The forecast has been revised since I took the screenshot above. Some of the sunny spells have now changed to "sunshine", and from 6pm it is now shown as just dull with a 10% chance of rain. Today promises to be hot. The afternoon temperature could rise to, and stay at 28° C for 4 hours. It is after midnight when things may get lively. What was previously shown as thunderstorms may now just be heavy rain from midnight tonight until 7am. That will be followed by another 4 hours of light rain, and then it may be dry, but still very dry. The chances of that being accurate is rather slim, but I think we can safely say that summer will be taking a break tomorrow, and possibly for a week or so.
   Yesterday was another of those days when I seemed to be busy almost from getting up until dinner time. Like the day before it is difficult to enumerate how much time I spent doing this that or the other, and it is hard to try and describe each and every little thing I did, but it all added up to a busy day. I mentioned my early morning shopping trip yesterday. The next thing after that was writing my diary/blog for yesterday. That always takes an hour or two depending on how much I have to say.

  The first hard work I did was to do a load of laundry by hand, and hang it in the sunshine to dry. After that I turned to my new laptop which I was using to shuffle audio files around. That makes it sound like a simple job, and individually it was, but with a lot of files it can get quite time consuming. It was probably during this time that I ate a few too many snacks. Each would have been selected not to be too bad for me, but my results this morning suggested I might have over done it a little.
  This is actually a pointless picture because I doesn't show what I wanted it to show...well it sort of does, but with a "before" picture there is nothing to compare it with. Let me explain.... Once the washing on the line had dried, which only took a couple of hours in the sun, I took that washing in, and restrung the washing line. It originally started from the side of the rear extension, but that meant it ran down the middle of the path. That was not convenient.

  I got my drill out, and drilled new holes in a brick for rawplugs and a couple of long screws, at the side of the dining room window.  The "new improved" washing line is now longer, and now runs parallel to the garden path, instead of over it. This is what the picture is supposed to show, but doesn't. It also doesn't show that it further from the bird table. To celebrate this bit of work I did another, slightly smaller, load of washing, and once again, hung it in the sunshine to dry.

  That was fairly late in the afternoon, and after an hour or so we lost the sunshine. Just before dinnertime it did look like there could be a shower later, and so I brought the washing in. The bottom of the t-shirts were just very slightly damp, but everything else, including the underwear further along the line, was perfectly dry.

  With that almost final job of the day done, I started to prepare my dinner. It was a Dutch Emmental cheese salad. As the wikipedia page I have linked to says, Emmental cheese is supposed to be a Swiss (or bordering French towns) made cheese, and it is not made in Holland. The Dutch version should be called Emmentaler, but I'm sure it doesn't say that on the packet. It was a nice-ish cheese taste wise, but it was thinly pre-sliced. It would have been better for a salad if it could have been cut into cubes.

  After dinner I spent another half hour or so finishing what I had been doing earlier on my new laptop. Well I say finishing, but it was more like a convenient point to stop rather than finishing everything I wanted to do. That could take ages because it also includes ripping more of my CDs into mp3 files for easy playback on my computer. Having shut the laptop down, and closed up downstairs, I could relax.

  I watched a bit of TV, but as usual there was little to grab my attention. I ended up ready for bed, but just laying on my bed reading until 9.17pm when an email popped up. To my great surprise it referred to the beer order I had made with a company that I was beginning to think was a bogus company. It now seems not !

 My order was accepted, and an email confirmation sent on the 4th June. Then nothing happened until the 11th June when it was reported the beer had been shipped, and a Yodel tracking number issued. Yodel told a different story. At that point they had not received my beers. I don't know how it gets from the company to Yodel - whether the company delivers it to Yodel, or if Yodel picks it up.

  Anyway, it seems it took until yesterday, at 7.20pm, when Yodel finally had it at their Hatfield depot. From now on things are happening fast. By 2am this morning it arrived at the London distribution depot, and with luck I should hear that it is out for delivery soon. Unfortunately Yodel don't seem to send a predicted one hour time slot for delivery, at least I don't think they do. I will have to stay in, and alert until the beer arrives.

  There is nothing to say about my sleep last night. It was a very uneventful night apart from waking up too early, and then going back to sleep for longer than desired (although it didn't make any difference really). The first thing this morning, just as every morning, I checked my blood glucose. it was up to 7.9mmol/l. Now that is not particularly bad, but it is slightly annoying that I can't think of any good reason for it to go up like that.

  The other minor annoyance is that I didn't seem to lose any weight yesterday, and I could have put some on. This is the trouble when using a modern set of bathroom scales that give a weight correct to just 100 grammes. That is such a fiddling little amount that it is no surprise it can go up or down a few hundred gms from day to day - drinking half a pint of water registers on my scales. All I hope is that the long term trend is down. I really ought to not weigh myself again for a week to see if there is a long term loss or gain.

  Today was to be the day, like the last few Wednesdays, when I would be meeting Angela for a drink at lunchtime. It was also the day when she was going to give me her home mad, authentic, Greek salad. It could have been really irritating if this was still going ahead while I need to stay in and wait for the man from Yodel, but fortunately Angela sent me a text yesterday to say she wouldn't be at work today. I suggested that maybe we could try again on Friday, but she hasn't responded to that.

  In the meantime, I have had another email, and this time it was direct from Yodel. The delivery driver has just started his rounds. I am drop number 46 out of a total of 103 today. Assuming the driver does an 8 hour shift, I estimate my beer could be here around 2am, but it all depends on traffic etc. It also depends on how many addresses the driver has to call at. I don't know for sure, but if a delivery is of two boxes it is counted as two drops even if they are to the same address.

  I have already started one thing to keep me amused this morning. I am washing a duvet cover. Fortunately it is one of the light weight duvet covers, but it is still and "interesting" procedure to wash it by hand. If I get it on the line quickly enough I may be able to wash the sheet and pillowcases in time for them to dry before we lose the best of the sunshine. On the other hand I might go out to stretch my legs if the beer arrives earlier than expected.