The early forecasts for today sounded very grim. Even the forecast at 5am doesn't look very attractive, but the reality is not so bad. There was rain in the early hours of today, but it seemed to have stopped by about 8am (although I can't rule out there being some very fine drizzle). This is actually in line with the Met Office Forecast. That says rain finishing at 8am, and then dry but dull for the rest of the day. The BBC forecast (screenshot above) shows an afternoon high of 21° C, but the Met Office say only 20° C. Tomorrow's forecast currently shows a single hour of drizzle, and the rest of the day mostly featuring sunny spells. The temperature may only reach 19° C.

  I did not feel good yesterday morning. Some of it was physical, and the rest guilt. Both eased off during the morning, and by the afternoon I was not feeling too bad except for my bottom. That was definitely sore after after going for a normal in most ways, poo about every couple of hours...or so it seemed.

  Yesterday morning's bright sunny weather should have enthused me, and various mad ideas did pass through my skull, but all came to nothing because of the "poo storm" I was experiencing all morning (and half the afternoon). I think I was thinking I had all the time in the world to write yesterday's piece, and that was partly true. It was almost midday when I had finished, and I then had my usual lie down, and tried to snooze.

  After a very poor night with seemingly a lot less sleep than I thought I needed, I expected to spend half the day snoozing, but I don't think I snoozed during this first rest. One reason goes against the reality that my blood glucose was a little higher than I would have liked, and I had seemed to put on an awful lot of weight in the previous 24 hours. I was thinking I should be fasting, but I was actually feeling sort of hollow and hungry, and I would later do several more medium sized poos !

  I went down to the kitchen, but before I made some lunch I had a fair bit of washing up to do, and that was mostly beer glasses from the previous afternoon's beer tasting. I had given the glasses a quick rinse the previous night, but yesterday they needed a proper wash. With that, and a few other things done, I checked the fridge to decided what I dared have for lunch.

  My original thought was that I would have just one roll, but when I cut that Ciabatta roll in half I realised it was getting very close to stale. That made using up the second roll left in the pack, bought last Sunday, seem like a good idea. I stuff both rolls with ham, mustard and salad leaves. The rolls were a little more chewy, but still nice enough.

  After lunch almost nothing happened. One thing that did was another 2 (or was it 3) visits to the toilet for a poo. My bottom was feeling quite raw after all that ! I passed the time having a couple of short snoozes, reading from both book and computer, and very little more until it was time to turn the TV on. One other thing I did was to resist any snacks yesterday.

  I guess you could say I overslept when having one snooze because I missed the first half hour of an episode from Star Trek: The Original Series. In one respect that was good. I didn't get my dinner in the microwave until a bit before 6pm. It was a Tesco calorie controlled chicken in mushroom gravy with boiled potatoes and green beans, ready meal. I missed the first minute of the BBC 6 O'clock News, and then had to wait nearly 20 minutes for the sprt news before I could retrieve my dinner. That extra wait meant it had cooled off to a better temperature to eat.

  I watched the usual stuff on TV, but with one small variation. At 9pm I watched the most up to date edition of Have I Got News For You on BBC1. With no adverts, or other annoying interruptions, it finished at 9.30pm - just half an hour instead of the heavily interrupted version they show on the Dave channel. I went straight to bed at 9.30pm, and tried to do some reading, but I barely read two sentences before I turned out the light.

  I had no heartburn, and no feelings of needing a poo, and not even any farting. My memory is ultra hazy, but I think I fell asleep very quickly. I think I slept quite well last night. I may have even woken up less frequently for a pee. I definitely had two dreams that I thought I was going to describe, but the harder I try and remember them the less I remember. When I got up I thought that I would remember those dreams, but now, several hours later, all I can remember is a vague hint that one dream may have involved a train or railway station.

  This morning I definitely feel better than yesterday morning, but I am still far from jumping with joy. Despite apparently having a good sleep, I find myself looking forward to my usual lie down once I have finished writing this. There is actually one reason to feel cheerful, and that is that I seemed to have shed 400 of the 700gm I had put on yesterday morning. I still feel that I want a poo, and if I had had that when I got up I might have added an extra 100gm loss.

  What I didn't mention a couple of paragraphs back was that after my dinner I had a dessert of mostly soft fruit. I had an apricot, a plum, two satsumas, and maybe I had a pear as well. The sweet fruit is probably the reason my blood glucose is not lower. Once again it is back to typical readings I was getting near the start of the year when seasonal depression from cold and miserable weather made it hard to control my sugar intake.

  This morning the Contour meter read 8.4mmol/l. That is actually not bad, bit like the other two readings, I know I can do better when feeling more disciplined. The GlucoRX meter read 8.9mmol/l, and that is definitely a bit higher than I like, but still some way from the danger zone. The Sinocare meter read a very slightly better 8.8mmol/l. It always feel odd when the Sinocare meter does not give the highest, and often a lot highest reading.

  I am having lots of fantasies about what to do today. I think I definitely want to go for at least a short walk - maybe just to the shops or something. My fantasies are about going further. For instance I could go to Elmers End to get a tram to Wandle Park tram stop. If the weather was warm and sunny I could then explore the Wandle Park. Maybe I might go as far as Morden tram stop where it is only a half mile walk to South Wimbledon tube station. I could then go up and down the Northern Line for some tube photography.....

  The only trouble is don't think I feel in the mood for more extensive journeys. maybe I should be satisfied if I managed to go shopping in Savers and Poundstretcher. There are definitely a few things I need from Savers, and I can always find stuff to buy in Poundstretcher. I will have my traditional lie down once I have uploaded this to my server, and make some sort of decision after that.