With an early hours temperature as low as 18° C at 6am, it just scraped under the definition of a tropical night, last night. Today may be a whole degree cooler than yesterday, but a day of non stop sunshine, and 29° C predicted for this afternoon, it is still going to be a bit sweaty......although a breeze from the east may help it feel fresher.  Tomorrow is going to be very sunny again, and once again the afternoon temperature may peak at 28° C, but if the forecast turns out to be the same as reality, it will only be for two hour at 2 and 3pm The temperature drops a degree or two per hour either side of that. The breeze, once again from an easterly (or north easterly) direction may be a bit stronger, and may make it feel even fresher (but may be only in the shade).

  Yesterday I was sort of busy taking remedial action after I found my blood glucose had gone super high in the morning. What I did helped, but the danger is not over yet.

  It took me a while to get myself in the right state of mind (or something like that) before I could go to Tesco yesterday afternoon. I spent a lot of the morning laying on my bed reading and snoozing. Sometime I wonder if I get much sleep during a snooze, but yesterday I certainly did. One minute I had plenty of time left, and the next minute it was just gone 1pm ! It was not quite as planned, but I had nothing else to do, and so I suppose I enjoyed it.

  Once I was ready for action I had a shower, and I washed my hair, or it could be said that I degreased myself after being bathed in my own sweat in the previous 24 hours.


 There were two places I wanted to go to when I went out. The first was to The Black Cat pub. During the beer tasting session on Thursday, Michael said he had been told there was going to be a gig at The Black Cat, and I think he said his daughter told him about it. He said had had confirmed it when he went past The Black Cat on his way back from the Post office. Unfortunately he could not remember any details, and apparently was too busy carrying shopping to use his mobile phone to take a picture.

  I went there to take a picture of the chalkboard outside the pub, and yes indeed there is a band called Rock A Fellas, described as a rock band, playing there on Saturday 25th July. I can't find anything about the Rock A Fellas, but like Michael, I was quite interested in the gig, but there is a big catch. It clashed with Chattfest (in the garden of The Chatterton Arms in Bromley), a 2 day event, and I intend to go on both days (the Saturday and Sunday). I know over half the bands playing, and I even have the t-shirt for one of them. I think that puts me out of commission for anything else that weekend.

  The other place I visited was Tesco. It was quite a dangerous idea when I knew I had to do a lot of fasting yesterday (and today) because of terribly high blood pressure. I principally wanted bottles of Diet Coke - four x 2 litre bottles - and I had to stay clear of most food in there. My first idea for a known fairly low sugar snack was a big bag of Twiglets, but I did buy other stuff too, but only a few things that I checked to make sure they were very low sugar.

  I must admit that from that point on I did not really do any fasting, but I did try and keep my sugar intake as low as possible - I even went as far as using my digital kitchen scales to way out just 25 (actually it was 27) grammes of Twiglets, and another similar amount of some beef flavour corn puffs - more air than sugar.

  When it came to dinner time I hoped to get away with two beef burgers, cooked the day before, and reheated with low or zero sugar baked beans, might make for a safe dinner. I am still sure it should have been, but this morning I have some doubts.

  There is not a lot to say about the rest of the day. In the evening I watched TV, and then at about 10pm I went to bed. Once again, the heat made me feel too sleepy to read more than a page or two, and I was soon fast asleep. I assumed my blood glucose had dropped to a safer level because I didn't seem to get up to pee much in the night, and although my pillow was damp with sweat, I didn't think I was sweating much.

  This morning I got up initially at about 6am and went for a pee, and tried for a poo. I felt I should need one, but I was not ready at that time (I have subsequently gone twice, but only small amounts). When I checked my weight I was annoyed that I seemed to have gained 500gm. I felt that I should have lost about that much, not gained it.  My blood glucose was lower, but still in the danger area. I got readings of 10.5, 9.4, and 10.2mmol/l. That averages to 10.03, and that is only a fraction over the red line, and a lot, lot better than yesterday's average of 12.17mmol/l.

  It seems that maybe my care and very mild fasting did help a lot, but until I get my blood glucose down to at least 9.0mmol/l, I feel I have to try and go one better than yesterday. I have run out of burgers and low/no sugar baked beans, and I can't think of a substitute. I think I'll maybe mainly eating Twiglets and beef flavour corn puff today (although I have already eaten a small lump of Red Leicestershire cheese. That give me a thought - cheese and rice crackers is usually very safe for my blood glucose. I can have that with some pickled and ready sliced jalapeño peppers.

  What I ought to do today is to go out for the afternoon. Maybe a walk in the park, or maybe to do some train photography. I'll have to see how I feel. At the moment I seem to be more keen to have my usual post writing lie down and probable snooze.