The early hours of this morning were fairly chilly. By 6am it was just 13° C. Full sunshine until 2pm will warm the afternoon up to a very pleasant 24° C. From 3pm we will probably lose the full sunshine, but sunny spells should continue until sunset. Tonight may be less chilly than this morning with the temperature only dropping to 16° C. Tomorrow may see mostly sunny spells all day, and the afternoon may rise to 25° C.

  I don't think yesterday was specially good, but it seemed pleasant enough. Maybe I was resting on my laurels after my walk the previous day. I guess I did a few things, but little that was really notable.

  One thing I did do, although I am not sure how, was to regulate my food intake better than some days. I think my breakfast was one packet of instant noodles, and lunch was a fruit salad plus some rice crackers with corned beef and lime pickle. The latter was useful because it seemed to prove a theory, but more on that later.

  I was quite slow and lazy in the morning, and it was late when I had a shower. I then rushed to prepare for a mid afternoon beer tasting session. I then did some more advanced relaxation, and waited for Jodie to arrive. By 4pm there was no sign of her, and I sent her a message to remind me of what her alternative plans obviously were. It seems she was going to the Soho Fete where she could also drink some exotic beers.

  That news left me adrift for the rest of the day, but that was OK. I had a few things to do, and the extra time was useful. One such thing was to install some more software on the laptop that I had made dual boot with a choice of Linux Mint 22.3 and Windows 7 (64 bit version). The Linux half is working perfectly, but the Windows half has trouble, and it is all to do with device drivers. My (dodgy) copy of Windows 7 does not seem to have what I imagined would be common drivers for Dell laptops.

  When booted into Windows 7 there are no network adapters working, and even the built in web cam is not seen. I am wondering if the 32 bit version of Windows 7 may be better, but if I delete the 64 bit version, and install the 32 bit version, I will have to faff around to make it dual boot again. Basically I will have to re-install the Grub boot loader, or use a special rescue CD I have that may work. I probably spent a couple of hours playing with it yesterday, and all because I wanted to have one Windows machine (laptop) for those odd occasions.

  Last night's dinner was rather nice. It was a Paella ready meal that I found on the reduced price shelf at Tesco. For some reason I expected it to be a bit crap, but I was wrong. I really should have checked, but this morning there is evidence that it had a fairly low sugar content. I ate it while watching the 6pm news, and then mostly watched more TV until bed time. There was a half hour gap in the programmes at one point, and I read during that.

  I can't remember exactly when I tried for sleep. I read a bit more when I got into bed, and it may have been getting on for midnight when I turned the light out, and tried for sleep, but it may have been an hour earlier at 11pm. I had the most peculiar night. I had dreams about being awake, and periods of being awake when I was thinking about the dreams where I was awake. In the end I am not sure what were dreams, and what were periods when I was awake.

  One dream was definitely a dream because it was set in a telephone exchange where I used to work. I remember few details of that dream, but I do recall giving my manager a lecture about why a new way of doing something was wrong, and how it could lead to future trouble. I think the manager listened attentively, but in the end said the new way had been handed down from on high, and there was little we could do about it.

  All the periods when I was awake in the night, or thought I was awake, took their toll, and it was around 8am, as much as a couple of hours later than usual, when I got up. Since then I have done the usual. After a pee, but no poo, I weighed myself, and found I seemed to put back on the 1kg that I thought I had lost yesterday morning. I have had a poo since, but even after my portion of fruit yesterday, it was tiny, and would not have made any difference to my weight unless my scales went down to registering individual grammes.

  The surprising good news is that my blood glucose is not very low, but it is much better than any other day this month (although some days in June were better). The average of all three readings was 8.0mmol/l. I would prefer a little bit lower, but 8.0 could be called "normal". It makes a pleasant change, and also make me wonder if the Ozempic injections (the last being last Wednesday) is starting to work, or if I just got lucky with my choices of food.

  I was going to go for a walk in the park around lunchtime, but it is so late now that I can't see that happening. I have a small bath towel in soak that I should have finished washing yesterday, and until it is finished I can't have a shower - which could be important for several reasons. One reason is that I think I need to go shopping again, and the other is that I was hoping I might bump into Margaret again. She is a woman I was speaking to after passing her on my walk the other day. I'm not sure what to make of her, but it would be interesting to find out a bit more about her. She seems quite friendly.