The forecast for today has been toned down a lot compared to what was expected a day or two ago. Mostly all the sunshine has changed to sunny intervals, and even worse is that at 8:22am I am still waiting for the first sunny spell/interval. Hopefully it will brighten up soon or the forecast 16° C is not going to feel like t-shirt weather when I go to the pub at lunchtime. Tomorrow may start with fog, but it may lift quite quickly to give a day that may feature a lot of sunshine - some as sunny intervals, but many hours of pure sunshine. It should take the temperature up to 17° C.

  When the sun finally broke through the cloud, yesterday morning, it sort of enthused me to try and be a bit more productive yesterday. The fact that the sunny weather didn't even make it to midday (and if I recall correctly, not even to 11am) didn't remove all enthusiasm, but I didn't do that much.

  I seem to recall we lost the sunshine before I finished writing yesterday. It still left it's mark in so much that I only had a short rest after I finished writing, and after that short rest I went and had a shower. I thought I was going to go shopping later, but that didn't seem to happen. The need to go shopping was based on the fact that I won't be going shopping today. I had plenty of stuff in the fridge for yesterday, and plenty of stuff in the freezer for today, although I have less choice for what to have.

  After my shower I put a small amount of laundry in to soak. It was only a hand towel, a face flannel, a t-shirt, and a pair of underpants. Apart from the towel needing a lot of rinsing, it seemed like I could finish the job quite quickly once I returned to it, but I did have other stuff to do, including having some lunch. My blood glucose was a little high yesterday morning, and at one point I was thinking of skipping lunch.....

  By midday, maybe getting on for 1pm, I felt a lot hungrier than I should have done, and it made it easy to give in and have some lunch. I had decided on cheese on toast until I saw the size of the bread I had left. Both slices were off the end of the sourdough loaf, and one was tiny and the other quite small. I did indeed toast them, and added cheese, but I also had some rice crackers with not melted cheese on them.

  It was not a big lunch by any stretch of the imagination, but I still felt the need to be very lazy for the next hour. After that hour (which could actually have been anywhere between 30 minutes and 90 minutes) I got back to the laundry. As hoped/expected, it was easy to wring out the 4 items, but also as expected, the towel needed more than the standard 3 rinses. I didn't bother to do the towel on it's own, and so every thing got about 6 rinses - but I did have a break after about 3 times.

  During that break I started the other "job" I did yesterday - more video editing to try and clear the backlog of The Simpsons episodes I had recorded on my mini TV. I probably edited a couple before getting back to the laundry. Once I was happy with my rinsing I hung all the items on a small clothes horse, and left it all to dry in the front room with just a fan on it (no fan heater - I had a feeling it wasn't needed).

  I had a few more short breaks, including one or two for snacks, while top and tailing, plus advert deleting from The Simpsons episodes. I think I managed to archive about 6 episodes, and that left just 5 episodes to do - I later added another two or three recordings. Once again I never left myself any time to watch the edited episodes, but I did watch most of the 2 or 3 episodes I recorded last night.

  On reflection, I may have only had one snack late(ish) yesterday afternoon. It was some ready to eat flavoured chunks of chicken breast. I think it may have been piri piri flavoured. Before eating it I checked and I think the small pack only had 0.9gm of sugar, although that could have been per 100gm, but even so, it still made it very low in sugar content - which turned out well.

  My proper dinner, eaten while watching the BBC 6 O'clock news, was my last calorie controlled ready meal. This one was another Cod Mornay with peas and mash. They are small and not very exciting, but some chilli sauce on the fish, and a splash of low salt and sugar tomato ketchup livened up the peas and mash. It wasn't quite big enough to be satisfying, but half a dozen sugar free, and quite small, choc chip cookies topped it off nicely.

  The last thing I watched on TV last night was a repeat of a 2023 edition of Have I Got News For You. That finished at 10pm. I was almost tempted to watch an episode of QI, but it was a Sandy Tokstig one, and I was not thrilled by the list of her guests. I called it a day, but I did read in bed for maybe an hour before trying for sleep. I had some hints that I might develop heartburn before I tried for sleep. Maybe it was just imagination, but I took a couple of antacid tablets, and I seemed to get to sleep with no difficulties.

  It all seems very vague now, but I think I woke up fewer times than most nights, and so I think I peed less. There was some evidence of that later. I do remember what seemed to be a very long dream, but I can almost remember it as lots of dreams following a common theme. The dream(s) featured a visit to a preserved railway station. I think I was there just to be nosy, but two people thought I was there as a volunteer.

  The first took me along to what seemed a bit like a small church, but was described as the strawberry beds. There seemed to be vines or creepers all over the place, and I think my task was to remove all the creepers and vines. Fortunately I managed to wake up for a pee, and so avoided back breaking labour. The other man wanted me to help in setting up some computers. They were on a very tight budget, and I suggested putting Linux (free to download and use) on some ex-office computers bought very cheaply from Amazon. We seemed to reach an agreement about it, but once again I woke up before anything started.

  I think it was 5am when I woke up and thought that maybe it was time to get up. It seemed to be dark outside, and so, after a pee, I went back to sleep. I then woke again at about 6:10am, and I considered trying for more sleep, but decided to get up. I went to the toilet and did a little pee. I expected to poo as well, but all I could manage was wind. When I got on the scales I found I had put on 300gm. Another small pee, and a good poo may have reduced that to no weight gain.

  For once, the seeming reduction in peeing overnight did signal a good blood glucose level. Both the Contour and GlucoRX meter gave a very good reading of 7.6mmol/l - extremely close to my current, but rarely achieved target of 7.5mmol/l. The Sinocare meter read a little high at 7.9mmol/l. That puts all three readings in the light green zone on my spreadsheet. That is the first time that has happened since the 13th February. Even my blood pressure was looking good this morning, but I suppose it looks very good almost every morning except for an occasional blip. This morning it was 110/42.

  The main event today should be a visit to The Jolly Farmers for a couple of pints of Guinness, a bit of banter, and doing the crosswords in The Metro - unless it is the bastards turn to compile it for today. If that is the case I'll be lucky to get half the quick clues solved, but it is possible I'll manage some of the cryptic clues because they can sometimes be easier than the quick clues !

  The sun has finally come out, and it feels lovely and warm through my bedroom windows. If it can stay out I look forward to going to the pub with bare arms. I think I will wear my sleeveless denim jacket just for a few pockets to carry a camera, plus pens, and copies of The Metro. Depending on how my feet feel when getting to the pub, and how I feel when I leave the pub, I might possibly walk home through the park.....but probably won't.