The latest revision to the forecast says there is a 90% chance of rain right now, but it seems to have stopped raining now. It was definitely raining from before midnight, last night, until quite recently. The latest revision says it won't stop until after 10am. Maybe it will start again soon. The latest revision shows less sunshine this afternoon. Midday and 1pm are shown as sunny spells, and then sunshine. That is followed by grey cloud for an hour, and in turn, that is followed by another hour of sunshine before it clouds over again. I suspect that it is too changeable to make an accurate prediction. I guess we may end up with an unknown amount of sunshine, but at least probably some sunshine. Once again the temperature is falling in the morning to give only 6° C for the middle of the day. Today is the start of another run of cold weather - maybe very cold ! here is a wide dispute between the Met Office and BBC forecasts for tomorrow. The Met Office says it will be dry, but the BBC thinks there is a small, but definite chance of rain in the morning. With both forecasters predicting the temperature being in the region of 2 or 3° C, some of that rain, if it does fall, could fall as sleep. A change of as little as 1° could see it fall as snow !
     
  After my very poor sleep the night before last, when I doubt I got much more sleep than 3 hours, I felt pretty crappy yesterday, and I didn't feel inclined to do much at all. It was a cold day, and that didn't inspire me to spend any time anywhere I didn't have any heat on - for instance the kitchen. I could have spent some time in the dining room because that was heated, but I really couldn't think of anything I wanted to do down there.

  One reason why the dining room was well heated was that to help warm me up, and get some blood circulating, I forced myself to hand wash a couple of sweaty t-shirts (worn while I was walking with my thick coat on), and a few other bits and pieces. It worked well enough to allow me to spend a bit of time in the kitchen to clear a small backlog of washing up, and also to cook today's dinner (or the main part of it). It was not the most intensive bit of cooking. I just shoved some boneless chicken thighs into a ready made curry sauce, and gave it a severe microwaving !

  The one thing I wanted to do was to snooze a lot. It is a curious paradox that I felt too tired to relax properly, and fall asleep. I think I probably had one or two short snoozes, but I had been hoping I could sleep through half the morning, and then again for half the afternoon. Even eating didn't seem to help. I had too many snacks of one type or another. The worst was undoubtedly the big back of (alleged) kebab flavoured crisps that I think I mentioned yesterday morning.

  My dinner was very tasty, but also laden with carbohydrates. I knew I would not like what I would see when I checked my blood this morning. The dinner itself was the last, except for the naan bread, of the large Indian takeaway I had ordered on Xmas eve. It consisted of quite a large portion of basmatti rice, a lamb dhansak, and quite a large Bombay aloo side dish. I followed it with a few pieces of fruit.

  I had been quite convinced there would be nothing on TV for me during this long and tedious holiday period, but I was wrong. Last night, or actually from late afternoon, ITV3 were re-showing for the umpteenth time, several "Carry On" films back to back (apart from annoying commercial breaks). I thought I would be going to bed early last night, but I just had to watch Carry On Screaming. That finished at around 9pm. I then went to bed, and finished the last chapter of the book I had been reading.

  To my annoyance, it took at least half an hour before I fell asleep after turning the light off.  I think I can only describe last night's sleep as being "normal". That is very good compared with the night before, but disappointing compared with some of very nice sleeps I had  for a few days before that. One thing was probably responsible for spoiling my sleep in the first half of the night was trapped wind - except it wasn't trapped ! My bedroom smelled like an open sewer. The first couple of times I woke up in the night I went out to the cold bathroom to see if I could do anything about this everlasting source of methane, but nothing was doing - except for more gas.

  I seemed to be more relaxed in  my sleep in the later hours of the night, and it was then I seemed to dream a lot. At least I think it was a lot. There is only one dream that I can positively remember, and many of the details of that have flown away to wherever dreams go. In this dream I was at a beer festival in an open field that seemed to be covered with a lot of decking. I can remember drinking one pint, and it seemed so nice that I wanted another. I turned down to offer of a pint of different beer from someone I know. He was standing at a different bar. I walked back to the bar I had bought the first pint from, but found they had sold out. I then walked back to the other bar, and found they had no beer, and that most people had gone home again.

  I wondered if that dream was some sort of metaphor for Brexit. I hoped it would be, but now I come to write it down, it is hard to see it in that light, although there is probably a lot of dream I have forgotten, and maybe that was the metaphor for the very likely disaster that is Brexit - just 4 days away now !

  It really was no surprise that my blood glucose reading was 9.2mmol/l this morning. Maybe it was a surprise that it was not higher still (because I forgot to mention that besides eating too much crap, I also drunk 4 [small] bottles of beer too). I hope I can do something about that blood glucose level today, but I don't feel very inspired at the moment. (It is almost like night outside again, and rain is beating at the window).  It won't help that the temperature is now dropping, and it will be chilly in a few more hours.

  I don't know how to describe how I feel this morning. I think that my legs, mainly knees, don't feel as bad as they sometimes do in the morning. However I do feel tired still, and I have something like a tension headache. It feels like going back to bed would be a nice thing to do. I may well do that. I did have some ideas about going for a walk in the afternoon, and maybe I will do that too, but I have a very pessimistic view about the sunshine this afternoon. I am starting to wonder if there will be any. I think the best thing I can do is to drop any silly ideas for plans, and just make it all up as it may, or may not, happen.