pm when it finally said my parcel had reached the delivery depot. That was late enough that I knew it would not be delivered yesterday, and I could stand down from my state of high alert.

  It was only 10 minutes or less, after taking the screen shot of the Evri web site , that we had a power outage. It lasted about 10 minutes. It is quite a rare thing to have a power outage here, but this was the second in 3 or 4 months, and it seemed to be caused by a high voltage (33kV ?) cable fault in the same place as the last power cut 3 or 4 months ago.

  The National Power website has a feature where it will provide some limited information about power cuts. It said it was caused by a cable fault in a high voltage feeder, and showed a map of the area affected, and well as where the fault happened.

  It was interesting to study the map. My initial thought was that the fault must have been where new cables were installed a few years ago. They were half a mile south of where it is shown on the map on the left. Those now cables had to be tunnelled under both the Pool River and the railway line - both could cause damage to a substandard connection/joint in the cables. I didn't realise there were other buried cables under the Linear Park.

   The position indicated would mean the cables would have to have gone under the viaduct of the Catford Loop Line. Then under the Mid Kent railway line (to Hayes, Kent), as well as possible under the River Ravensbourne and Pool River. I feel it is unlikely the cable would run there, and so I wonder if my guess of half a mile to the south is actually wrong. I don't know when it might be, possibly on Sunday, but I want to do a walk into the Linear Park to see what I can see. If It does not feel too bad I might attempt a three mile walk.

  Once the power resumed, at just before 6pm, it was time to cook my dinner. It was to be a Chicken curry ready meal. It was only a mild one and so I added some hot pepper sauce. It still was not that hot, but even mild warmth was enough to sort of justify some plain vanilla ice cream as a dessert. During dinner I watched some TV, and I found enough TV to amuse me for the rest of (my) evening.

  I think it was only about 10pm, and possibly even 9pm when I turned off the TV and went to bed to read for half an hour. As far as I can remember, once I put the book down and turned out the light, I was asleep in less than 10 minutes. On the whole I slept well, but I did wake up several times to have a pee. On one of those occasions I though I also needed a poo, but it turned out to be a lot of wind.

  I know I had one or more dreams, but I suspect they may have been a bit boring because I can't remember a think about them now. That is a bit odd because I am sure I can remember waking up and thinking I must describe a bit of the dream I had just had, but I have no idea what it was all about now.

  This morning I appear to have gained 400gm since yesterday, but maybe it would be less if I managed to have a poo. I am unsure if it feels like I need to have one or not. My blood glucose readings were good enough. The average of all three was 6.93 mmol/l, and while that is a bit higher than yesterday, it is still fairly good.  I think I am quite happy with my current blood pressure of 114/48 (although some say that the diastolic pressure, 48, is maybe a little lower than desirable).

  Today is currently nice and sunny, and sunny spells should continue into the afternoon. That means I could do several outdoor things, but it is all overruled by the expectation of my parcel delivery some tome today by Evri. As I type this (10:48am) it is still at the final delivery depot. If it magically appeared in the next hour I could be free to go for a walk through the park to The Jolly Farmers, or I could walk through the Linear Park to see if there is any sign of any disturbance where the cable fault, that caused yesterday's power outage is located.

  I think that it is unlikely that my parcel will arrive in time to do any walks in the sunshine. Plus there is a sort of reason why a long walk may not be a good idea. There is the tiniest possibility that I might go out this evening to see a Chain gig in The Swan pub in West Wickham. The chances are that even if I could go I probably wouldn't. The truth is that I only see it as a chance to take some photos. I think I have forgotten how to enjoy gigs just for the music now. It is a bit sad, but there you go !