Today seems to be another day where the forecast is being made up as it happens ! At the moment the sun keeps trying to break through the clouds, but it hasn't really managed it so far, and maybe it never will. My leading sentence seems to be wrong. The very latest revision to the forecast has, I realised, only shifted along in time, with the earlier stuff disappearing off the left hand side. At that rate it would seem that this, what I call overcast, is going to be reprentative for most of the day, but at midday it may be heavily overcast. At 4 pm there could be light rain for 3 hours. The temperature is slowly rising, and by 9pm it should be 11° C. Tomorrow may see that rise to 14° C, but there may be almost no sunshine. It should be a dry day though.

  Thanks (grrrr) to another long rambling phone call from Lee, it was just about afternoon by the time I had finished writing yesterday, and so the first half of the day was covered by then. The afternoon was mostly another boozing session. Once again Jodie brought a few cans of beer with her, and one was completely revolting to my palate, or nice if you believed her.

  One of the beers we drank was Roquefort - another Belgium abbey beer. We had planned this during the previous boozing session, and Jodie had bought some Roquefort cheese to go with it. I bought a small ring of artisanal bread to go with the cheese. The cheese is from France, but I am sure the beer is from Belgium, and so not from the same abbey, or even area. They did go well together though. The bread was one of several "naughty" things I ate yesterday. I also ate some giant, chilli flavour, Hoola Hoops as well.

  After Jodie went home I ate a very healthy dinner (I think). It was another sort of stew based around a core of a few skinless and boneless chicken thighs. This time I added the last of the bean sprouts, and some cauliflower and broccoli. One other small difference is that instead of cooking it all in a base made with some stock cubes, I used a couple of chicken, with thyme and garlic, stock pots - little pots filled with the stock base in a jelly form.

  This time I resisted having any ice cream after it, but I did nibble on some hot chilli peanuts a little later. In a way it is surprising I managed to resist. I was far from rolling drunk, but my resistance would have been quite low. I guess the guilt from the other bad stuff I had eaten earlier was just too strong.  The 2 packs of giant Hoola Hoops, some weird baked things that were very low in fat , but surprising high in sugar, plus the bread, and I am sure there was something else too to raise my guilt level, and I am forgetting to add some of the sweet beers to that list !

   I have left it so late to start writing that I have forgotten a lot about my night's sleep. I have no idea what time I got to sleep, but I think it was before 9pm. I do remember waking up near midnight, and being surprised that I had been asleep, and more surprised that I had probably been asleep for 3 hours, and the next day hadn't even started. I think I slept badly after that, but I can't think why I think that. What I do know is that almost on the dot of 6am I woke up in that special way where you know instantly it is time to get up.

  One of the first things I did was to check my blood glucose level. I was expecting something dreadful, but it was just 8.9mmol/l. That is far too high, but I feared it would have been much worse. I really ought to try and get it down to at least under 8 today, but without a decent walk, and distraction from food, it would mean fasting until dinner time, and I am not sure I can do that.

  The rest of me feel reasonably OK, but I think I have to blame a mild hangover for a strong feeling of lethargy, and maybe even a mild headache, although the headache could be eye strain. I seem to have spent a lot of time catching up with a couple of days of IT news this morning. That lethargy could almost map the path of today, but it won't because I made a rash promise. I answered a plea from Sue to give her some advice about her phone and computer problems. I very much doubt I will be able to help her. I have never used an iPhone before, and I have only a passing familiarity with older Mac computers - and zero experience about how the deal with photos, or interact with iPhones. It will be a case of the blind leading the blind. The worst thing is that she ignored my advice when she was having trouble several years ago. If she had made the backups on her own media, and made notes of things like passwords, she wouldn't be in the mess she is in now. Her biggest trouble is that she will be doing all this stuff on a zero budget. She would rather spend £50 on a new pair of boots than buy a back up hard disk. I can foresee one of us just hanging up on the other this afternoon !