We should be having sunny spells right now, but so far the sun has not managed to penetrate the clouds, although I cans ee a quite bright area of cloud where the sun should be. This morning it was cold enough for a frost on the cars outside in the road, but today may be warmer then yesterday - by a single degree ! 8° C is forecast to be the afternoon temperature. No rain is shown for today, and the percent chances of it are very small, and it is still possible that we could get some sunny spells later. Tomorrow may be almost the same as today, but the early morning may not be quite cold enough for frost, and 5 and 6pm are shown as featuring full sunshine.

  I have no idea how to describe yesterday. I could grudgingly say that it was a fairly good day, or maybe "it had it's moments", but perhaps I am too pessimistic because I definitely improved my health with the results coming in this morning.

  Just to recap, I started yesterday morning with a small weight gain, and a very bad blood glucose level gain. It meant I had to be very careful about what I ate, and on a day when booze was involved that took some will power. Before I started writing my 2,221 words yesterday I had breakfast pretty much as usual, but from then on I had to take care about what I ate. After I finished writing I had a slightly shorter lie down and rest than most mornings.

  I stirred myself a bit sooner so I could wash my hair and have a shower so I was fit to receive visitors later. After that it was time for lunch. If I hadn't been drinking later I would have skipped a formal lunch, and maybe had a light snack later in the afternoon when the hunger pains, and sour stomach became too bad to ignore. What I had for lunch was just cheese on rice crackers - a very low sugar combination, even if maybe not exactly low calorie.

  One minor bit of excitement happened at about 2.45pm (or maybe a little later). It was the delivery of some beers Jodie had ordered, and had sent here. She forwarded on a message from the courier to say they would be delivered between 2.35 and 3.35pm. All couriers, except Amazon, seem to be able to give an approximate time of arrival. While waiting for the delivery I re-arranged all the beers in all three fridges, and I managed to almost clear all the beers (except those in the door) of the smallest fridge. The beer arrived from an unheated van, and felt chilled even before going in the fridge.

  Jodie was a bit late, and in consequence she managed to get off the train at Catford Bridge just in time to be out in the heavy hail storm. She decided to not go to Lidl as she intended, but to head straight here via the 320 bus stop behind Tesco so she could shelter until the worst was over. She was pretty soggy when she arrived, and seemed to have found a huge amount of patience before she would check out her new beers.

  We were joined by Michael not that long after 4pm, or earlier than usual. He grumbled a lot, but did seem to be in a happier mood than recently.  He still felt the need to go on about how he spent most of his youth doing nothing but hanging around inn the West End going to gigs 8 nights a week, and so he is the worlds number one music fan....or something.

  I think Jodie only opened two of her new beers, and I had tasters of both. They were not the awful sour beers she likes, and were almost quite the opposite, but I still can't say I liked them. Something that tastes, and looks like melted ice cream is just not beer in my book even if it is 5 or 6% alcohol.  Jodie would have small tasters of the beers I was sharing with Michael. Of course it wasn't a perfect balance because she liked most of what I was drinking !

  Jodie and Michael left around 6pm, with Jodie rushing out first to catch a train. I was not quite as domesticated yesterday. I barely gave the glasses a quick rinse before leaving them on the side of the sink for a proper wash maybe today. I think I was too keen to have my dinner - a sort of special dinner than was hopefully (and I think actually was) fairly healthy and both low calorie and low sugar.

  The first course was two Tesco "Finest" Scotch Eggs with a couple of pickled onions, and some sliced and pickled jalapeño peppers. My original plan was to stop at that point, but I hoped that two tiny easy peeler oranges, a golden delicious apple, and a chunk of cheese would not spoil things too much. It was almost a good combination, but I could still taste those Scotch Eggs much later in the evening when burping.

  It was too late to see the BBC 6 O'clock news, but I did see most of the BBC London news - not that it was very interesting. Then it was Star Trek: Voyager, and finally what I think was the second to last episode of The Prisoner. Maybe tonight it will be the grand, and totally weird and perplexing final episode.....unless the last bit was split over two episodes. I probably ought to check before speculating here, but I think I'll just accept whatever I see.

  I was in bed and feeling OK just after 9pm, and I read in bed for possibly less than half an hour. It is usually the case that I feel fine when reading, but start to feel rough after trying to get to sleep. Last night was no exception, although the discomforts were fairly mild. It all seems a bit vague now, but I think I might have got as much as two hours sleep before waking up for a pee. That meant going out to the freezing cold bathroom. That triggered off angina like pains.

  Once again I had to sit up at my PC to sort out the chest pains. I was sure that some of it was indigestion, and antacid tablets did help a bit. I checked my blood pressure and initially it was high, just over 140mmHg, but on a second check a minute or two later it was down to just 129mmHg. That suggested to me it was probably not angina. One other possibility was my operation scar tissue complaining about getting so cold. Two Ibuprofen tablets, and 10 or 15 minutes after taking them, proved it to be that scar tissue, and the tablets really damped the pain down enough to go straight back to bed, and to get back to sleep fairly quickly.

  Sometimes it is actually the simplest things that cause the trouble, and I was initially looking for complex answers to my pain. After that I seemed to sleep quite well. It seemed a bit odd that on subsequent visits ton the toilet (around every two hours) it never felt painfully cold in there - still not pleasant though. I barely remember just one dream, and it seems to be impossible to describe what was just strange nonsense. The core of it was about thin threads from my chest to a windlass on a boat that was floating above my head - presumably in water, but I was in the dry. It must have been something to do with my chest pains, but I can't seem to see how.

  It was just after 6am when I woke up in such a way that I knew it was definitely time to get up. It was like my mind had exploded out of sleep. It was then time to brave the freezing cold toilet, and to make matters worse, sitting on the cold toilet seat as I had a small poo and had a pee. After that I weighed myself, and it seemed I had managed to lose the 100gm I had put on the day before. As I have mentioned several times recently, 100gm is with experimental error, and maybe my weight has not significantly changed for the last 4 or more days. Oh well, no change is still better than any gain.

  The thing I was really hoping for was that my horrendously high blood glucose yesterday had come down this morning. It had, and quite a lot. The Contour meter reading was back down in the light green at a very good, almost on my new target, at 7.6mmol/l. The GlucoRX meter reading was spot on my current target of 7.5mmol/l. It is a shame that the Sinocare meter read typically high again, but even 8.0mmol/l is still fairly good for me.

  Even my blood pressure was very good this morning. It was 103/40, and that was on my first and only reading. It is possible that the diastolic pressure of 40mmHg is maybe just a little too low, but only maybe. I suppose the challenge now is to keep all my readings down, and in the case of my weight and blood glucose, try and improve on today's readings. That could be difficult because I think I will end up in Tesco today....and that could bring temptations.

  For other stuff happening today I have to go back to Wednesday while I was frantically waiting to see if Amazon could finally deliver my package correctly. While waiting I checked the balance on my Tesco credit card. It was good, better than good, I had overpaid my last bill and I was actually £10 in credit. That seemed like a good time to order more beers. I was also helped along with the idea when an email arrived to remind me I had 217 rewards points with Left Field Beers (worth £2.17). I was unsure how much I had to buy to get free delivery, but £107, after my £2.17 reward points, seemed enough - and it was.

  This morning I had a message to say my beers from Left Field Beers will be delivered by APC couriers between 14:47 and 16:47 today. That should give me plenty of time to have a rest (after I have finished writing), and then have a quick shower. I could even consider going for a walk in the rare sunny spells (I have seen a couple now, although they are rather brief), but I think a walk to Tesco and back will have to be my exercise for today.