09:16 BST

  Yesterday started bright and sunny, but it didn't last. By late morning it was back to grey skies, ans from 4pm it started to drizzle. The morning started almost cold enough for a frost, and the afternoon was only 10° C. The drizzle/rain stopped after 9pm, and then it cooled down by a single degree to 9° C, and only fell another two degrees in the night.   This morning has started off rather chilly, 7° C, but it is bright and sunny. Sadly, the sunshine may not last much longer, and the afternoon will be mid grey. The afternoon temperature should reach 11° C. In the last two hours of daylight we may get a few sunny spells. The temperature will have dropped by to 8° C by midnight. Tomorrow may start at 7° C, but it may rise to 15° C by mid afternoon. Unfortunately it will be a mostly grey day, and at 2pm there is a 49% chance of light rain.

   I guess I should describe yesterday as a good day, but in reality only some of it was good, and the rest of it was merely "satisfactory" ! The morning was pretty standard - writing then reading and snoozing ! The snoozing was good even if shorter than ideal.

  The thing that finally made for one of the good things was being motivated to wash my hair and have a shower. I didn't think I was probably all that smelly, but my hair was definitely looking very lank and greasy. It definitely felt good to get that washed and conditioned. The shower I had afterwards also felt good - so good that I wondered why I hadn't had one earlier. I think the answer is either lack of motivation, or just laziness - most probably both.

  It was quite late, around 1pm, by the time I had finished my washing, and got dressed ready to go shopping in Tesco. There was nothing I needed desperately, but quite a few things I thought it would be good to buy. They included some butter and a Savoy Cabbage - both needed for my bubble and squeak experiment I may well be doing today. A few reduced price sandwiches were also useful. Every thing else was just the general things I tend to buy.

  There were two good things about my walk to and from Tesco. The first was that it was just mild enough, albeit by the skin of it's teeth, to leave my coat off and walk wearing just a t-shirt, but I will admit I did bottle out of wearing shorts, and wore ordinary long jeans. The other good thing is that the walk felt totally normal - no chest pains, not shortness of breath, and best of all, hardly any aches from ankles or knees.

  When I got home again I was able to enjoy a couple of the sandwiches I bought. I guess they were my lunch. I did keep one big "deli roll" filled with meat and stuff, back to have for lunch, or part of lunch today. I would have liked a rest, and maybe even a snooze after I had finished eating, but it was fairly late, and I hadn't even washed the beer glasses up for the beer tasting session.  Jodie actually arrived early, although as she put it, she didn't miss the train yesterday.

  One of the things I had bought from Tesco was a Xmas themed box of beers from the Brewdog brewery. They were reduced from £19.?? to £12.51. I had intended to buy a full price box around Xmas time, but my stay in hospital put paid to that. I knew that most of their beers are not very nice, and occasionally rather unpleasant, but I thought I could get Jodie to drink the worst of them (she actually like the nasty sour beers that were among the ones I didn't really care for).

  The beer drinking session itself, apart from having to drink Brewdog beers, was slightly more pleasant than some because Jodie only ignored me for about 65% of the time as she frantically scrolled through pages of Instagram postings, looking for pictures/videos of cats or squirrels. Usually she ignores me for 80% of the time ! She intended, and did get the 6:03pm train to London Bridge when she left, and so it was a slightly shorter session  than some.

  My original plans for dinner included a Vindaloo ready meal, and something else I hadn't decided on, but was probably going to be ice cream. I was close to putting the Vindaloo in the microwave when I had a change of mind. I decided to just have some grilled potato wedges for my main course. It gave another chance to test out the new Heinz zero sugar tomato ketchup. I still can't make up my mind if it is good or bad. The next test will involve fish fingers, and that could be today, but more likely the day after.

  The grilled potato wedges were possibly a slightly healthy choice. My dessert was definitely not, although maybe it was less bad than expected. It was half a tub of Ben & Jerry's raspberry and doughnut chunks, ice cream. Being of American origins I am pretty sure they didn't hold back the sugar in the recipe. It tasted very sweet and not much else. I don't think I noticed any raspberry taste despite trying to scoop out the most red bits.

  My evening was the typical watching stuff on TV, but what was not typical was that I was feeling quite tired, and I gave up on TV at around 9pm (I think). I did read a page or two when I went to bed, but I was soon asleep. I guess if I remember so little of it, it must have been a good sleep. I have hazy memories of getting up to pee a few times, but a more definite memory of getting up at around 3am for a pee, and a possible poo (but it was just wind at that time). I remember that I had a dream, but I can't seem to remember a single thing about the dream.

  Although the clocks have changed from GMT to BST, I don't think it has affected my routine at all. I went to bed when I felt tired, and I woke up when my body felt it was time to, The actual clock time had nothing to do with it, but by coincidence, the clocks seemed to be in agreement with my body. I think it was either my bladder or colon that dictated what time I woke and got up. In fact it seemed to be both. I had a big pee, and a small poo with a lot of gas.

  When I weighed myself I seemed to have last 100gm since yesterday. That is not that great, but at least it was a definite loss. My blood glucose was nothing to celebrate at all. It was high, but only in relative terms, and not actually high in terms of not good for me. I got readings of 8.1, 7.8 and 7.8 mmol/l. It is unusual to have two identical readings, and I guess this mornings two identical readings must be my actual blood glucose level &.8mmol/l is very satisfactory.

  As often happens, I was counting out my pills/medication, for the day, when I felt indications another trip to the toilet would be a good idea, and it was. I did my second poo of the morning, and this one was more substantial. I had not eaten at that point, and only had a small amount of drink. I weighed myself again, and this time I saw I had actually lost 400gm since yesterday. That was quite pleasing.  My blood pressure is sort of good. The Systolic pressure was 123, and that is very good, but the diastolic pressure was just 40. I thin that is considered a bit too low. My pulse rate is 61 bpm, and that is very typical for me.

  Today is yet another day with no definite plans. One early plan was for a walk in the (cold) sunshine, but as per the weather forecast (which seems to be unusually right) we have now lost the sunshine. The average of my three outside temperature sensors is just 11° C, and that is a bit too cool to enjoy a walk without back up from some good sunshine. I don't think that completely rules out a walk, but it does make it seem highly unlikely for pleasure. I may still pop out to the local shops, but there is zero urgency for that.

   I can foresee today being another very lazy day. That is not going to be good for my diet (whatever that is), and I'll somehow have to see if I can drag up some reserves of discipline, and eat suitably to lose at least another 100gm by tomorrow morning. It feels like that will be unlikely.
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