The temperature was just 8° C at 6am, but it should rise to 15° C this afternoon. Unfortunately, if the forecast is correct, from 10am the sun will end up behind clouds, and this afternoon may be dull. After 4pm the temperature will fall like yesterday, and by midnight to may be down to 10° C. One novelty if it happens, and I can bother to look outside to see it, mist will descend at 2am. The mist may continue until 9am tomorrow morning. Once it lifts we may get sunny spells, and a few of them may be quite lengthy. Tomorrow after may reach 15° C like today, but with a few sunny spells it may look nicer than today.

  I guess I have to say that yesterday was a good day, but still short of excellent or wonderful. The actual good thing was it was quite a productive day, and I did a few things I had been putting off for some time.

  I think the thing I said I would do before anything else yesterday, was to finish the laundry that I had started the previous day, and left soaking in it's big bucket in the bath. Before I got back to that laundry I had to finish writing yesterday's diary, have a lie down, read for a bit, and have a snooze......but than I did get back to that laundry. It was an unusually large amount, and I found it easier to do two lots of wring out (between rinses) and then rest for a bit. In the end I think I did it in three instalments, but I did get it done, and I hung it all on the big clothes horse to dry (helped by using a desk fan to circulate the air around it all).

  While doing that laundry was my major achievement of the day, I also did several lesser, but also important jobs. One I had been putting off for a while. It was to clean the toilet bowl. After my diarrhoea a couple of days ago there was some splatter around the rim and other places. I put on rubber gloves, and used a pan scourer and bleach to get it all (well, for some levels of all) antiseptically clean, and shining.

  That inspired my next achievement, and using a different, and lighter pair of rubber gloves to do it. Over the previous few or more days I had mentioned how I had some neglected stuff, including a lot of takeaway containers, in the kitchen sink. Well yesterday I also gave the kitchen sink a good clean. I could not be bothered to scrub the takeaway containers for re-use, but I got them clean enough to put into the recycling bin.

  The bottom of the kitchen sink was all greasy and scummy. Once again it was time for rubber gloves and bleach. I did not use the same rubber gloves I used to clean the toilet, although I think the bleach would have rendered them perfectly clean, but it still felt wrong to mix toilet stuff with kitchen stuff. It was nice to see the kitchen sink empty and sparkling clean.

  I think I did some other cleaning, but it was probably no more than a wipe here, and a wipe over there. One thing was for sure, I felt I deserved some lunch. I made up a couple of cheese rolls with Indian Lime Pickle in them. They seem almost harmless, but best of all, until the novelty wears off, they seem really tasty (and sort of satisfying).

  There was one other thing I did that was not exactly housework, but will involved in beautifying a bit of the house in just under 2 months time now. It started off by finding a box I had stashed away with LED tea lights in it. I try to think of it as a dark nights thing rather than Xmas, but some of those LED lit tealights can look good - particularly the ones that flicker, or change colour.

  Those tea lights are powered by CR2032 Lithium coin cells, and to freshen them all up I would need quite a lot of those batteries. I had intended to lay off buying stuff from Aliexpress, but this seemed like a good time to use them again. I found I could buy a pack of 25 Panasonic branded batteries for £19. Ideally I needed to bump the order up to £38 to get free delivery (at least I think I did). I decided to buy some LED fairy lights. I am sure they are the same as Poundstretcher sell, but the pricing is more even. Poundstretcher seem to put a big premium on some sets of lights, and Aliexpress only put an tiny premium on some sets. A couple of sets I ordered come with a remote control to change the colour or flashing rate or whatever.

  After my (small) spending spree I needed a lie down.....well actually, I had nothing to do, and that seemed like an excellent time to get back to the book I am reading, and if I just happened to let my eyes close, and to start snoring, then so what ?? Maybe the answer to "so what ??" was that it just brought dinner time a bit closer. My dinner was a Chicken Tikka Masala ready meal, as bought from Tesco. I guess I could describe it as very nice, but I think just plain "nice" is adequate.

  I topped off the curry with the last of the tub of Strawberry ice cream I started quite a few days ago. I must admit that once I started I could not stop until it was all gone. It was probably about double the amount I thought I intended to eat. The odd thing is that it did not really matter - as I discovered this morning.  I can some of the rest of my evening by saying I watched the usual TV and then went to bed, although like the night before, I didn't care to watch the last hour of TV and went to bed early. I used half the hour I had saved by reading, and then went to sleep.

  Like yesterday, and many other days, I don't really have much to say about my sleep. Actually there was one notable thing. I woke up with my right leg uncovered, and it felt very cold. Unless I dreamed it, I think I had overshot when I turned the heater down, and it was just blowing cold air until I got out of bed and turned it up to heating again.  It was possibly around 5am when I got up for a pee, and at the same time I turned the heater up to full power. It was nice and warm when I got up sometime between 7 and 8am.

  I thought I should have done a bigger poo when I went to the toilet, but it seemed enough, together with several visits to the toilet to pee, for my weight to have risen by only 100gm this morning. I had hoped to have lost a few hundred grams, but for that I would have had to actively done something about it rather than just hoped. Anyway, it is good enough, and the scales were sort of hovering on the edge between a gain of 100gm and no change at all.

  My blood glucose was 8.23mmol/l this morning, and that is a fraction less than yesterday, but exactly the same as it was 3 mornings ago. I had hoped that my recent Ozempic injection might have lowered my blood glucose a bit, but scoffing so much ice cream yesterday would have scuppered that idea. At the moment it is nothing to celebrate because it is just "ordinary" at the moment - not too high, and not too low (although a bit lower would have been reason to celebrate).

  I have two potential plans for today. One idea is for a walk in the park, but I think the other idea over rides that. I have mentioned once or twice in recent days that I have the desire to go shopping in Aldi. There are a few things it would be nice to buy from there, although all but a few I could buy from Tesco. By the same token, I could argue there are a few things I could not buy from Aldi that I could buy from Tesco. Just don't ask me to list what these things are - sometimes I only know what they are when looking for them and realising that I could get them from the other store than the one I am in !