Last night, and this morning, my barometers predicting rain. Last night the forecast said clear skies, but a glimpse out of the window showed dark, heavy clouds. It seemed to be all the ingredients for a thunderstorm. There was no thunderstorm in the night, and today's forecast shows non stop sunshine all day. That seems slightly unlikely because a lot of the sky looks a bit milky from lots of thin, high altitude, clouds that will attenuate some of the sunshine. Having said that, the sky to the south is starting to look blue, and maybe non stop sunshine is now not looking unlikely. The only surprise left is that today will be one degree cooler than yesterday with the afternoon only forecast to be 30° C, although that is quite hot enough, and in direct sunshine it could be scorching hot ! Tomorrow could be a re-run of today, but the afternoon may reach 31° C.

  Yesterday had it's moments, but mostly it was a frustrating day. On the other hand, I was pleased that I managed two tasks successfully, although I am not really sure how I should describe that success. I'll explain that a bit further down the page.

  The entire theme of yesterday, right up to late evening, was waiting for a delivery by Yodel. The short explanation of this wait is that I think the driver got lost, and maybe could not find south London, and Catford in particular.
    To keep a long and very boring story short, I'll skip to where we got to last night. I took the screen shot above at just gone 9pm last night. On the left is says "It's on the road", and "We'll deliver the parcel soon". The word "soon" may have a different meaning on the Planet Yodel because it had been saying the same thing since early yesterday morning, and had given me a lot of false hope.
 
   It is the panel on the right that gave some information. At just gone midnight on the 6th July my parcel had reached teh Hatfield Warehouse. At 10:28am yesterday it was reported as "Off it goes" which I assume meant it was heading towards me. At 8.30pm it was back at Hatfield again.

  This morning this was continued to say that my parcel had moved during the night to what was described as the SEL (South East London ?) depot. If indeed it is a South East London depot then that gives me some misguided confidence it will be out for local, i.e. here, delivery today, but my lack of confidence in Yodel has now dropped below zero to somewhere into the fiery depths of hell ! As of 9.35am this morning there is no report that it has gone out for delivery, or anywhere else.

  Not getting my parcel left me feeling "disaappointed", but two things cheered me up a bit. One was finishing the hand laundry I had started the day before yesterday. I must admit I finally wrung out the fabric conditioner, and hung everything up to dry on the big clothes horse in the front room, at about 8pm last night. I had actually done the last of the rinses 3 or 4 hours earlier, but I was having trouble raising the enthusiasm to go on.

  The other thing that cheered me up, albeit only slightly because it was all a bit touch and go. I felt I had to fast yesterday until I got my blood glucose down to a safe level before eating - and then try to eat very carefully. It was just after 3pm when I checked my blood glucose, just using a single meter, and it read 8.3mmol/l. If it had read that at 7am yesterday morning, I would have had almost no worries. I felt it still didn't give licence to go too mad.

  I guess I had a long dinner made up of several courses separated by a couple of hours. I think I first celebrated by eating some crisps from an already opened packet, and I needed to finish them before they went stale (always a good excuse). Fortunately, despite being very unhealthy in many ways (fat and salt etc.), crisps don't have a lot of sugar in them.

  My actual dinner was a very tasty mix of German, pork meat balls with low or no sugar baked beans with a pile of grated cheese melted on top. That was modestly low sugar, but the flap jack I had for dessert definitely wasn't low sugar. To make matters worse I ate a small punnet of strawberries for supper. Many people would say strawberries are super healthy, and maybe they are in many ways, but not if you are trying to avoid sugar because of type 2 diabetes.

  I seem to have covered the evening now without saying much about the rest of my day. Maybe that is because there is so little to say about my day. I spent most of it reading from book or internet. I think I did let myself fall asleep a few times, but I was reluctant to do so in case I slept through the doorbell ringing.  The only other thing I did was to occasionally check to see if there was any progress with my parcel, but maybe that comes under the heading of reading from the internet.

  I watched some TV in the evening - as usual. By 10pm I felt there was almost zero chance of my parcel arriving, and anyway, by then I knew it was back at the Hatfield depot. I did try and read my book, but I barely read a single page before I felt so drained that once I turned out the light I barely remember tucking my arm back in bed before I was fast asleep.

  I really must have been tired because I remember nothing, no getting up to pee, and no dreams, until I woke up at about 4.30am. It was fairly light outside by then. I did go for a pee, although the amount suggested than maybe I had got up to pee once or twice without even waking up ! I think I was fast asleep again for a couple more hours before lowly starting to get up.

  This morning, maybe because I have done a fair bit of fasting, I didn't seem to be able to poo despite feeling I should do (although maybe not that I needed to). That is a shame because as I write this I am thinking that maybe I am starting to feel like I do need to. I definitely had a pee, and in fact I think I have had two now. My weight, even after two pees is exactly the same as yesterday....oh well, could be worse, it might have gone up.

  My blood glucose is both high and not high this morning. I got readings of 7.2 (very good), 9.6, and 9.5, (both very bad). I can't explain why one reading seems very good and the other two very bad, but at least the two very bad are still just below the danger zone by a very narrow margin. Today is no time to start eating all the yummy things I have been denying myself. I haven't even started off by fasting. I have had 4 Tesco "Finest" (found on the reduced price shelf) mini Ploughman's pork pies. One pie is reported to contain 1.6gm of sugar, and that is low enough for me not to worry about it if I can keep the rest of my food nice and low today.....if........

  Today I shall continue stressing out about my parcel delivery. It is still shown at the mysterious SEL depot. It is possible that their delivery drivers are as tardy as Amazon's and don't hit the road until almost midday. I'll keep and eye on it, and try and plan my day around it. I need a shower today, and washing my hair would be nice. A walk in the park might be nice too.

  My next problem is that I have an appointment with the diabetes nurse tomorrow morning, and I'll definitely need a good scrub before that. The good thing is that by Thursday afternoon I could be back of Mounjaro, or possibly Wegovy, and my blood glucose should be under good enough control for (initially) test quantities of ice cream, or cake. I think seeing the nurse will take precedence over my parcel delivery, but it is still going to be a very annoying time. I just hope that the delivery takes place today. I think I am going off on line orders, but there is so much I just have to get from the likes of Amazon and Aliexpress.