Apart from this morning starting off bright and clear, today could be a duplicate of yesterday - blue sky, non stop sunshine, and about 23° C by early afternoon. Tomorrow might start a bit cloudy, but the cloud may clear by mid morning, perhaps earlier, and after that it could a slightly warmer day than today.
 
  After a couple of days where I didn't feel like going out, yesterday was different in ways that I just cannot explain. Admittedly there was the complication of my guts not feeling stable the previous two days, and two days ago the weather failed to excite me. Yesterday it felt right to go for what could have been quite a long walk. I didn't really know quite how far it would be before I set out, but I had a figure of about 4 miles in mind. I started my journey with a short train ride, and if I were to include the quarter of a mile (and possibly a little further) from home to the station it would take the total up to around that four miles. It was a pleasant walk, and the only thing that spoiled it was a stupid decision to buy some "full fat" ice cream. The shop I was in didn't have the reduced calorie/sugar stuff that seems to mostly harmless at the end of a long walk. I describe all this, plus show some pictures taken on the walk, and include some thoughts and observations about today in my full archive page for today.

   Today is currently shown to be a slightly warmer day than yesterday, 23° C. After some light cloud dissipates, and that seems to be happening now, a bit later than forecast, it should be a gloriously sunny day. The most significant change in the latest revision is that now the pollen count is shown as VH = Very High ! The trend for warm sunny days continues tomorrow, although the afternoon high may not quite reach 23° C. The first break in this trend may be next Wednesday when a few hours of rain are forecast, but the forecast for next Wednesday could, and probably will change beyond all recognition by the time the day arrives.

   Yesterday was another day when I only went out to get some shopping. It was almost another lazy day, but I did do a few useful bits of work. The one thing I didn't seem to achieve was eating in such a way as to keep my blood glucose level as low as I would like it (which is a few points lower than is acceptable to the hospital diabetes nurse). I am still waiting to go to the toilet, and so I haven't been able to take a comparative check of my weight, but it seems unlikely that I have lost any more weight. There is a lot more about my day yesterday, and my feeble attempt to convince myself that I will go out on a long(ish) walk today, in my archive page for today.

   Today seems like it may be like yesterday was supposed to be. The important difference is the sky looks bluer than yesterday when it was sometimes milky looking. I note the breeze is from the east, and that may make the predicted 21° C feel a bit cooler, but it should be a pretty fair day. Tomorrow may start with a couple of hours of just sunny periods, but they should give way to continuous sunshine, he afternoon may be a nice warm 24° C.

   My potential trip to the seaside came to naught yesterday. My planning showed that the train service to Hasting was running something worse than a Sunday service, and I could easily spend more time travelling to Hastings than actually being there ! I ended up just doing a very short walk to Poundland and back, some reading, a bit of creative stuff, and a lot of being lazy (although lazy is mostly covered by the time I spent reading). There was not a lot to say about yesterday, but I still seemed to write a lot of words, and threw in a sack of punctuation. You can read it all in my archive page for today.

   By now we should be very close to full sunshine, and yet the sky still seems rather cloudy. I'm not so sure it is clearing, and yet even the latest revision to the weather forecast promises it should be a bright sunny day. It may not be a particularly warm day, just 21° C by this afternoon, but at least that is very comfortable, and should feel good when out in the sunshine - provided the "moderate" breeze isn't too cooling. Tomorrow is currently predicted to be just about the same as today. They day after could be similar, but a degree or two warmer.

   Not going out yesterday was a good idea. It allowed my feet to heal a bit after two previous days of giving them a good pounding, and it gave me time to do a few jobs that needed doing, although I have to admit my productivity was not very high. I spent the day relaxing and doing a few small jobs that needed doing here a bit of housework, and some video editing. That latter was not "needed", but it was definitely something I wanted to get done. You can view those videos, and read a bit more about my day in my archive page for today. It also has a possible prediction about what I might do today.

   The latest revision to the forecast has not really changed anything compared to the screenshot above that was taken earlier this morning. My view outside confirms that there is more cloud around, and the sun is only managing to come out now and then. Nevertheless it was probably be a mostly bright day, and with the afternoon temperature around 23° C it should still feel warm. Tomorrow should see a return to non stop sunshine for a lot of the day, but the wind from the east will mean the afternoon temperature may rise to no more than 21° C.

   Today should be very similar to yesterday. The sky is now almost clear of some early morning haze, and until early evening we should have continuous sunshine. The latest revision to the forecast says that afternoon should reach 25° C between about 2 and 6pm. After 6pm it will start to cool very slowly as the non stop sunshine changes to just sunny intervals. It should be a mild night. Tomorrow is currently predicted to be only a degree or two cooler than today, but it will only feature sunny spells. They should last all day.

   If the weather forecast turns out to be an accurate reflection of reality it should be a nice warm and sunny day today. As I write this the sky looks a little hazy - sort of grey blue - but the sun is shining. Hopefully that haze should dissipate soon, and the sky will turn a deeper shade of blue. The afternoon temperature should rise to 24° C, and although that may be only 4° higher than yesterday, it should feel much warmer - doubly so in the bright sunshine (assuming the forecast for a gentle breeze also turns out to be fact). Upon checking the latest revision I note the afternoon temperature is now predicted to rise to 25° C, but tomorrow is now only shown to be 24° C, and will probably feature less sunshine.
   Yesterday turned into a completely different day to how I imagined it. In the morning my health indicators suggested I was in good shape, but I didn't feel that way. I felt sort of tired, and I just couldn't raise the enthusiasm to have a shower, and go out for a walk. The weather did nothing to inspire me either. Yesterday turned into a paradox - I did very little, but achieved a lot, or at least a lot that was important to me. To explain what that means I have to use a lot of words, and that is exactly what I have done in my archive page for today.

   The sky is nearly all grey and cloudy as I write this, but somewhere to the east is a gap in the clouds, and the sun is actually shining. The latest revision of the forecast shows the sunny spells now lasting up to midday, and then restarting again at 5pm. No rain is forecast, but after yesterday I am not sure if I can believe that today will be totally dry. At least it might be a bot warmer than yesterday. The temperature should reach 21° C this afternoon. Tomorrow should be very sunny with the temperature reaching 24° C in the afternoon. The day after may be just as warm, but with a lot less sun.

  Probably the most important thing I did yesterday was to get out for another walk. This one was only just over 3 miles, and apart from some abrasion on one toe, possibly a problem with a sock, it felt easy and very routine. I got some shopping on the way back, and then had a mostly, but not entirely lazy afternoon and evening. As usual, there is a more comprehensive write up of my date, with a selection of pictures, on my archive page for today.

   As I write this it should be sunny, but it is currently quite cloudy. I forgot to check, but having been outside to hang some washing on the line, while not fully dressed, it didn't seem to feel as cool as 13° C out there. The very latest revision to the forecast says it should be sunny all day, and if we are lucky the afternoon temperature may be 19° C for a couple of hours, but 18° C for most of the time. There are a few times when the chance of a shower go up above 10%, but no rain is actually forecast - except for some way to the north of here. Even 20 miles away seems too close for comfort - except for comfort to the garden. A couple of hours of rain would be good for the garden even if not good for me. Tomorrow may only see a handful of sunny intervals, but the temperature is predicted to rise to 21° C,

  Yesterday was a day when I did a lot, but nearly all of it was mostly inconsequential....actually that is probably not a good way to describe it. Several things I did ended up as annoyances. One such annoyance was giving my DVD recorder another chance. It almost worked in as much as the recorded disk was playable in the machine it was recorded on, but it had failed to produce the correct file structure to play on another machine and PC. I think I now may know why, and how I can possible bodge a repair. I also wasted a fair bit of time trying a cheap and nasty, Chinese made digital video recorder. That can work OK, but crashed 9 times out of 10 ! Anyway, the good news is that all my meters say I am very healthy this morning. It's just a shame that I don't feel very healthy, but today, unlike yesterday, I will force myself out for a walk. A longer version, with more details about yesterday, and just what those reading were that prove I am healthy even if my brain thinks otherwise, is to be found in my full archive page for today.

   The sky has been grey all morning, but the latest revision to the forecast says we should soon get some sunny intervals, and maybe an hour or two of non stop sunshine late in the afternoon. There is one intriguing bit of the forecast for 9am. Apparently it won't rain despite there being a 71% chance it will. I am always confused by this odd concept where the information for one hour can contradict itself. Some of the clouds out there do look like they could drop a bit of rain, and so we'll just have to see what happens. With luck the afternoon temperature will be a reasonable 22° C. Tomorrow will be a fair bit cooler, probably no more than 18° C, but it seems it will be a very sunny day.

  I had several ideas for what I might do yesterday. The original idea was based on there being thunderstorms in the morning. I assumed a fair downpour would limit, or ideally eliminate any queues outside the supermarkets, and I was hoping to go shopping in Aldi. That idea was eliminated upon seeing the revised forecast early in the morning (although at 6am, or thereabouts, there was still the possibility of one short thunderstorm that I may have been able to use). My revised idea was that I might go out for another walk. I had even considered jumping on a train to Beckenham Hill station (less than 9 minutes away), and have a wander around Beckenham Place Park. I didn't do that either. It was one of those mornings where time seemed to slip by in a way that it never did while I was at work. Before I knew it, it was gone midday, and at that point I hadn't even had a shower or washed my hair. What I ended up doing was to take up an offer than came out of the blue - a phone call from friend and neighbour Michael to drink beer in his front garden while observing the 2 metre spacing. I enjoyed at least 90 minutes in the hot sunshine, and than a bit later a slightly gluttonous takeaway. For all that I still lost a little bit more weight, and my blood glucose is good this morning. The long version, with extra details, is on my archive page for today.

   This morning started with the sky a little hazy, but that has cleared now, and we can look forward to another hot and sunny day like yesterday. Yesterday's forecast for today featured several hours of potential thunderstorms. This morning that had reduced to just one thunderstorm at 10am. The latest revision says no thunderstorms at all for today. As far as I can guess, the clouds that might have given us the thunderstorms ended up passing to the north of us, and apparently Essex is priming itself for some potential downpours. The maximum temperature for today has been revised upwards to 26 or 27° C, but it looks like tomorrow may be a fair bit cooler. Not much sun is forecast, and the afternoon high might be 22° C or less.
 
  I was not really sure if I should go for a long walk yesterday after the battering my heels took the day before, but it seemed awful to waste such a hot and sunny day. I devised a plan that might work, and in a way it did. The first part of the plan was to wear what I thought would be comfortable trainers. That was based upon the idea that they were identical in style and make to a pair that seemed to be very comfortable for walks of 1.5 to 2 miles. They were branded Lee Cooper, and I wore them out. I replaced them with an old pair of 95% worn out hiking boots that, with the correct socks, were even more comfortable. The trainers I used were a white version of the blue Lee Cooper trainers that I wore out because they seemed so comfortable for 1.5 to 2 miles walks - i.e. to the pub, sometimes the long way round to see Angela, and then back home again. Yesterday that white pair, that I had been holding back for summer, were comfortable for maybe 3 miles, but were agony for the last half mile ! As usual there is more about this, plus pictures and video of my walk - which was at least 4.5 miles - plus stuff about my health, my dinner, and what I may do today, on my archive page for today.

   The sky was blue at first light, and the temperature was supposed to be 15° C (I haven't checked that, but it certainly doesn't feel any cooler). By this afternoon, after non stop sunshine, the temperature should rise to 27° C ! Today it is summer, and tomorrow may see a summer thunderstorm or two - although it won't be quite like summer thunderstorms. By tradition they usually happen in the late afternoon after a build up of sticky heat through the day (or at least that is how I remember it). Tomorrows thunderstorms may start at 8am - even if the current prediction is only for an 18% chance of rain. By 3pm it may be all over, the sun should come out, and it may be 26° C.

   I think I may have decided that I would definitely be going out for a long walk yesterday before I went to bed the previous night. Not only that, but I had decided I wanted a change of scenery, but most of all to do a bit of hill climbing. I followed up on this plan by walking to the top of Mountsfield Park, and then I walked back down the middle of the park, back to the entrance, and took the other path to the top - just for (masochistic) fun. Actually I find that as I continue to practice these things become easier. The only let down was the crumbling Converse Trainers I decided to wear. My heels are still sore this morning. There is a description of my walk with pictures and video, plus pictures of my now blossoming window boxes, and how dinner went wrong all on my archive page for today.

   As I write this it is very overcast. The latest revision to the forecast seems no different to the version in the screenshot above. If it hold any credibility the cloud should be starting to break up now, and in the next half hour we should start to get some sunny spells. Looking at the sky that seems unlikely, but we live in hope. By the afternoon the sun should be blazing down non stop until sunset. That should raise the temperature to 24° C. Tomorrow may follow a similar pattern to today, but the sun should be fully out a couple of hours earlier, and the afternoon may reach 26° C. The day may also be hot, but it may brew up some thunderstorms ! I could believe some of this if I could just see any breaks in the grey cloud to the south where the sun should be somewhere.
   
  For unknown reasons I was feeling generally OK yesterday, and with the forecast warm sunshine I had to get out for a walk. I decided not to push myself to walk 4 miles or more, although maybe I should have. On the other hand by not pushing myself I felt more comfortable at the end of the walk, and I wasn't far short of 4 miles - I walked about 3.6 miles. (The "Simply Walking" app on my phone suggested it was 3.8 miles, but it had some glitches on the GPS trace). The one thing I didn't achieve was another nice low blood glucose reading this morning. It was very average, and while it was perfectly good, it was nothing to get excited about like the readings on the previous few days. The full description of any non boring bits of my day, complete with maps, pictures and a video, plus a bit about this morning, is all on my archive page for today.

   The forecast for yesterday, as shown above, turned out to be about right. The sunny periods were rather short at times, and because the sun is now high in the sky, those short periods of sunshine didn't shine into my front room. In consequence it didn't always feel that warm when lazily laying on my bed - which I did a lot. For a while my thermometers said the temperature actually reached 20° C, and it seemed to feel warmer in the garden than it did indoors.
   Finally today's weather. The latest revision improves on the screenshot above taken at 6am. The latest revision reckons the temperature will flatten out at 23° C between 3pm and 5pm. Nearly all the day should be dry and sunny. The dry weather should last longer than the 14 days shown in the forecast, although anything beyond 24 hours into the future needs taking with a pinch of salt. Tomorrow should be mostly sunny, and probably at least a degree warmer than today.

  I didn't write anything yesterday because initially I felt too tired, and too hungover. Later in the day I just couldn't be bothered. So today I attempt to remember the very few things that happened yesterday and the day before. Both days, for different reasons, were days when I couldn't motivate myself. On Saturday it was because the weather just failed to bring out any enthusiasm, and yesterday because....well, I'll describe some of that, and other bits I remember from the last two days in my Archive page for today and yesterday, and the day before !

   Today started very dull, and the latest revision to the forecast does not even include any sunny spells until about 5pm this afternoon. The earlier sunny spells in the early morning revision of the forecast, as above, have been replaced with "light cloud". Nevertheless, it should be a slightly warm day with a high of 16° C - not that different to yesterday. Tomorrow see the start of rising temperatures, and a return to much more sunshine. The temperature could reach 19° C tomorrow, and will rise further for the next few days.

  I didn't think I felt up to a long walk yesterday, and yesterday morning I mentioned that I thought I might try for just 2 miles or less. Once I got walking I realised I did feel OK to walk much more than that, and I ended up walking right to the very end of the Pool River Linear Park - about 3.6 miles in all. On my home I bought some very strange fish (only strange when described in Romanian), and some very strong beer. In the afternoon I went for another, but much, much shorter walk to Poundland where I forgot to check the tool section for a tap adaptor for my hose. I didn't find one in the gardening section, but I came away far from empty handed. The details of my walk, with some pictures and video, plus a bit more about what I bought, and what I ate yesterday, are all on my archive page for today.

   Today started very cold again thanks to a clear sky. A few of the shed roofs I can see from my back window looked like they had frost on top, but it might have just been dew. The sky remains blue, and the sun is shining. Some clouds might reduce the sunshine to just sunny intervals after 11am, but the temperature should continue to rise, and the latest revision reckons it should get to a warm 17° C by about 3pm. Tomorrow may be a degree or so cooler, and only feature sunny intervals, but much warmer weather should follow. Next Tuesday looks very appealing !

  I still couldn't work out how I felt yesterday, but I was determined to go out to get some shopping. It was only a short walk, but as I headed for home I realised I could have quite comfortably have walked much further. I ended up doing three important things yesterday. There was the shopping trip, aligning my new CCTV camera properly, and bodging together a thing to connect my new hose pipe (which was delivered yesterday) to my kitchen tap. I guess watering the garden with it could be called a fourth job. The full story, and as usual, with pictures, can be read on my archive page for today.

   The early morning forecast, as shown in the screenshot above, is fantasy ! Even the very latest revision persists in the falsehood that this morning was, and will be for another hour, sunny. All we have had is occasional sunny periods. There are just too many clouds in the sky to give long periods of sunshine. What the forecast did get right was that it would be bloody cold at the start of the day. Once again we only missed a frost by a degree or two. Hopefully the sunny periods will continue, as forecast until sunset. (The latest revision shows sunny periods for 2pm as well). One very minor bit of positive news is that the temperature may rise to 13° C by late this afternoon. That is by no means warm, but better than just 11° C. The current forecast for tomorrow shows a very similar picture as the screenshot above, but the afternoon temperature may rise to 16° C - that might feel warm if the wind behaves itself.

   Yesterday was good and bad - as so many days are. I went for a walk in the morning, and it was not enjoyable as all, but I did manage to buy some shopping on the way home. The very good was somehow being selective enough in what I ate (and drunk) to get a very pleasing low blood glucose level this morning. The generally good was installing, and testing my new CCTV camera. Once screwed to the wall outside it gave some very nice pictures - even when daylight had all but gone (it has infra red for when it is really dark). It could have been very good if I had adjusted it properly so was level, and could look down into the garden. That should be a job for today. There are some assorted pictures taken with ordinary camera, and so video to show off the CCTV camera, plus a commentary on my day, in my usual daily archive page.

   The forecast says partly cloudy, and I say sunny intervals. Who's to say who is right ? Maybe they mean the same thing. Anyway, the latest revision to the forecast has changed the headline to Sunny Intervals, and also changed the maximum temperature to 13° C for a few hours this afternoon. To sum up, today will not be awful, but it won't be all that nice.  The temperature is going to drop a lot tonight, and tomorrow may start no warmer than 5° C. It might be a sunny morning, but from midday it will probably be very similar to today.

  I guess I was suffering from the lockdown blues yesterday. I seemed to have no motivation, and it made me feel tired and lazy. Maybe I was actually tired. I did doze off a few times when reading while laying on my bed. The odd thing is that I felt I had slept well during the night, but maybe I didn't. That doesn't bode well for today when it feels like I might have slept worse than the previous night. I managed to finish two important jobs yesterday despite having very little enthusiasm. One of the jobs is not completely finished, and I guess it is just another stage in it that is finished. All is revealed, together with some thoughts on what I will do today, in my archive page for today.

 My thermometers said it was just 3° C at 6am, and I think we only missed a frost by the skin of our teeth. The reason for this very low temperature was the clear sky. There seems to be a bit of light cloud to the west, but much of the sky is blue, and the sun is shining. That should raise the temperature to 13° C by this afternoon, although after 11am we may only get sunny intervals. Tomorrow may be a degree or two cooler, and there will probably just be sunny intervals through the day.

  Yesterday could have been almost as boring as Sunday, but somehow the day seemed to fly by. My package from Amazon arrived a bit later than expected. I predicted sometime around 3pm, but it was actually 5pm. That still gave me enough time to play with my new toys before the end on the day.  Prior to that I was stuck on high alert from about midday, and I could do very little that might make me miss the doorbell. It feel a bit unusual, but all my spare time yesterday didn't seem to result in eating too much, and this morning my blood glucose is nice and low, and my weight seems to have dipped a bit, but there is still no overall downward trend yet. There is more about my trials and tribulations yesterdayin the full archive page for today HERE.

  One thing that is very obvious about this morning is that it is blood chilly. The forecast reckons we should be heading for 8° C, but I'm not sure it has fully reached 7° C yet. The sun has tried to come out a few times this morning, but it is battling with a lot of cloud. The latest revision to the forecast still says there should be non stop sunshine until it gives way to sunny intervals from midday. I am not optimistic that forecast is going to turn out right. The idea that the highest temperature this afternoon will be just a very cool 11° C doesn't seem to be far off the mark though. Tomorrows forecast shows the same pattern of sunshine and sunny intervals, but the day will start even cold, maybe 5° C, but will end up warmer less cool at 13° C.

  Yesterday, being a Sunday was very boring ! It was the one constant in these topsy turvey pandemic times. Maybe around 11am, when it was looking bright and sunny, I did think I ought to put on a coat (it was chilly outside), grit my teeth and go for a walk. Maybe just a short to medium length one, but by the time I could have been ready to go out the sun was starting to lose the battle with the clouds. It wasn't long after midday that it looked very unappealing outside. In the end I stayed in and did a few jobs, at least one of the pointless. I ended up drinking beer and spending 3 hours on the phone to Sue, but along the way it seems I really controlled my eating, and this morning my blood glucose was a very nice low figure. Today the plans I didn't have are already in disarray as I now find I need to stay on high alert for a parcel delivery - probably mid afternoon, but possibly as late as 9pm. The long version of this, with pictures of beer and stuff, is to be found on the archive page for today.

  There could be some sunny spells for a few hours this morning, but the sky already looks very hazy as the cloud builds up. The latest revision to the forecast is a bit more optimistic than the screenshot of the forecast, above. It seems the latest prediction is that the sunny spells could last until 1pm, and by then the temperature may risen to 19° C. After 1pm the temperature will slowly fall away to give quite a cool night - perhaps just 7° C. Tomorrow, according to the latest prediction, could feature a fair bit of sunshine through the day, but the highest temperature could be 11° C - time get my coat out again !

  I finished yesterday by saying I was bored with The Pool River Linear Park, and Ladywell Fields, and yet I would probably have to go through one or the other to go to somewhere else. I mentioned the possibility of visiting Southend Park, but that would involve a long walk. It did indeed because I broke a new record for this year by walking 4.19 miles. After my walk I ate some naughty food, sent my blood glucose level soaring, and had to eat a very careful dinner. It worked though because this morning my blood glucose is back down to a very good level - 6.6mmol/l. In he evening I had some very strong beer (7.6%), and got some very nice deep sleep for 3 or 4 hours before disaster struck. You can read about the unpleasantness of that disaster, but the pleasantness of my walk, with pictures, and another silly video, in my archive page for today HERE.

  Today is the last day of the run of good weather we have had. Tomorrow may be dull, overcast and at just 15° C, comparatively cool. By contrast, today should be as warm as yesterday, 23° C, and even sunnier. The only fly in the ointment is that the sun is now rising so far to the east that it is shining past my bedroom, and not into it, and it is feeling rather cool indoors, but even though I can't see the sun, I can see that it is casting sharp shadows along the road.

  I've done a lot of unusual laundry recently. Yesterday I washed my third pair of jeans - three pairs in a week - more than I would usually do in a year. I still had the energy to go out for a longer walk than intended, 3.34 miles instead of just the 2 miles I thought I would do. If was very nice until I got home and slowly boredom seeped in. I seemed to get careless with my eating, but amazingly my blood glucose was nice and low this morning. As usual, my archive page for today explains it all, and has a few nice pictures and a silly video. Click HERE to see it all.

  Today is forecast to follow yesterdays pattern - sunny morning followed by sunny spells in the afternoon. The latest revision to the forecast shows the last hour of full sunshine to be 1pm (an hour later than the screenshot above). The temperature should reach a rather nice 23° C this afternoon. Tomorrow should see the same temperature range, but the current prediction is that the sunshine should last until about 6pm. That will be nice if that prediction turns into reality. The weather suddenly changes for the day after tomorrow. The current forecast says cold and dull. Let's hope that turns out to be wrong.
 
  Yesterday, a bit like today has started, was a day of mixed activities. I went for a 2.65 mile walk that ended with a visit to the pharmacy, and a little bit of shopping (just for pop and beer). The visit to the pharmacy was one of the smoothest ever. They had every one of my prescribed drugs all bagged up, and ready to take away. The idiot who gets things wrong was nowhere to be seen. The senior pharmacist checked for my next repeat prescription, and told me that I was supposed to be reviewed by a doctor before the next series, but he told me to phone him about a week before my drugs ran out, and he would put a request through to the surgery, and they would either approve it, or call me in for a review. This is one single part of lockdown that I like ! Yesterday I ate badly, and my blood glucose didn't go down, but I think my weight has. This morning I was out early and managed a fairly stress free bit of shopping in Tesco. Later on I shall take a short walk in the park. The full details, plus some pictures taken on my walk, and some pictures of beer, are in the archive page for today

  The forecast today seems like it should be a good day with a few caveats. There is hazy sunshine at the moment, and that seems better than the sunny intervals that are forecast for early this morning. The sun should burn off the haze soon, hopefully, and then we should have full sunshine until 2pm. After that we may only get sunny intervals. I am keeping my fingers crossed they will be long periods of sunshine, and short periods without. If all goes well, by 3pm the temperature should have risen to 22° C, and then it should really feel like it is summer. Tomorrow is currently thought to be almost exactly the same pattern as today, but the temperature may reach 23° C.
 
  Once again I was not feeling that good yesterday morning, but rather than depression it was some leftover aches from the long walk the day before, and just a general creakiness. I still managed to get myself out for a 3.08 mile walk, and this walk involved a long climb up to the top of Hilly Fields. My archive page for today features a full description plus a selection of photos taken along the way. It is includes a rather less than professional video taken from the centre of the (not really) neolithic stone circle (erected for the millenium) on Hilly Fields. You'll find all that, plus how I could be having a busy day today, in the archive page HERE.

  Two hours after the forecast above was issued, and the latest revision shows no change. It is beginning to look like today will be a very nice day - once it warms up. I'm not sure if the outside temperature has actually reached the forecast 9° C. About 10 or 15 minutes ago my thermometers were agreeing on it being just over 7° C. I have the heater on low, and it still feels a bit cool for sedentary work like typing this. At the moment the sun is either too low, and hidden by a building, or it is hidden by some haze. The sky looks a slightly grey version of blue at the moment. The haze and cloud should burn off soon to reveal a very sunny day, and with an afternoon temperature of 17° C, it should feel nice, although still not nice enough to get my shorts out again - That might happen tomorrow when the temperature might hit 21° C, and almost definitely if the temperature reaches the predicted 25° C.
 
  I was not feeling that good yesterday morning, and much of it was depression upon realising that I had, in effect (but not literally) lost Angela to Covid-19....or more specifically to the lockdown. Some of it was just physical, and maybe today that would come back to haunt me, but I had to get out for a walk. It was sunny, and while walking it felt quite warm (after I warmed up), I wanted to test one pair of my new boots, and a walk always cheers me up - particularly when I manage to walk over 3.5 miles when I was only expecting to manage 2 miles or less. The full story of my day, plus a lot of pictures and a video, and also why and how I am in pain this morning, and how I will probably be in more pain later (after another walk) is revealed in my archive page for today HERE.

  I took the screenshot of the weather, as shown above, at about 5.10am. It is sort of remarkable that it hasn't changed. It tells us that very soon now the sun should push through the rather cloudy sky (which doesn't look likely), and an hour later the sun will be out full strength until midday. After that it will be back to sunny intervals. Unfortunately the wind is from the east, and that means the temperature will probably not rise above 13° C today. We may have better luck tomorrow when there may be much more sunshine, and the temperature could rise to 17° C. The day after tomorrow, Thursday, could see a return to more summer like weather.
 
  Yesterday mixed hope and depression. Hope that my new boots will have been a worthwhile purchase, and depression because I have now seen evidence (an online posting) that Angela has gone over to the dark side, and is lost forever. If any good can be extracted from that it is that the end of lockdown is meaningless, and it won't matter if it goes on forever. Back on the bad side, Angela cropped up in one of my dreams, and I was awake for a long time after 4am. Today I feel sort of tired, maybe ill in a way I can't describe. Mostly it is all in my head. Much of my archive page for today is actually rather more positive than this, although inevitably it does have it's darker moments. I do include a nice picture of my one window box that has turned out OK. In fact there are several pictures, plus report on my health, beer tasting notes, and all the usual stuff on my archive page for today HERE.

  The forecast for today seems to be a bit of a mess. No revision of the forecast mentioned there were sunny spells before 9am (we are having one now !). Comparing revisions of the forecast the best prediction seems to be that there could be sunny spells at any time today. Like the last few days forecasts, the initial prediction of the afternoon temperature has been throttled back. The latest idea is that we can expect no more than 16° C today, and that may only last two hours or less. It looks like it should stay dry - that is one thing that has been consistent through the various revisions. Tomorrow may actually feature some long periods of sunshine, and there should be sunny spells before and after, but the temperature may only be a disappointing 13° C.
 
  Despite feeling a strong need to go for a walk, I couldn't translate that into action, and I stayed at home all day yesterday. It was a still a productive day if you count doing stuff on a PC as productive. In fact it was on both laptop and PC. I also did a few physical things including cooking. On the whole, for a boring Sunday, it wasn't very boring at all. I wasn't completely careful about what I ate, but I have kept my blood glucose level down, and even lost a tiny bit more weight (but at this rate it seems like it will take ages to get where I was before, and then lose even more). My archive page for today includes a better description of yesterday, and even all I have done so far this morning. It even includes the short video I forgot to post yesterday, and a couple of pictures of things I bought on an early morning shopping trip this morning. You'll find it all by clicking HERE.

  The forecast has changed a lot since I took this screenshot. The one thing it did get right was some light rain or drizzle at 7am. The latest revision to the forecast warns of rain or drizzle continuing until 10am, although as I write this it looks dry outside. The latest revision removes any chance of sunny spells, and says that the rest of the day will be dull and overcast. Also the temperature is now expected to be any higher than 15° C. This is all rather disappointing compared to what we we offered earlier. The original forecast for today, as in the screenshot above, has now been transferred to tomorrow (except for the early morning drizzle). Let's hope this prediction actually comes true...or is replaced by something even better !
 
  Yesterday was quite a successful day, although not quite as successful as I hoped  - only a 3,2 mile walk instead of a 4+ mile walk. The walk, plus fasting was very successful at getting my blood glucose level down to a sane number. I even ended up sleeping well last night.  The full story of yesterday, plus pictures (there was going to be a video too, but I seem to have forgotten to include it) can be found in my archive page for today HERE.

  There is a fair scattering of small clouds at the moment, and so I would say we are having sunny intervals rather than sunshine. From 1pm the forecast does change to sunny intervals, but even the latest revision to the forecast says it will be a dry day, and the temperature should reach 17° C - although not until very late in the afternoon. Tomorrow maybe a little more cloudy, and that will reduce the amount of sunny intervals - some hours may just be light grey, but it may still stay dry. The headline figure for tomorrow was 15° C, but it has now changed to 18° C, and yet the highest temperature shown on the hour by hour chart is 17° C.

  I think that I let "social isolation" get to me yesterday. I was not down in the dumps, but there seemed no reason to be cheerful. There were assorted reasons to get this way, but I still managed to do some useful stuff, and unfortunately to cook some extremely unhealthy meals. That latter would have been OK if they had been so nice that they distracted me from the gloom of the moment, but neither lunch of dinner was anything more than OK, but far from exciting. I discuss all this, plus more observations on old boots, and a picture of me from about 40 years ago compared to a very recent picture, in my archive page for today HERE.

  The forecast has changed a bit since I took the screenshot above. The morning hasn't changed much, although I think "sunny spells" is closer to the "sunny intervals" forecast (on the basis that "intervals" sound longer than "spells"). The real change is that the latest revision now says it will rain between 2pm and 6pm. Oh well, it's good for the garden. Another, less consequential, change is that it should reach 15° C an hour earlier than originally predicted (now at 2pm). Tomorrow should start cold and sunny, and the sunshine should continue until it changes to just sunny intervals about 1pm. The temperature may finally reach 17° C by 4pm. It is currently thought that tomorrow will be dry....we'll see !

  It was my intention to go out for a walk yesterday, although I have to admit that while I was going to do it, it was not with any great enthusiasm. Perhaps it is fortunate that two things happened that delayed me, and stopped me walking out to meet quite an heavy shower before I had walked much more than a mile. First of all the DVD I had ordered from Amazon arrived in the post, and secondly my laptop had lots of software updates to install. By the time I was ready to go it seemed too close to when it might pour with rain. I decided I would wimp out, and stay indoors, in the dry. It was a curious day. I was definitely not bored, and there was more I wanted to do but didn't seem to have the time to do any more. Yet for all that, nearly everything I did was small and inconsequential - even if it seemed important at that minute. I have described all that I could, and show a chart of my temperature several times a day for the entire month that sort of proves I have had no fever during that time, all in my archive page for today HERE.