The one thing that seems definite is that today is going to be very cold ! It is still close to 0° C now, and the afternoon may only see just 2° C. The latest revision says it is misty right now (it isn't) and that the mist (if it ever falls) will lift after 11am. Soon after that the sun may break through the clouds enough to give several hours of sunny spells, but the temperature still won't rise above 2° C. Tomorrow the temperature may slowly rise from below zero to as much as 4° C by early evening. It is predicted there could be a 10% chance of rain tomorrow. That is a very small chance, but if it does rain it will fall as snow with the temperature that low. I have to confess I am getting very fed up with winter, but at least a good snowfall would be a bit of excitement for a day or two. Maybe it will happen in February some time.
     
  I had a feeling I wouldn't enjoy it, but I had to take advantage of the afternoon sunshine, and go for a walk yesterday. I hadn't got very far before I started wondering where I would turn around, and head for home again. I did not enjoy it, but I did walk just over 3 miles. There is more about my walk, and about the rest of my day, my dinner, my sleep, and what has has happened so far this morning in my full archive page for today.

  Only in the latest revision to the forecast has a hurried addition of sunshine been added to the forecast for this morning. Even then it only mentions sunny spells, but the sun seems to have been shining for about half an hour now. Another change is that the temperature is now shown as 1° C instead of 2° C. That agrees with the 0.9° C seen on my own outdoor thermometer. The latest revision has changed to show just a light cloud covering, instead of heavy, and added another hour of sunny spells for 2pm (as well as at 3pm, as per the early forecast in the screenshot above). Curiously enough, while the Met Office have thinned the clouds, and increased the sunny spells, the BBC forecast has removed the the sunny spells, and shows the cloud as being thicker. It also shows some rain and sleet for 1am tomorrow morning. The Met Office forecast shows today, and tomorrow as completely dry. Today may peak at 5° C, but tomorrow may only peak at just a bloody chilly 3° C.
 
    I came very close to going out for a walk yesterday. I got fully dressed for the outdoors, except for putting my coat on, at just after midday.  I was, ready to put my coat on and go out when I felt a desire to go to the toilet. It was not an urgent desire, but it probably would have been if I had left it much longer. I went up to the toilet, and after sitting down the results were a bit explosive. I felt a bit shook up after that visit to the toilet, and it killed my desire to go out again. I found a ew other, and useful, things to do - not that either took up that much time. My day, my food, my TV habits, my sleep, and so fat this morning are all recorded in my full archive page for today.

  The early forecast today (above) was similar to yesterday, but the latest revision has replaced the sunny spells with grey clouds. It seems like it is going to be a very cold, sunless day. The maximum temperature will be just 4° C today. There is a 10% chance of "precipitation" at almost any time today, and if any precipitation does fall it will probably be sleet, or maybe even snow, but we couldn't be that lucky. Both the BBC (Meteogroup) and Met Office have issued weather warnings for ice and snow tomorrow. The Met Office forecast doesn't show any snow, sleet, or rain for these parts tomorrow, byt the BBC predicts a fall of snow at 8pm tomorrow night. It will almost certainly be a very cloudy day, and it will be cold again. Of course, when tomorrow arrives the forecast could change out of any recognition of what is predicted today.
 
  I was feeling I should have been ready to go out for a walk in the possible sunshine/sunny spells yesterday, but something was holding me back. It may have been a subconscious thought that I was expecting a parcel delivery, and that thought finally surfaced just as I was finishing writing yesterday. The trouble with that theory is that I was not expecting the delivery until late, and possibly very late in the afternoon - so late the it would probably be mid evening - except that the parcels arrived late morning ! What was in those parcels, and what I did for the rest of the day, how I slept, and my thoughts this morning, are all written in my full archive page for today.

  This morning started off very cold, and frosty. What happens next is anyone's guess. Until the latest revision, the BBC's weather forecast was still giving a small chance of sleet about now. It now broadly agrees with the Met Office forecast, and says that the next couple of hours could feature sunny spells, or even be sunny. Unfortunately, reality agrees with neither of them. It is possible the sun may break through the mid grey sky, but there is no sign it will happen soon, but some sleet could be possible from that horrid sky. Today should see the temperature eventually rise to 4° C according to the latest revisions to both forecasts, but it won't be long before the temperature dips for another very cold night. Tomorrow will be as cold as today, and the sky will possibly be a darker shade of grey, but the chance of any precipitation is no more than 10%.
     
  While writing yesterday morning I had grave doubts about there being any sunshine for yesterday afternoon. As mentioned above, I was very wrong about that, and I could have gone and frollicked in the sunshine - except I couldn't ! I mentioned how I had been releasing vile smelling farts during the night, and I think I mentioned they continued in the morning. Every now and then I would go to the toilet to see if I could do something about the. The net result was that my guts felt too unstable to risk going out. It turns out I could have gone for a late afternoon walk, but only with the benefit of hindsight. All the (very toned down) unpleasant details about this, plus everything else I did yesterday, and this morning, are in my full archive page for today.

  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 !

  There is very little to tell about yesterday because I was too tired to do anything of any great importance, but what I did do yesterday, what I ate, how I slept, and how I feel this morning is all written in my full archive page for today.

  It still feels very cold this morning, but it should be warming up to a brief visit to 10° C at 3pm today (according to the latest revision to the forecast). After that it will start to cool down again before rising back to 10° C late tonight. The rise in temperature is thanks to some strong winds heading our way. It seems they will do nothing for the cloud cover.  Only the mid grey coloured clouds on the forecast officially count as being "overcast", but in my book, when I can't see a single bit of blue in the sky, it is overcast ! It will be overcast all day today, but maybe there might be a break in the clouds at some time. The 10am rain has now disappeared from the forecast, and so maybe the clouds could be a little thinner than before. From midnight tonight, to about sunrise tomorrow, there will be rain, and most of it will be heavy. From late morning until sunset there could be sunny spells, sunny intervals, and even sunshine !
 
  In my closing paragraph I mentioned I had a crazy idea about going for a second walk yesterday. I thought that even if I did it might be no more than through the park to Ladywell and back again. That would be less than 1.5 miles. Well, I did go out, and I started out heading towards Ladywell, but I soon realised I was finding the walk fairly easy going.  From that time I kept pushing my range further and further until I began to feel that I had gone as far as I dared (never forgetting I had to go home from wherever I went to). Where I went, and the pictures I took, can all be seen in my full archive page for today. I also describe my dinner, the disaster of a night's sleep I had, and how crap I feel this morning as a result of it.

 The latest revision to the forecast is not too different to the very early version in the screenshot above. By my reckoning it was colder than 2° C this morning. My thermometer was saying just 1.2° C at about 9am. It was fairly sunny earlier, but now it is looking too cloudy for any significant sunny spells, and I am wondering if, as per the latest revision to the forecast, 2 and 3pm will feature full non stop sunshine. The day started off very cold, and it will end very cold, the middle will also be very cold, but not quite as cold as the ends of the day. By 2pm it may peak at a whole 5° C. Tomorrow could start at 3° C, but end at 10° C thanks to some strong winds blowing in from somewhere a bit warmer. That warmer air will be humid too, and so tomorrow could be mostly overcast, and when it is not overcast it will just be bloody cloudy, although the current prediction gives no more than a 10% chance of rain.
 
   Yesterday morning was a very quiet morning. I hardly did anything until early afternoon when I prepared the dining room for another drinking session. It was to be quite a boozy session that featured beer ranging in strength from 6.6% to 12% ! The curious thing was that I didn't seem to feel that drunk at the end. The beer we drank can be seen in a photo on my full archive page for today. That page also includes some commentary on my dinner, my evening, my sleep, and what I have already done this morning. I have already done a 4.3 mile walk, and there are some pictures and a video from that too.

 The latest revision to the forecast looks a bit better than the screenshot above. This morning is now shown as being sunny, and once the sun rises above the houses to the east, it may well be sunny. Sunshine is supposed to give way to just sunny spells at 11am, but the nasty grey clouds shown in the screenshot above are now predicted to be light coloured clouds. The highest chance of rain today is just 10%, and the chances are it will stay dry, and it may be possible that the BBC forecast that shows sunny spells extending until at least 1pm maybe turn out right. The afternoon temperature may just be a very chilly 5° C, and by midnight it could drop to just 3° C. The start and end of tomorrow, Xmas day, could be less than 4° C, but lots of sunshine could raise the afternoon temperature to 5° C.
 
   Yesterday was another day when very little happened. Once again I scraped enough bits and pieces together to do some laundry. Somehow I have also scraped enough words together to describe the rest of yesterday, my sleep, another strange dream, my health this morning, and what I will be doing today, all in my full archive page for today.

 The BBC weather forecast warned of thundery showers for a couple of hours after 11am, but the Met Office forecast (above) just warned of heavy rain starting at 10am. The latest revision now shows far less rain. It now says just one heavy shower at 1pm, and some rain from about 8pm tonight. The BBC still maintains that there will be rain from (or before) 11am until mid afternoon, and they still expect thundery showers at midday ! Today's temperature could peak at 13° C again, but today the temperature will drop a fair bit by midnight. Tomorrow could feature a lot of sunshine in the morning, and a little way into the afternoon, but the afternoon temperature could be as low as 4° C ! Friday, aka Xmas day, could be a nice sunny day, but with the temperature down to 1° C, and only peaking at 3° C in the afternoon, it is going to be a bloody cold day. 

  I'll admit it was a very late start, but I started yesterday by shaving, shampooing, and showering. It left me clean and sweet smelling (possibly), and ready to go and do something. Unfortunately there was nowhere to go, and nothing to do. In the end I did very little. The biggest thing, or the hardest thing (and it was hard work) I did was to wash a large bath towel by hand. I write a few more words about that, and a few words about other things I did during the day, how I slept, and what has happened so far this morning, in my full archive page for today. Beware, it includes a picture I am ashamed pf now, even though it seemed to be a good idea at the time !

  It seems that today will be another very dull day with a chance of a shower at around 6pm. It is one of those curious days that starts at a higher temperature than the rest of the day. Even my thermometer agrees that it is 13° C at the moment. By mid afternoon the temperature will have dropped to 10° C. Looking out my window, it seems like it will be one of those days when it will be difficult to tell if the sun has even risen. Of course since taking the screenshot above, the forecast has been revised - and not for the better. The latest prediction is that there will be light rain starting around 3pm, and it could continue, almost non stop, well into the evening...or beyond ! No rain is currently shown tomorrow until 6am when mostly light but very persistent rain may fall for the rest of the day. The temperature range and pattern may be similar to today.

   The big thing yesterday was also almost the only thing yesterday. That was my shopping trip to Aldi, but I wrote about that yesterday. I did wash a couple of t-shirts, and some underwear yesterday (by hand, as always), but apart from a bit of cooking, I can't really think of anything else I did that is worth a mention. On the whole it was another typical boring winter day made slightly worse by Covid lockdown. Last year, when there were no restrictions, I think I went out and explored a few destinations on the tube with my camera, but that is impossible this year. The one surprising thing yesterday was a phone call from Angela. I have written about that, plus anything else I could think of about yesterday, last night, and the start of this morning in my full archive page for today.

  The price of a sunny day yesterday seems to be rain today. Last night the forecast for today predicted that it would rain almost all day, but the latest revision hardly changes the details in the screenshot of the forecast at 6am this morning. Although there is still a 10% (and 20% chance at 11am) chance of rain this afternoon, it may stay dry. I certainly wasn't earlier. There was heavy rain around sunrise, but after that it was little more than light drizzle. It seems the rain may start to fall again at 6pm tonight. In some sort of compensation for the grey skies and damp, it cloud almost get warm today. The afternoon is predicted to be 13° C, and it will stay that high well into the night. Tomorrow it will slowly cool to 10° C during a rather grey day with the chance of an occasional shower at almost any time.

   Before leaving the subject of the weather it is interesting to see what the current predictions are for Xmas day. The current prediction is almost certainly going to change a lot in the next 4 days, and even then may not match reality. At the moment a cold and dry day is predicted. Very early morning might see the temperature as low as 2° C. That is quite cold enough for snow, but the chance of any precipitation is predicted to be less than 5%. What's more, sunny spells are forecast. It seems the chance of a white Xmas is slim in the extreme !

   Yesterday was a classic case of split personality....sort of. I was torn between curiosity about what may have happened in the Linear park over the previous 6 days and the feeling that I ought to stretch my legs before they seized up completely, and the feeling that I didn't feel well enough for a walk in the cold. I also knew that some exercise would, or should help my blood glucose level a bit. It didn't for reasons I'll come to later. The desire to go out in the sunshine won in the end, and just after midday, with the sunshine at it's best, I set out for a walk that was to turn out to be quite uncomfortable. The cold seemed to make my right leg feel quite stiff and painful, and that was after taking some paracetamol to calm such aches down. All the details and pictures from that walk, plus a short video (with no stupid commentary this time), and details of the rest of the day, they very poor sleep I had, what I have already done this morning, and what I may do later today, are all in my full archive page for today.

  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 Xmas beer was finally going to be delivered between 11am and midday.  I got the notification of the one hour delivery slot at 6am. When I had checked the previous night the beer had not even been collected from the brewery. Very strange. Anyway, the beer was delivered, and nothing else really happened yesterday - except for things like snoozing, eating drinking, and sleeping. This morning I have already done a little shopping trip. All the details of the last 24 hours (which includes the start of this morning) are detailed, or at least written about in my full archive page for today.

  It seems incredible, but the latest revision to the forecast says there will be sunny intervals in as little as 40 minutes time as I write this. The BBC forecast broadly agrees with this. At the moment the sky is a dark grey colour, and I am not sure it has even stopped raining yet ! After a few hours of sunny intervals, if they happen, it will be back to rain again. The latest revision to the forecast shows light rain from 1pm to 7pm, although the percentage chance of it actually raining at these times is actually fairly low - just 30 to 40%. Surprisingly enough, the BBC's (Meteogroup) forecast broadly agrees with this as well. The maximum temperature will occur for an hour or two after 1pm, and 12° C is the current prediction. After that it will start to cool down, and tomorrow's high may only be 10° C. Tomorrow afternoon may feature sunshine !

   Maybe I am getting too old for boozing sessions or something. Like many Fridays, the day after the Thursday afternoon boozing session, I had a very specialised hangover. It manifested itself not as pain, or stomach upsets, or any of the usual things that happen after a heavy night, but as a sort of "couldn't be bothered", or tired feeling. Of course the rotten weather can cause this too, and I suppose both should take equal blame. Yet another day when my get up and go, got up and went ! It is surprising I could think of anything to say about yesterday, but I have. That, and all the usual rubbish about dinner, the evening, my sleep, and this morning, can be read in my full archive page for today.

  I really should be showing a screenshot of the BBC (Meteogroup) forecast because it comes closer to reality than the screenshot above of the Met Office forecast. The BBC forecast says drizzle and rain until 11am, and the Met Office forecast has been revised to show no rain at all ! Bother forecasts say today is going to be heavily clouded, and so mostly gloomy (except when it is very gloomy). Both forecasts predict it will be 12° C today, although there are slight differences in the timing for this. I predict that there will be more rainfall beyond 11am - the day has that sort of feel to it. Tomorrow will probably feature rain in the morning, and possibly some rain in the afternoon. There might be a sunny spell or two, and it might possibly reach 13° C. It really depends on whether you want to believe the BBC (Meteogroup) or Met Office forecasts.

   I knew it wouldn't take long to tidy up the dining room for the afternoon beer session, and so I took the morning fairly easy. So easy that I almost had a snooze shortly before midday. Actually I am not so sure that I didn't drop off to sleep for a short while. At the time the sun was pouring through my bedroom windows, and the room was nice and warm. If I had been able to open the window and let some warm breezes in, it would have felt like summer. After that (possible) snooze I started to get ready for the rest of the day, or in particular, another Thursday afternoon beer session. All the details, such as they are, are written in my full archive page for today. As usual it includes commentary on the afternoon, evening, night, and what has already happened this morning, and what might happen today.

  Today has started sunny, and so the forecast has got off to a good start. If the forecast continues to correctly predict today's weather, there should be sunshine, and then sunny spells until sunset. All that sun will raise the temperature up to 11° C - which could almost feel comfortable in the sunshine. There seems very little chance of rain today. That is not the case for tomorrow which will start off very wet, but by sunrise, which we will never see, the rain will have stopped, but the clouds will still be thick and grey for the whole day. The temperature is predicted to be an absolutely flat 11° C from midnight to midnight - which seems very unusual.

   I felt tired after my morning jaunt to Aldi, and then sitting down for well over an hour to write yesterday's blog (with plenty of time on my hands, I feel no need to rush, or to keep things brief. Sadly I can't seem to find the time or patience to proof read these scribblings.)  In theory, I could have gone out for a walk in the sunshine yesterday morning, but I just fancied being lazy. Besides which, I was waiting with baited breath for a notification that Angela's Xmas present had been delivered.  I have to say that Amazon managed to get in the first notification, but Angela was not too far behind. After all it does take a bit of time breaking into the sturdy cardboard packaging they use for bottles of booze. As hoped, Angela was delighted.

  This made me very happy, and also rather sad. A sort of explanation of this, and what I did for the rest of the day, plus the usual scribblings about dinner, sleep, and what has happened so fat this morning, plus what should be happening today, can all be read in my full archive page for today.

  The latest revision to the forecast has hurriedly added some sunny spells this morning. There was rain during the night that left everything looking very soggy, but now, and for maybe the last 40 to 60 minutes, the sun has been shining. The sky seems hazy in places, but there are no heavy clouds to be seen for the moment (or not to the south, I haven't checked the north sky). The latest revision says that it will cloud over at 11am, and the afternoon will start with a practice run of light rain for maybe an hour. After that it will pour down until after dark. The temperature for all the day, except the extreme ends of the day, should be 11° C. Tomorrow should be a much brighter, and completely dry day with a similar temperature to that of today.

  With the sun still shining at midday I felt ready to go for a walk. I have to admit I found I felt unsure about just how well I felt about it. It was another occasion when I set out thinking that I might only walk a mile or so, but it turned out to just over 3 and a quarter miles. There are a lot of pictures, plus a video taken on my walk, and all can be seen, together with descriptions of the rest of my day, my sleep, and what I have done this morning, on my full archive page for today.

  The Met Office forecast, and the Meteogroup forecast (used on the BBC's weather page) seem to have conflicting views about the weather, and at this point in the day the Meteogroup forecast seems more accurate. There was quite a lot of rain until sunrise, and then the clouds seemed to clear very quickly. By 8am it was obvious to see that the whole of the north sky was clear. (I am not so sure about the southern half of the sky because my front curtains were still closed). It may have been around 8.30am when I noticed there was bright sunshine lighting up the curtains, and seeping around the edges. It has been solid sunshine for at least an hour now. Neither forecaster predicted non stop sunshine. However both predict a shower at 10am. Looking at the sky that does seem unlikely. However I get the impression that we are in fast moving weather, and possibly straddling the dividing lines between two weather systems. That would explain why neither forecast seems to get it right. So, it will probably be 10°C or 11° C today, and there will probably be some sunshine at unknown times this afternoon. The best that can be said about tomorrow is that the temperature will probably be similar to today, and that the afternoon is probably going to be wet.

   My shopping trip to Aldi yesterday morning was the most definite thing I did all day. The rest of the day was mainly sort of dithering around doing a bit of this, or a bit of that. I think the saying "busy doing nothing" best describes it. One big highlight of the day was a conversation, albeit only by text messages, with Angela. That, and the rest of my otherwise dull day, dull sleep (apart from some insomnia at the beginning), plus the usual musings about this morning, can all be read, and a video watched (!!) on my full archive page for today.

  The sky seemed clear by 8am, and once the sun had risen high enough to clear the roof line to the east the day turned sunny - a good hour earlier than shown in the forecast. The sun is shining brightly as I write this. The other feature this morning was some huge puddles left from heavy rain in the night. The current revision to the forecast says there will be sunny spells from now until midday. That could turn out to be correct because I can see patchy cloud developing now, and the odd cloud is very likely to pass across the face of the sun for a (hopefully) short while. The temperature is slowly rising from 10° C, and having another go at hitting 12° C by 11am. It will only drop a few degrees after sunset. Rain is expected today, but the latest revision to the forecast now says there will be a couple of hours of light rain from about 6pm. Tomorrow may be a degree or two cooler, but of the forecast holds, there will be sunny spells from about 9am until 3pm. I can imagine that changing a lot by tomorrow mornings forecast.

   When I think about it, I seemed to be fairly busy yesterday, and yet I am sure it couldn't have added up to more than 4 or 5 hours of being active. My only physical exercise was to do another small amount of laundry. Yesterday it was a hand towel and a t-shirt. My cerebral exercise (what ?????) was to spend what could have been an hour or more of designing a new set of icons to use on the 2021 pages of this web site. I also "designed" a web page for next January to test the new icons. The work that was very little work was more video editing of old TV programmes transferred from VHS tapes to digital files on my computer. I say more about these things, and give excuses for why my blood glucose level has gone up again this morning. All that, and some words about dinner, sleep, and what I have done this morning, plus what I may do today, are all in my full archive page for today.

  Apart from being a degree or two cooler than yesterday, today will probably be a lot like yesterday - frequently grey and dull, and generally miserable. The early morning forecast, as above, even showed a shower at midday, although the most recent revision doesn't show any rain. Until 5pm the chance of rain is shown as just 10%, and after that it goes down to less than 5%. The afternoon temperature will now only be 9° C until sunset, but by midnight the temperature may drop to just 5° C.The afternoon may feel almost as good as yesterday, but tonight is going to feel cold. Tomorrow will be another sunless day, and the prediction for tomorrow shows, at various times, light grey clouds, mid grey clouds, and dark grey clouds. Some of those clouds are going to bring rain, and some of the showers may be heavy., but for all that the should be a slow temperature rise from something like 5° C in the morning to a very mild 12° C by midnight. Monday may be a very slightly warm day !

   I felt very different to previous days yesterday. It was a much better feeling, and yet it is hard to say why. It certainly wasn't bright sunshine making me feel better, but it could have been weather related. I guess the atmospheric pressure had probably changed as a result of the warmer air, and maybe that change of pressure relieved some of the usual aches and pains. The temperature being warm enough to need less heating indoors was a good thing too. For the later part of my day I was preoccupied waiting for a delivery. It arrived very late ! The story of that, plus a description of anything describable through the day, last night's annoying insomnia, plus my thoughts this morning, are all written up in my full archive page for today.

  I'm not sure why I am showing this early version of today's weather forecast because it is very wrong. The forecast has been revised since. Maybe someone drew the curtains aside and noticed it was sunny outside. I had my curtains closed until just a little while ago, but it was still easy to see it was sunny outside for about the last 2 hours. Sometimes that sunshine would dim for a while, and sometimes it was full strength. The latest revision does now acknowledge that we had sunny spells at 9am, but they would, and did end at 10am. The latest forecast also says there will be drizzle at 11am, and light rain at midday.

  The BBC website (Meteogroup forecast) tells a slightly different story. Rain is forecast for 11am, and then again between 2pm and 4pm, although the chance of rain in the last few hours is only 20%. Another difference is that fog is predicted to fall from 6pm, and last well into the night. Even the latest Met Office forecast doesn't mention fog today. Both forecasters say that the afternoon temperature will be 10° C, and the temperature will only drop to around 8° C by midnight. Both forecasters agree that tomorrow will be 8° C for the middle of the day, and that it will be dull, with a low chance of rain, for the whole day.

   The idea that I might be feeling better than recently was probably more psychological than physical, or that feeling bad was only psychological recently, and yesterday I didn't feel so psychologically down. Of course there was a reason for feeling it would be a happier day, and that was because it was a Thursday, and Thursday means a boozing session with company.  As boringly usual, my day, the boozing session, dinner, the evening, my sleep, how I feel this morning, and what I might do, is all described in my full archive page for today.

  The latest revision to the forecast says correctly that it is now overcast (which is the grey cloud icons in the forecast). The next hour may just be cloudy (which is still overcast in my book). From then on it is predicted to be officially overcast for the rest of the day. The day has started at around 6° C, but it will soon be 7° C, and will stay the same until midnight, and beyond. The latest revision only shows some rain falling at 11pm. The rest of the day should be dry. Tomorrow may see some heavy rain in the small hours. That rain will get lighter and lighter until it dries up around sunrise. The temperature then may be 8° C, and it will rise to around 10° C for the afternoon. Unfortunately that will still feel cold because there may not be even a hint of sunshine tomorrow.

    The more I think about it, the more I am sure I had some sort of bug a few days ago. It would explain why my blood glucose was so high, and why my 3 miles walk was so tiring. I did seem to be a bit better yesterday, but resting was still a strong temptation. I did rest, but not all the time. I have described what little I did during the day, what I cooked and ate, how I slept, and how I feel sort of better, as in not too bad, plus what my plans for today are in my full archive page for today.

  I'm not sure if there is some fine drizzle falling at the moment, but the road outside is looking very wet. There was definite rain a bit earlier. The day has started at 5° C, as per the forecast, and considering that was the highest temperature yesterday I guess it is not too bad a start. At least it wouldn't be too bad if the temperature was going to rise beyond 7° C today (and the latest revision cuts that down to just one hour now). The latest revision also extends the sunny spells to last from 1pm to 3pm this afternoon. The rest of the time it will be cloudy with a 50% chance of light rain at 9pm. Tomorrow is currently forecast to be dry, but overcast. There could be rain at 1am and 11pm, but the rest of the day may be dry, and still cold, although a long period at 7° C is better than the last few days.

   Apart from my extra visit to Aldi, for some top up shopping, I was really quite lazy yesterday morning. By 11am (I think) I was laying on my bed, reading, and almost dozing. At midday, when the sun first broke through I started to stir. I still had to grit my teeth, and force myself to go out for a much needed walk. At half past midday I set out with no definite plan beyond walking to the River Pool Linear Park, and seeing how I felt.  I didn't feel that good. I felt like I was really out of condition - as indeed I was. My walk, illustrated with pictures, plus a video, along with descriptions of my dinner, my sleep, and finally how I feel this morning, and what I might do today, can be seen in my full archive page for today.

  The latest revision to the forecast seems to have got things wrong compared to the early forecast in the screenshot above. The latest revision says that 9 and 10am would feature fog. As far as I am aware there wasn't even any mist, and like the original forecast says, it was overcast and gloomy. The latest revision says light cloud for 11am, and full sunshine for midday. That will be followed by a few hours of sunny spells. At the moment it feel like the whole day will be gloomy, but we live in hope. Once again it is going to be a very cold day, although the latest revision does give hope that by 6pm the temperature may have risen to 5° C ! Once again there could be some rain late tonight. Tomorrow might see 6° C. There could be a shower in the morning, but 11am to 3pm may feature some sunshine, or sunny spells.
   Yesterday was a busy day, but not very productive. As described yesterday morning, I went shopping in Aldi, and a little later in the morning I washed two t-shirts. It was a wash for whites (and light blue). I spend a fair bit of time, and with some almost good results, playing with what I hope will be my new web server. All the details, plus the usual stuff about food and sleep, what I have already done this morning, and what I might do later today, in my full archive page for today.

  My garden thermometer said it was a whole 0.9° C warmer less cold than the forecast temperature. Either figure says bloody cold ! The forecast has changed a bit since I took the screenshot above. The main change concerns whether it is fog, mist, or neither. By my reckoning it has been misty from first light, and continues to be misty. I don't reckon it is thick enough to be called fog. The visibility is still around a quarter of a mile or more. One thing seems certain - it is going to be a very cold day. The maximum temperature may be no more than 4° C today - unless, like yesterday, the sun burns through the clouds. As usual when it is so cloudy, assuming it stays that way, there is a small chance of rain at any time until 9pm when it seems it will rain (although with just a 50% chance it may well stay dry). Tomorrow may see some sunny spells, and it should be a whole degree warmer !
   I'm not sure how to describe yesterday. I guess I would have to say that it wasn't bad for a Sunday. The sun coming out made it a happier time even if I made no use of the sunshine beyond luxuriating in it's warmth as it shone through my bedroom windows, and onto my bed where I was either reading or snoozing.  I tried to be a bit productive yesterday. You can read how, plus the usual stuff about dinner, sleep, dreams, things I had already done this morning, and things I might do today, in my full archive page for today.

  There was one big difference between the Met Office forecast (the screenshot above) and the BBC's Meteogroup forecast. The BBC reckoned it would be raining at 6 and 7am, and it was ! The Met Office just said it would be overcast. Neither admit that the sun almost peeped through the clouds at about 10am, but only for a few minutes, and the sun never managed to get any better than a bright and hazy disk. It looks like there has been a shower a short time ago, and the latest revision to the forecast does show a 10% risk of rain at any time today. There are times when the cloud is forecast to be quite light, and although not shown, maybe it is possible we might have a sunny spell at some time. What seems very definite is that it is going to be an even colder day than yesterday. The latest revision says the temperature will go no higher than 5° C today. Tomorrow will be a degree or two even colder, and the morning may be dominated by mist. The afternoon might be dry, but overcast.
  At this point I am happy to confirm that my fears about the smoked haddock I ate yesterday morning, that seemed perilously close to going off, had no bad effect. Well, not on me, but even this morning the kitchen has a fishy smell in it. It is a good thing that these days, to keep the dining room a bit warmer I tend to keep the door into it, and the door into the kitchen closed. Without that the whole house would small like a fishmongers stall ! I had almost talked myself out of going for a walk before I had even finished writing yesterday. There turned out to be some reasons better than "I didn't fancy it" for staying in. As usual I described my day more fully, moan about boring dreams, and describe what I have already done this morning, and what I may do later, in my full archive page for today.

  The latest revision to today's forecast shows less sunshine than the version in the screenshot above. I think today is one of those days where we are stuck between two weather systems, and it is hard to predict whether it will drift one way or another. I am not sure why I should make excuses for the weather forecasters. The Met Office has one of the biggest super computers in the country, and so has no excuses to get their predictions wrong. Anyway, the latest revision to the forecast says it should be cloudy now, and indeed there are clouds in the sky, but the sun has managed to shine almost non stop for the last half hour or more. Probably the only thing we can conclude is that the day will have some sunshine, but some rain a few hours after sunset. It will also be cold. The best we can hope for is 7° C today. There may be rain in the early hours of tomorrow, but the rest of the day should be dry. It may be cloudy enough to block the sun all day, but it still might be a degree or two less cold than today.
    Yesterday was dominated by one thing - waiting for a crate of beer to be delivered. I knew it would not arrive early because it didn't leave the depot until almost midday. That meant that in theory I could have gone out for a walk, but I was put off by the grey light outside, and the cold. If it had been sunny and cold then maybe I would have gone out. I stayed in, and did some housework, and when that was finished I knew my beer delivery would be a couple of hours nearer. As usual I describe my day, with several pictures this time, my evening, night, and all I have done so far this morning )I've been a little busy already) in my full archive page for today.

  Against all expectations today will probably be dry - except for the mud and puddles left by the rain through the night. It is even possible that this afternoon may be bright grey. It would seem we can expect 100% cloud cover all day, but the thickest cloud will probably be over by 2pm. According the latest revision to the forecast there remains a 20% chance of rain until this afternoon when it will drop to 10%. Over on BBC, with their Meteogroup weather forecast, the early prediction was for rain most of the day, with a weather warning issued warning of rain and possibly snow over greater London. The weather warning remains, but the later forecasts show no rain as per the Met Office forecast above. Both agree that today is going to be very cold, and it is indeed cold enough that any rain could fall as sleep or snow. Today's maximum temperature will be just 5° C. Tomorrow may see 100% light grey cloud all day, and a 10% chance of rain at any time. Once again the maximum temperature may be just 5° C.
    Yesterday It was hard to not be too affected by the negative affects of the weather, but I definitely felt a lot better than the previous day. The dull grey weather still meant it took me some time to get motivated, but I got moving eventually. I finished a backlog of washing up, and I finally did the hoovering I was going to do the previous day (and I think possibly the day before that).  There is not much to add to that, but I did write a lot more about my Thursday afternoon "bubble support", beer drinking session with Jodie. Then I confessed about my takeaway dinner, about my dreams, and finally my thought, or perhaps lack of them this morning, in my full archive page for today.

  There is some slight good news about today's weather forecast.....or at least I thought there was, but I appear to be mistaken. I was going to say that a later revision showed a little less rain. Maybe it did, and then it was revised again to look identical to the early forecast. Apart from a few hours this afternoon, it looks as if it will be raining all day. Half the time it may be light rain, and half the time it may be heavy rain. Sometimes the clouds will only be medium grey, and at other times they will be almost black. All the time this misery goes on the temperature will be no more than 7° C. Tomorrow will be colder still, but mostly dry. The current prediction does show some light rain in the morning, and when the temperature is only predicted to be 4° C. It seems possible that could fall as sleet. From about 3pm the cloud may be light coloured, but before then the cloud is predicted to be thick and medium grey. Saturday may feature a sunny spell - yes, just one !
    With hindsight I am wondering if I might have been fighting off some sort of bug yesterday. In the morning I was complaining that my frenzied gardening the day before had left me with a selection of extra aches. They seemed to start fading away by mid morning, and a few pain killers helped them on their way. While I started to feel more comfortable I still couldn't shake off a feeling of deep fatigue. I hardly snoozed at any time, but I seemed to sleep unusually deeply last night. There wasn't much to say about yesterday, but I have written an account of it in my full archive page for today. That page also includes the not very sordid details of an interesting dream, and how I feel this morning - which is not too bad.

  This morning's forecast turned out to be more wrong than the BBC Meteogroup forecast. The latter predicted as much as 3 hours of sunny spells after daybreak. In fact there was little more than 1 hour, but as the screenshot above shows, the Net Office shows no sunny spells at all. The BBC's web page doesn't predict any rain just after sunset, and maybe that is correct because the latest revision to the Met Office forecast has reduced the predicted rain to 2 hours instead of three (as shown above).
 As usual, the temperatures predicted by the forecasters broadly agree with each other, and tend to be correct predictions. It is cloud cover, and what that cloud might do that is often rather different. This is particularly so for predictions a day or two in advance. The latest revision doesn't show it, but the early BBC (Meteogroup) forecast for Friday shows that snow or sleet might fall. Both forecasters say that tomorrow will be another very cold day (6 or 7° C), and both say it will feature a lot of rain, and that much of that rain will be heavy ! We will have to wait until tomorrow to get an approximate forecast for Friday - maybe it will snow !

 
  The morning sunshine enthused me yesterday. Maybe not enthused enough to plan, or imagine, a 7 mile walk, but enthused enough to get on my gardening jeans, and do some gardening. I might still have gone for a short walk, but I was expecting two parcel deliveries, and so staying in, and working in the front garden made sense. I managed to get a wide selection of muscles aching during my "gardening" work. It is all described, with pictures, along with the rest of my day, evening, night, and the start of this morning, in my full archive page for today.

  As I write this the sky is blue, and the sun is shining, and it is very chilly ! It seems the forecast for today has got off to a good start. This morning it hasn't been cold enough for a frost, but at just 5° C it was only a few degrees away. I think it was a little under 5° C when I checked my thermometer. It seems that with the possible exception of 1pm, when there may only be sunny spells, the whole of today's daylight hours will feature non stop sunshine. That will still only raise the temperature to 8° C ! The sky may stay partly clear tonight, and that means tomorrow will start even colder. 4° C is predicted now, but maybe tomorrow's reality could be a frosty start. The morning is predicted to be cloudy (or lightly overcast as I apparently incorrectly call it). Most of the afternoon will feature grey clouds, and will be officially overcast, and after dark it will probably rain.

 
  Yesterday was a very depressing day. With the cold, and the grey skies, yesterday was very, very unexciting ! I felt no incentive to do anything. It felt so crap that this morning I have to constantly remind myself that yesterday was not a Sunday. Sundays usually being dull and depressing days. The one very positive thing I did was to get up early enough to go shopping in Aldi while it was still very quiet, soon after they opened. After that I did almost nothing for several hours (except quietly reading). I did start to do some stuff in the afternoon. My mostly boring, and mostly tedious, and depressing day, plus the evening, the night, and my thoughts this morning, are described in my full archive page for today.