A long time has passed since I took the screenshot above, and reality is very different to the prediction above ! The latest revision starts at 9am, and correctly predicted grey clouds. The sky is lighter now, and that too matches the revised forecast. If the revised forecast is correct we can expect sunny spells for midday, 3pm and 5pm. The rest of the time will see the sky enveloped in light cloud, and once again the middle of the day will be no more than 6° C. Tomorrow may feature a brief sunny spell at 9am (we came close to having one at the same time today), but apart from that, if it happens, the sky will just be white cloud. However, the temperature could rise to a glorious 8° C tomorrow !

  By comparison to the previous few days, yesterday felt like a busy day. It started with a visit to the Group Practice to have my winter 'flu jab. It was hardly needed considering winter should be over by now. On the other hand, I can remember there being snow at late as the beginning of April ! Anyway, I am now protected until the next strain comes along, and I need another jab sometime around, or after September.

  The nurse who gave me the jab was very relaxed - a bit too relaxed for my liking. I was seen about 10 minutes later than my appointed time, and the next person for a jab came in 5 minutes before I was seen. The jab itself could have been done in under 5 minutes, but the nurse had to find the special vaccine for those over 65. I think this is the vaccine that contains Bill Gates 5G nano bots that kill you soon after you start drawing your state pension.

  After that little delay the nurse tried to talk me into having my blood pressure checked, and also having a diabetic foot inspection. I turned down both. The first because I really hate my blood pressure being taking there because it always comes out very high first time, and we have to wait 10 minutes for me to try and relax. Even then it is never as low as it is when I am at home relaxing. The foot inspection is an annoyance. My feet are pretty beaten up after all my long walks, and it would take a plastic surgeon to make them pretty again !

  After I left the surgery I went across the main road to use the Tesco "hole in the wall" to withdraw some cash. I am still using my old card, and using it frequently at the moment because I still think it is going to be a major headache to activate the new card. Things got off to a bad start on Friday when I got the "We are experiencing heavy usage at the moment, and you are in a long queue", or words to that effect when I tried to phone them. I guess I'll take a hundred valium pills, and try again tomorrow morning.

  To piss me off further the Tesco cash machine was out of order ! I ended up walking to the Halifax machine down the high street. That offered the possibility of withdrawing £500, although I sort of doubt it would have let me have that much. as far as I am aware I can get £400, but only from Tesco machines. I withdrew £300, and then continued to walk home via Catford Mews, past Tesco, and through the multi story car park. I think I can claim one mile of exercise for that circular walk.

  I felt rather hungry when I got home, and I ended up having a big snack for breakfast. It was mainly wheat crackers and cheese and salami slices (but not both together). I then put my feet up for a while before doing yet more hand laundry. This time it was a couple of t-shirts and a pair of lounge pants (possibly otherwise known as sweat pants, but I think "lounge pants sounds more elegant).

  After that I was free to relax for a bit before I had to get the dining room ready for some boozing. It was time to check out some of the beers I had delivered the day before. It was quite an eye opener to see the range of booze that the Samuel Smiths Brewery produce. A few of them were more like the beers you would expect to get from Belgium, and not Tadcaster !

  I was "under the influence" when I prepared the picture above. The beers are lined up in the wrong order. I'll start from the right, and go left. The Cherry beer was "interesting" and semi-nice. It's failing was that it was a little too marzipan tasting. It was like Dr Peppers in that respect. The Raspberry beer was much, much nicer. It could easily pass for a Belgium fruit beer. I could happily drink more of this.

  Finally, the Organic Chocolate Stout. It was really, really, really, delicious. It was like unsweetened, or maybe very lightly sweetened cocoa as drunk when I was a kid (before "Hot Chocolate", with it's very sweet taste, was invented - probably). It really tasted of chocolate, and it had alcohol in it. What more could you want - except a lot more of it !

  The trains were only running every half hour yesterday, and so I made sure that Jodie was ready, and left in time to get the 6.48pm train, and I could then have my dinner at 7pm. I have some doubts about the gravy granules I've been using, because they make a really thick and tasty gravy, but they are probably OK for me. The rest of the ingredients of my dinner were yet more skinless chicken thighs, some red chillies, little round shallot onions, mange tout and tender leaf broccoli.

   Apart from the doubts about the gravy granules (which I shall check some time) it was should have been a fairly low calorie and sugar dinner. The beer I had been drinking, and that had left me "under the influence" somehow conspired to make me want to top off dinner with a tub of low calorie/sugar ice cream. It was delicious, although it would have been even better if I had taken it out of the freezer a good half hour earlier so it was a lot softer.

  I could have spent some time watching some TV after dinner, but the pickings looked very slim to me, and I gave up on TV quite early in favour of quietly reading in bed. By 8.30pm I thought I was almost ready for sleep, but I seemed to be suffering from increasing flatulence. There was nothing for it but to go out to the cold toilet. It wasn't all that long before I realised I had the runs. After 4 visits, one of which I had to almost run for, and the final one really being just double checking I was then OK, I was able to get in bed, and I was probably asleep by maybe 10pm.

  I can't seem to inform an opinion about whether I had a good night or not. It was probably average - a bit good, a bit bad, and a lot of sort of OK-ish. In other words, I seemed to have some long periods of sleep punctuated by at least one time when I seemed to be awake for longer than I liked. I guess I got enough sleep because I woke up a little after 6am with that sort of feeling where you know it is time to get up.

  The good news is that for all my misdemeanours  my blood glucose was only a tiny bit higher than yesterday morning. it was 8.6mmol/l compared to 8.5mmol/l yesterday. It is in that place where lower would be a lot better, and higher could be a lot worse. It is also less than I feared, and on that metric it was good. The rest of my health may not be too good. It is possible I have a bit of a reaction to the 'flu vaccine. I noticed last night that my right knee and ankle seemed a bit creaky and painful. They are not as bad this morning, or at least not now after I have been moving about a bit.

  One area that does seem quite painful is my right thumb joint. I think I have been developing RSI in my right wrist from using the computer mouse a lot, but I can't seem to recall my thumb joint aching before. I may as wel blame that on the vaccine as well even if such an idea doesn't hold water. What I ought to do is not to blame anything but to do stuff that doesn't involve using a computer mouse - maybe something like walking.

  This morning I have been doing a lot of passive photography. That is re-editing some old pictures. I wanted to get a small selection of pictures to post elsewhere about the demolition of Catford Greyhound Stadium. I have pictures spanning 10 years of the slow process of reducing the stadium, and the two footbridges over the railway to heaps of twisted rubble.

  While looking for those pictures I came across the picture on the left. I had saved it as just one of a bunch of random pictures taken on one of my old cameras. It was in the days when I took more random pictures than full photo sets. It is of Patricia in the Lewisham 'spoons (The Watch House). She had reported to me that she had broken the screen on her old camera, and I bought her a new one as a late Xmas present (it was infinitely easier than trying to find a new screen and attempt a repair). As that big grin shows, she was rather delighted about it.

 All that is left now is to try and think what I am going to do with the rest of today. The current weather does not inspire me to go out, although I might go as far as the mini supermarket on Catford Bridge. It being a Sunday means it is supposed to be a very boring day, and I guess that is the ultimate thing I will be doing today - being bored !