Yesterday was not exactly a good day. I felt zero get up and go, and so I ended up doing very little, but not actually nothing. I think in today's writing I will just skip over all the times when I was doing nothing but reading and resting, and even the occasional snooze.

  I think the problem yesterday was a very specialised form of hangover. Nothing hurt except my mind, and by that I don't mean a headache. I guess much of it could be said to be guilt because of the weight I had put on, and my elevated blood glucose readings after getting drunk the night before. This guilt, or whatever it was, was amplified by the thought that on Thursday I have to see the nurse for my annual diabetic checkup. I had been hoping to be fighting fit for that appointment, but the end result a the very enjoyable booze up on Sunday is my health has been set back a fair bit compared to how I had been progressing.

  One thing I had to do yesterday was to finish washing my favourite, small, bath towel I had left soaking for 24 hours. It was, as usual, very nasty pulling it out of the stone cold water, but it all warmed up to comfortable after the first rinse on warm water. I think I managed 5 or 6 rinses before I ran out of energy (or enthusiasm) and my right hand was starting to feel quite sore after wringing the towel out between each rinse.

  I don't feel sure about it now, but I think I started the rinses of the towel before lunchtime. That does make sense because it would have been a lot of inspiration to have some lunch when I was originally going to fast until dinner time. At least the lunch was semi-safe. It was cheese on rice crackers, but I did spoil it by putting on blobs of quite high sugar content brown sandwich pickle. It wasn't even Tesco own brand and so probably had an even higher sugar content. (Much Tesco stuff has less sugar in than other brands).

  After lunch I had a nice rest, and quite possibly had a snooze, but after it I probably did the most important thing I did all day. It was to pay off my two credit cards before I earned a £25 penalty for late payment. Despite thinking I had been spending rather a lot last month, what with new trainers and stuff, neither credit card bill seemed as high as expected. One thing I did notice was that the pint of Guinness I bought from the Brookmill pub on Saturday was "only" £6.40. That is still more than I would pay in The Jolly Farmers, but less than the £7.40 I thought I read on the card reader.

  It could have been as late as 4pm before I finished all the rinses (maybe a dozen in total) of my bath towel, and hung it on the clothes horse to dry. If I had finished it earlier I might have hung it on the washing line, but the very dull hour or two earlier, with almost black clouds that seemed they could drop rain on us at any minute, put me off the idea. Plus it was also late enough to have missed the best sunshine - when there was sunshine.

  With that job done I had what was in theory a nice healthy snack of fruit. Two of the fruits were soft fruits, and they were very ripe, and so very sweet. They were also minutes away from spoiling, and so it was a good thing to eat them before they spoiled. The other fruit was a red apple - tasty but not so sweet. Then there was nothing to do except wait for some TV entertainment. The 5pm showing of Star Trek: The Original Series was, like I think all those original adventures with Spock and Kirk, so well remembered that it was hardly worth watching.

  I had my dinner cooked in time to eat while watching the BBC 6 O'clock News. It was a Tesco brand ready meal of Chicken Tikka Massala. I don't think it was a particular healthy option, but it had a reduced price sticker on it to tempt me to buy it. I have to admit that many curry ready meals are pretty decent these days, and although I would have liked it more if there was a bit more curry, but not the rice, I would have liked it even more.

  I guess it didn't really matter how healthy or unhealthy that curry was, because what I had for dessert would have left it in the shade. It was some ice cream. That can be OK in small quantities, and maybe when the other stuff I eat during the day is relatively safe. The flaw here was that I didn't eat a small quantity. I had about one and a half the amount that would have been just about, but the skin of it's teeth, almost OK. The reason was it was so close to the end of the tub that I just finished the whole lot off. It probably accounts for 90% or my far too high blood glucose this morning.

  The last thing I watched on TV was an episode of QIXL. It was not a very good edition, but a bit amusing. It finished at 9pm, and I felt ready for bed then. There was a small hint that maybe the curry might give me some acid indigestion, and I took a couple of antacid tablets as a precaution. If they were needed they did the trick, and I felt quite comfortable as I tried for sleep. I read for may half an hour, possibly more, but I feel sure I was fast asleep by 10pm.

  Last night was back to a more typical night. I seemed to wake every 2 hours for a medium sized pee, and would fall asleep with no delays after going back to bed. I thought I could remember several dreams, but the more I try and remember, all that comes to mind was bits of dreams from previous nights. That is sort of annoying, but I don't think any of last night's dreams were exciting enough to be worth remembering....probably.

  The only thing about last night that slightly deviated from usual was another morning when I thought I deserved another hour of sleep. I guess that is not really unusual recently. I had my extra hour of sleep and actually got up at just before 7am.It was certainly early enough to get a screenshot of the weather forecast from 6am. If I had left it another 10 minute the forecast would have probably started from 7am.

  After getting up I went for my usual morning pee. I thought I needed to poo, but it was just wind. After counting out my pills for the day I fancied another visit to the toilet. This time I did a fairly small pee, but a less than small poo. I did not realise how much until I looked in the pan. After weighing myself I was most happy to see that I had lost the first 500gm  of the whole kilogram I had put on yesterday morning.

  That weight loss gave false hope that maybe my blood glucose readings may not be too bad. Unfortunately they were actually terrible. The Contour meter read 9.5mmol/l, and that was even worse than yesterday, and that was bad enough. The GlucoRX meter was kinder to me with a reading of 8.3mmol/l. By itself that was actually quite reasonable, but the Sinocare twisted the knife with a terrible reading of 9.6mmol/l. The average of all three readings was 9.13mmol/l, and that is actually less, a really tiny bit less, than yesterday which was 9.20mmol/l.

  I am taking steps to get my blood glucose down. This morning I have skipped breakfast, and I will try to stick with something known to be safe, like rice crackers and cheese (with no pickle !!) for lunch. Ideally I would skip lunch too, but if the forecast rain actually start to fall from an already very gloomy sky, it will be so miserable that eating may be the only joy of the day.

  I had two possible plans for today. One was to go for a walk, and that would be very good for my weight and blood glucose, but I am not doing it in the rain. I was also going to go to Tesco to top up the fridge, but I don't really want to do that in the rain either, plus it could bring too many temptations. Today could actually be a very boring day ! The one thing I will do, because I didn't do it yesterday, is have a shower. So if there is a chance of going out in a possible dry spell, I can without worrying about being unclean and stinking.