This morning is another that is dull instead of being sunny. I am guessing that like yesterday, the cloud will break up around mid morning. From then on we should get sunny spells for the rest of the day. The temperature may briefly peak at  25° C. Tomorrow, the 1st June, is apparently the first day of summer for weather forecasters, but it may not be very summery. There could be just a few hours of full sunshine, but mostly it will be just sunny spells. From late afternoon it could be quite dull. The maximum temperature may be just 21° C.

  Yesterday was another day effectively wasted by waiting until 7pm for an Amazon delivery. If they could show an estimated one hour slot when the delivery could take place, like most other courier company's do. It would make life much better.

  I wrote just over 2000 words yesterday morning, and that took a little longer than the shorter pieces I wrote. I was also interrupted in the middle of it by a long phone call from Lee - the man who knows everything, but still has to phone me up to ask for advice - even about things I have had almost no experience with for the last 50 years. Things like internal combustion engines in a ride on motor mower - something I have zero experience of.

  One major annoyance is that I tell him to check this or that, and he goes off at a tangent, and does something else. If he followed my advice he might learn something about logical thinking, and solve some of his problems in hours instead of weeks !  In the past there have been many occasions when I have said "have you checked x ?", and he says he will. A day or a week or more later he is back on the phone, and after almost shouting down the phone at him, he says he will now check my suggestion. This can happen several times before he finally acts on my suggestion, and the fault is quickly diagnosed and cured !

  It was a relief to get back to writing this electronic diary, and a relief to finish it. As usual I had a rest before going for a shower. That must have almost been at midday. I think I would have gone out for a walk, even if it was just a short walk to the station to pick up a copy of The Metro newspaper, but I was hoping I might do more.  The trouble was that I could not trust Amazon not to do an extra early delivery.

  It was only a fortnight ago that I had a packet delivered at just after 1pm. That was a big shock. looking back I see that between 5 and 6pm is pretty typical. If I had known it would be later I would have gone out, but I just did not dare to take a chance. I effectively wasted a whole afternoon, and in my frustration I was having a great deal of trouble either curbing my desire for eating, or finding relatively safe stuff for snacks.

  One such semi safe thing was rice crackers and cream/soft cheese. The soft cheese was a Tesco own product, and I noted it's sugar content was quite safe even if stuff like the cholesterol content was probably lethal. I had two snacks of rice crackers and soft, scoopable, cheese, and finished a whole small tub of it. I whiled away the time mostly reading either a book or from my computer screen, and I even dared to have a short snooze.

  I think I also had a couple of small (25gm or less) packets of crisps during the afternoon. I thought I should keep my dinner simple, and while watching the BBC news I had two ready cooked, small, chicken breasts with a bit of sandwich pickle. The latter was a Tesco own brand, and so had less sugar in it than comparable products, but I still tried not to use too much of it. I had a very simple dessert of sugar free "fibre" biscuits.

  It was more or less exactly 7pm when Amazon arrived with my order. There were three more Red Dwarf books - loosely based on the TV series but fleshed out more because there was no need for it to be squeezed in a half hour time slot.  The one book I have already read had a very expanded version of one particularly good episode, and bits and pieces from several other episodes.

  After watching all the TV episodes I already knew the characters and their backgrounds, plus I had a mental view of the Red Dwarf spacecraft. I assume the two writers made the assumption that most readers would probably know these things too, and so could concentrate on the storyline. It was reading the first book, and enjoying it so much, that inspired me to want to read the other three books.

  The thing I really wanted to get my hands on in my delivery was my next pair of Adidas trainers. The long name of these trainers included the word "wide", and although it was not listed as a particular attribute, they are in fact a wide fitting. I didn't bother with socks on this one occasion. I slipped them on, and there was no struggle getting my feet in them. I then did a test walk to the toilet. (I was halfway through a pee when the doorbell went, and had to hurriedly finish to open the door).

  That short walk, to and from the toilet, seemed to confirm my hopes - they did indeed seem to be a wide fitting, and they seemed more comfortable than any shoe I have warn recently - and that was with no socks, and no sticking plasters over my bunion of other sensitive spots. I think I am going to dare to take them out for quite a long journey today with no real testing beforehand.

  Once I had tested the new trainers I went back to watching TV, although there was not enough of anything really interesting to fully grab my attention.  Once again I tried for an early night, but now with three more books ready to read, I spent longer reading my current book about the last man on the moon (from the Apollo moon landings in the 1970s. I think I was ready for sleep around 11pm, and with no annoying aches and pains, I think I was asleep very soon after 11pm, and possibly before.

  I can only remember a bit of one dream. I think it was about going home from work, and having to get a bus. The bus was a bit odd for a "London red bus". It was a single decker, and the main passenger entrance was a door in the back. I was carrying a large bag, and it was tricky getting on the bus with it, and finding a seat to sit on. An announcement said that to make up for some lost time, the bus would be fast to something village.

  I didn't know where that village was, and if it would impact my journey. We had travelled non stop a fair distance, and once the bus started stopping at bus stops I had no idea where I was. I got off at a bus stop that seemed to list a selection of buses, and I hoped I would recognise one of the routes. Getting off the bus, through many standing passengers, with my big bag was quite a feat. I think the dream ended with me just off the bus.

  I am sure the inspiration for that dream was something I hope to do this afternoon, that includes carrying a big heavy camera bag, and getting a 47 bus to a bus stop I have never got off before. Fortunately I am quite familiar with the 47 bus route almost as far as London Bridge.

  This morning I twice woke up believing it was time to get up hours before it actually was. The first time was just after 3am, and I think I initially misread the clock. I went for a pee and wondered why it was still dark outside. I went back to me bedroom where I read the clock properly. Luckily it only took mere minutes to fall asleep again once I was back on my bed.

  The next time was around 5am - it seems to be a popular time for me recently. This time I did have a bit of trouble falling asleep again, but once asleep it was past 7am when I woke up and got up. Once again it seemed to be a night where I had a few large pees instead of more frequent small pees. That made it hard to predict what I would see when I got on the scales. I was slightly shocked, but very happy to see that I was 500gm less than yesterday morning. Another drop like that and I may be able to tick off another units number on my weigh in kilograms. It is feeling possible that I might even be able to do that again before I see the nurse for my diabetic check up on 5th June.

   If predicting my weight was hard enough, predicting my blood glucose was even harder. I didn't even try predicting it, but just hoped it had come down, and it had. The Contour meter and the GlucoRX meter both read 8.1mmol/l, and while still a bit higher than my 7.5mmol/l target, was still pretty good. The Sinocare meter decided to go out on a limb for unknown reasons. The first reading was using "stale" blood and it said a horrendous 8.6mmol/l. I pricked another finger to give nice fresh blood, and it reluctantly said 8.9mmol/l - still a bit higher than desirable.

  My plan today is to go The Brookmill pub in Brookmill road - the road between Lewisham and Deptford. It is not a long journey. 3 years ago I could walk it, and in fact I passed it on the walk that took me all the way to Greenwich. I a not sure that even then I could have walked it carrying my big and heavy camera bag. I may opt to using my camera rucksack instead, although one day I am going to have to try out my new big, over the shoulder, camera bag.

  The reason for all this is that Carrie and Steve are doing a special one hour, afternoon (4.15pm start) gig in there as an acoustic duo. I think, but I'm not sure, that it will be in a garden bar, and so be in natural daylight. I expect I will be home again by 6pm - unless I do something like get on the DLR to Greenwich, and do some more photography of The River Thames as it passes through Greenwich, although I think that is unlikely.