It was sunny earlier on, but the latest revision to the forecast is a bit closer to reality. The sunshine at 9am, in the screenshot above, is now showing as just sunny spells, but now they are extended through to 11am. After that it may become lightly overcast....or maybe there will be sunny spells later. Once again it seems that the weather is in a great state of flux, and difficult, or impossible to forecast with any degree greater than broad generalisations. The afternoon temperature may only reach 12° C today, but tomorrow it may reach 13° C. Tomorrow is shown as having few sunny spells at the moment, but the chances that in reality it will be similar today - once we find out what today is actually like !
 
   I seemed to be quite busy doing some photo editing yesterday morning - not that I had much time for it in the morning after finishing writing here, and having a shower. I think something else occupied my time for a bit, but I can't remember what. What I do know is that my photo editing spilled over into a bit of the afternoon after I had some lunch.

  Time seemed to fly by so fast that I found I had little time to get the dining room clean and tidy for a boozing session. Yesterday it was only with Jodie because Michael was busy yesterday afternoon. We had a few interesting, and not so interesting beers.
  This was one of the beers that Jodie brought with her. My only problem is that I can't remember if it was good or bad. I think I would remember is it was either extreme, and so I conclude that it was "OK".
  Old Speckled Hen is one of those beers that seems to vary a lot. Once upon a time I liked it, and then I didn't. I think Jodie has similar views about it, but was intrigued by the addition of "Gluten Free" on the label. I believe that most, and possibly all ales are gluten free, but someone in marketing had an idea, and Jodie fell for it. This time it tasted quite nice, although I wouldn't cross the road for more of it.

  Jodie was collected, a little later than I would have preferred, by Mark who popped in for 10 minutes. Once they had gone I could sort out my dinner. I knew it was going to be curry, and after looking at what I had in the fridge, left over from my takeaway order from 2 days previously, I selected the lamb dhansak with chick pea and spinach bhaji. It was very nice ! I still have a vegetable curry (sadly a rather thin one) and a small container of rice for another meal, and also a piece of naan bread as well. That takeaway, although a bit expensive, is providing quite a few meals for me. It doesn't make it expensive at all when looked at like that.

  After dinner I first watched a bit of TV, and then I half watched some TV, and then I turned the TV and did more useful stuff. Most of that more useful stuff was more video editing. Last night I was looking back at photos I had taken in 2009. That was the first year when I started going for long walks, although the first was not very long with hindsight. I can remember looking at pictures of the seaside, and wishing I could see the sea too.

  It was the 2nd July 2009 when I went on my first solo trip to the seaside. It was a long train ride to Rye station, and then just over a 2 mile walk to the sea. It seemed a very long walk, as some walks still do today when walking unfamiliar roads, and after seeing the sea for long enough I went for a quick pint, and got a bus back to the station. It was the start of walking many, many miles along the Kent and Sussex coasts over the next few years.
  The sea and beach at Rye, or maybe more accurately at Rye Harbour Nature Reserve. If I say "back in those days" it sounds like it was eons ago rather than 11 years ago, but back in those days I had several not very good, cheap cameras. It was a time when digital cameras had started to be mass produced. The picture above was taken on a cheap, and with hindsight, a rather crappy camera. Many of these cheap Chinese cameras, and even some slightly more expensive cameras from the likes of Samsung, could take good pictures under ideal conditions, but move away from ideal conditions and they could really only be save by a good photo editor. Last night I spent a fair time improving a handful of photos. Some could look good, and some, like the one above, still looked bland - but in those days I didn't know the rules for taking a good photo. Sometimes the rules have to be broken - you can't turn a building around to face south for the best lighting !

  I went to bed feeling OK, and managed to get to sleep before my hangover kicked in....although when I think about it, maybe I didn't have quite enough beer for a hangover. What's more, I had stopped drinking 3 or 4 hours before going to bed, and that should have been long enough for any bad effects to be felt. I'm not sure how well I slept last night. It was another night where I feel I must have been sleeping very lightly, and possibly waking up for very short times quite often. I believe this because I can remember long, meandering dreams. I just can't remember any detail enough to describe.

  This morning I feel tolerably well. Another dose of curry acted like a laxative, and so no problems there. I think my weight is stable - which is a mild surprise after eating some naughty snacks, as well as drinking lots of beer. For the same reasons I am surprised that my blood glucose level has gone another notch. This morning it was down to 8.5mmol/l. that is still far too high, but at least it is not in the danger zone.
  This morning my first "task" is to take in a big, heavy parcel when it arrives (and as I write this it could be any minute now).  Once that is safely in, and when I have finished writing (if I haven't when it arrives) I can have a shower, and prepare to face the day. ... I had barely entered the full stop at the end of the previous sentence before there was a knock at my front door (actually an electronic bing-bong doorbell). My Parcel, which was really a heavy box, had arrived.

  I was another order from Star Bargains. This time I ordered a lot of soup, amongst other things, including vet naughty stuff like cakes ! I was quite happy with stuff in my previous orders, but this time I am not so sure. It included a lot of cans, mostly, but not all soup, and nearly all of them are dented. That could shorten their lifetimes a lot. My original intention was to eat all my old soups, many now pass their best before date, but I am now included to go on a soup diet to use the dented cans up as fast as possible.

  I may have soup for lunch, but maybe not. I am definitely having curry for dinner tonight. The only other definite is that this afternoon I should be having a beer drinking session with Michael. Prior to that I will see if I have the energy and enthusiasm to get the hoover out. If I do get it out I will start on the dining room and possibly keep going until I get bored with it. I may do the front room, and I may do the stairs, but probably no more....but you never know !