Today may well be worse then yesterday. Most of it may be the same, but even in the latest revision, there is rain shown for 3 and 4pm, plus 6 and 7pm. The temperature will be the same as yesterday. That's 13° C, and with no sunshine it is going to feel quite cool. Tomorrow may be dry, but it will see the same mix of dull and very dull hours. It is also predicted to be a couple of degrees colder.

   Yesterday was quite a productive day when measured against what I was planning. My only plan was to try and convince myself to go for a walk if the sun ever came out (as the early morning version of the forecast said it would), but I don't think there was any sign of the sun, and so I stayed in. That left no plan at all, but I did go on to do a few things. One was to hand wash a large bath towel.

  Washing that towel on came about because just as I was about to dry myself, after a shower, I noticed one small area of the towel was starting to smell. I grabbed a fresh towel, and even before I was dry I had filled the first big builders bucket with water, and bio detergent, and started the process of washing the towel. That towel, when saturated with water is bloody heavy, and it needed 5 rinses before I plunged it into the fabric conditioner.

  I had to wash that towel in two stages because lifting it out of the water, and wringing it out was rather taxing. I could have done it in one go, and it would build my muscles up to do it that way, but I wasn't feeling like superman yesterday. I gave it the best wringing out I could at the end, and that was enough to stop it dripping when I hung it on the clothes horse to dry in front of a fan heater on low.

  The other sort of productive thing I did was to open up Jodie's mum's other old PC. It is a Dell, and it is probably a more likely candidate for being brought back to life - mainly because I probably can rather than any other reason. All I did yesterday was to give it a good hoovering inside and out to make it a bit nicer for when I start to play with it. One oddity was finding an unused recordable CD inside the case. I'm guessing that someone "posted" it through the gap below the CD writer instead of in the CD writer.

  There was one other thing of significance that I did yesterday, although it could be argued that it was the absence of doing something. I made a point of eating very carefully yesterday after my high blood glucose reading in the morning. I didn't eat anything until lunchtime, but then I had two lunches spaced by about half an hour. I thought that was playing with fire, but I couldn't resist it.

  My two lunches were both very similar. They were cheese on toast with added extras. The first two slices had sliced tomato under the cheese. The second had sliced jalapeños under the cheese. It is worth pointing out that the bread was sliced off the remains of the crusty loaf I bought at the beginning of the week. The area of each slice was about half that of common sliced bread, although a bit thicker. So lunch part 1 and part 2 were each approximately equivalent to one slice of common sliced bread, albeit 1.5 times as thick.

  I still felt like I wanted to eat more after those two lunches, but I resisted anything until dinner time. Dinner was three cans of soup. I started with the extremely low sugar containing Tesco cream of chicken soup. I followed that by Oxtail soup, and finally I followed that the much thicker, and more filling pea and ham soup. An hour or so after dinner I ate a lump of cheese. It is possible, even probable that I nibbled on other stuff through the day, but what I have described is the majority of what I ate.

  I can't remember what time I got to sleep last night, but I feel sure it wasn't that late, and possibly before 10pm. I seemed to get a lot of sleep last night. I didn't seem to wake up very often, and it was gone 7am when I got up. I had many dreams, but only one has some significance. For some unexplained reason I was dreaming about a headphone and phone charging socket on an aeroplane. I have never been on a plane in my life, and I guess the inside was closely modelled on a train in my dream.

  The original idea was to use a quarter inch stereo jack plug, but that would only allow mono sound if one wire was used for a 5 volt charging source. I suggested (to who ?) that a USB socket, which has 4 connections, could carry both stereo sound, and the 5 volt charging current. This is, of course, just technical blather. It eventually connected with real life. The socket was as knee level in the plane, and I was having trouble keeping my knee away from it. After a while I could feel cramps developing in the leg muscles. At that point I woke up, and of course I did have cramped muscles. A walk to the toilet, for a pee, loosened them up, but when I got back to bed I could feel some after pain. For some reason it didn't stop me falling asleep very soon after getting back in bed.

  My eating plans yesterday had the desired effect, and it was even better than expected. My blood glucose was down to 7.8mmol/l this morning, and almost as low as my self set target of 7.5mmol/l. It was low enough to sort of nullify my high reading yesterday, and has taken my running average down to a new low of 8.28mmol/l. Last month it was 8.37, and the month before it was 8.5.

  Two things could happen today. One is definite, or as definite as these things get. I should be getting a delivery of two bottles of whisky that I ordered while far too sober...possibly...near the beginning of the week. The other thing that might be happening is a beer drinking session with Jodie this afternoon. The only trouble is that I have this nagging idea that she said she would be elsewhere today, but I can't think what or where. It is not a day when I will want to be going out, and so I shall get things ready for a drinking session, and if Jodie doesn't turn up I shall get on with something else - probably just reading.