As yet we have had no thunderstorms, but the BBC weather forecast says we could get some today. Right now it feels a lot like I've overslept into autumn ! It is a cool morning, and it will be cool this afternoon. The best we can hope for today is 16° C. Of course the main feature is the prediction of non stop heavy rain. There has already been one heavy downfall, but as I write this the rain has stopped, or is very light. I expect this will be the pattern for the day - rain on and off. Tomorrow could be a little warmer, 19° C, and it might be mostly dry. Thick clouds are expected, but the current prediction for tomorrow only shows rain, or a 60% chance of it, at 5pm. For the rest of the day the chance of rain is mostly 10%.

   The dull weather was not very inspiring yesterday, and so I didn't do anything of great note, but I did do a few minor things. I wrote about going to the pharmacy, to pick up my repeat prescription yesterday morning. After that I went into lazy mode for several hours...well sort of - some of those hours were actually writing yesterday's diary/blog. I also spent 10 to 20 minutes putting a few selected beers in the fridge to cool, and washing and drying glasses for the afternoon boozing session.

  I next stirred to action for a few minutes when Michael sent me a text message asking if I wanted anything from Tesco. I said yes please. I also varied my usual order of Diet Coke by asking for half of them to be lime flavoured Diet Coke. I've grown to like that lime flavour on a hot day. A couple of hours later and Michael arrived with my diet cokes, except the that three of them were Coke Zero. That stuff is OK, but I don't have the taste for it. Apparently Tesco only stock the red labelled Coke Zero now. If that is true it is a great annoyance, and an even greater annoyance if the Coca Cola company have discontinued Diet Coke.

  Jodie arrived for our boozing session a little later. I thought we had an understanding that we were going to have a cider session, and indeed she brought a couple of Nordic fruit flavoured ciders with her, but once she saw my Mad Squirrel, and Wild Card, beers she got all excited, and changed her mind. I had to unload the fridge of ciders, plus a few beers, and put in a selection of cans from my new delivery to try and chill down before we drunk them.

  I don't think we drank all that much in total - possibly somewhere between 2 and 3 pints. It gets hard to estimate when you split a 330ml can two ways. Some cans were 440ml. When I try and picture how many cans we got through I don't think it could have been much more than 6 cans, and all of them were less than a pint, and some were only half a pint. A few of the beers were quite strong.

  By the time Jodie left, choosing her time wisely between rain showers, I had drunk enough to still be mostly sober, but to feel very hungry. I did my best to control it, but mostly failed. My dinner should have been one large Cumberland sausage with a small tin of Heinz (always loads of sugar) reduced sugar baked beans (where "reduced" means reduced from outrageous to merely far too much). I still felt peckish after that and so I had a cheese salad for "dessert". It was partly a tactical move to use up a Romainne lettuce I had noticed was starting to deteriorate, but I added cheese and tomatoes to it.

  I was in bed a bit early last night because I was getting near the end of the latest book I've been reading. I decided I would finish it last night even if my eyes were starting to close as I read the last few pages. That must have been almost 11pm, and it seemed like I would fall asleep as soon as I put the book down. I didn't, and it was because as soon as I turned over I felt uncomfortable. My neck, and back seemed to ache. I may have been laying in an awkward position while reading, and been too distracted by the book to notice.

  I eventually got to sleep, but it didn't feel like good sleep. At times I almost felt cold. It is lucky I didn't have the window open or I would have felt a lot cold. My indoor thermometer did say that my bedroom temperature was 5 or 6° C lower than it had been peaking at the previous few nights. It didn't help that I didn't even have a sheet to pull over me (something I must rectify for tonight).

  This morning the results of some of that booze, and also a few things I ate (including coated "beer nuts" that came with the last delivery of beers) showed up starkly in my blood glucose. It had gone right up to 8.9mmol/l. I was expecting it, but I still didn't like it. I also wonder how much it might have been affected my a stomach disturbance I had this morning. It required to good visit to the toilet, and I am not sure there isn't another looming. I blame eating too much lettuce !

  I have this insane idea that I might go for a walk in the rain today. I have even put my waterproof camera on charge in case I give in to this lunacy. I'd like to do some laundry today, but I think that can wait until a dry day. It is possible that despite being very cloudy, there is a chance that tomorrow may be dry. What I really ought to do with some urgency is to finish selecting, and editing, more of the photos I took last Saturday !