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Friday
30th October 2020
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Lockdown
day 221
Shopping embargo day 88 99
10:00 GMT
Yesterday was mostly definitely a grey day,
but not quite as wet as forecast. The morning
featured mostly drizzle rather than heavy rain.
There were a few times when the rain was heavier
than drizzle, but it was some way off what I would
call heavy rain. The afternoon was mostly just
dull, but there may have been a few spells of
drizzle. By early afternoon the temperature
reached 14° C, and it stayed there for the rest of
the day, and through the night. I noted one of my
outside thermometers reading 14.8° C around 10pm
last night.
The most notable thing about
this morning was how it was not that cold. The
forecast says 15° C, and while I keep
forgetting to check that figure here, it seems
very believable. What is also very believable
is that today is going to be dull and gloomy
from dawn to dusk. What is less certain is
when it will rain. A few hours of light rain
have featured in all revisions of the
forecast, but the time keeps changing. The
latest revision says it will be between 5 and
7pm, but even then it says there will only be
a 50% chance of rain. There is a 20% chance of
rain for most of the rest of the afternoon.
Two things are possible: It may stay dry all
day, or there could be rain at any random
time. The latest revision says it will be 15°
C all day today, but the screenshot (above),
taken much earlier this morning, said that it
could be 16° C this afternoon. Curiously
enough, an even earlier forecast mentioned 17°
C, and that seems to be what one of my outside
thermometers is saying right now (although
with it sitting on the windowsill of the back
bedroom, it's accuracy is dubious). At the
moment the forecast for tomorrow looks fairly
similar to today, but with one notable
difference - the chance of rain in the
afternoon is shown as 80 or 90%. A lot could
change by then, but at the moment it seems
tomorrow is almost certain to be wet !
I have already told the story of
yesterday morning - getting showered and
dressed early, and then going shopping in
Aldi. Having read the relevant paragraphs
again just now, it seems the main omission in
my narrative was any form of grammar ! I hope
that despite the off missing word, and an
occasional "s" missed of a word here and
there, it was mostly understandable. I think I
was rushing to write it, and I either had no
time to proof read it, or I just couldn't be
bothered to proof read it. The latter is
almost certainly true !
I have nothing to add to my description
of the morning. Nothing of note happened after
I had finished writing. Only one thing of note
happened before my boozy afternoon happened,
and that was to get a message from Michael to
say his son and daugher-in-law were expected
at short notice, and he couldn't come out for
a beer. It was lucky that Angela said she
couldn't come and join us on her way home from
work because half the lure would have been
Michael being here, and he wouldn't be.
The "Thursday Club" was just me and
Jodie yesterday, but we got through an
interesting selection of beer. Jodie had been
in Lidl who were having some sort of Scottish
week theme, and bought a selection of canned
Scottish brewed beers. I had been to Aldi, and
matched her 4 cans with 3 cans from Aldi, and
I think some of them were brewed in Scotland.
I think Jodie's cans, which were bigger 440ml
cans, were nicer than the smaller, 330ml cans
from Aldi.
Actually, third
from the left, in the lower picture (my
beer selection), is a 440ml can. I also
have to add that we split each can in half
rather than having a full can each. I
still seemed to end up feeling slightly
drunk at the end of the session.
Unfortunately it was the sort of mild
drunkenness that make you
me feel hungry. I wasn't drinking on an
empty stomach because I had treated myself
to a couple of packs of very unhealthy
sandwiches when I was in Aldi in the
morning.
I even ate while drinking, but it
wasn't the usual sort of snacks you might
eat to help soak up the beer. While I was
in Aldi I spotted they were selling bags
of "rainbow carrots". Despite the fact
that orange, yellow and deep purple
(almost black) hardly make a rainbow ! I
thought they would be the sort of thing
Jodie would enjoy, and so I bought a bag
for her. I was wrong - she is not keen on
carrots, and prefers other multicoloured
vegetable. She did try a few inches of
purple and yellow carrots, but just judged
them to taste like carrots. I ate the rest
of those two carrots.
My dinner, as usual eaten a bit
late on a Thursday, was rather nice - even
if I say so myself. What made it extra
nice is that I had precooked some
Lincolnshire sausages before we started
drinking, and I just had to warm them up
before eating them. The good thing about
that was I didn't have to use any fierce
heat, and so I could eat the sausages at a
more sensible temperature. While they
weren't burning my mouth I could taste the
sage in them much easier.
I had those sausages with half a
can of Heinz low sugar baked beans. The
other half of the can played on my mind
for an hour or two, and I ended up having
a small dinner part 2. It was those beans,
served cold with some small cubes of
cheese, and some Marmite flavoured crisps.
It was exceedingly naughty, and
exceedingly nice ! Fortunately it
didn't devastate my blood glucose reading
this morning, but it was rather high. I
don't think it could have contributed to
my troubles in the night either.
I was probably fast asleep by as
early as 8.30pm last night. I seemed to
sleep very soundly for maybe 4 hours. I
know that during that time I had a nice
dream, but all memory of it vanished when
I woke up because I was more aware of the
discomfort of trapped wind. To be honest
it wasn't all trapped, and my bedroom
ended up smelling like a sewer. Over the
course of an hour I kept going to the
toilet hoping that something more than
just wind would happen. At the end
of that hour....or was it 2 hours ? It may
have been 2 hours now I think about it.
Eventually, I seemed to have deflated and
I managed to get back to sleep again.
I woke as if to get up around dawn,
but that seemed much too early after
losing so much sleep during the night, and
I managed to get back to sleep for another
hour. I think I managed another half
hour,, and them maybe 10 minutes after
that, but eventually I was forced to admit
to myself that it was time to get up. My
guts still felt tender at first, but a
successful visit to the toilet sorted that
out. I did have a sort of hangover, but it
was the type more like being wrapped in
grey fog than than the painful type. I
guess it wasn't a great different to the
first minutes of most days now.
As I said a couple of paragraphs
ago, my blood glucose was not desperately
high this morning, but it was no surprise
after all I ate and drank yesterday that
it was up to 9.0mmol/l. That is a bit
close to the danger zone (usually said as
being 10mmol/l and over). I feel lucky it
wasn't a lot higher. This morning I
refused to go anywhere near my scales. I
dread to think what I weigh after some of
the stuff I have eaten and drunk recently.
The original thought was that once I can
go shopping in Aldi I can choose more
healthy ingredients, and I sort of have,
but I also still have stuff to use up.
Today is a day of uncertainties.
There is a reasonable, but not definite
chance that Michael will drop by this
afternoon for a beer drinking session.
Even Jodie may join us for a second
session. This morning, not that there is a
lot of it left, and for an hour or so
early this afternoon, I may well spent my
time preparing for November. I need new
spreadsheets for my health measurements,
and I need to design (aka slap together) a
November page for this website. All that
leaves to do is to cook and eat dinner,
and go to bed a couple of hours later.
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