There was no mist around these parts this morning, but the rest of the forecast is probably about right.  The latest revision to the forecast say the whole day will be overcast. Overcast on the Met Office means that the sky will be 100% grey. Apparently 100% light coloured cloud is not overcast. Fancy getting to this stage in your life and discovering that until now you had been wrong ! Today is one of those days when the warmest part of the day is in the morning, and it gets colder after that. I don't think I could dispute that it was about 9° C a bit earlier, and from now until almost midnight, the temperature will be a flat 8° C. There is a small, but unlikely chance of a shower at any time today. Tomorrow will be various shades of grey all day, but it will be warmer - just about. The last 4 or 5 hours of the day will see the temperature climb to 10° C. There is also a 50% chance of rain after sunset.

 
   I don't know whether to describe yesterday as worse or better than the day before. I did predict that I would have another inactive day when I was writing yesterday morning. That was basically right, but it was one of those days when I did lots of very small, and easy jobs. Of course many of them did not exactly need any hard work, or even any work at all when considered from some perspectives.

  I can't really describe exactly what I did because many things were too insignificant by themselves to bother remembering, and yet they would/could/should add up something useful. Very often they were little odd things like spotting something and thinking along the lines "that would look better somewhere else". In some cases "somewhere else" was the rubbish bin. There are many things I own that are useless, and yet it takes a certain state of mind to finally toss them in the bin.

  Another little thing I did was to research, for the umpteenth time, the chronology of the Stainless Steel Rat series of books. Not the order they were written, but in the order of the Stainless Steel Rat's own timeline. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Stainless_Steel_Rat#Books I then, in a completely nerdy way, stuck number stickers on the 11 books so that in future (and also the present) I can re-read them in the correct order. Of course each book is complete in itself, but each book does contain references to earlier books, and it is satisfying to know about that reference.

  I think that I am liable to do something similar to a few other series of books - notably those of Isaac Asimov, and Robert Hienlien. Both have written books that have their place in a fictional future. Those of Isaac Asimov do get a bot complicated though because some of his books have parallel timelines, or even worse span a long time line that covers the same time as several other books. In one of his books there is an appendix (If I recall correctly) with a suggested reading order for his books. Maybe one of today's jobs is to find that book with it's handy appendix.

  Once again, one of the most easily describable jobs from yesterday was the preparation, cooking, and, I suppose, the eating of my dinner. Yesterday featured a very simple, and on the whole, healthy sort of dinner. It was nothing more than roast, seasoned, chicken thighs with sprouts part steamed in some chicken stock. Cutting off the manky bits of the sprouts was the longest job ! It was a nice dinner that I enjoyed. I also enjoyed having half a dozen ginger biscuits as a dessert.

  Being a Saturday there was no Star Trek to watch on TV last night, but Sky Arts, who seemed to have dialled down the bloody annoying, very intrusive ad breaks a bit last night, were showing some music based stuff. I watched most of a documentary about Joe Cocker. It was a bit interesting, and while I wouldn't question his technical ability as a sineger and performer, I still find I prefer him in very small doses. One song on the radio for a whole day seems quite sufficient for my ears.

  That documentary was followed by a recording of a Dire Straits concert. Dire Straits have recorded a few really excellent songs, but sadly also lots of dross. Not actually bad stuff, but stuff that fails to arouse any positive emotion. Once again, many of their songs make good filler material for a radio programme. I didn't fancy watching the concert, but the music was inoffensive to leave on while reading a book. Over the space of 90 minutes I think I was only aware of about two songs, and because they were performed live, and sounded different, or longer than the recorded versions, my interest seemed to fade away from the song, and back to the book.

  I was potentially interested in the next programme - a documentary (or concert ?) about Eric Clapton. It started at 9pm, but I decided my sleep was more important. I don't think I was asleep until about 10pm, but once asleep I seemed to sleep well. My dreams seemed to feature railways, although the details are now too blurry to describe. There was also something that I thought I ought to try and remember so I could describe it, but that has all but vanished now. the only thing I remember was that there was something I wanted to remember !

  I definitely feel creaky again this morning, but at least I started the day in a good way... good ? .... I think there is a different word I am looking for. Anyway, one of the first things I did was to trim my beard. As I did so I came to the conclusion I should put on the next size shield to leave my whiskers a bit longer the next time I trim my beard. I think it should probably be a slightly thicker beard in the cold days of winter. After trimming my beard I had a shower.

  I was ready just in time to make it to the Polish/Turkish/East European/Greek/Foreign supermarket on Catford Bridge by 9am. It was as expected. or hoped for, almost empty when I got there. I had hoped to buy a couple of bottles of Diet Coke, but they seemed to have run out of that (again). I bought a bottle of Pepsi Max and a bottle of R Whites Lemonade instead. I will have to be careful with the latter because it does contain sugar, although not a huge amount.

  As well as drink I bought some healthy stuff, like fruit, and some unhealthy stuff like alleged Mexican flavour cream cheese, and some greasy salami. I also bought more packets of "2 for 99p" soup mix. That stuff needs a bit of preparation, but there are some interesting flavours. The red lentil and rice I had yesterday, or the day before, was quite tasty. There was other stuff, like weird cheese, that I was tempted to buy, but some of their imported stuff is very expensive...or seems to be.

  The walk there and back was not too bad, and maybe as I was approaching home again I was starting to feel a bit less creaky. It did make me wonder if I ought to force myself out for a walk today. Maybe I will, and maybe I won't. It is terribly hard to motivate myself under this cold grey sky. Maybe one motivation ought to be that I have just eaten a 50% very unhealthy breakfast. The rice crackers were innocent except for their barbecue flavour completely overpowering the (alleged) Mexican flavour of the terribly unhealthy cream cheese, and almost overpowering the flavour of the very unhealthy salami.

  At least all these unhealthy things only had too much grease, and will probably help fur up my arteries again, but their sugar content should be very low. If I am careful I may be able to keep my blood glucose level down again when I check it tomorrow. This morning it was a nice 7.7mmol/l. A couple of days of it being under 7 would be good because that could almost get my end of month average down to my self set target of 7.5mmo/l. I think it will actually be closer to 8mmol/l. That will be good enough, but nothing to be proud of.
  I didn't drink any beer yesterday, although I did have a couple of whiskies before bed time. These three beers were the beers I drunk on Friday night. I forgot to post this picture yesterday. I also forgot to mention I have ordered more beer to be delivered. This time I am trying out Jodie's recommended beer seller - Beer Merchants (dot com). They have accepted my order, and I think they have taken my money, but as yet have not said when they will be despatched, or when I can accept them. I hope they may arrive for this coming Thursday's "bubble support" session.