The forecast and reality diverged a bit this morning. It was sunnier, and that sunshine lasted much longer than forecast. The prediction that the temperature would start off mild at 12° C, and rise to as high as 15° C turned out to be right, and I think it was 15° C for a bit longer than the single hour shown in the forecast. The very latest revision says that the sun has now gone for the rest of the day, and that it should be drizzling now. At the moment it is still dry, but the sky looks threateningly dark, and so rain, possibly heavy rain, is probably not that far away. It currently say there is a 40% chance of rain right now, but that goes up to a very convincing 70 and 80% from 4pm. Tomorrow is forecast to be a lot colder. The highest temperature, which may last for most of the day, is predicted to be just 8° C. The morning may be dull, but there could be a few hours of sunny spells in the afternoon.
   Yesterday morning sunny spells failed to inspire me, and I seemed to do very little yesterday. I did contemplate another walk, and I wondered if I might do some video editing. I did neither. The one and only thing I did of any significance was to get my old PC on the table, and change the memory sticks in it to double the amount of Ram from 4GB t0 8GB. I then tried out a live Linux distro, Linux Mint 18.3 KDE edition, on it.

  That seemed to work well, but when I eventually install it I will want to make a few tweaks to the desktop/user interface to make it look, and act, more similar to Windows XP - that being my favoured look.  I intend to use a solid state hard drive for the system part of Linux Mint, and a big "spinning rust"/conventional hard disk for the home (aka "My Documents") directory. I also intend to leave the old Windows XP installation on it's own hard disk in there. It will mean shuffling disks around, and I couldn't raise the enthusiasm for that yesterday.

  I probably spent much of yesterday just reading. That was enjoyable, but not really productive, and doesn't really burn any calories off. The latter meant that I should have restricted my food intake more than I did. I sort of tried to restrict it a bit, but I did have several snacks. That was not ideal, but I was also a bit bored, and it couldn't be helped, although I did ry and avoid anything too contentious.

  My dinner was a grand affair. I started off giving some tomatoes, and some brown mushrooms a long grilling - long enough to start the tomato skins turning brown. I then cooked a steak on top of the tomatoes and mushrooms. I served that lot with a microwave baked potato with butter on it. It was very nice, although it would have been nicer still if I had cooked the steak a bit more so the fat started to crisp up. Ideally I would have done it in a very hot pan rather than under a not that hot grill.

  Having rested for most of the day I knew that I didn't need to rush to bed, and I watched a bit more TV than usual before going to bed. As usual I read for as much as an hour before turning the light out. I don't think it took long to fall asleep, and as far as I can recall, I seemed to sleep well last night. What I can remember of the night seemed quite dream like. I woke up just after it was light, and tried to turn over and go back to sleep, but that didn't work.

  One reason it didn't work was because I had an idea it might be good to get out and do a bit of midweek shopping in the little supermarket on Catford Bridge. I mainly wanted to just get a couple of bottles of Diet Coke, but I also thought it would be nice to get some of the weird, but nice things they sell in there. In particular I wanted to keep an eye out for some mushroom flavour crisps.

  I know they exist because Jodie had some with her on Sunday. Unfortunately she didn't bring the bag they came in - she just transferred some to a small ziplock bag to bring with her. She said they came from "Eastern Europe", and so quite possibly stocked by the little supermarket that sells a lot of Eastern European and Turkish stuff.

  I didn't feel too bad when I woke up, and felt better after a hot shower. I did my usual health readings before the shower. My temperature, very soon after getting out of bed, was very low - just 34.9° C. That is a bit lower than usual, but not that unusual for me. My blood glucose was, to my surprise, and relief, just 7.5mmol/l. That would be perfect except that I atill want some lower reading to try and get my average for November down to 7.5mmol/l.

  I felt a bit creaky as I walked to the shop, and I felt a bit cool, but I was very aware of the sunshine that was doing it's best to warm me up. I had a good rummage in the shop, and found several delights, and one not so delightful. Among the delights were those little pots of bean salad and similar stuff. Another delight was seeing they had some sugar free choc chip cookies. I normally get those from Iceland (or Poundland), but I haven't been in either shop since mandatory masks came into force. The less than delightful was a packet of "no added sugar", Oreo style cookies made by the same people who make the sugar free stuff. It was only later that I realised that "sugar free" and "no added sugar" are completely different things. I expect the amount of sugar in the Oreo style cookies (or biscuits as they should be called in English) is low-ish, but far from negligible.

  When I got back from the shop I was tempted to eat some breakfast, in one form or another, but decided against it. Although the weather forecast was not very optimistic at the time, the sunshine seemed good enough to make me want to go out for a walk.