Earlier versions of the forecast said there was a chance of thunderstorms after midnight last night, but there were none that I was aware of, and I don't think the rain was that heavy during the night. The forecasters keep guessing when it might rain today, and the predicted times keep changing. We have just had a shower, and from the look of the sky there could be another at almost any time. The afternoon temperature may only be 22° C today, and that is probably not hot enough to brew up any thunderstorms today. Tomorrow is almost going to feel cold with a maximum temperature of just 16° C, and with heavy rain forecast for most of the day, it is going to be very unpleasant,

   I was just about to write that yesterday was another day when I was busy doing lots of little odd jobs, but on reflection it was just an almost lazy day.  That is not to say I did nothing all day, the "almost" signifies that. For instance I did do one big job, and it was to hand wash a double duvet cover. My only regret is that I didn't do it a lot earlier. If I had done so I could have waited an hour or so before it was almost dry, and then started washing a double sheet and pillowcases. By the time I had done that the duvet cover would be dry, and I could have hung out the sheet and pillowcases to dry before we lost most of the sunshine.
  One of the main events yesterday was the delivery of my long awaited beer order.
  In some respects it was like my order from the Fullers Brewery. There was a long wait with no news, and then suddenly it all happened at once. There were two main differences. One was that the wait from when the order was accepted, until the beer was shipped was a lot longer, and the other is that The Bier Company used a bit of trickery. They booked the delivery with Yodel, who provided a shipping number, long before they were ready for it to be shipped.

  Yesterday morning I finally got an email from Yodel to say my boxes of beer were out for delivery. They provided a link to their tracking internet page, and I was able to watch the driver getting closer and closer. I originally estimated it might arrive soon after 2pm, but it was closer to 1pm when the beer arrived on my doorstep. The Mad Squirrel beer was nicely packed in one box, but the Wild Card Brewey beer was very sloppily packed. Fortunately both glasses survived the journey.

  As dinnertime approached I began to feel like I didn't want another salad. I blame it on the school kitchen over the road. They had been cooking beef by the smell of it, and I really fancied something meaty for dinner. I came very close to ordering a takeaway - possibly a curry - but sanity prevailed. I settled for a spam salad. It was while getting the salad stuff out of the fridge that I noticed I did have something nice and meaty that I could have cooked. It was a long, curled up in it's own foil container, ready to oven cook, Cumberland sausage. I had bought it on Monday morning, and completely forgotten about it. I won't be forgetting it today !

  It was quite a hot and sweaty night, and because of the rain I closed my bedroom window. It did make getting to sleep a bit difficult, but I was probably asleep before 11pm, and maybe not too long after 10pm. On reflection I probably slept fairly well. I woke up a couple of times for a pee, and it was hard getting back to sleep, but once asleep I seemed to sleep for hours and hours before waking the next time.

  I woke up at 5am, and after a wee I opened my bedroom window. I expected the room to flood with cooler air, but the air didn't seem to be moving much. It wasn't long before I fell asleep again, and when I woke up again it was gone 7am. I did have a reason to be out soon after 8am, and so I got up fairly quickly. This morning I was happy to see my blood glucose was spot on target at 7.5mmol/l. I guess the warm warm and/or dry weather has modified my eating more than I realise, because keeping my blood glucose to a sensible level seems to take little effort now.

  The other good news came a little after when I had had my morning poo. I have definitely lost a small amount of weight this week. I can't decide if it is good, or not nearly enough. My cumulative loss since the beginning of the month may be very slightly more than 2kg, or maybe 5lbs, but at the start of the month I was only half heartedly checking my weight. In one respect this weight loss is bad in so much as it is not enough. If it is only 2kg a month it will take for ever (or feel like it) until I get back to where I was at the end of last November.

  It is a shame that today will not be a day for exercise. There are two valid reasons for it. First is obviously that the weather is crap. The second is that this afternoon is "boozing Thursday". Fortunately I have actually done a tiny bit of exercise this morning. My reason for wanting to get out early was to walk to the pharmacy to pick up my repeat prescription. It wasn't ready as promised, and I had to stand in the shop for well over half an hour while the assistant pulled the shop apart trying to find it, and then making it all up from scratch. The good thing was that it was all there - including the glucose test strips that I would otherwise have had to buy via Amazon.