The latest revision to the forecast shows the last sunshine, in the form of sunny spells, finishing after 3pm. The temperature should still reach 16° C. That should feel warm even without any sunshine. It looks like it could be a warm night as well. By 6am tomorrow morning, the temperature may only have fallen to 7° C, but it will rise up to 16° C again thanks to much of the day featuring sunshine or sunny spells.

    I was considering going out for a short walk, perhaps little more than just one mile, yesterday morning. The plan was to try some new/different socks with my walking boots to see how they felt. I was reluctant to walk very far because I didn't want to be tired and sleepy in the afternoon, although if the socks had cured the aching feet problem I may have decided to walk a bit further.

  I never did go out for one simple reason - even if my logic was faulty. I was expecting a packet from Amazon today, but I realised that if it had arrived at the Dartford depot at 3am there was a good chance it would be delivered yesterday. Instead of going out I waited for the confirmation that it was to be delivered yesterday, and then I waited until there was an estimate of the delivery time.

  The flaw in my logic My stupid mistake was to be wildly over optimistic in thinking there was even a microscopic chance it would arrive before 1pm. If I just gone straight out when I was ready I could have been back before even midday if I didn't go too far. When the delivery time estimate finally appeared it said between 12:45 and 14:00. The delivery was closer to 14:30, but even that is miraculously early for an Amazon delivery.

  The delivery was of another 2TB USB3 external hard disk (also a 4TB one for future use). I wanted the 2TB drive to make a backup of the home partition of my PC (roughly equivalent to "My Documents" on a Windows PC, but also including much more). It must have been around 3pm when I started that backup, and from then on my computer turned extremely sluggish.

  My guess is that intensive disk data transfers clogs a data channel in the CPU, or it's support chip. I am hoping the 4th generation CPU version in the new PC I bought recently will not suffer the same problem. Like when cloning the hard disk recently, it was a 10+ hour job. Considering it didn't finish until about 9am this morning that makes it more like an 18 hour wait. Oh well, backups are the most important thing you can do on a pc - particularly if you have loads of photos stored on it that you couldn't bare to lose. The inconvenience when it is backing up is microscopic squared compared to losing thousands of photos.

  Sometime after 3pm Jodie turned up for our boozing session. She seemed very slightly drunk after stopping for a drink at a beer distributor near Clockhouse where she was also buying some beer to take away. Most of the beer we drank were relatively low alcohol, and so I still felt very sober at the end. Jodie seemed lightly pickled. There was still over an hour of daylight left when she left, and so she caught the bus to Bromley where she had another drink in The Star And Garter. When she phoned me later she seemed paralytic !

  I had tried to eat sensibly during the day - which was a bold move considering I would be drinking on a mostly empty stomach. I almost kept my dinner simple too. It was well cooked sausages and tenderstem broccoli in jelly. When I say jelly I really mean I added far too much beef gravy granules to the water the broccili was cooking in. I don't think I realised how little water I had put in the pan that I microwaved them in. That gravy was super thick ! It was very nice though !

  I had another odd sleep last night. Mostly I slept OK, but I had another interlude in the middle where I seemed to be awake for almost an hour. In the later hours of the night I had one of those dreams where the scenery keeps changing. The first bit I can remember was getting on a bus on the other side of London with my friend Aleemah. It seemed only minutes before we were going along Hither Green Lane, and I said if we got off at the next stop we could walk down the hill to a pub near home.

  We didn't get off the bus there, and at the end of Hither Green Lane the bus turned right, and went along an extraordinary narrow road  that seemed to be cut into a curving cliff edge. At the end the bus had to cut across a corner that left one wheel over the edge before we were on firm ground. We got off the bus there, and the sort of disappeared. There was a big old house there, and it's very plain pale blue front doors seemed to have been used in an ancient episode of Dr Who.

  After looking at the doors for a few seconds, trying to think what Dr Who episode they had appeared in, I (we ?) turned around to a completely different view. It still seemed to be on top of a very high hill, but the garden was filled with all sorts of weird stuff. There was a small car balanced in a tree hung with bunting. There was a really weird sculpture that seemed to have a ladder as part of it's construction. The only other thing I remember was a mud bath that several people were climbing out looking very happy with themselves. I think I woke up after that.

  Although I had taken some care with what I ate yesterday, I still had to face the fact that I had drunk quite a few beers with potentially a fair bit of sugar in them. Some of the fruit beers can be fairly sweet, although some were definitely sour. It was a pleasant surprise to see that my blood glucose had fallen from 10.0mmol/l yesterday morning to 8.8mmol/l this morning. It is now out of the danger zone, but still too high, and there is no leeway to take any chances - which is unfortunate today.

  The first thing I did this morning, after having a shower, was to go shopping in Aldi. I seemed to spend an awful lot this morning. A 4 pack of Guinness and a bottle of vodka account for some of the expense, but I probably spent a fair bit on stuff to try and cook some low calorie/low sugar meals. I probably bought too much meat for this, but who caan resist a pack of habernero infused smoked gammon steaks ? I must admit those gammon steaks were the only weird thing I bought.

  I stocked up on some more potentially long term stuff like cans of chunky beef and vegetable soup. I also bought what was possibly the last three containers of Imperial Leather "Cosmic Unicorn" shower gel. I love the stuff, It has a really clean smell, but it would seem few share my enthusiasm. For the last 5 or so months I have been buying three containers a week, but I probably only get through one a week. I think I have supplies of it for the rest of the year, and maybe longer !

  My right knee seemed to be a bit stiff and sore when I walked to Aldi this morning, and my legs were generally slightly stiff going there and back. I ought to go for a walk in the warm sunshine today, but I think I want to finally get around to doing a bit more gardening today. I really ought to cut the grass so I can see where to try and fill in the bald spots, but it is going to be tricky. The fox cubs are making a right mess off the "lawn". I think they are now practising their earth excavating at the moment. Maybe they are enlarging the earth, but all the stuff they are kicking out the entrance is ending up over the lawn. Oh well, in another month or two they will probably be weaned, and sent to fend for themselves in the big wicked world.