This morning has started with sunny spells. All my thermometers agree it is 10° C now, or a full degree higher than forecast, but I suppose I shouldn't quibble over a single degree. We may lose the sunny spells by 11am, but they could resume at 2pm. From 4pm we can hope for full sunshine until sunset. The afternoon temperature today will be just 13° C again, but it is looking like we can expect some much sunnier, and much warmer days starting tomorrow. The current forecast is that tomorrow will see clear blue skies all day, and the afternoon should reach 15° C. It may not be until the 1st May until we see some rain. - so much for April showers !

  Yesterday was another good day.....well, mostly good. There were a few things that were cause for concern, but ultimately turned out OK. I described much of yesterday morning yesterday when I resumed writing yesterday's piece after seeing the nurse, and also shopping in Aldi. The only thing I'll add about seeing the nurse is that I like her. It is refreshing to find someone in the medical world who is supportive and not judgemental.

  I had, or thought I had, a very relaxed time after getting home with all my shopping from Aldi. It sometimes seemed that I did little more than eat. I thought it was a typical (for me) "let my guard down after seeing the nurse (or other medical appointment)". This morning I don't think I did over eat. Some things I ate were not ideal, but even they didn't seem so bad in the end.
  One of the worst things I ate was a jar (not a tub in this case) of Lemon Meringue Gelato. With all but the salt reported to be in the red or orange, it seemed to be extremely unhealthy. Unfortunately it was also extremely yummy. Being in a plastic jar like a squashed jam jar, it was possibly designed as a single helping. Even if it wasn't, once I got started I could not stop until I had scraped the sides clean.

  The first things I ate were a couple of packs of Sandwiches, and the last thing I ate (ignoring a little chunk of cheese) was 6 chilli flavoured sausages with half a big can of bake beans - and not the low sigar and salt variety - although it is possibly that with them being Aldi brand, and not Heinz, the sugar and salt content may well have been low without them having to shout it all over the label.

  There was one special, important thing I did during the afternoon. I suddenly realised it was well over a month since I had last made a back up of my Linux PCs home partition - the section of the hard disk that contains all my pictures, videos, sounds plus all my customisations to my desktop. I must admit I no longer do these backups as a monthly imperative - which I should do - but at least I have a current back up now, in fact two copies of it for extra safety. If the hard disk in my PC fails I can easily restore everything - although like making the full back ups (yesterday it was just incremental backups) it would take half a day or so to copy everything to a new hard disk.

  Some of my afternoon, and I guess a little of my morning too, involved some snoozing. It is one of the great things about being retired, and more so at my age, I can just lay on my bed, and close my eyes most of the time. One exception to this is when I am expecting a delivery, and I go on high alert until it arrives. That may be happening today.

  I watched the usual TV last night, although I think I may have turned the TV off a bit earlier than some nights. After all the snoozing I didn't expect to feel that tired last night, and maybe I didn't, but it was not long after 10pm that I think I fell fast asleep. At 10pm I am often watching TV. I don't remember much of my night. I know I woke a few times for a pee, and one of them was quite a big pee. I can't seem to remember if I had any dreams. I assume I did dream because we all dream every night even if we have no recollection of it.

  This morning I did seem to sleep later than most mornings. Maybe I only woke and got up because my bladder was full. I didn't seem to feel uncomfortable, although I could feel I did need a pee. Once I started it seemed I would never stop. At a guess it was half a litre (or a full pint and a bit). I happen to know, because I have measured it, the average size of one of my usual pees is 300ml. I thought I needed a poo as well, but on that first attempt it was just gas.

  It was with some fear that I got on the scales, but to my complete astonishment I had lost a little bit of weight. Later on, after another, more normal sized pee, and passing quite a small poo, I weighed myself again. It seems that this morning, despite my fears of over/badly eating yesterday, I have lost 800gm since yesterday. It is ironic that this didn't happen in time to include in the spreadsheet I printed out for the nurse. That showed a measly loss of 200gm.

  After eating that very sweet Lemon Meringue Gelato (and a few other things I am not proud of) I also expected my blood glucose to be very high this morning, but once again I was being insanely pessimistic. I had readings of 7.9, 6.6 and 7.2mmol/l, and the average of all three was a rather satisfactory (but not great) 7.23mmol/l. That is not the lowest three reading average this month, but it is lower than about half off all the readings so far this month.

  There is one fly in the ointment for my plans for today. Fortunately only one plan is semi important, and it could wait until tomorrow. Today I think/hope I am expecting delivery of the two solid state hard drives I ordered from China. At 7.44am it was reported to have arrived at the delivery depot, and it should be out for delivery some time today. The second fly in the ointment is that the courier service is Evri. That means several things. The first is that they might run over my parcel, and render it scrap. They have no idea when the driver will arrive to start the deliver run. If the driver actually gets here, and not to a house around the corner with the same number, but in the wrong road (it happened once), he may leave the parcel in the rubbish bins if he doesn't get an answer to the doorbell in 5 seconds, if he can actually find the doorbell (it is hidden by being fixed to the middle of a big door in plain view). You may notice I do not have much faith in Evri as a delivery service. They do seem to get the reject drivers from Amazon, who usually take the reject drivers from DHL, and they are the ones who can't get a job with Royal Mail because they suffer learning or reading difficulties......probably.

  If I ever get an expected time for my delivery, and there is time before or after the delivery, then I may do the grand tour - Poundstretcher to buy some more instant noodles and a spare pair of the same shoes as I bought recently (and that seem to be rather good). Then along the main road to Poundland to see if they have any more my size flip flops. The one single pair I found in there a few weeks ago seem to be quite comfortable, and I'd like a spare pair if I can get them. Finally, a bit further along the main road, and then round the corner to pick up my latest prescription from the pharmacy. After that lot, assuming I can actually do it without missing my delivery, I think I may well have a lie down and a snooze.