The current temperature is, or was 0.8° C when I checked my garden thermometer maybe 20 minutes ago. By the afternoon it is forecast to rise to 6° C, and maybe 7° C at 3pm. This morning will feature a fair amount of sunshine, but the afternoon will probably be a bit dull. This spell of winter like weather continues tomorrow morning, when 0° C is forecast for the early part of the morning. It should then start to warm up to as high as 8° C in the afternoon. Like today, there will probably be sunshine in the morning, and a cloudy sky in the afternoon. The day after, Thursday, should see the temperature get back to 10° C, and maybe 11° C if we are lucky.

  After my early morning shopping things got a bit routine yesterday. I didn't really do anything during the morning, and I didn't really do anything for a few hours into the afternoon. Maybe that should be a few hours plus one. A broken down train blocked the line at Catford Bridge when Jodie was due to come over for a boozing session. In the end it seemed easier for Jodie to get the bus instead of the train, and out boozing session started later than usual.

  There are some weird beers around, and so weird descriptions of the beer on beer cans these days. None of the 4 cans of beer I bought from Aldi in the morning were very nice. The Strawberry Lager did have the merest hint of some sour strawberry in it - maybe one semi-decaying strawberry per 10 gallons of beer. I couldn't recommend it. The Vanilla Stout did have a vanilla taste to it, but it tasted like vanilla candles - nasty and waxy. The New England IPA did have a sort of nasty tropical fruit flavour. It was very sour and cloudy. The "Twice As Nice" IPA was the best of the four cans, but was a little too bitter for my tastes.
  I showed this picture yesterday, but after saying what they actually tasted like (to my palate) I thought a reminder picture might be useful.

  Even though Jodie had arrived late, I encouraged her to leave at about the normal time, and she left at about 6.35pm or thereabouts. Maybe I was feeling tired or something, or maybe it was the rotten beer, but I didn't really enjoy that boozing session. I was more looking forward to my dinner. I had fish for dinner, and nothing else. I started with a couple of haddock fish cakes as a sort of starter, and then while the oven/grill was hot I cooked some salmon. Both were tasty, and in theory gave my guts a rest from fatty red meats.

  I only watched half a "Carry On" film while I ate dinner, and while I relaxed after eating. It was "Carry On At Your Convenience". It was followed by "Carry On Up The Kyhber". That was probably the funniest "Carry On" film of all time, but I preferred to head to bed to read. I can't remember what time I turned the light out, and tried to go to sleep, but I do remember feeling very uncomfortable, and it took ages before I fell asleep.

  The discomfort was mainly the temperature. I was the old story. I was feeling too hot under the duvet, and too cool without it. The root of the problem was that with temperature close to zero expected in the morning I didn't want to let my bedroom cool down to much. I left the heater on low, and at about 4am I woke up feeling cold, and turned it up to full blast. My troubled sleep gave me plenty of dreams, and some were not pleasant - not the stuff of nightmares with threats to life, but just silly things like the  lock on my front door breaking.

  The worst legacy of that troubled sleep was really painful lower back ache. It has partly dissipated already, but earlier on, something very simple and everyday - wiping my bottom - was agony ! On top of that I have a bit of a headache that I am fairly sure is not a hangover - yesterday's boozing session was almost lightweight compared to some. The worst thing is that my blood glucose is up to 9.2mmol/l this morning. I had hoped it would be lower instead of higher than the day before. I don't think it was anything I ate, and so I have to blame one, or more of the beers I drank yesterday.

  I'm not sure what I am doing today. Yesterday I had some crazy idea that I would put on my thickest winter coat and go for a walk - possibly in the morning while the sun was shining. I feel less keen on doing that now despite it being good for me. I'm now thinking that I really ought to pull my finger out, and start selecting and editing the pictures I took at the street gig on Sunday. I also have some video of it that needs editing - one song (or was it two) I shot using my big Canon on a mini tripod, and on my pocket sized Canon camera hand held. It is probably something like 10 years since I tried my hand at multi camera video editing. I hope that my current video editor can be persuaded to work the same way as the old one I used to use.