It has been sunny this morning, but as I write this it seems like we have entered a dull phase. The latest revision to the forecast predicts no sunny spells or sunshine from 2pm until 5pm, and there is a 30% chance of light rain at 3pm. From 5pm there could even be some very long sunny spells until sunset. Today has been a few degrees warmer than yesterday. It is around 8° C now, but the latest revision to the forecast says the temperature will start to slowly fall from 6pm. Tomorrow morning, the day the pub gardens are officially allowed to open, will start at 2° C, and then warm up to around 8° C again. At 1pm, when I could in theory meet Angela in the beer garden, it may be very dull with thick grey clouds, and only 8° C. At 3pm it may well rain !

  As I said I would do, when writing yesterday, I had a shower, washed my hair, and a little later I put my two trail cameras out in the garden to watch the foxes. They recorded some really good stuff, but more about that later. Other than that I did very little until 11:30am. Sometime a lot earlier in the morning I got an email to say that my beer order would be delivered yesterday instead of Monday as originally predicted. A few hours later I got a text message to say my beer would be delivered between 12:08 and 13:08pm. It arrived at 11:30am !

  It was in two boxes - one of which was a lot heavier than the other. In total there were 30 mixed bottle and cans of beer. Many were fruit beers, and many of those were from Belgium where they know a thing or two about brewing very nice fruit beers. 10 of the beers were IPA style beers from around the world. I don't have to, but I shall probably wait until Thursday for the Thursday boozing session with Jodie before I open any of them.

  Jodie got off to a good start when she came over for a Sunday boozing session on a Saturday. She didn't arrive a day early - that was planned in advance, but it was going via the mega expensive bottle shop in Catford, and buying two alcohol free beers by mistake. Both might have been OK on a hot summers day, with ice in them, and presented as weird flavoured soft drinks. They appeared to have no relation to beer at all !

  Jodie was back to leaving late yesterday, and left just after 7pm to get the 7:18pm train. Soon after I tucked into my dinner. It was casseroled beef with tenderstem broccoli. It was nice, but somehow not really satisfying. I feel sure I wasn't really drunk, but I couldn't resist having some wheat crackers with Bulgarian white cheese (made with ewes milk) as a delayed dessert.

  It wasn't long after that that I went to bed - initially to read for a while. It is now so late in the afternoon that I am writing that that I can remember very little about my sleep. I think it was probably OK - OK as in neither memorably good or memorably bad. I think that because it is a Sunday I had a lay in, and probably didn't get up to 7am, but maybe I think wrong. What I do know is that my blood glucose was up to 9.0mmol/l this morning, and I should now being taking step to try and get it down a fair bit by tomorrow morning. I don't think that is going to happen...at least not as low as I would like it to be, but maybe I might still get it a tiny bit lower.

  At 8am I had a phone call from my friend Lee that I ignored. I was not ready to get stuck in some long rambling phone call for half the morning at that point. It seemed more important to have the briefest of washes before putting on some outdoor clothes to retrieve my two trail cameras from the garden. I was not convinced they would have captured anything good, but I was very wrong. Both captured loads of good video from as early as 10pm, and then quite a few times through the night with one final bit of video of the vixen coming home just as it got light this morning.

This is the best fox video I have ever captured. The Vixen comes out of the earth followed by 4 cubs (or is it 5 ?), and ends up nursing them. There is sound on the video (only one of my trail cameras seems to record sound), and you can actually hear the cubs sucking.

  I seemed to spend quite a lot of time going through what might have been a couple of hours of video, and then deciding that two of the clips, as I have used above, represented the best video. I then spent some time lightly editing the video before saving it in the right format for showing here. I actually did that twice. The other trail camera had caught all the same action from another angle, and I was considering trying to edit the two views together, but decided against it. I still edited a slightly longer version than that shown above, and did consider using it, and maybe I will tomorrow. The picture quality is a bit sharper, but there is no sound on it.

  At midday I had a late breakfast of sausages, and I had just started writing this when I suddenly developed a nasty stomach ache. It was not terribly painful, but very intrusive, and a visit to the toilet seemed in order. That was a very good idea, as were the next two visits in short succession after the first visit. I don't know what upset my stomach, but it did a good job on it. I guess it was something I ate yesterday, and it could have been some chilli paste I was using quite generously on those cheese and wheat crackers I ate for my dessert after yesterday's dinner.

  Now we are up to real time, and I have a good idea what I shall be doing next. I shall be laying on my bed reading soon. I have no idea what I shall be doing after that. I could possibly make some preparations for a job I am really not looking forward to. I have had some hints that all is not right with the 2TB hard drive in my PC. It was sold as a "second user" device - allegedly from a laptop where it had been replaced by a solid state hard drive. I was suspicious about it, but it was relatively cheap, and I needed one quickly when I bought the current PC I am using now. I have ordered a brand new Seagate 2TB 2.5" hard drive, and I have to clone the old hard drive onto the new. It is going to be a really slow process, and I will be "off the air" while it happens. I have to find a good time to do it, but I am not sure there are any good times !