The screenshot of the early morning version of the forecast starts all wrong. The latest revision to the forecast shows some hastily scribbled in sunny spells for now and 9am. Even that doesn't seem quite right. Over half the sky still looks blue, but that is less than it was at 8am when it seemed like almost all the sky was blue. I don't think the sun has gone behind a cloud in the last 90 or more minutes. It seems good enough to say it is "sunny" now, but as I say, more clouds are gathering, and the latest forecast revision may be right when it says the rest of the day will be cloudy and dull. Once again it may be no more than 11° C today. Tomorrow is probably going to be almost identical to today except for some light rain from 6pm for a couple of hours.
   I thought it worth showing the BBC (Meteogroup) forecast because it is far more optimistic than the Met Office's gloomy forecast. It does seem to have got it right so far, and it would be great if it was correct for the rest of the day, but I have my doubts. I stopped showing it, and switched to The Met Office a year or two ago when the BBC switched to using the services of Meteogroup, and usually go the forecast totally wrong. It is hard to believe their forecast for today, and for that matter the next week, but it would be very nice if it were correct.

  Yesterday morning feels like a blur, and I am struggling to remember if I did anything of importance then, or indeed right up to the boozing started at almost 4pm. .....  wait....it's coming, thoughts are breaking through the fog..... Of course I did stuff yesterday morning ! I started by clearing the dining room table of the computer stuff I had been setting up the day before yesterday, and then I washed the "wipe clean" PVC tablecloth.

  I didn't stop there. I got out the hoover and hoovered the dining room, the front room and also the hall. It was the dining room that needed hoovering most of all, and for one specific reason. I also cut up a couple of boxes to put them in the recycling bin, and that always produces little wisps of cardboard that needed hoovering up. There was stuff there from a week or two ago as well as from earlier in the morning.

  Once the hoovering was done, and the tablecloth dried, I set up my laptop as the music player for the boozing session. Much earlier in the morning, after I had my morning shower, I put some laundry in to soak. The idea was to finish that sometime in the morning, and get it on the line to dry, or maybe to partly dry. I don't think yesterday was a good day for drying clothes, but that is a mute point because that laundry is still waiting for me to finish it this morning !

  I the afternoon Jodie brought two large cans (440ml) of beer with her, and for once they weren't too horrible. In fact one was almost nice. It was only let down by the lingering bitter taste it left.
  We drank the beer on the right first. It was a cloudy beer (as can be seen in the glass behind the cans). I can't say I enjoyed it, but it was far, far better than some of the beers Jodie likes these days. The beer on the left was much nicer, and if it wasn't for a very bitter after taste it might have been quite nice, and not that dissimilar to a good English ale.
  We finished off most, but not all of my fruit beers yesterday. The first thing you need to know here is that Framboise is the Flemish (Belgium) name for raspberries. The Floris framboise was lovely. It was really fruity, slightly tart, and a pleasure to drink. It's one downfall was it seemed to have a fairly high sugar content. The Boon framboise was not so nice. It seemed to have a hint of soapiness about it, but maybe only for the first few mouthfuls. I expect that if I had been drinking whole bottles I may have started to like it a lot when halfway through the second bottle.

  I think we had two more fruit beers, and they were pleasantly average. I managed to get Jodie on her way to get the 6.48pm train - a whole 10 minutes earlier than the usual train she gets. Once she was on her way I finished cooking my dinner. That took a good 40 minutes, and a full hour might have been better. It was pork belly strips, and another 20 minutes in the oven would have got the fat nice and crisp. I was too hungry to wait that extra 10 minutes. I had some leek and pak choi stewed in chicken stock with the meat.

  One thing about yesterday was that I no longer seemed to feel sleepy all day like I had for the previous days. I think that sleepiness started after my 2nd covid vaccination, and so it seems likely it was a side effect. Jodie said that she too felt sleepy for a week after her second jab. The end result was that I felt in no rush to get to bed yesterday. However, after reading in bed for over an hour I did start to feel really tired. That could have been as late as 11pm.

  I put the book down, and turned out the light. I expected to fall asleep instantly, but it wasn't instant, although I think it was fairly quick. It was another of those occasions, maybe frequent occasions now, when I lay in bed thinking I was not going to be able to fall asleep, and then the next thing I knew was that I was waking up for a pee. After drinking the beer earlier, even if it only added up to 3 pints, and possibly just 2.5 pints, it would be surprising of I hadn't woken up for a pee a few times in the night.

  I evidently slept well because I woke up near 5am, and because it was light outside, I was almost going to get up. In the end I stayed in bed, and slept a little more because I wanted rather than appeared to need doing so. I know I had some good dreams during the night, but I can only remember enough of the most important bit to write about the nightmare that it was ! I was back working in a telephone exchange, but it was not one I had ever been in before. The nightmare bit was discovering that the disruption of moving to another exchange had meant that I had missed a very important thing. The leave year had ended, and I hadn't used all my annual leave (which couldn't be carried over to the next year). I had thrown away 5 days of annual leave without realising it. Sob !

  This morning I was not surprised that my blood glucose was up high again (9.1mmol/l). The pile of fish fingers I had for lunch (to line my stomach before boozing) may have contributed a little bit of blame. One or more of the beers definitely had sugar in it. I was eating some of the sugar free, and no added sugar, biscuits a little too freely, and I have always suspected leeks of having a high sugar content. I guess I'm more surprised that it wasn't higher, but it means I have to take extra care today.

  More of the sky is looking a pale milky white, but there is still a lot of blue sky, and the sun continues to shine. I almost wonder of the BBC weather forecast is going to be right today. In which case there are things I should do today. The first thing is to get the laundry, that has been soaking for 24 hours now, finished and hanging on the line. Then I ought to consider going for a walk. I do feel a bit ambivalent a walk though. I'd like to take a wander through the park, and see how the river is doing, but I keep thinking it will be too hard. I guess it all depends on what the weather is like at the time. If it seems good enough for no coat it may inspire me more.