The original forecast had snow starting to fall just before midnight last night. Then it was put back to 3am, and finally to 11am. At 7 or 8am it was drizzling because the temperature seemed to be 1.6° C according to my two outside thermometers. Finally, perhaps 20 minutes before 9am, some light flurries of snow, or more likely sleet fell. There are even a few (10 of them at the last count) snowflakes blowing around as I write this. My hopes for some snow photography have all but evaporated. Maybe if the temperature continues to fall, and the real snow starts at 11am, as above, by something like 3pm there could be a thin covering on the ground, although that does rather assume the temperature gets low enough to freeze the wetness outside.

  I have just checked the latest revision to the forecast. The snow is now shown to start at 1pm. It will only be light snow, and it may continue to 7pm. From about midday to midnight the temperature will fluctuate between 0° C and -1° C. That should set us up for a better chance of snow tomorrow. The latest prediction is for light snow to fall from 6am to 1pm. With the temperature down to -2° C there is a good chance tomorrow snow will settle. It is a shame that no roaring blizzard is predicted to really pile it up. There could be a bit more snow on Tuesday, but the forecast for 2 days in advance is usually 183% wrong !

  As sort of predicted, yesterday was far from a hive of activity, but I did do a few important things. I finished the laundry I had left to soak just before writing yesterday. I was quite surprised just how many pairs of underpants I had allowed to build up before doing that laundry yesterday. There were only two t-shirts in that wash, but it was almost the largest amount of stuff I could do in one session.

  Another two significant things I did I really hated to do. One was to pay off my credit card. I don't understand why I hate doing this so much. Paying money into banks always feels sort of wrong, and I resent doing it. I am more than happy to take money out of banks of course. Maybe it is because it is far easier to take it out than to put it in. I'm not sure why it needs many layers of security to pay money into a bank. I would be more than happy if random strangers thought it would be a good idea to pay money into my account.

  The other distasteful thing was to pay the council for my brown, garden waste, bin collection. It was because I didn't put it out for collection from last March until late December, for the simple reason I hadn't been ask to pay for another year, that I feel I had been conned when I got asked to pay what I should have paid last March just a few days ago. I have now paid for a year that I hardly used, and will have to pay for another year in just a few weeks time. Once the garden is dry and I feel like doing some gardening, there will be a lot of weeds and stuff to be collected, but I'll probably not use the service much again until maybe autumn.

  There are only two other things of note that I did yesterday, and they are both related. During the day I tried to limit what I ate, but at lunchtime I fancied something warm after laying on my bed quietly reading for an hour or two. I should have had some soup, and I do have a small selection of "no added sugar" soups, and some. like Minestrone, that seem to be naturally very low in sugar. Instead I opted to have a couple of bowls of instant noodles. They would seem to have a fair bit of hidden sugar in them.

  As I suggested yesterday morning, I was very happy with my bank balance, and I thought that justified the expense of a nice takeaway. I did contemplate the idea of an Indian takeaway, but decided to be sensible and order shish kebabs. This time I ordered large ones, and this time they were most satisfying. The only trouble with the order was that I was given a free bottle of Pepsi. That was good, but it wasn't Diet Pepsi, and I asked the driver to take it away again. He promised that next time he would bring me two bottles of Diet Coke, but I doubt he will remember it the next time I order from there.

  There was one other "problem" with my order. I specifically asked for no pitta bread. It is an option in the online web site.  Stapled to the side of the bag when it was delivered was a till receipt. It plainly said on there "no pitta bread", and guess what ? Each kebab came with Pitta bread. I wasn't going to eat, and so I have to throw it away. That would horrify all the ecologists, but on the other hand, experience has shown that pitta bread tossed into the brown wheelie bin, is eaten by all sorts of things with either/or many legs and wings.

  I was sort of keen to get to sleep early. I have to admit I was like a kid waiting for Santa, and hoping that morning would seem to come early. In my case I was hoping for a blanket of snow to beautify this miserable world, but all I saw was drizzle. Last night was another night where I seemed to sleep in something like 2 hour blocks of deep sleep interspersed with short periods of being awake for 5 to 15 minutes.

  I know I had quite a few dreams through the night, but I only remember one dream, or strictly speaking, one series of dreams. Like a movie there were quick cuts to a new scene now and then. I don't remember the fine, or even semi fine details, but the basic story was set almost 40 years ago, and concerned one of my workmates from that era wanting to borrow my jeans. I have no idea why he wanted to borrow my jeans, but I seemed happy to let him. We just had to find a place to undress, and also where I could wait until he brought them back.

  It seemed he only wanted to borrow my jeans for a short period of time. Maybe it was for a visit with the boss, and he wanted to look smarter, but the jeans he was wearing were probably smarter than mine. We first went to a toilet at the end of a corridor. It had some changing cubicles in it as well as toilet facilities, but it seemed far too busy in there. So we went to a bigger toilet on the ground floor (of whatever mystery building we were in). That seemed OK until it seemed to morph into a very large canteen area. We still took out jeans off, and I gave him mine to wear, but his was too small for me to put on. After that my dreams got very hazy, but I think I got my own jeans back.

  This morning I am bitterly disappointed by the lack of snow, and mildly disappointed that my blood glucose is not a lot lower. It is the same as yesterday morning, 8.3mmol/l. That is OK-ish, and what I usually hope for, but I am frequently wrong, is that I am still in a transition period, and it is still going down. Today, with the temperature being so low, the lure of hot food will be irresistible. I had better dig out all my low sugar soups, and line them up ready to use. As to anything else I might do....If, somehow, we do get a small covering of snow then I will go out for a walk with my camera. I still want to get some pictures of the linear park in the snow, but Ideally I would like there to be several inches, or more, of snow for that. I suspect that today I will just stay in doing very little.