It looked like there was a frost on some cars this morning, but it might have just been condensation. 3° C at 7am does seem cold enough for from, although it is still bloody cold ! Today should feature non stop sunshine all day, but the temperature may still not rise above 9° C. However the Met Office forecast does say a possible 11° C. Tonight will be another cold night thanks to continuing clear skies. Tomorrow may start at 3° C again, but another day of sunshine may push the temperature up to a rather nice 15° C  - definitely t-shirt weather ! It may cloud over tomorrow night and the night will not get so cold. Although it is pointless to think any forecast more than 5 hours ahead may contain any truth, let's hope the forecast for the day after tomorrow is correct, because it is currently saying it could reach 17° C !

  Yesterday was a bit of good and a lot of bad. Going to Tesco was good, but I wore the wrong shoes. A grey and boring afternoon was bad. Also bad was my nose frequently dripping, and feeling like I should have been able to fall fast asleep every time I laid down, but didn't.

  One of the downfalls of starting to write so early yesterday was that I forgot about my morning medication until later in the morning. I guess that sounds like I was blaming it on starting to write so early, but in reality I guess it was more the other way around. It is a fairly rare occasion when I forget to take my late afternoon medication, and have taken it just before going to bed. Normally I aim for about 4pm. I think forgetting my morning doses is so rare that I cannot remember any former occasion.

  After writing I laid down, and still being about 10 minutes to 10am, I had no qualms about having a long snooze, but it never happened. I'm not sure how to describe it - sleepy, weary or tired don't seem to exactly describe how I felt, but it was something like that. Later in the day, after a lot of nose blowing, I started to think my trouble was actually having a mild cold, but it was so on and off, and so mild, that I am not sure if I imagined it or not.

  It wasn't even 11am when I gave up trying to rest, and went and had a shower, and washed my hair. I must add that maybe an hour before hand I had used a fan heater on a long extension cord, to blow warm air into the bathroom to make it more bearable in there. It seems odd that the cold air was merely very unpleasant without actually causing negative effects like cold induced angina. The worst of that seemed to peak a week or so ago, and has now almost, but not 100% stopped now.

  After a lazy day with almost no more than a quick rinse under the shower the day before, it did feel good to have a good scrub and wash my hair. I blow dried my hair with the hair dryer, and my bedroom seemed like it was quite warm, but after getting dressed I checked my temperature, and it said my body was only 34.9° C - not quite hypothermia, but getting there !

  One thing I am doing at the moment, or at least I was, is to try and wear in an almost brand new (except I bought them in 2018) pair of burgundy coloured Converse trainers. The heel is maybe a few mm higher on the inside, and it feels more solid. That small increase seems to shift my weight towards my toes, and it does make me try to walk faster. At the moment I am not sure what is breaking in what. I now have a blister on my right foot bunion, and it made the walk to and from Tesco quite uncomfortable - so uncomfortable that I didn't really notice any of the more usual discomforts.

  I was generally going to Tesco for food, but I did buy a couple of non food items. One was a pair of a pair of lounge pants. It is annoying that they only do them in a pair of one grey, and one black. I will wear the grey in private, but I think the black is much nicer looking.

  The other thing I bought, probably because my blistered bunion was drawing attention to my footwear, was a pair of trainers. Once again I wanted black, but all they had was dark blue I was dead lucky out of the 4 or 5 left on the shelf they had my size. What I didn't realise until I got home, and checked my receipt, was that they were reduced to clear at £10 instead of £20. That is nice and cheap if I have made an error. I did try them on when I got home, but that bunion made them seem agonisingly uncomfortable. I think, or hope, that with socks and a sticking plaster over that bunion (when the blister has gone) and they may turn out to be quite good.

  Of the notable food I bought there were two packs of ready prepared cauliflower and more flavoured grated cheese. It was my intention to part cook the cauliflower, and finish the cooking in the oven with a pile of cheese over the cauliflower. Apart from the oil or fat from the cheese, I think it should be quite healthy. I also bough a selection of those little cans of sardines or mackerel in an assortment of flavoured sauces.

  When I got home after a painful walk back from Tesco, I used one one little can of sardines in tomato sauce to fill the last not very crusty roll I had (I did buy more Ciabatti rolls for future lunches). With the sauce it was in, I didn't feel the need for anything like butter, but I did add some white ground pepper. Like the day before, it would have been nicer if the roll was soft and fresh, but it was still good.

  I followed that with something else I bought, and in doing so I completely ruined any attempt to eat in a way that would be kind to my weight and blood glucose measurements. It was a pack of vegetable spring rolls - subtitled "a taste of China", yeah, and pigs might fly. Like the horrible chicken spring rolls I think I bought from Aldi, but they were obviously concocted by the same insane chef. Unlike the chicken spring rolls the day before, the vegetable ones were only mildly nasty instead of very nasty.

  One interesting thing (to me) was that before going to Tesco I had made several visits to the toilet where I passed quite a bit of urine - the sort of amount I expected to pass every time I woke up in the night. I also had three poos, and at least one of them was semi substantial. When I came back from Tesco, and was changing to indoor clothes again, I weighed myself as I do in the morning, i.e. only wearing underpants, and found I had already lost 500gm, or half a kilogram. I hoped that if I peed normally during the night I would lose the unwanted 1kg, and everything will be back to normal.
  I almost forgot to show this picture taken in the car park next to Tesco, on my way home. The number plate was slightly amusing, but what me almost chuckle was written on the bottom of the doors "No rats left in vehicle overnight" !

  I was very lazy yesterday afternoon, but it seemed to pass very quickly. I guess it was actually boring because I had a late afternoon snack - something I was trying to avoid doing, but maybe I managed to find some that was not too unhealthy. I think I gave into that snack while I was in the kitchen. I know I started to prepare my dinner quite early. It was just a matter of cutting some cauliflower florets (are they florets ?) into more mouth size pieces. I then part boiled, part steamed them in half an inch of water in the microwave oven for 10 minutes. I was surprised how much of a stinky process that was.

  Another hour and a bit passed, and it was time to finish preparing and cooking dinner. The final preparation was to drain the cauliflower and then pour it into a foil pie dish - moulded into a more oblong shape to fit in my mini oven. I poured on two types of ready grated cheese, and grilled it at about 190° C for maybe 15 minutes. Much of it came out golden brown.
  At the top I used what is described as American hot honey flavour cheese, and it melted into a very golden colour coating on the cauliflower. At the bottom I used garlic and herb infused grated cheese, and bits of that got hot enough to go brown. I ate it while watching the BBC 6 O'clock news. The meal was probably better than the news ! I'm not sure it was as nice as I hoped, but it was pretty good. Next time, and I have the cauliflower for a next time, I might stick to plain cheddar. The one very odd thing is that its seemed to be quite filling, or at least I felt no temptation for any "afters".

  The offerings on TV were slim and patchy last night, and I think I may have turned the TV off at 8pm. Either that or I was watching, but not paying any attention to some weird programme on some weird channel. I think I was not just on my bed, but in it reading very soon after 9pm, and if I recall correctly (although I admit it all seems very hazy) I was probably asleep by 9.30pm. I can't recall and indigestion troubles, and for some reason I think my bed might have been moree comfortable than usual. Of course bed comfort is very subjective.

  I seemed to wake up regularly during the night, every 2 hours, plus or minus half an hour, for a pee, but sometimes I didn't seem to pee much. I did feel fairly confident I was peeing enough to see a small drop when I got on the scales this morning. I was not sure what to make of it in regard to my blood glucose readings. Yesterday it seemed I didn't pee much in the night, but my blood glucose readings were terrible. It does not seem to be a very good indicator of blood glucose during the night, but maybe there is a better clue in how much I pee during the day, but I don't usually pay any attention to that.

  I am very sure I dreamed a lot last night, and I think they were mostly short dreams, but either continuations, or variations of one basic dream. The stupid, or annoying thing is that in the couple of hours that have passed since getting up, I seem to have forgotten every single details from those dreams. I can't even say if they were set in a very common setting for my dreams - some sort of workplace. I presume if they were sexy dreams I might have remembered something.

  This morning was one of those morning when you wake up and just know it is time to get up. Maybe lately it has been helped by it getting light so early now (sunrise was 6:08am this morning). I went out ton the cold toilet and did both pee and poo. When I weighed myself after that I was most pleased to see I had got rid of the brief excess weight. This morning I was 900gm less than yesterday, but 400gm heavier than the day before. Once again I seem to be in a good place to build on that loss.

  Despite my difficulty of guessing my blood glucose based on how much I peed last night, I was happy to see that my blood glucose levels were back to about normal after the dangerously high levels yesterday morning. This morning the Contour meter read 8.1mmol/l. That is not quite very good, but still easily good enough. The GlucoRX meter read 7.6mmol/l, and that is the sort of figure I aim for these days. The Sinocare meter reading was a disappointment, as it often is. It read 8.8mmol/l. That is good enough, but not really desirable.

  With all the bright sunshine pouring through my front windows it is hard to remember that it is still perishingly cold outside.....but it is warming up. The sunshine makes me want to go out, but the blister on my right foot bunion suggests not doing too much walking. It still have hours to decide yes or no, but my inclination as I write this is that I will go out with a camera and taken some pictures of trains. I think I will possibly head to Clapham Junction and see if I can get some snaps, and also a ride on one of SouthWest Railways new class 701 trains. I think they finally came into full service late last year after sitting idle for a few years.