A clear sky last night meant that this morning has started of very chilly. By my reckoning the temperature at 7am was as low as 6° C, and one external thermometer that has always seemed fairly accurate was saying 4.7° C ! A nice sunny day should warm things up to 14° C today, and that seems like it will still feel chilly unless there is very little wind, and you are standing in direct sunshine. Hopefully the sunshine through the front windows will raise my front rooms temperature up to 22° C or more by this afternoon. Tomorrow could see 17° C, but there will be hardly any sunshine according to The Met Office. The BBC say there will be sunny spells in the middle of the day, and the temperature could rise to 18° C.

  Yesterday was a day that took a whole new path as a result of receiving a text message. The message was from Angela to say she was feeling very unwell, and had been (presumably) diagnosed as having Covid. I was hoping a bit more information might be forthcoming, stuff like if she actually been checked with a Covid test kit. I assumed she was at home, and not in hospital, but that was another piece of information I lacked.

  I guess it was partly morbid curiosity, or just being nosy, wanting to know more. On the other hand I did want to know if she was comfortable, and being well cared for. Of course "comfortable" is a very variable term. I doubt she is comfortable in a physical sense, but comfort can also be a state where you feel looked after, protected, and can concentrate on getting well again.

  My initial plan to go to Tesco to get a few essentials, if you can call bird seed essential, still went ahead, but there was an extra item at the top of the mental shopping list I had - a get well soon card. With the state of my blood glucose I refused to give in to any eating luxuries this time, and apart from some ham, a bottle of Diet Coke, and some bird feed, I haven't touched anything I bought in Tesco yesterday.

  I guess that is not strictly true because there was one more item used, but it wasn't food. As soon as I got home from Tesco I wrote out the get well soon card, found an ancient, but still valid, gold coloured first class stamp, and rushed out to the post box with it. There was little need for any rush because the only collection from the post box is at 5.30pm. Hopefully Angela will get my card delivered today, and hopefully it will cheer her up a little bit.

  I did very little more for the rest of the day. I had two rounds of rice cakes yesterday. One was more like a late elevenses, and I put the newly bought "Tesco Finest" ham on 4 rice cakes. I should have added a bit of mustard because I found that ham to be almost tasteless. I sometime think that the cheap ham tastes better than the expensive ham. I only bought the expensive stuff because it was on discount with a Clubcard. I think I wasted my money !

  In the early afternoon I had another 4 rice cakes, but this time I had cheese on them, and they were far more enjoyable. Apart from a late night snack of a couple of thin ready sliced Gouda cheese slices, that is all I ate all day (that includes a single bowl of instant noodles for breakfast).  I did have a potentially very tasty lamb and cauliflower stew cooked and ready to eat for dinner, but I was side tracked and never ate it.

  I think it was just after 6pm, after having spent a very lazy afternoon laying in the sun coming through my front windows, when I had a phone call. It was from a friend who I only speak to very occasionally these days. That does mean that these rare calls can last a very long time. By the time we had finished catching up with assorted gossip 10pm was approaching, and I decided to call a halt to it.

  It was then that I had the small snack of Gouda cheese before brushing my teeth and going to bed. I didn't feel ready for bed than, and I read for maybe an hour before I turned the light out, and fell asleep. Like recent nights it seemed like I got some good sleep. It also seemed like it might have been dreamless sleep because I can't recall the existence of a single dream, let alone any details of a dream.

  Whole chunks of hours passed by with no awareness of them, and it wasn't until almost 5am when I entered a period of lighter sleep, and some sleeplessness. I would have liked to stay in bed longer because it was nice and warm under the duvet, and feeling very chilly without it. By 6.30am I could no longer sleep, and I was getting hints of cramp in both legs, and even in one arm. All such hints went away once I was out of bed.

  I wondered if I would get an exceptionally good blood glucose reading this morning, but sadly I didn't. However it was still very good at just 8.1mmol/l - extremely good compared to the last few mornings, which were extremely bad, but I was hoping I might get a figure under 8.0.  On the whole I feel reasonably OK this morning, but the cold is causing a few mild aches, and a bit of stiffness. Both have improved since having a hot breakfast of instant noodles.

  Today is another day when I am not sure what I am going to do. It is looking like it might be a nice bright day suited for some outdoor photography. I guess I just need to decided if I am going to play on the trains, or go for a walk in the park today. Oddly enough I don't feel really keen for either at the moment, but I guess I've got to do something or another today....or have I ?