Today started with full sunshine, but by 9am it was reduced to sunny spells, and they should continue until one glorious burst of full sunshine at 9pm as the sun is setting. This afternoon should see 29° C. Tomorrow will see the first day of the weather warnings for extreme heat. The day may feature non stop sunshine, but curiously the afternoon temperature maybe a degree less than today at just 28° C. It will probably feel a lot hotter in the full sunshine, but today could feel very muggy, and that may feel worse.

  I had several plans for yesterday, or maybe they should just been called pipe dreams because none of them were realised, although I did take in one small parcel delivery.

  One thing I thought I might do yesterday was to go to Greenford London Underground/National Rail station in the hope of seeing the battery operated train that was reported to run on Saturdays. As far as I could tell it was not operating yesterday. Delays were reported on that little branch line because of a failed train. I wondered if the failed train was te battery train ?

  There was also the fact that Greenford station is a tedious journey from south east London. Just getting to the Central line takes several changes of train. I just could not manage all that fussing around. Maybe I could have gone for a possible back up plan of going for a ride on the C2C (aka once known as the London, Tilbury & Southend Railway) lines and see if they were running any different classes of trains (they allegedly do have some new trains in service).

  Maybe the nail in the coffin for all these ideas was also that it was dull outside, and not ideal for photography. A second nail in the coffin was that I was sure I would be waiting for a parcel delivery, although it was several hours later before that was confirmed, and a few hours later still (maybe around 5pm ?) before the delivery actually happened. It was not a very exciting delivery. It was just a pack of 40 AAA batteries I had tagged onto an order raise it past the point when I would get free postage.

  I could say I had a very lazy day yesterday, and it would only be about 75% correct ! .....actually, maybe it was a bit less than that. One little job, mostly little more than several lots of 5 minutes at a time, was to top up the batteries for my almost disused Sony camcorders. Neither worked well at gigs, and that was what I bought them for. The real trouble was often the crazy flashing lighting at The Black Cat pub. That made even still photography very it or miss.

  It was recently that I decided I might make more use of the high definition camcorder I bought from a secondhand shop for £130 10 or more years ago. It's definition is on par with the video taken on my mobile phone, but with one plus point. The camcorder has no auto-rotate, and so if you video something in landscape mode (as used by 100% of TVs ever made) it stays in landscape mode. That is not always the case on one of my mobile phones.

  Like most days recently, I was trying not to eat too much, or to eat "naughty things". On the whole I succeeded, and mostly it was because I seem to have eaten all the worst things in the fridge, freezer or cupboard. I think my lunch may have just been a single soft deli roll with corned beef and horseradish sauce.

  My dinner was a bit naughty maybe, or maybe it was not as bad as I thought. It was essentially fish and chips, although the fish was fish fingers, and the chips were giant sized chips (well maybe not "giant", but they were big and thick). I could only make a final judgement on it all this morning, and it seems I somehow did well.

  Last night was another thrilling (no it wasn't !!) night watching TV. Well, and watched some TV, and some of it was fairly entertaining, but I did come close to just laying on my bed reading. In fact I did spend a little of the evening reading, and read for a short while after finally turning off the TV and going to bed. Maybe I read for 15 minutes before putting the book down, tuning out the light, and possibly falling asleep in less than 10 minutes.

  I seemed to sleep OK last night. I have hazy memories of getting up to pee once or twice, and I know I had at least one dream, but can't seem to remember a thing about it.....except......yes, I can remember one brief bit of dream, but with almost no context to it. In the bit of dream I remember I had had an injection in the side of my face. I was going to have a second, but I queried why the nurse was refilling the same syringe for the next drug. It seemed very wrong, and yet it also seemed to be OK using the same needle for the same person twice. I am sure it has taken longer to write all I remember than it took to have that bit of dream.

  This morning the truth about my efforts to eat carefully are in ! I seem to have lost 200gm since yesterday, and that was without having a poo - which I still need - in theory. Maybe, like yesterday, it will happen halfway through the morning - which is sort of inconvenient. My blood glucose is slightly lower than yesterday. I got readings of 7.2, 8.0.and 8.0mmol/l. That gives an average of 7.73mmol/l, and that is lower than yesterday's 8.23mmol/l.  That is lower than all but two of the averages so far this month.

  I should feel nice and healthy this morning, but I don't.....or do, but I fear that it would take very little to turn good to bad. My chest seems on a knife edge these last few weeks. It seems to need very little to provoke the sort of chest pains that indicate all is not good with my heart. As I probably said yesterday, and I am sure I'll say tomorrow too, there is the report that one of my grafts is blocked, and so my blood flow to the heart is not as good as it ought to be. I feel I will be demanding answers about this when I next see a Cardiologist in April next year. In the meantime I will raise the issue when I have a blood pressure review next month - although my blood pressure remains pretty good. It was 119/70 just now.

  Being a Sunday it should be a beer tasting day, but there are no trains between Catford Bridge and Elmers End, and Jodie said she would not be visiting today. She did say she might visit tomorrow instead. That could just be an excuse for an extra beer to celebrate my 71st birthday !

  I am unsure what I will be doing today. Possibly it may be little more than a shopping trip to Tesco, but I might have a walk in the park. I'll see how I get on when I go to Tesco - if I go to Tesco. There are several unhealthy things I might desire, and some healthy stuff like more fruit that I don't desire, but feel I probably need to include in my diet. Before all that I will have a lie down, and probably a snooze. After that I may have a shower even if I don't go out, or see anyone. This recent weather is quite sticky !