08:02 BST

  It was a very mild night, and it seemed comfortable to open my bedroom window once I was out of bed. My thermometer said 22° C. The trouble that this morning was forecast, and is very dull. It might be 2pm before we see any sunshine. By 6pm the temperature may reach 28° C. It looks like it will be another very mild night, and tomorrow is forecast to start at 18° C at 6am. Tomorrow may feature full sunshine all day long, and the temperature should reach at least 30° C. Monday could see 32° C !

  I don't know exactly why, although I will make some suggestions further down the page, but yesterday was a day where I didn't seem to achieve much. Maybe I didn't need to achieve much because it was pleasantly relaxing, and there were some good bits of the day to make it seem nicer.

  My prime goal for yesterday was to go to Tesco to get some shopping. It was very late in the morning before I had done all my writing, had a rest, and had a shower, and was ready to go out. Being only a 5 to 7 minute walk to, and the same back from Tesco, it seemed a good opportunity to wear my latest Adidas trainers. They are starting to feel almost comfortable now, and a bit more wear might get them comfortable enough to wear on other occasions, although I am not sure they will ever be good for long walks, but you never know.

  I mainly wanted to replace much of what I had eaten to almost empty my fridge and freezer, and I sort of did that, but I was also on the lookout for stuff that looked like it might be safe for my low sugar and (ideally) low calorie diet. Although the latter is really a secondary consideration. I bought a couple of packs of sliced meat that may be good for snacks when put on rice crackers. I also bought some spicy kimchi to put on top of the meat on the rice crackers. It is a different type to what seemed to be the only choice Tesco offered - which was very watery, and very unexciting.

  Although I topped up my instant noodles from the little supermarket on Catford Bridge recently, I bought a lot more individual packets. They included my favourite - Mi Goreng flavour by Indomie. I had two of those this morning, with extra chilli sauce on them, and I've only just stopped sweating ! One other thing I bought was plain vanilla ice cream. When I was eating the last tub of it, in very restrained quantities, I seemed to be getting very nice low blood glucose measurements. Common sense suggested I should have been getting very high readings because ice cream usually has a lot of sugar in it. I've bought it, but do I dare start having small helpings of it again ?

  My walk home was less comfortable that the walk to Tesco. It felt like I had a bit of grit in my right trainer. When I got home and took that trainer off I found quite a big bit of road grit in it. It is no wonder that it was uncomfortable to walk with that in the trainer.  In other respects, even carrying a modestly heavy amount of shopping (8 litres of Diet Coke accounting for most of the weight), it didn't feel taxing.

  Once I had put the shopping away, and had changed, I had my lunch. It was a good candidate for slowing me down, and making me feel....err, not quite tired, but something like that. There is a word on the tip of my tongue, but I can't seem think what it is. That lunch was a small tub of BBQ chicken wings. Fortunately the Tesco version probably has maybe a tenth of the sugar of fried chicken shop BBQ wings. It never seems like it is all that much chicken meat, more so when seeing the pile of bones at the end, but on this occasion it did feel quite filling.

  That full feeling seemed a bit unusual, but it was possibly because I was constipated, again, yesterday (and also so far today). It was all part of the things that left me feeling very lazy.  One job I was supposed to be doing in the afternoon was to wash what turned out to be rather a lot of pairs of underpants, and one pair of lounge pants. Underpants are easy to wash, but with so many I was continually bending over the bath to pull them out of my big washing bucket, and wringing them out. I got as far as wringing out every single pair, and into the first rinse water when I abandoned the job until later.

  It was only a bit uncomfortable to be continually bending over the bath, but after a while, and well before it could be called painful, I felt like a break. I had intended to get back to it a bit later in the afternoon. It is still all there, waiting for rinse 2 and 3, plus fabric condition as part 4, this morning, and so it has to be one of the first things I do after finishing this writing(and having my usual rest).

   I spent a fair amount of time just quietly reading, but I did take a break to pay off one of my credit cards. I also made an order with Amazon, and this time I only slightly flinched at the delivery charge. it was a special order in so much as it is a birthday present for Ayse (my favourite barmaid). Her birthday is not until Wednesday week, but I though some advance planning might be sensible.

  Another thing I did, and it ended up taking longer than I predicted, was to send a message to Angela. While looking for something else I came across a bit of thin card, and written on it was my birth weight, plus confirmation of my birth date. I can't be sure, but I am fairly sure it would have been written by one of the maternity nurses on the day I was born. I knew it was the sort of thing that Angela would be interested in. I sent a picture of it, plus a long audio message with it.

  I got a replay back from Angela within minutes thanking me, and saying how she has kept and treasures the wrist bands from her new born babies when she was giving birth in Lewisham Hospital. I don't think we had wrist bands when I (and Angela a few months later) were born. Part of my audio message was about my recent adventures with doctors. Angela remarked how positive I sounded about it all, and said she wished she could adopt such a positive outlook.

   Maybe I might have enthused her to be more positive. She has good reason to now. I asked about her appointment with the oncologist One or two Friday's ago. She said that did go very well, and her follow tests showed she was absolutely cancer free. That cheered her up possibly more than she thought. As I predicted, once she could relax she would start to heal more, and she says that since that appointment she has noticed an improvement in the ulcers and lesions in her mouth (a result of the chemo and radiation therapy). She also says that she can now eat and enjoy more food. I think, and hope that she will now heal very quickly.

  One other thing that bother her is her impending 70th birthday. Her worry is that her mum dies when she hit 70, but as I pointed out, doctors are far better at preserving health into old age now - provided they can be prodded into action. I told Angela, that as I am now a veteran of reaching 70, it is no big deal. This is true. I am aware of some deficiencies, and there is my ongoing cardio-vascular problems, but if anything I feel better than I did for the last few years.

  Angela thanked me for my "pep talk", and I think she will try to act on it, but trying and doing are not all the same. I will see if I can send her some more positive energy/thoughts soon. I have a new load of medical stuff coming up, and I will let her know about it, and try to convey a positive impression about it all. Well, almost all. I have not asked for an appointment yet, but I have another opportunity to ask for an appointment with the hospital foot clinic.  At best, and worst, I could end up with some surgery on one of both feet that could keep me off my feet for a while. If that happens I will do my best to obey the surgeons orders this time, but I will be pushing myself to get back on my feet as fast as possible.

  All that takes this narrative up to dinner time. My dinner was not exactly the healthiest option, although maybe it was not as bad as I feared. My dinned consisted on the second half of the mini roast potatoes with their semi spicy dressing (already precooked the day before) cooked even more in the mini oven with a couple of cod and parsley fishcakes on them. It was not a bad dinner, and apart from a mid evening small chunk of cheese, I felt it enough for one day (an opinion heavily biassed by stuffing myself with BBQ chicken wings I had for lunch).

  Like the last few evenings (and probably more) I watched the usual TV of the news and two Star Treks before finding myself heading to bed at 9pm. Last night I did read in bed for maybe half an hour, possibly more, but I am fairly sure I was fast asleep before 10pm.  It was a bit like the night before with not peeing much during the night (but still waking every 2 or 3 hours) and having lots of dreams.

  Like the dreams of the night before, I can only remember a few things about a few dreams. One was curious in so much as I dreamed I was on my way to work, very early in the morning, when I passed a local school where the kids seemed to be having a P.E./Sports lesson at near day break. The day itself is a blank, but I passed a different school on my way home after work, and onc again the kids were running around, doing exercises and stuff. The dream most have been a flashback to when I was at school, and hated anything to do with sports and exercise.

  Just as I am about to describe another dream I realise I can't remember anything about any of the other dreams I had. They are almost there, but the memory is just out of reach. Oh well, I doubt they would mean anything to anyone else but me, and I am not sure if they mean much to me....although I do seem to think that one or more was pleasurable in some way (and I don't mean sexually pleasurable - because I would hope I would remember anything like that so I could try and repeat in the next few nights !).

  This morning I am still constipated. At the moment I don't feel uncomfortable, but I am very aware I didn't go yesterday, and I have yet to go (apart from some wind) so far this morning.  I didn't seem to pee much during the night either, although I did drink almost a litre of chilled water yesterday evening. Despite these handicaps it seems my weight is exactly the same as yesterday, and while I am lower, it is not a bad outcome.

  Oddly enough, despite not seeming to be as careful about my sugar intake yesterday as I could/should have, my blood glucose is actually a tiny weeny bit better this morning. The Contour meter read 8.4mmol/l. That is good enough, although it is 0.1 more than yesterday. The GlucoRX meter read 8.6mmol/l, and that is 0.3 higher than yesterday. As unlikely as it sounds, it is the Sinocare meter that comes to the rescue. This morning it read 8.3mmol/l, and that is 0.6 lower than yesterday. That all adds up to an average of 8.43mmol/l - a very small improvement on yesterday's 8.50mmol/l.

  One of the things I have already done this morning is to take a couple of laxative tablets. It is usual to taken them before bedtime in the hope that things will happen the next morning. My constipation is probably going to start shifting as early as mid afternoon. That would be most inconvenient if I were to be going out. One thing may keep me home this afternoon, and that is the possibility of a delivery of my next Aliexpress order. I know it got as far as Evri's local delivery depot early this morning. What I am not sure about is if they do any deliveries at the weekend. As usual it is going to be case of watching and waiting to see if there is any news. On past behaviour it could be halfway through the afternoon before I am told that it is out for delivery, and my approximated two hour time slot - if it actually happens today.

   The final word is that since finishing the last paragraph I am not longer technically constipated. It was not the "soft natural stool" that the laxative promised, but that is no surprise because I would not expect it to work in little more than a single hour. It was actually a bit eye watering ! What's more is that I think I'll be back on the toilet in little more than 10 minutes !