I'm not sure it was actually frost this morning. The lowest temperature I saw when I got up was about 4° C. It was also a lot like the earlier versions of the forecast that predicted fog. It wasn't that dense, but it was definitely fog and not most. I would say it is misty now, and it could be several more hours before the sun burns through it. If the rest of the forecast is correct (and I doubt it) there will be non stop sunshine for most of the daylight hours, and a high of 9° C this afternoon. Tomorrow may start clear, and cold enough for a frost. The sunny spells, and an hour or so later, non stop sunshine will still only raise the temperature to 9° C again.

  Yesterday was quite a good day, although much of the goodness was the sunshine, but I did do a few worthwhile things, and those were satisfying enough to call it a fairly good day. One bad thing is that I thought I had not controlled my eating as intended, but it seems I did better than I thought.

  I had two big  ideas for yesterday, and several minor ones. The day started off with a feeling there was no need to rush, and I didn't - up to a point. As always, a big chunk of my morning is writing these daily pieces. I didn't rush doing that because then I just make so many spelling, or grammatical errors, or even miss entire words out. This morning I cans see a few bloopers that went uncorrected yesterday.

  It is very unusual these days to deviate from my now ingrained habit of having at least a half hour rest after I finish writing. yesterday was no exception, and it was probably midday when I had a shower. Once dried and dressed I went out to get some shopping. I did have fantasies about spending several hours or more out on a walk, or a train ride somewhere, but I didn't feel that keen. I only went shopping in Savers, but my walk was a bit longer than that.

  While dressing to go out I put on a brand new pair of socks, and put on my maroon coloured Converse style trainers that I either bought from Peacocks or maybe Aldi. Those new socks made them feel extra comfortable for a while, and my walk to Savers in the sunshine (when I wasn't in the shade) felt good. Sadly it didn't last, but I don't think I can blame the socks for it.

  There was quite an assortment I wanted from Savers. There were top ups of a few vitamins I take, plus some painkillers, antacid tablets, and hay fever tablets. I shouldn't need any of these things for months now. I also got laundry supplies. Two small bottles of Surf detergent - one of which had a scent I was not familiar with. I also found a small bottle Comfort fabric conditioner that also had an interesting scent. It was also interesting in that it was clear instead of like watered down yoghurt or something. I later used it, and it seems to smell nice.

  When I left Savers I thought of a good way of extending my walk a bit. I made it a circular walk via the high street. The interesting thing is that it took me past the front of the now closed Catford Constitutional Club pub. The last time I had passed I could see a few odd barrels, and other stuff through the windows. Yesterday I think there could easily have been 100 barrels/casks stacked up in the front of the place by the front windows.

  It was almost as if the pub never bothered returning any casks back to the breweries they came from. There is probably a fortune in aluminium in that place. I can imagine some scrotes doing a smash and grab and make good money from it. I assume all the barrels are empty. There is a highly unlikely possibility that some may have fresh beer in them ready for the place to re-open. If Camra, or some other group could get a temporary lease to use the place for a week it would probably be a great idea to use it for a beer festival.

  I can't say I enjoyed the walk home. I'm not even sure I would have been OK if I had gone straight home. The problem was aches and pains - with angina or similar upper body aches taking second place to my feet and legs. My left ankle and my left knew were complaining strongly by the time I got home, and my other leg had some minor aches. I just felt so out of condition.

  I obviously wasn't in too bad a shape once I stopped walking because after putting my shopping away, and before I took off my outdoor clothes, I did another little task - slicing up three big cardboard boxes to put in the recycling bin. I did the work out the front by the recycling bib, and it felt quite good standing out in the sunshine with just a t-shirt on. The front of my house is always a good sun trap at some times of the year. Meanwhile, it would have felt freezing cold to do any work in my shaded back garden.

  What I should have done next was to continue washing some clothes I had put into soak after my shower. I put my feet up and relaxed for a while. I read some from my current book - "The Gobbler" by Ade Edmondson. It is a curious book. It should be funny, but I think I prefer to say it is very amusing. One thing that adds a sort of spice is that I keep think much of it is based on reality. Sometimes I think the main character could be a slightly disguised, and over the top version of Edmondson's, now late,  comedy partner Rik Mayal.

  I was doing my best to fast for a lot of yesterday, but while reading my stomach was giving off hunger pains and gurglings, and gyrations. I decided that what I would eat was just one single Emperor Orange - the type described recently of being very tasty, and having a very, very high sugar content. It was nice, but being 90% water it didn't really do much for my hunger pangs.

  Eventually it was time to get back to my laundry. It was almost 4pm by then. That laundry consisted of two t-shirts, two pairs of underpants and one pair of lounge pants. I thought I should easily be able to complete the job in one go, and I would have if I hadn't had to stop again to go to the toilet. That is the second time that has happened recently, and it is quite irritating, but also a good excuse to stop.

  I only had to wring out the final rinse, and then use the new Comfort fabric conditioner before I could hang it all up to dry. That seemed so little that I felt no rush to get back to it after going to the toilet. I had a strong urge to eat again. This time I had some rice crackers and cheese, and also some piccalilli. The piccalilli had more sugar in than was ideal, but worst of all I don't think it really enhanced the flavour much.

  It was now time to watch the first Star Trek of the evening - an episode from the original series. During a commercial break, some time around 5.30pm it seemed like it was time to prepare my real dinner. My original idea was to have a couple of cans of soup, but I had another look at the chicken katsu curry I was going to have on Thursday night. had I looked further down the packaging I would have seen that it was possible to cook it in the microwave.

  The instructions still said to take the breadcrumb coated chicken out until half the 6 minutes in the microwave had passed, and then put the chicken back in for the second half. I very much doubt it would have made much difference if the chicken spent an extra 3 minutes in the microwave oven. Anyway, it turned out to all be a big anticlimax. It wasn't horrible, but I found nothing good about it all, and won't be buying another.

  After Star Trek I watched the BBC 6pm news. I saw the footage of the Ukraine prime minister with Trump in the Whitehouse, and Trump completely lived up his expectation as a complete bully, and one who treats government like some sort of business deal. I can imagine he is going to break America completely, and there is always the fear that he will succeed in setting himself up as dictator for life, although I can imagine that America will do what it has always been good at - assassinating him first.  That part of their constitution, that is heavily abused, about the right to bear arms is really all about the public protecting themselves from a government out of control.

  It was while watching Star Trek: Voyager that I went back to finishing my laundry - during two commercial breaks ! Sometimes commercial TV does have it's uses, but they are few and far between ! I can't give a final answer until all those clothes are fully dry, but it does seem the new Comfort fabric conditioner does smell nicer than most fabric conditioners.

  I watched a couple of episodes of The Simpsons to round off my TV viewing last night. The last finished at 9pm, and I brushed my teeth and headed for bed. I read for some time before trying for sleep. I did wonder if I could get to sleep, but a pain in my guts, very similar to feeling hungry (so is probably stomach cancer or something) was distracting, but fortunately only the weakest of pains. I think it was about anther half hour before I was asleep.

  One oddity about last night is that I can't even remember dreaming at all, and another oddity is that it seems like I didn't pee much in the night. The latter could be a good or bad thing. The good being it could indicate nice low levels of blood glucose. The bad could be water retention, and that make my weight seem worse. maybe another oddity was that it was neither of those things.

  I woke up around 5am, and it seemed like I could have got up then, but I decided I must need more sleep. I did ! Evidently so much more that I didn't wake again until about 7.30am. I was probably awake for at least half an hour after 5am, and I almost gave in and got up. I'm glad I didn't now.

  After getting up I went for a pee, but no poo - so far. The latter is a shame because it could have made my weight loss really good. As it was I seemed to have lost a full 900gm since yesterday morning, and that is still very impressive. Maybe I passed more pee last night than I thought I did. That seemed potentially bad for when it came to check my blood glucose measurements.

  I am very glad that I take three readings every morning using three different readings. The Contour meter gave a very unremarkable reading of 8.8mmol/l....well I guess that actually is remarkable because while OK, it is higher than I would like. The GlucoRX meter was a bit better with a reading of 8.6mmol/l - for some time 8.5mmol/l was actually my target. It is good that those two meters more or less agree. The Sinocare meter went out on a limb again with a very bad reading of 10.0mmol/l.

   That is on the red line, and was the best I could get after three attempts, with the last using a test strip from a brand new canister. One possibility is that the batteries are going flat in the Sinocare meter. The meter does show a battery meter, but it only flicks on for about half a second - which is useless. I have just changed the batteries, and the old ones still test as perfect. I did just try another test, but it gave a ridiculously high reading so soon after breakfast. I'll have to wait until tomorrow to see if new batteries make any difference. One curious thing is that I once almost dumped the meter because of readings that seemed so far from the others, but then it seemed to start working as expected. Maybe it just needs a good kicking or something to put it on the straight and narrow !

  Oh well, at least my blood pressure remains nice and low during these adverse periods. The first time I tried to take a reading the meter displayed "OUT" meaning the batteries were flat. Long practice suggested that it was a bad connection on one of the batteries. I gave the meter a thump and tried again. This time it worked perfectly, and somehow that bit of micro excitement didn't seem to affect my blood pressure. it was a very nice and low 10/41. I guess it might possibly been lower still if the first reading had been OK, but the first reading that worked seemed good enough for me.

   Last night I had what I better call fantasies, rather than plans for what I might do today. It involved a couple of long train rides, and the walk to the top of a hill. This morning I don't fancy that, and maybe it is partly that it has taken until almost 11am for the sun to break through the mist and clouds. There is nice sunshine now, but I can still see a lot of clouds in some parts of the sky. I think my long train ride, and walk to the top of a hill can wait for another day.

  I guess I also feel sort of lazy, or perhaps lacking in energy, but it may even be lack of enthusiasm. What ever it is makes me feel that it is unlikely I will get much exercise today. However I may finally do that shopping trip to Aldi that I was thinking of doing as long ago as last Tuesday (I think). I may also do a bit more laundry. I did some finance sort of stuff yesterday, but I didn't zero my credit cards, and I probably ought to to that today. That seems quite enough for one day !