I am not so sure that the temperature did fall to as low as 15° C at 7am this morning. For the first time in ages I had my bedroom window open all night, and I had been sleeping with nothing covering me all night. Some the breeze coming through the window did feel a bit fresh, but it is currently rather nice after just coming out from under a hot (very warm) shower. A bit earlier it seemed to be a lot brighter out, but now reality has conformed to the forecast - or would have done if the forecast had not been revised, and now showing sunny intervals at the moment. This latest revision only shows full sunshine for 4 and 5pm. The rest of the time should just feature sunny spells/intervals/periods. It should remain dry, and once again it should end up almost as warm as yesterday - around 25° C. Tomorrow is predicted to be a lot cooler with hardly any sunshine, maybe none, and with a good chance of a couple of rain showers.

  Yesterday started with a bit of a frenzy, and then changed to relaxation. The first thing I did was to go to the corner shop to buy the two new magazines I was expecting to be waiting for me.  I then went to Poundland to get more emergency supplies for when the shops are off limits to me from the 24th July (because I refuse to wear a face mask). I am not always convinced that the small selection of food they sell in there is all that cheap, and I feel sure that they have a lot of stuff that can be bought cheaper from supermarkets, but I know that some of it is cheap and/or not seen in other shops.

  I bought three packs of sugar free vanilla wafers in there. I know that Iceland usually has them, but Iceland has little long life food that isn't frozen (and my freezer is not big enough to keep much food in it). Poundland are currently doing 1.25 litre bottles of Pepsi Max for £1, and that is a little cheaper per litre than supermarkets. I bought 4 bottles of that plus a bottle of sugar free Vimto squash. It is quite nice, and I don't think I have seen it anywhere else. I also bought some tinned food, but not much because I suspect it is more expensive than from Aldi.

  After rushing home with a very heavy rucksack I did some gardening. Most importantly I water the garden, but I did transplant some seedlings to a big planter to put on my front windowsill (the last window boxes had dried out too much, and the few flowers that seemed alive I planted in the garden. Some revived, and are only now starting to look healthy again. What I didn't do was to do any weeding. It is something I am going to have to put my mind to sooner or later.

  The reason I didn't do any weeding was because I was getting myself ready to go out for some walking exercise. I had decided not to plan my walk beyond setting out to the River Pool Linear Park, and see where my feet took me. I wanted to walk at least 2 miles, but I could have ended up walking 6 miles, although the latter was fairly unlikely. It all went wrong when I check my email and found I was expecting a small parcel delivery from Amazon.

  The parcel was actually coming via Royal Mail, and being so small I expected it to come by my normal postman. That would have meant that it would probably arrive around midday, and maybe I might still have gone out if it had, but it did not arrive until 3.30pm in a plain unmarked white Transit van. I assume the driver was temporary staff with his own van. Anyway, that didn't matter, I got my parcel in my grubby hands, and could go back to what I was doing - reading the two magazines I had bought.

  I knew it would be fatal to start reading those magazines because I would not want to put them down once started. In theory there was still hours of sunshine left, and I could still have gone for a walk late in the evening, but I didn't. I don't really know what was the biggest influence - being engrossed in reading those magazines, or just habit. By 4pm I would usually have finished a walk, and even in the past, when I could travel to go for walks along the seaside, I would usually be on the train home by 4pm (quite often getting quite near home).

  I will admit I took a few breaks from reading to do other stuff like eating. I think my lunch was rice crackers with cheese....or was that the previous day ? I'm pretty sure I had a punnet of piccolo cherries at some point yesterday. It might have been lunch. What I do remember very clearly was that some of the cherries were not very ripe, and tasted quite tart. That was possibly a good thing for my blood glucose.