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  This morning started almost warm, and later on it will be even closer to warm when the temperature rises to 10° C. Once again this almost-but-not-quite warmth is accompanied by light rain. That may stop by 1pm, and we might have sunny spells followed by pure sunshine. Actually, when I look out the window as I write this, I see some bright sunshine, and lots of blue sky between some white clouds. There could be more sunny spells, and less rain than forecast. The forecast for tomorrow looks similar to the forecast for today (but maybe not today's reality). The temperature tomorrow could be 7° C for most of the day, and there may, or may not be, copious light rain....or not.

  Once again, yesterday was both good and bad, but which was which depends on the actual definitions of what did and didn't happen. In terms of how I felt it was probably a good day, but there was stuff I wished I could have done, but didn't.

  Some of the things I might have done yesterday relied on having a good scrub under the shower, and optionally to wash my hair. I did neither, and spent the day probably all smelly and stinky - and I don't think I cared much about it. I was expecting no visitors, and that was what everything seemed to pivot on.  When I had finished writing yesterday's piece I had a lie down for a nice rest.

  It was possibly that rest, which might have included a short snooze, or not, that set the tone for the rest of the day. The previous day I had been feeling almost good because my top priority on Friday was to keep recovering from the chest pains that started with getting chilled on Wednesday. The walk through the park in a howling gale of almost icy feeling winds left me feeling awful on Thursday. It was like I was going down with 'flu. A day's laziness in a warm room made me feel a lot better, and so I did it again the next day (Friday) and basically I did more of it yesterday.

  I didn't really intend to do that yesterday, but the thought of the pains that even going to a freezing cold bathroom could produce meant I really did not want to go out into the weather. I am currently keeping the spare fan heater, on it's extension lead, pointed into the bathroom, and it is now on every night, but with the thermostat on it set to not get the room that warm - just enough to take the chill off. It does make going for a pee (or more) in the night a lot less painful.

  The bathroom was warm yesterday morning, and I could have had a nice wash and washed my hair, but I was feeling too good doing nothing. Eventually I decided I really ought to get a pile of laundry done. Once I got started on that I found it was less a chore than expected, although that was helped by it being only a medium sized load of a single t-shirt and about 10 pairs of my underpants.

  I almost got that laundry job done in one session, but I had to stop near the end because I needed a pee. Having stopped I made it an short break when I went back to my PC to read some stuff on it. Maybe 15 minutes later, I got back to the laundry, and did the final step, the fabric conditioner, and then hung the stuff on the big clothes horse to dry. It was not very warm in the front room, in fact it was cold, and I decided I would have to use the heater in there to help speed up the drying.

  I seem to be using heating far too freely at the moment, and we have not even reached the full depths of winter yet, although it might turn out the December and January are almost warm - it would not be the first time. There are some precedents for this. I can remember visiting Herne Bay, for an afternoon out by the sea, and it was warm and sunny ! I hope that it does warm up soon because I think I have already spent my £200 winter fuel allowance (which was deposited in my bank account a few days ago).

  After I had finished doing laundry I fancied another lie down, and the idea of going out shopping to Tesco seemed highly unlikely. The idea of going out in the evening to go to West Wickham seemed positively madness.  I just returned to be hyper lazy, although I did take a break to have some lunch. I can't seem to recall what I had for lunch, but I remember that I had a desire to keep it light so there was some chance I might lose some weight yesterday.

  Losing weight while laying on my bed all afternoon is not easy. Even trying to hold up a very heavy paperback book (nearly 3 inches thick !!!) burns almost no calories, but does make your fingers ache. I suppose I should read it with it laying on a table, or even laying on my PC keyboard, but I just seem to have preference for reading books while laying on my bed.

  I think I did more than lay on my bed all afternoon, and it was probably more than getting up to go for a pee, but I can't remember any other reasons other than maybe stretching my legs. It was only when 6pm and dinner time approached that I stopped resting/being lazy. There were several things I might have had for dinner, and I only had one of them - and that was an ice cream and cake dessert.

  I don't know why I felt like it would be good to have a starter of fish - in the form of a couple of small tins of either sardines or mackerel. Initially, or perhaps I should say the first tin, which was sardines in spring water, tasted good. I had dressed them with white pepper and vinegar. I think I had 3 of those little tins, and the last was of mackerel in an (alleged) spicy tomato sauce. I think that maybe it was one tin too many, and I did not enjoy it.

  My main course for dinner was simply cheese on toast. I had two slices of sourdough loaf "for toasting". As far as I could guess, it was only "for toasting" because the slices were small enough to fit in an electric toaster. I was going to try that, but I used my mini oven/grill because I wanted to melt cheese on the toast. Apart from a sprinkle of mixed seeds and stuff from a jar with built in grinder, it was just toast and cheese and nothing else. When only an infrequent treat it was delicious.

  I had to watch the BBC news on the BBC news channel (because all the schedules are screwed up at the weekend). I think I still managed to watch at least one Star Trek episode.....but maybe I didn't. I certainly watched some SciFi in the form of "Star Maidens" - an English/German co-production Sci Fi series from 1976. I came across it listed on the Rewind TV channel, and started watching it when I realised that one of the actors was Gareth Thomas - aka Blake from Blakes Seven. I must admit that it is not the best of Sci Fi TV, but it has it's moments, and some of the woman look attractive in their "futuristic" (1976 !!) costumes. All episodes can be downloaded from https://archive.org/details/star-maidens-02-nemesis for free. I opted for the torrent, and download all episodes in one go. I ought to watch the first episodes to see what happened before I saw it on TV.

  I had run out of things to watch quite early last night, and opted for an early night. I can't say what the time it was that I went to bed, but it may have still been a few minutes before 9pm. I did read in bed for a bit, but I was probably asleep well before 10pm. The fact I can remember almost nothing about the nigh suggests I probably slept well. I am sure I got up to pee a couple of times, but with the chill taken off the bathroom by the fan heater, there was not the same memorable trauma of going to an icy cold bathroom, and getting angina pains.

  I do remember having a dream at some point in the night. Maybe it was just before I got up, and the stress of getting up made me forget everything about it. I did seem to get a lot of sleep last night, and I think that was good. I didn't feel I had super powers, or anything like that when I got up, but I did seem to feel vaguely human, and mostly comfortable.

  This morning I went for a pee as soon as I had got up. I felt I should have had a poo, but that never happened. When I weighed myself I was not impressed. After counting out my pills for today, and before I went down to the kitchen to get my breakfast, I went to the toilet again, and as well as another fair sized pee, I had a poo. I then weighted myself, and this time I was 200gm lighter than yesterday morning. It was obviously not a big loss, but at least it was a loss. I was going to say that added to the loss the day before it looks even better, but then I noticed that it was only a loss of 100gm compared to my weight 4 days ago. Weight goes up and it goes down, and then it.....

  My blood glucose was up a bit this morning, but not much, and I think all my readings were quite acceptable. The Contour meter read 7.4mmol/l, and that is fine. The GlucoRX meter read 6.0mmol/l, and that is actually rather good. The GlucoFix meter read 7.2mmol/l, and that is also fine, maybe even slightly good. The average of all three is 6.87mmol/l, and that is better than most average readings this month. Most tend to start with a 7.

  Despite what the forecast may say, it does look rather nice outside at the moment. It is around 10° C, and there is a lot of blue sky and fully clouds. It is currently sunny. I don't think I am going to do anything exciting today, although with no drinking this afternoon (Jodie is otherwise occupied) I could do something. The main things I will do are to have a shower and wash my hair. Then I think it is starting to become important that I go to Tesco for some provisions. Other than that I don't think I have any other targets.








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