I was unable to do the thing I most wanted to do yesterday, and that was to meet Angela for a quick lunchtime drink. I don't know if she was available or not, but I wasn't...or at least I didn't think I would be, and for a time it almost looked like it might pour with rain when I would have gone out.

  The first thing of importance that kept me sort of busy in the morning was the delivery of my order from Star Bargains. I have already written about this yesterday morning. One thing I can add is that I dared to have one of the four bottles of Fanta "no added sugar" grape juice. It was strange stuff, and I have doubts there was much, if indeed any real grape juice in it. It wasn't nice, and yet it wasn't horrible. I think that being old stock, sold off cheap (although still before it's best before date) it has lost some of it's fizz. The taste reminded me of some types of bubble gum we used to get in the 1960s.

  I did do one useful thing yesterday. It was some more washing. I left it a bit late before I did it, and probably missed the best time to dry it on the line. As usual I could have kept my nerve and left it on the line longer, but I brought it in when only about 95% dry. I didn't start doing it until about 2pm (or was it 1pm ?) when I finally got a more useful prediction of when my parcel from Amazon would arrive.
  This was what all the fuss was about - Mack Swedish Whisky. Without realising it was happening, I seem to have a new hobby - collecting, and tasting whiskies. I can't say I feel tempted to spend large amounts of money on the hobby, but I guess everyone says that. This Swedish whisky was almost £30, and for now that probably is my upper spending limit, but I can foresee spending more some day if I see something that breaks my self control. The only safeguard is that on the whole I prefer blended whiskies, and in many cases actually dislike sing malt whiskies. I also dislike anything described as very peaty. That seems to translate into "tastes like burning tyres" far too often !

  The next big event was dinner time. It was to be a two part dinner. The first part was to be a simple salad. That didn't work out well because the tomatoes I was using were rotten. A few had green spots on them. I cut those bits off, and washed them well, but they all still tasted tainted, and I three them away. Fortunately I had other tomatoes, and I had those with part two - spicy Sicilian sausages from the Beckenham sausage shop.

  I didn't like the Cumberland sausages from that shop that I had the day before yesterday. I didn't like the sausages I had last night. They weren't as bad as the Cumberland sausages that had a very strong meat taste (yesterday I said it tasted like the pork was going off). Last night's sausages were not bad in that respect. If anything they tasted rather blander than expected. Maybe I might try some other from the (Award winning !) shop in Beckenham Village, but mostly I think I'll stick to supermarket sausages.

  Last night was one of those nights when I found it difficult to get to sleep, and then seemed to sleep well...maybe not very well though. I only have vague memories of waking up a few times during the night, but I do remember seeming to dream a lot. The only difficulty is that I can only remember those dreams as like snapshots that are meaningless without any context. Maybe it seems I had a lot of dreams because each only lasted for one second. That sounds unlikely, but anything is possible when it comes to dreams.

  The good news this morning is that despite leaving the golden path a few times, I didn't completely cock up my blood glucose yesterday. Yesterday morning it was a very nice 7.8mmol/l. This morning it has gone up, but only to 8.2mmol/l. It could be part of a brief rising trend because today is another boozing Thursday. They rarely end well ! Fortunately I will be doing some light exercise in the form of a bit more hand laundry. Today includes a hand towel so a bit more effort will be needed. I have already showered, and I put that laundry into soak as soon as I had finished showering. I hope to have it on the line well before midday today.