Having had a look through the window I expected the forecast to have changed a fair bit, but with one small difference it is essentially the same. It was sunny earlier, but now the sky looks cloudy enough to block even brief sunny spells. That small change is that 9am, or roughly speaking now, is shown as just sunny spells. If all the cloud I can see can disappear in the next 13 minutes then maybe we will have a sunny afternoon. With the temperature rises to the predicted 13° C it could feel very nice in strong sunshine. I suspect the forecast for tomorrow may turn out to be today's reality. Sunny spells all day, and once again the temperature briefly rising to 13° C.

   I thought that maybe I might go for a walk in the sunshine yesterday, but by the time I seemed ready for it the sunshine had gone, and it seemed like it would not be back (a correct assumption). Instead of going out I stayed in, and did very little, apart for one thing that I did a lot of. That was waiting. I did a lot of waiting for a delivery from Amazon. The lazy bastard of a delivery driver did not leave to Dartford depot until just after midday. Other delivery companies manage to get their drivers out by 8am, but not Amazon !

  Once they notified me that my package was out for delivery I kept checking the estimated delivery time. These estimated seem to be a comparatively new thing. They are very vague, and usually encompass a delivery window of sometimes as much as 3 hours wide. Gradually the delivery window gets smaller, but it also usually shifts to be later and later. I was cursing the lazy bastard of a driver because I had visions of another post 9pm delivery - after my bedtime ! To my great surprise it was delivered at about 5.25pm, and the driver was not the slow and inefficient man who frequently does Amazon deliveries, but a woman. She seemed much more efficient.

  Had it been sunny around, say, 11am I might still have gone for a walk. I might still have gone for a walk later than that, but ultimately I was sort of glad I didn't. After three consecutive boozing days it felt good to rest my liver for a day. Of course by about 3pm I was on high alert in case my delivery arrived earlier than anticipated. That really ruled out any walk an hour or two earlier than that because most of my walks tend to be at least 90 minutes long, and 2 hours is probably more like the average time.

  My lunchtime "entertainment" was a risky lunch/dinner. It was probably more dinner than lunch. It was a tin of haggis that I thought it was high time I used. It's best before date was some time in the past, and the chances of botulism seemed fairly high ! Upon opening it there was a slightly unpleasant smell. It reminded me more of catfood than decay. Once microwaved for a bit more than the recommended time it smelled a lot better, and it tasted nice, or sort of nice. I expect it would have tasted nice with the traditional accompaniment of potatoes, but definitely not mashed swedes (yuck !). On it's own it was a bit fatty, but apart from the occasional burp later in the day it didn't seem to have any negative effects.

  My dinner was more like lunch - cans of soup. I had a can of chicken and mushroom with thyme (and another herb or something). I though the thyme spoiled the flavour, and made for a good excuse to have another can of plain mushroom soup. Apart from a chunk of cheese a bit later, I didn't eat any more for the rest of the day. After doing a lot of intensive resting during the day, I didn't feel any urge to get to bed early, and I would still have been up if my package had been delivered at 9pm.

  I guess I was asleep sometime after 10pm, but I didn't seem to sleep very well for half the night. I seemed to keep waking up more frequently than usual. Usually it is to go for a wee, and usually I have a medium sized wee. Last night I presumed I was waking up for a wee, but the results when I went to the toilet didn't seem to justify it. I am not sure why I kept waking up so frequently. There seemed no need for it at least 50% of the time. It was sometime between 3am and 4am, possibly nearer 3am, that I finally fell into a very deep sleep. It had been my intention to get up at 6am, but it just after 7am.

  That didn't give me much time to get ready to go shopping in Aldi at 8am. I first did my usual, health checks. My blood glucose is the important one, and I was pleased to see it had gone down a little. It had dropped from 8.8mmol/l to 8.5mmol/l. In the unlikely event it keeps dropping like this it would not be long before I am back on target, but that seems unlikely after a shopping day. The rest of my body seemed to have anticipated the weather being a bit warmer and dryer, and most of me seemed to working fairly well.

  This morning, unlike most other days of the week, I was able to give my legs a fair test as I walked to and from Aldi. I could feel some mild creakiness as I walked there, but it felt basically OK. Coming back with some heavy shopping put extra load on my body, but it still seemed to be OK. I was having stupidly optimistic thoughts about how a walk in the park, and maybe further could actually feel nice in bright sunshine. It is a shame that the highly optimistic weather forecast still seems to be failing to match reality.
  In the age that time forgot there was a shouty man who kept going on about turkey twizzlers being served for school dinners, and all the news media would not stop going on about it. This annoyed me, but not as much as not knowing what a turkey twizzler was. I had never had any at school, and I was insanely jealous because they sounded sort of nice. This morning, for the first time in my life, I saw turkey twizzlers on sale in Aldi. Naturally I had to buy a pack. They look like they have the potentially to be very good, or very bad. Being made from turkey they could be terrible, but maybe the sausage flavour will help. A little earlier, just before I started to write, I was informed that the recipe has changed to be more healthy. I presume that have taken out the ground up beaks and legs, and so they will have even less flavour, and turkey is seriously taste challenged to start with !
  I noticed these bars of chocolate in Aldi this morning. They still have to regarded with extreme suspicion, particularly the milk chocolate. The figures given in the nutritional information is for two squares - two squares, who ever manages to eat just two squares of chocolate ! As is the case for most (but not all) dark chocolate, the sugar content is a lot less than milk chocolate. Less than 0.5gm looks to be quite low, for two squares, but look at the energy content derived from all that fat and saturates. It is lucky I am only an occasional chocolate eater because even if I do fail, I should treat these with great respect !

  The sun has finally come out again, and I really should try for at least a 3 mile walk. It is a shame that spending a few hours in front of my PC has caused my legs to seize up. I will soon be taking some paracetamol to reduce the initial pain of getting my legs working again. It is a shame I need to go out before the air has fully warmed up, but once again I am expecting a parcel delivery from Amazon. It is more beer for Thursday's boozing session ! My beer has been at the Dartford, final delivery depot, for 6 and a half hours now. I can imagine it arrives there presorted for specific delivery rounds, and I see no reason why it could not have been in a van an hour or two ago, and almost here by now, but I doubt it will be leaving the depot for another 90 to 120 minutes.