The chance of a sunny afternoon seems to be slipping away in the latest revision to the forecast. The early forecast tried, but failed to predict the weather this morning. The rain predicted for 9am never happened. There was some rain in the small hours, but I'm not sure they lasted until 7am (or even 6am). Sometime not long after 8am the sun was trying to come out. There were big patches of blue, and big, but individual clouds in the sky. We just had to wait until the cloud got out of the way of the sun. I guess at the moment we are having long sunny spells. I think it will just be pot luck as to how long this situation can last. The highest chance of rain at any time from now until midnight is only 10%, and mostly 5% or less, and so it will probably be dry for the rest of the day. It will be cooler today, and the highest temperature of 10° C may only last a couple of hours. It currently looks like tomorrow will start grey and very wet, and while the rain should stop, it will still be grey. Curiously enough it could get almost warm, 14° C, by late afternoon.

   Yesterday turned out to be another lazy day, but it might have turned out differently. My main preoccupation in the morning was the surprise news that my strong Belgium beer was finally going to be delivered between 11am and midday. This was all very mysterious because the official timeline said it had not been collected from the brewery by the day before. It was almost as if it had been collected from the brewery, and than rushed to an airport to be flown to London City airport. It was then being rushed from the airport direct to me. It all seemed a bit fishy, but it certainly arrived in my one hour time slot (that I had been notified about at just gone 6am yesterday morning).


 I must confess I took a pretty crappy picture of the box of beers yesterday. There is glare from the window behind me at the top of the box, and the colours look washed out. In reality it is a very richly coloured box.

  All I hope now is that it tastes as wonderful as I believe it could. It is a slight shame that it is only 8.8%. That is strong, even stronger than the now legendary Young's Winter Warmer in it's prime (about 20 years ago), but I was sort of hoping it would be insanely strong.

  With the beer (and it's special decorated, thistle shaped glass) safely in my hands I could relax. Unfortunately I relaxed a little too much. My intention was to lay on my bed for 10 minutes, read a page or two of the book I am reading, and then go for a walk in the sunshine.

  Unfortunately the sunshine streaming through my bedroom windows felt so nice that I fell asleep. I am unsure how long I snoozed for, but the sun was passed it's best when I woke up. It was still shining, but not into my front windows.

  That made me hesitant to go out. That hesitation was accidently very wise. By the time I had got myself together the sky was getting very cloudy.  In another hour heavy rain would be falling, and if I had gone out I would have been drowned !

  Instead of going out I decided that what I needed to warm myself up a bit was some hot food. As I headed to the kitchen I intended to have some low sugar soup, but when I entered the kitchen my eyes alighted on some packets of instant noodles. Some instant noodles are less healthy than others (and I am mainly thinking about sugar content here). The trouble is that my 66½ year old eyes are no so keen, and I am less inclined to try and read fine print on a crinkly packet. I suspect that those noodles were not as low in sugar as some. It was a silly choice because instant noodles are not nice, although it always seems like they should be. Oh well, at least they are almost nice.

  My dinner was also not designed to be as low in sugars as it could have been, but like all naughty things it was rather nice. It was roasted root vegetables with the spare roast chicken things left over from the previous night's dinner. The root vegetables were a carrot, two small parsnips, a medium sized "chunky chipped" sweet potato and just three small, marble sized shallots. Those little shallots are too small and fiddly to prepare. I would have had a few more if I had the patience to prepare them.

  I did nothing of note during the afternoon except some simple cooking. I think I probably had another snooze. If I did it would explain why it was so late before I managed to fall asleep last night. Once asleep I think I slept OK. The only anomaly was when I woke up in the small hours with a nasty taste in my mouth. I think it was from a small abscess that painlessly pops up mow and then in the site of where several teeth are missing. There is a cavity there which goes down to the bone, or appears to. It is never painful because I believe the dentist destroyed most of the nerves in the area when she pumped in more and more anaesthetic to try and stop an agonising extraction that she botched badly. The bad taste was from the contents of that now burst abscess.

  I woke up this morning feeling moderately OK. There abscess appeared to have fully drained in the night, and nothing appeared (or hurt) when I gave the area a good brushing when I cleaned my teeth. I was surprised I didn't feel a few bits of stiffness, and a few aches after a day of very little physical activity. The only negative thing was my blood glucose. It had gone up to 8.3mmol/l. I really ought to try and get that down a bit, but at least it is not up in the silly area like it has been on several mornings this month.

  I have already done a little bit if exercise this morning. After showering, and washing my hair, I went to get some shopping from the little supermarket on Catford Bridge. I particularly wanted some fruit, although of course I bought more than that. There was almost nothing I bought that couldn't wait until tomorrow when I go to Aldi, but on the other hand the fruit from the little supermarket tends to be nicer, maybe more naturally ripened, that the fruit from Aldi. Plus there were a few odd (foreign) things I bought that are not available from Aldi.

  Well the plan now is to go for a walk in the park while the sun is out. My legs did feel rather stiff as I walked to the supermarket earlier, and so it would be a good idea to go for another walk to loosen them up more. On the other hand it does make the idea of a walk less attractive. I guess I am teetering at the moment, and it might only take the sun to go in for a while and I might decide to stay in despite having nothing to do.