07:34 BST

  This morning started off rather cool at just 14° C, but worse was that it is, and will be all day long, dull, grey and wet. It is possible that the rain will stop at 3pm. Before then there may only be light rain, and a couple of hours may only see drizzle. Despite all this negativity, the afternoon may still see 18° C again. It may even be 18° C at midnight ! Tomorrow may start at 17° C, and that would be good if it warmed up from there, and it may do just that. By 2pm the temperature may reach 21° C. That may also be the time that the greyness becomes sunny spells. There might even be full sunshine at 7pm - just before the sun set !

    Yesterday is best described as "pleasant" - not quite good enough to be called good, but better than bad. I managed to achieve several good things, although I also managed some bad things that have left a legacy this morning. One good thing was evicting another 8 legged monster that decided to set up home in the corner of my bathroom. It was no match for my long aluminium tube with a plastic cap on the end. It (the spider) got a bit terminally damaged in the process.

  After doing so little the previous day, I just had to make myself do more, and by make I almost mean forced myself. The first job was to finish the laundry that I had started 24 hours earlier. It only needed wringing out, a final rinse, more wringing out, fabric conditioner, and extra strong wringing out, and then hanging up to dry. With that out of the way I could have a shower. I was going to wash my hair, but that didn't seem to be really needed just to go shopping in Aldi.

  I am sure I said I would be more careful about what I bought in Aldi, but once again I seemed to spend a lot more money than I should. It was less a matter of the cash, and more a matter of having to lug it all home afterwards. I wasn't totally sure how I felt when I started walking to Aldi. I tried to push myself, but the walk still seemed to feel a bit slow, and I was glad when I got to the store so I could slow down.

  I started shopping with the best of intentions, although the first item in my shopping trolley were dubious healthwise. They were a couple of flatbread rolls, and I was actually buying them for today. I bought worse stuff for yesterday's lunch. The stupidest thing was marinated spare ribs. They are never as good as genuine Chinese takeaway spare ribs, and there is the disappointment of buying a big box that turns out to be mostly bones with little meat.

  The very worst things I bought were a couple of ice cream tubs. One was "cherry bakewell" flavour. It was loaded with sugar, and I later discovered that the ingredients didn't list Sodium Alginate - the seaweed derived "goo" that helps the ice cream stay creamy, and inhibits ice formation in it, but most importantly slows or stops sugar uptake in the gut. There was another ice cream I bought that looked very nice, but had the same failings.

  I ended up with two fairly heavy bags to carry home, plus 8 litres of Diet Coke, that weights roughly 8 kilograms in my rucksack. It was quite a load to carry home. I thing the worst thing was the anticipation of what could happen carrying all that weight. I was expecting Angina pains at any moment, but they never happened. Instead I got other aches and pains, and most were from my legs and leg joints, plus I was getting mildly short of breath.

  I'm not sure if walking home from Aldi was ever actually enjoyable - probably not - and maybe yesterday was, by comparison, not that bad (sort of taking 60% bad up to 70% bad). It was certainly nice to get home and rest...and also to have some lunch. Lunch was a bit weird, but not unprecedented weird. I had a pack of duck and poultry sushi, and a Korean "styles" beef salad. The sushi was sort of nice, and the Korean salad not really nice at all.

  After that I thought I deserved, even if I didn't actually need it (which it would seem I did) a nice lie down that ended with a nice snooze. Before the snooze I read for maybe half an hour. Even after that snooze I still seemed to feel tired, and that maybe I had done enough for the day.  Of course it wasn't, but I still didn't fancy anything like physical activity, but I could still do stuff on my PC that was more than just reading news stories from the Tech world.

  One such thing was ordering more beers for our Sunday and Thursday beer tasting sessions. I had recently been reminded (by email) that I had "Reward Points" worth a couple of quid with Left Field Beer. The good and bad with Left Field Beers is that they sell beers from breweries that other beer shops rarely deal with, and because of that they can be a bit expensive. Among other beers, I ordered a few from the Coolhead brewery in Finland, and that should excite Jodie because she is a Finophile ! I also ordered a few beers from the Varvar brewery. They originated in Ukraine, but I think they do their brewing in breweries in other countries now, rather than trying to brew in a war zone.

  I think that covers all the positive/good things I did - spider extermination, showering, shopping and ordering beers. The negative was eating too much of that very sugary Bakewell Tart flavour ice cream in the afternoon. It left it's mark when I checked my blood glucose this morning. My dinner probably didn't help. It was a big box of ready to cook spare ribs. They were sort of nice, but I doubt they were nice enough to outweigh the downsides.

   One probably big downside was the sauce that came with them. I didn't check, but I am sure that it was basically flavoured syrup. The other downside is that despite initially looking like a huge dinner, it is little more than a big snack with a huge pile of bones at the end. Chinese takeaway ribs seem to have more meat on them - admittedly I should say "sometimes". Maybe they cut less meat off the ribs to start with, and these ready to cook ribs are pared to the bone to maximise profits (the rest of the meat probably ends up in sausages or something).

  I'm sure there are other things I was going to describe, but I seem to be up to dinner and TV time. I must say the BBC 6 O'clock news was sort of interesting. It was probably the lead article, and it was that The United nations has officially declared that Israel's actions on Gaza amount to Genocide. I assume that the Metropolitan police are drawing up arrest warrants because the United Nations are saying pretty much the same thing as the 500, many of them pensioners, that the police arrested for saying much the same thing.

  The other thing was about the visit by Trump to Windsor Castle. He has to bring his own security, including gun bearing men who ONLY answer to the USA, and can kill anyone they don't like the look of with impunity. It all rather suggested that Trump has pissed off so many people that he is in fear of his life. Maybe the answer is to stop pissing off the rest of the world, and also many US residents.

  After more TV I went to bed, and it was quite late when I did so. I think it was about 20 past 11pm when I turned the lights out and tried for sleep. it was a not untypical case of I can't sleep, I can't sleep, oh, I seemed to have fallen asleep 2 hours ago. The latter was when I woke up to go for a pee. One odd thing was that despite later evidence that my blood glucose was very high, I didn't seem to be up half the night peeing, and even when I did pee it was only in typical amounts.

  This morning was one of those mornings when I seemed to wake up too early, but couldn't get back in to deeper sleep. I laid in bed for some time, and had what could be described as some very short naps, but eventually I partly got up. Once again I had a pee, but it was not one for the record books. I also had a poo. When I weighed myself I found I had put on 400gm. That is a lot, and doubly so when I had (probably stupidly) hoped I might have lost weight. I admit that all I ate yesterday was not an example of how to lose any weight at all.

  The curious thing about was that I seemed to feel almost happy, not that bored, and yet I still made a very poor choice, or a series of them, when it came to eating. Some of the between meals snacks just made things worse. I dreaded, but could not avoid, checking my blood glucose.

  The results of all three blood glucose meter can only be described as appalling. The Contour Meter read 9.9mmol/l, and that is hovering on the edge of the danger zone. I am sure the chief culprit was the Bakewell Tart flavour ice cream. I still have half a tub left, and I will have to be very careful how I eat the rest of it.

  The GlucoRX meter read 9.1mmol/l - far too high, but not nearly as bad as the Contour meter reading. The new GlucoFix meter is usually kind, but it was against me this morning with a reading of 9.3mmol/l. The really odd thing is that last night, maybe an hour after dinner, I used just the GlucoRX meter to take a quick measurement, and it returned a fantastic reading of just 6.8mmol/l. Maybe that was a technical fluke, but it may have been true. The worst thing is that gave me a false sense of hope about this morning - a hope that was mercilessly smashed to pieces !

  Today I was intending to brave the rain and walk to the Jolly Farmers at lunchtime. The grey skies and what mostly looks like drizzle, are rather off-putting. On top of that I do feel sort of tired, but I know that is the result of the high blood glucose. It would help to walk some of that off. At this point in time I can't say if I am going or not going. It would be nice to see Ayse, but it would also be very nice to lay on my bed readings for the rest of the morning.

  Part of the plan was to possibly get the train to Ladywell. The more likely part of the plan was to get the train from Ladywell back to Catford Bridge, and go home vie the little supermarket on the bridge. I could do with a top up of exotic instant noodles. Maybe I might still go there even if I don't make it to the pub. Before making a final decision I need to wash my hair, and have a shower, but I'm not all that keen on that despite removing the latest 8 legged assassin from the bathroom. I really need to close the bathroom window because it is almost shivery cold in there !