09:06 BST

  7and 8am were dry this morning, but at 9am it poured. 20 minutes later and it appears to have stopped, and it is getting bright outside - but sun bright. The clouds are probably too thick to let the sun through until maybe 2pm and then for the rest of the day. I think the best that can be said about this morning is that it might rain, but maybe it won't. Today should see a peak of 18° C, and during the sunny spells that may not feel too bad if it is not too windy. Tomorrow's forecast shows rain for nearly all the day, and some of it may be heavy rain. Being a BBC forecast they have also thrown in a few thunderstorms. It will be a cold day with only 15° C expected at best.

  I described all of yesterday morning yesterday, and I don't think I have much to add to that, except, at the risk of repeating myself, but it is worth saying it twice because it was so momentous - Yesterday was the first time any nurse has ever said that my blood pressure may be too low instead of far too high.

  I pick up from where I left off yesterday. I said that I might go to Tesco in the afternoon, but I was feeling quite tired, and so I might just have a mega lazy afternoon doing just about nothing. I think it got to just past 2pm and I had had a snooze, and was feeling a bit restless. I still felt a bit drained, but decided I would go to Tesco. Beyond the normal reason of needing some stuff, I was also feeling like after submitting my blood samples, and being weighed by the nurse, my diet was on holiday.

  It definitely seemed cool enough to need a coat, but it was dry. I think the walk to Tesco actually perked me up a bit. I started off shopping for sensible stuff until I came to the reduced price shelves. I found 4 items from the sandwich department that I wanted. None of them was particularly healthy in terms of sugar content, but I felt that didn't matter for one day. Possibly one silly purchase was to get some Ciabatta rolls and some Paninni roles - particularly when I had two unused rolls back at home, and of course I had just put reduced price sandwiches in my basket.

  I didn't manage to get up much of a pace when walking home, but it was probably faster than some times in this half of the year. Once I put the shopping away I tucked into just two sandwiches. One was Cajun chicken inspired, and the other included ham cheese and chicken. Both had modestly high amount of sugar. I managed to resist the temptation to start to eat the other two things were was a wrap and a mini sub.

  After eating I mainly went back to reading. I am sure I checked a few things on the internet as well, but I didn't do anything productive, and so fulfilled my prediction of a very lazy afternoon (and evening). I did have one naughty snack in the afternoon, and it was the remains of the bar of bubbly chocolate that I have been eating in very small amounts over the last week or two. Yesterday I just finished the whole lot, which was as much as a quarter of the bar.

  At this point I am almost forgetting approximately just before 5pm and just after 6.30pm. There was no drinking with Jodie this Thursday. She was heading to Brighton to go to a gig. However, Michael still came round for a few beers and a natter about love and war, booze and food, and other stuff.It was a much shorter, and mostly lighter drink than most Thursdays, but I did squeeze in one 7% barley Wine. It came from the Adnam's brewery, and It was disappointing.

  I could only watch the second half of the BBC news - the local news for the London Area. Towards the end of of it I had part one of my dinner. It was actually a calories controlled ready meal from Tesco - chicken in a mushroom sauce with green beans and new potatoes. It was the second or third one I have had because it is convenient, but they are not as nice as the picture on the box make you think they should be.

  After the news I half watched Star Trek: Voyager, and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. Neither was that good, but nor were they too bad. At 9pm I started to watch QI, but within minutes I realised it could not have been all that long ago that I last watched that episode. I turned it off and went to bed to read for a while. It turned out to be a lot longer than "a while" before I was fast asleep.

  I think it was around 10pm when my spare phone, recently topped up with 5GB of data allowance (for £6) made a bleep to attract my attention. I am not totally sure what it was disturbing me for. For some reason it may have been reminding that I had not finished setting up the new dialler app on it. The old dialler, that came pre-installed was evidently a trial program with more and more frequent reminders that it would be really great !! to pay to upgrade to the full version.

  I decided to replace it, but finding a replacement was not easy. All I wanted was a basic keypad to dial telephone numbers. I found one that seemed to be just that except it was also spyware. It would have liked to share all my info with a whole host of advertisers. Fortunately it paid attention to EU rules, and gives the option to ignore the advertising and data collectors. I spent well over half an hour going through screens and screens, and then the same in a sub menu, of say I reject this and that company. In theory it is well locked down now. The silly thing is that it is probably today that it's replacement, a phone that can use the 5G networks, should arrive.

  While I was frantically scrolled and turning stuff off, I was aware that I had started to burp a bit, and some burps had a hint of acid. Before I even tried for sleep I took some antacid tablets, and gave them 20 minutes to work. I then laid down on my bed, but couldn't get to sleep because I started to pass some wind, and felt like I needed to go to the toilet. I got up and sat on the toilet for maybe 10 minutes, passed some wind, and nothing else.

  When I went back to bed it still took about 10 or 15 minutes, but some time after midnight I finally fell asleep. From then on it was usual enough night's sleep - getting up every two or 3 hours to have a pee. I was quite glad I did when I came to weigh myself when I got up. I know I had some dreams last night. I think they were too fragmented to make enough sense to leave any memories.

  Despite getting to sleep late I was awake and could have got up soon after 5am, but I managed to get back to sleep until 6.50am. As usual, I got up and went for a pee, and tried for a poo. It seemed like I might need one, but I think it was just wind again. I feel fairly sure that yesterday morning I managed to completely empty my digestive tract, and it may not be for a few more hours before anything reaches the end of the line....so to speak.

  After all I ate yesterday, and I forgot to say that part two of my dinner last night was an apple, a pear, and two Satsumas. I expected that my weight would have gone up a bit - it was exceptionally low yesterday morning, and indeed it has gone up but only by 400gm, and if the blip yesterday is ignored, I am back on a slow decline of my weight. That is often said to be the best way to lose weight, but I must admit, seeing that low yesterday was sort of exciting.

  Once again my blood glucose was either good or bad this morning. Once again it the Sinocare meter that spoiled it. It gave a reading of 9.1mmol/l. That was the best of three readings on that meter. One reading was far higher ! The Contour meter read 8.3mmol/l, and maybe that was a bit better than expected. I am sure I was not expecting the GlucoRX meter to read just 7.9mmol/l. If all three meters had read that low I would be very happy.

  My day today is being controlled by several things. One is the weather and the forecast of rain until midday - even if there is strong sunshine as I write this (at 10:30am). If I can find a dry spell a bit later I may go shopping in Savers and Poundstretcher. The main constraint is parcel deliveries. I have one that may arrive my Royal Mail. It is small enough that it will probably delivered by my usual postman, and it may be small enough to go through my small letterbox.

  The other two deliveries will probably be done by Amazon. One item will be my bulk pack of replacement ink cartridges for my Canon "Pixma" printer. I think I'll have to start printing some of my better photos to use up some of that ink. The other major item is a new mobile phone that I will be trialling before use. It is a cheap Chinese phone made by Honor, and the prime selling point is that it can use the 5G network - which none of my current phones can do. Initially I will be trialling it with my "Smarty" sim card, using the 5Gb data package I recently bought.