This morning started off very cold, although not cold enough for a frost, at least not a definite frost. We have alread had a couple of hours of sunny spells, but the next forecast event is rain. It should have started by now, but it remains dry. However the clouds are starting to look threatening, and if the forecast is right there could be heavy rain within the hour. This afternoon could be a soggy 11° C, but the last hour of daylight could see sunny spells. There could be more rain in the evening, but the clouds may help the temperature stay up to 7° C during the night. Tomorrow may start at 6° C at 6am, but by 7am, and for the next few hours it may drop to just 5° C. From late morning there could be full sunshine, and that may raise tomorrow lunchtime, which may start with full sunshine, up to 7° C.

  Yesterday featured one bit of important productivity, but little more. I tried to be careful about what I ate, but only succeeded in so much that I avoided a possible source of food poisoning. I had my fill of that for now !

  There really is very little to say about yesterday (unless something I had forgotten suddenly comes to mind - which is sometimes the case). It was before lunchtime that I put some clothes in to soak in Bio detergent. I hoped that I would find the enthusiasm to finish the job before today because I had ideas that I might go out shopping today, and would need the bathtub free so I could shower and wash my hair.

  I tried to make my lunch fairly simple, and hoped that it may have been good for me like the boring low fibre diet I was on prior to the Colonoscopy that never happened. I had two rolls with cheese and lime pickle in them. I am not really sure of the nutritional values of the lime pickle, but it does add a nice flour to what can be a bit bland unless you use lots of cheese in each roll.

  I let lunch settle down, and I feel sure I had a snooze, but I admit it feels sort of hazy now. When I felt comfortable I decided to do at least a couple of rinses of the washing I had left soaking. When I started it felt like I should be able to just continue, and finish the job, but after two rinses (and the wringing out by hand) I suddenly didn't feel like pushing myself to finish the job straight away. It would be some time before I went back to it.

  I can't really describe the afternoon. I don't think I slept through it, but I did sleep through the transition between daylight and night - but night comes so early at the moment. It will be just over a month before the days start to get longer again. I know I went back to the washing, but abandoned it again with the clothes soaking in fabric conditioner.

  I kept my dinner simple in the stupid hope that it would be good for me. In one respect it was good, but in another it was very bad. More about that later. My dinner was essentially two cans of soup. One was pea and ham, which was very nice, and the other was Scotch Broth. The latter was nice, but in a different way, which I can't define, to the pea and ham. I followed the soup with some plain vanilla ice cream.

  It is 10:48am as I write this, and the sky has changed to looking very threatening. That threatened rain is not seeming to be unlikely now !

  My evening was mainly spent watching TV, but at 10pm I felt a burst of guilt, or something like that, and I returned to my washing. I wrung out the fabric conditioner, and hung it all up to dry on the big clothes horse in the front room, with a desk fan blowing at it. It was only around 15° C in there, and it would fall further in the night - not ideal drying conditions.

  I guess it was around 11pm when I turned out the light, and was soon asleep. My sleep seemed fairly good, but maybe there was a hint it was not as good as desired. I don't really remember much until I woke up at 5am. It seemed too early to get up (on a cold dark morning) but I went for a pee. I then went back to bed. It did not feel like I would get back to sleep, and then I was dreaming.

  My dream had a definite theme, but I have no idea what it meant. I dreamed I was working in a 1990s electronic telephone exchange, and I was carrying around a, still sealed, 2 litre bottle of Diet Coke with me. For no obvious reason it kept falling over, and landing across my toes. I think I was probably wearing flip flops. It was not very painful, but after the third time I was getting annoyed. It seemed a good time to wake up again.

  I seemed to have slept for about 2 hours when I woke up. I first went to the toilet and had another pee, and I thought I would do more than pass a bit of wind. I still think more than a few farts will happen, and as I write this there are very feint hints that something more will happen, but there seems no urgency about it. That is a shame, because without a bit more "action" I seem to have gained 1.3kg this morning. That was not supposed to happen after I thought I had been moderately careful about what I ate. Maybe I had a very naughty snack that I have forgotten about.

  On the other hand, my blood glucose continues to be quite good. The average of all three meters is 7.5mmol/l, and as well as being a bit less than yesterday's good readings (7.7mmol/l), it is spot on my self set target. Maybe I was more careful about what I ate after all.

  The highlight of today has already passed. It must be an all time record for Amazon, but they have just delivered a package to me. Usually they come so late in the afternoon that it is often dark - even sometimes near mid summers night - when they arrive. As well as some AA and AAA batteries, the big item was a 24 pack of toilet rolls. I did not even realise they could be ordered until I was told about it by a friend. They seemed at least on par with Aldi prices, and so I ordered a pack. Now they are here I am not so happy. Unlike the toilet paper from Aldi, which is tightly spooled on small cores, the stuff from Amazon is loosely spooled on big cores. I am not sure the total amount of sheets is much more than a 9 pack from Aldi. Oh well, it has to be tried.

  The other highlight for today will be, or should be, a beer tastings session with Jodie. Of course it won't be a big highlight if it is just the two of us - Jodie mostly ignores me in favour of being lost, ever doom scrolling, on her phone - in the way schoolkids are alleged to do. If the rain, that has now started, is as heavy as forecast, it is possible Jodie will decline to go out - and I would not blame her. I have already decided I don't really need to go out to the shops today, and tomorrow will be quite early enough.