Despite the sky being almost clear at sunset last night, and fairly clear this morning, I suspect it was cloudy overnight, and that kept the temperature a few degrees higher. That meant there was no fog, and no frost this morning. Upon checking the latest revision to the forecast I see that it is now in agreement with reality - it is sunny right now ! The latest revision shows sunny spells every hour from 10am until sunset except for 1 and 2pm when it will be overcast. The extra sunshine should take the temperature up to 12° C today. It should also be dry today. The current forecast for tomorrow is a lot like I remember the forecast for today as shown the day before - overcast all day, sometimes heavily overcast, but probably dry, and maybe as warm as 15° C.

   I think I spent far too long just waiting for the sun to appear yesterday.  The consequence of that was that I did very little of anything yesterday. The only real thing I did was to wash a couple of t-shirts, and a few other bits and pieces. One other little time waster was to rip (or possibly re - rip) a load of old music magazine cover mounted CDs. On the whole they were rubbish, but each one possibly had a gem on it.

  My thoughts yesterday were that those disks probably needed re-checking - after 20, or more years, my tastes have undoubtedly changed, and I do know that stuff written off as too harsh at the time doesn't always sound that bad now. Sometimes tunes I dismissed as terrible all those years ago, I now sort of like - in small doses, and diluted among better songs. My plan is to make a long, probably several hour, temporary playlist with most of the songs I ripped from those CDs, and then see if anything sticks in my mind to be added to a more permanent playlist.

  Eventually the sun came out yesterday, but it didn't seem very long before it was setting again. I can't say it produced any dramatic scenes - things like boiling red clouds and the like - but it did looks sort of pretty to the west at sunset.
  This was the scene (through a less than sparkling clean window) at 12 minutes past 4pm yesterday afternoon. The sun hasn't set, but is below the visible horizon. The light is fading fast, but low on the western horizon it is still very bright.
  It is now 28 minutes after 4pm, and the sun has officially set, but the sky still glows to the west. The camera did not catch it well, but the undersides of the streaky clouds near the horizon were looking quite red.
  52 minutes past 4pm, and the sun has been set for almost 30 minutes, but still the sky glows to the west. To the east teh stars are out. This is a scene I remember when coming home from work many time - not necessarily at this time or date. It was a mix of joy and sorrow as I rushed home in the last bit of light after sunset. For maybe just a couple of days, if the weather was clear enough, it would feel good to finally get home in the last minutes before it was completely dark outside.

  I can't think of all I ate yesterday. I know it was too much, and I am pretty sure it wasn't all good for me. Some thing, or some things were definitely not good for me. Maybe part of my dinner was not good. My dinner probably has no name, and maybe has never been tried before in the history of mankind....well, maybe...  Actually, something like it has probably been done before - it was one of those meals designed to use up odds and ends left over, and getting close to end of life.

  I started off dicing a very large mushroom into big chunks. On top of that I added obliquely sliced* carrots, sliced chillies, sliced tomatoes, and I am sure something else, but I can't think what. I gave that a good roasting in the mini oven/grill before the final touch - some nice dry cured, smoked bacon. It may have been a bit weird, but it was quite tasty. I followed it was some dark and bitter chocolate as a dessert. Both the carrots and the chocolate may have been bad ideas - tasty bad ideas, but still tasty.

  I extended my TV viewing last night with an episode or two of QI (I think one was a QIXL), but I was till in bed by 9pm. I read for some time, and I estimate I was asleep by 10pm (but I wouldn't dispute it of someone had some way to say it was 11pm). Last night was a good night. My bedroom temperature must have been just right, and I slept really well, under my duvet, for the whole night. I didn't drink any booze yesterday, and so I didn't need to get up to pee so often. I know I got up once or twice, and maybe it was more than that, but it all seems so dream like that I can't say one way or another.

  It is unfortunate that my blood glucose is high this morning. The first measurement I took was very high, but that was from a tiny bead of blood that was only just enough to satisfy the testing meter. I took it again using a different finger, and from a much bigger bead of blood. The figure was a whole point lower, but still annoyingly high. Fortunately my temperature, and blood pressure were still their usual low figures. I dare not look at my weight.

  Today I am thinking of the possibility of going for two short walks. If I can get ready, both physically and mentally, before the sun goes in, I might go for a short (~1.4 miles) walk to Ladywell and back. I haven't done that short walk for many weeks now. Later on, if that walk seems OK, I may do a few miles in the River Pool Linear Park. With luck I should do at least one or the other, but in these strange days anything could happen - or fail to happen.