The invisible and dy rain which fell yesterday seems to be falling again this morning. So far as I can see there is no sign that any rain fell in the night, and while the sky looks like it could rain at any second, it is still dry so far this morning. Maybe a few drop will fall before midday when it should start to brighten up. An hour later and we may see the fist sunny spells. They will turn into full sunshine until sunset. This afternoon may only reach 16° C, but that is still shirtsleeves weather. Tomrrow may feature blue skies and full sunshine all day long, but the afternoon may only reach 17° C for one single hour because the wind is coming from the north east.

  Yesterday was one of those special days, or maybe one of my special days. A day that was probably part wasted, and maybe even not ideal for my health. It all sounds a bit cryptic so far, but I shall explain....

  The mad dash yesterday morning I described in my late written diary yesterday, but to recap I went to give some blood samples (plus a pee sample), and after that I went and bought a few things from Poundland. I was sort of nice, and even slightly exhilarating to be out in the morning fresh air, and on the whole I guess I could say I enjoyed it, but it took it's toll on me - not physically, but mentally. Maybe less toll mentally, but more mentally twisting. Let me explain.

  My mind works in mysterious ways, and one thing it is prone to is deciding that after two important jobs have been done, like giving blood samples, and shopping in Poundland, it had done all the work it wanted to do for the day. When I got home from Poundland I had some breakfast (a pack of sandwiches, or probably two), and then switched to lazy/couldn't care less/snoozing time. I basically did nothing more all day.

  By "nothing more" I am actually excluding a few things I did do like reading, snoozing, eating, and also checking the progress of the order I recently made from Aliexpress in China. The first few days are always slow, and then things seem to speed up. I think that yesterday the Aliexpress web site said my orders were complete and ready to ship. That means heading to the airport where further delays can happen.

  My lunch was a late breakfast, and my dinner was more like lunch with a few extra snacks as dessert. The odd thing is that I ate more than I should have, and even ate stuff I shouldn't have, but at the same time I was sort of trying to be careful. That sounds like, and is a contradiction, but my health tests this morning were also a sort of contradiction. More about that later.

  I was in bed, feeling very sleepy, and that was despite being so lazy all day, and having a few snoozes, by around 10pm if I recall correctly. I managed to read a couple of pages before turning out the light, and pulling the duvet up around me. It was one of those nights where I don't think I managed to complete the thought that was wondering why I couldn't seem to fall asleep, before I fell asleep.

  I slept well, and very similar to many recent nights. I woke a few times to pee, and I know I had a dream. I can only remember mere seconds from that dream (there may have been other dreams). The bit I remember is looking at crushed to powder crustacean shells to my a sort of pink dye. Why I wanted such a thing, or even if I did want such a thing, is now a complete mystery to me.

  When I first got up I went for a pee, and then weighed myself.....hmm, not so good. I went back to bed for maybe half an hour because it was a bit early. When I got up and went to the toilet again I passed a useful amount of pee, but only wind instead of poo. As I sit here writing I am aware that having a poo would be a good idea, but nothing is happening yet, although since having some instant noodles for breakfast that may be some hints that something is moving in the bottom area.

  Despite no great excretions, it does seem that I have managed to lose a mere 200gm since yesterday morning. My blood glucose is bad and good at the same time. The Bayer Contour meter read 8,7mmol/l. That is high-ok. The Nexus GlucoRX meter read 7.8mmol/l , and that is actually fairly good. On my second attempt, after the first was an utter disaster, the Glucofix Sensor meter read 9.1mmol/l (the same as yesterday, which is suspicious), and most definitely bad. The average of all three is 8.53mmol/l, and that is not good, not bad, but a bland OK.

  My plans for today are..... Err, I don't seem to have any plans.Some of the grey sky seems to be getting lighter at the same time as some parts look even more like rain my fall. There seems to be a 50% chance of rain in the next hour, but after that it falls to zero. Maybe I should be thinking of going out early this afternoon, but there seems to be too much inertia (and previous precedent) for that to happen. I would probably do better spending some of my time cleaning up the kitchen, emptying the rubbihs bins etc, and maybe, only maybe, with a very slim chance, of getting the hoover out. I will confess that some places are dearly missing some hoovering, and so.........
  I almost forgot that I took this picture through the poor optical quality windows of the back bedroom, looking north, at about midday yesterday. The blue sky looked great, and with the temperature around 20° C it felt pretty good. I used a rarely used camera to take this picture - an old Olympus X-42 camera bought in a second hand shop many years ago. It is a rather good camera with one useful feature - it runs on two ordinary AA cells. It would be ideal if I was away from a charger for for days on end. It is worth mentioning that my first digital camera was a 1.3mp Olympus. It had no zoom, but the pictures were so good that they could survive some cropping as a form of digital zoom. The X-42 does have 5x optical zoom, and is a 12mp camera.  I must take it out some day to see how it compares with the Nikon S6300 - my preferred pocket sized camera.