The latest revision to the forecast says it is cloudy right now, but the reality is that the sun is still shining as it has done since sunrise. It is true that the sky is no longer pure blue, but is laced with thin whispy clouds.At the moment they are thick enough to occasionally make the sun slightly hazy, but maybe they will thicken up enough to block the sun later. The latest revision to the forecast does admit that there should still be sunny spells from midday for an hour or two. The other feature that is not normally shown without clicking in "show more" is the wind speed. The wind seemed quite strong last night, and during the heavier rain it sounded like gravel being thrown at the window. The wind is still a bit gusty this morning, and it is the wind that has blown in the clearer skies, and lower temperatures. Today should see the temperature hit 8° C, but tomorrow is going to be a fair bit colder - and it may well be far sunnier !

  While I try and remember if anything happened yesterday that is worth writing about, it is time to go back to some older pictures from the day before yesterday.
  I bought these sugar free sweets from Aldi on Monday morning, but I only open the first on Tuesday. I haven't bought any for a long time despite liking some of the flavours a lot. I'm not quite sure why I didn't buy the occasional packet from time to time over the last few years. Anyway, the Rhubarb & Custard was a new flavour, and had to be tried. I popped two of the lozenges in my mouth, and within second the tart, but delicious flavour had my saliva glands almost spraying the inside of my mouth. Seconds after that I was choking on my own spit, and coughing like a terminal Covid case for a few seconds.
  As I mentioned yesterday, on my way back from my walk on Tuesday I observed that filming had been taking place (and maybe still is taking place)) in Catford. The first very obvious thing was these two phone boxes outside the front entrance of The Black Cat pub. They were not working, and just standing on the pavement. They were obviously film props.
  My first source of very limited information was this man outside The Black Cat. I had noticed the door was open, and so I had a look through the window. Initially I wondered if the place was being refurbished, or even stripped out prior to permanent closing, but the man told me it was being used as a temporary base and store for the film crew. For some reason I seem to think that they may have done some filming in there too.
  It is not a public right of way, and so many don't realise that there is a road network above the shops for deliveries to the shops. Parked up on the roadway was a red double decker bus. I think I have seen a catering bus like this used on other film sets, and so may not have been there to appear in whatever was being filmed.
  One of the things I wanted to do while I extended my walk after walking in the park, was to take a few pictures for Patricia to show how Catford looked during this tier 5 lockdown. I must admit I was surprised at how quiet it was on an early Tuesday afternoon. This is the view from the traffic island at the bottom of Brownhill Road looking towards Lewisham.
  This is the view looking the other way. There are a few more people in the shot, but not many, and even the road looks very quiet.
  The window shutters were down on Argus, but the door shutter was only partly down. I am not sure if this store was closed or not. I once though it had actually closed down completely sometime last year - possibly at a similar time to Boots next door - the shop with no logo. The shop between where boots was, and Peacocks had closed quite some time ago. Peacocks was closed because new underwear is not considered essential in the pandemic according to the government.
 Amongst other stuff Poundland sells food, and so are allowed to open. It was possibly the busiest shop along the high street, and I saw a few people go in and out in the few minutes I was there.

  Now I have caught up with the photo backlog I have to think what I did yesterday. The superficial answer is I remember doing very little. One of the early things I did was to finish hand washing the big bath towel I had started the day before. It needed two more rinses until the water was getting clear of soap bubbles. With one last heroic effort I did the fabric conditioning, wrung it out one last time, and hung it up to dry.

  The only other bit of housework I did was far easier. It was to take out the rubbish, and the waste food (peeling and stuff), because today, and in fact this morning, it was waste collection day. I must admit it did make the kitchen smell a lot sweeter after getting that little job done. I also did some washing up, and wiped a work surface down.

  Apart from that, I did nothing but relax and read...well, there were a few other very minor things like digging out a selfie stick, and trying it out again. That was the result of checking some videos I had decanted off my phone to free up some space on it. Some of those videos featured some stuff  where I talked into the camera. I concluded that my phones "selfie camera" can only take a close up of my face when held at arms length, but a wider shot would look a lot better. I can do that with the "selfie stick", and I shall probably embarrass myself with it next time I am walking in a more secluded part of the park.

  The thing I did most of yesterday was waiting....waiting for my Amazon delivery. I erroneously thought the deliver could come early afternoon, but I think it was almost 6pm before my bottles of Irish whiskey arrived. That was a long wait, and a long time to have to stay alert. I really would have liked an afternoon snooze, but I didn't dare. I passed the time with almost non stop reading - probably half and half book and internet.

  I didn't even break for long to make my dinner. I had precooked most of it the previous day, but I did cook, and came very close to burning, some bacon to go with the second portion of liver. I also added a small can of marrowfat peas to bulk up the liver a bit, but obviously that only took seconds. It turned out to be a nice dinner, but I thought it needed a grand finale. I treated myself to a tub of low calorie/sugar ice cream.

  Before going to bed I treated myself to a couple of large whiskeys from my newly delivered booze. That seemed to make me feel very hot, although on reflection it was more likely the Caribbean hot pepper sauce I had on the liver and bacon doing it's stuff. At that time it was still 10° C outside, and I decided to turn all the heating off. At first it made my sleep far more comfortable...or did it ?

  Initially I went to sleep partly uncovered. I woke up a couple of hours later feeling rather cold, and so I covered myself up. The next time I woke up I felt fine, but In think it was around 5am when I woke up feeling very cold. Not actually shivery, but not far from it after going out to the cold toilet. I turned the heater on full in my bedroom when I came back from the toilet. It didn't feel like the room had warmed up much when I go up around 7am.

  Apart from feeling a bit cool, I didn't feel too bad this morning. The fly in the ointment was that my blood glucose was up high again, and the worrying thing is that I can't think of a good reason for it. Maybe the low calorie ice cream was not so low sugar after all. It was a flavour that only seemed to appear in Aldi once - cookie dough ice cream. Maybe it is only the other flavours that are low sugar. Maybe I ate something I have forgotten about that raised my blood glucose, but I can't think what it might have been.

  I have already done two important things today. I have had a good shower, and I have been to the little supermarket on Catford bridge. I was particularly after some Diet Coke, but I bought other stuff too. I bought another loaf of their unsliced Turkish bread. Maybe that was not a good idea when my blood glucose is high, but on the other hand I have experienced my blood glucose going down after eating that bread. Maybe it is good for giving me a full feeling without having to actually eat much.

  I also bought some beer. There was a stack of boxes in front of where the Polish beers were, and so I couldn't check to see how their stock levels were doing, but I wasn't after Polish beer today. I was after something that seemed new to me, and hopefully new for Jodie. I might have found it in the form of some rather expensive beer from the Flying Dog Brewery in America. The main feature of today will be another Thursday afternoon boozing session with Jodie where these beers will be tried.