has started with full sunshine, but from 10am until sunset there may only be sunny spells.  The afternoon temperature may rise to 26° C after a fairly chilly start. Update ! The latest version of the forecast has changed many of the sunny spells to full sunshine, but the afternoon temperature remains the same. Tomorrow may see a mix of sunny spells and full sunshine. The afternoon temperature could reach 30° C.

  Yesterday morning I felt rotten. Sometimes it seemed a bit like a hangover, and sometimes something else. The more significant thing was some odd feelings from my heart. My blood pressure was quite reasonable, but I had a sort of fizzy feeling from my heart. I think I may be building up to another stay in hospital.

  I did ponder on the idea of going out yesterday morning, but I felt more like snoozing, but I am not sure that I did get any good snoozing in. There was one task I knew I had to grit my teeth and gat down to it. It was selecting and editing another set of photos taken at Petts Wood Calling. I didn't spend all day doing just that, but it did take up a lot of my day. One thing was putting me off was that the photos I wanted to do featured Jamie Bull. His dad, John Bull, is the man who photos are well regarded. To my eye the secret sauce is in the gloss he adds to the photos during "post production". My eyes can see that some of his pictures were not originally taken that well, but he has the patience and skill to polish them up - sometimes a bit too much. He can polish so much that denim jeans take on the appearance of shiny leather !
  The band is called The Nameless, although Jamie Bull, seen here playing the keyboard on the right, plays with one or more of the band using different names. One name is "Jamie And The Jets" which is a sort of Elton John tribute act. This, and the next picture were taken using my big Nikon D610 camera, and I have done my best to make it look "shiny" without going over the top.
   One minor annoyance at this years Petts Wood Calling was no steps up to the back of the stage. It made it impossible to get up to take pictures over the shoulder of Jamie (maybe not literally) so I could actually see him playing the keyboard.
  This is Mourinho Daniel, a six string bass player. He does lots of guitarist poses, but I found it trick to guess when he would do one, and be at the right end of the stage, with camera pointing in the right direction. This picture is not a bad example, but I missed better ones. This, and the rest of the pictures, were taken on my Canon 600D camera with a Sigma 24 to 70mm lens (the same lens, but with the fitting for Nikon cameras that seem to produce my better pictures on the  Nikon 610D.
  Another picture of Mourinho Daniel. This time caught singing back up vocals.
  This picture, taken from among the audience, was the last I prepared to show here, but my task was far bigger than just five pictures. I had over 200 pictures to select from, and the full photo album currently stands at 21 high resolution pictures. I was working through the last between commercial breaks while I watched TV in the evening. I find photo editing a funny old task. Once I get into the swing I can work for long periods until something interrupts me. That could be a meal or even a toilet break, and once stopped it seems so hard to get working again.

  I still have two more bands to do. One does not feature many pictures because I decided I didn't like them. The other features tons of pictures in an attempt to get some dramatic results. That last band that I saw was on in the very early evening. The sun was getting low, and the stage lighting was starting to make the stage look good, and of course I went snap happy. It is going to take an age to go through that lot  - 268 snaps !!! Of course some will be rubbish, and many unusable for other reasons. I may whittle the final photo album down to less than 30 snaps, and maybe only 20 !

  By the time I had finished photo editing, and watching TV, I was very ready for bed. I had started the day feeling tired and with strange feelings from my heart. I finished the day feeling just tired, but otherwise rather good. I read for a while before turning out the light at about 11pm (or possibly earlier). I know I got up to pee once in the night, and I think it may have been twice. I know that on one occasion I came back to me bedroom and saw my PC's clock screen saver was displaying 3:33:33. It is not often you see that combination/time !

  I think it was in the last hour of sleep that I had a dream that left some memories. In the dream I seemed to be working back at BT, and for some reason we had a quiz. I am sure it was a quiz rather than a test after maybe a training course. I found it really easy because a lot of it was identifying pictures of 1936 technology telephone exchanges. It was easy because I worked in four telephone exchanges that were using that technology up to the point when they were modernised. It was never explicitly said, but I think I was marked as an expert on that old technology.

  One other dream could almost have been a follow on from the other dream. We had a guest speaker who talked about something or another. The significant/interesting thing was that he said he would cover some of it in greater detail if we joined him early in the evening. He had hired the back bar of The Catford Bridge Tavern to finish his lecture. That seemed to be an excellent idea, but it didn't happen in any dream. In fact I don't think there was a follow up dream to that last because I got up soon after.

  I still have not had a poo this morning, and that is of some concern because of my plans for today. However, somehow I have managed to lose 600gm without it. That is odd because I thought I had eaten too much junk food yesterday, but even my blood glucose readings say I must have eaten more carefully than I thought. I got very good readings of 7.8, 7.3, and 7.4mmol/l. These are just the sort of readings I aim for.

  My blood pressure reading, taken after finishing the last sentence was interesting. It was 128/76, and that is pretty good. My pulse rate was 73bpm, and that is slightly better than recent measurements. The interesting thing was that my blood pressure meter was showing the symbol that says it detected some flutter in the heart beat. That could indicate another leaking valve, or maybe my new valve is already failing. In some ways it is a relief to see this. It explains the odd feelings from my heart, and having experienced it before it is no big worry of instant death. I can relax, and maybe relax until April next year when I can reveal all to the Cardiologist during my already booked, by the hospital, routine follow up.

  Today's big event is going to Bromley to see, and take pictures of both The Life Of Brian, and Unorfadox (a punk band). This takes place outside, and so I had better where my sun hat, in the Churchill Gardens behind the Churchill Theatre. My easiest route to get there is to get a train to Shortlands station, and then there may be a 10 or 15 minute walk to the park Amphitheatre. The official start time on the posters is midday, and it ends at 3pm. The Life Of Brian info says a start at 11am, but I suspect that is the time they have to get there to set up. I hope so because it is now 10:36 am, and I still have to finish this, have a shower and wash my hair. Ideally I would love a half hour snooze, but I have no time for that. I hope I can find time to have a decent poo before I have to go out !