Today is supposed to be a bit brighter, and I guess it is a slightly lighter shade of gloomy grey. No rain is expected, and that is a good thing. A maximum temperature of 6° C is not a good thing. Tomorrow will be just like today except it will only reach 5° C. It seems to be taking forever to get some sort of spring joy.
 
  Today is the day that Patricia comes to stay for one night. She will be arriving earlier than her original estimate - possibly as early as 1pm. That means I am going to have to keep this brief, but that is OK because I don't have a lot to say about yesterday.

  The plan was to do a lot more housework yesterday, but I just couldn't seem to raise the energy or enthusiasm. It took until the afternoon, but I did hoover the dining room again, and it did make it look a bit better. With a worn out carpet it was never going to look good. I also hoovered the hall, and the bottom step of the stairs, but I gave up at that point. I didn't do any of the hoovering I was intending to do upstairs.

  Luckily the spare bedroom looks like the best room in the house at the moment, and so I won't have to worry about Patricia having to sleep in a grotty room. All the time I spent when I should have been hoovering, dusting, etc, I spent keeping warm in my bedroom, and passing a lot of the time just reading. I did leave a heater on low in the spare bedroom, and although it was quite cold in there this morning, it was feeling very pleasantly warm in there when I turned the heater off yesterday evening.

  I was going to try and eat sparsely yesterday, but I didn't really do well at doing that. For lunch I had two tiger rolls with ham and pickle. I think I will go back to having mustard with ham. The pickle is OK, but I think mustard is better, although it was interesting to try the alternative. In the middle of the afternoon I had a couple of small (25gm) packets of Hula Hoops, and I think I had a chunk of cherry cake after them.

  My dinner was a big plate of fruit, and once again I had more cherry cake as a dessert. I fear I am getting to like cake too much now, and I must stop buying any more. It is now having a negative effect on my weight and blood glucose. The only good thing was that my dinner did not give me any indigestion problems, and I was able to get to sleep with no trouble, although it was a bit later than intended because I read on bed for longer than usual. I am getting near the end of the book, and I seem to be racing ahead now to see how it ends.

  I slept quite well last night. I was waking up to pee every 2 to 3 hours - almost as normal although every 2 hours seems more typical. There was only one time when it seem like I might have had a period of insomnia after coming back from the freezing bathroom. It seemed like it took a long time to get back to sleep, but I guess it just seemed that way, and was probably little more than 10 minutes.

  I had a little extra sleep this morning, and it was around 7.20am when I got up. I went for a pee, and what I thought was going to be a poo was only a lot of wind. Hopefully a poo is not too far behind, although it will be too late to make my weight look better. This morning I seem to have lost just 100gm, or in simple terms, my weight is just gently bobbing up and down on a base level that is too high for my liking.

  Eating all the cake yesterday did my blood glucose no favours. No reading was that bad, but all were a bit higher than I would like. The Contour meter read 8.9mmol/l, and that almost on the boundary where any higher could cause bad things (although the actual red line is 10.0mmol/l). The GlucoRX meter read a better 8.6mmol/l. That is acceptable. The Sinocare meter read the same as the Contour meter, 8.9mmol/l.

  This morning, despite feeling sort of rushed, ny blood pressure was better than recently, although it did take two goes to get it down to 104/48. Just getting that good result makes me feel less stressed. Now I can finish writing this, and put my feet up earlier than hoped, but only for a little while. I then need to shave, shampoo and shower. When that is done I can fully relax - probably. I expect I'll probably try to do a few more last minute bits of tidying up before Patricia arrives. I don't know what we will do once she is here. I guess she will want some lunch, and I am not sure about what that will be. This evening we should be going to an Indian restaurant for a meal, and so I guess neither of us will want a big lunch.