The latest revision to today's forecast has hardly changed to that in the screenshot above. It should be dry with lots of sunny spells, and at 22° C a little bit warmer than the last couple of days. Tomorrow will be a bit cooler, and a lot of it may be wet. At the moment I am keeping an eye on Saturday, the day of Petts Wood Calling (previously known as Petts Woodstock). A lot can change in the next few days, but at the moment it is looking like it will be a washout !

  Yesterday started well, but by mid afternoon I was feeling quite depressed. As I mentioned yesterday, I paid a visit to Tesco yesterday morning, and did some shopping. I mentioned that I had bought a bottle of what I hope will be super delicious Abbot Special Reserve ale. It is certainly super delicious when served in good condition from a hand pump in a pub, and I hope the bottled version will be just as good. I didn't find a suitable excuse to drink the bottle yesterday, and I think I am now saving it for tomorrow afternoon.

  Another thing I bought from Tesco was a pack of 4 wholemeal bread rolls. I try and avoid eating bread because it plays havoc with my blood glucose level, but this morning I am wondering if that is always true. I had this fixation that I wanted a couple of rolls while I was in Tesco, and I think I was having visions of filling them with bacon. I checked the ingredients of several types of white rolls, and they all had sugar in them.

  I had heard that white bread had sugar in it, but I don't think I fully believed it until I checked those ingredients lists. I decided to take a chance on the wholemeal bread. The ingredients were listed in back on clear cellophane with a dark background from the rolls inside. There was no way I could make anything out on that list, and I must admit I forgot to check when I got home where I could have slid in some white paper, or something, to make the printing visible.

  I had a double breakfast yesterday morning, although the second part was late enough in the day to be called lunch. I mentioned all that yesterday. It wasn't that much later in the afternoon when I felt peckish. I am pretty sure I only felt hungry because it had gone so dim outside as the clouds rolled in. I had an insane desire for a ham and salad roll, and that is exactly what I had. It used up two of those wholemeal rolls, and they were delicious.

  Maybe there was a bit of guilt thrown in at that point, but it was mostly the grey skies that got me feeling really quite depressed. The final nail was when I found the laundry I had admittedly hung out a bit later than intended, was not really drying. It was a pair of shorts, a t-shirt, and some underwear. I thought I might as well bring it all in, and dry it indoors. The previous day it was getting my laundry dry and warm while on the line that brought extra cheer to my day. The opposite just made me lower.

  I had a plan for the last two rolls, and it was to make something like a ham burger. One of several reasons that added up to make a visit to make a visit to Tesco worthwhile was to but a packet of burger - something I forgot when in Aldi on Monday morning. I gave the 4 medium sized burgers a good grilling with them on top of some mushrooms I had in the fridge that were getting close to the end of their lives.

  I ended up having a two part dinner. Part one was two "hamburgers" of beef burger and salad leaves, with a squirt of mayo on a wholemeal roll. They were good, but not that good, The rolls were not very big, and the burgers were too big for them. It made for messy eating ! Part two was just the other two burgers with the mushrooms (with a squirt of tomato sauce). I don't know if it was the beef fat dripping on them, or just that the mushrooms were not fresh when I cooked them, but they tasted really good.

  Dinner cheered me up a bit, but I still felt some guilt about eating those rolls. TV was only a partial distraction after dinner. Both Space 1999, and Star Trek: Voyager were good, but not good. Both programmes are not my favourite TV Sci Fi, but I think it probably depends on the mood I am in. Following those two programmes was a repeat episode of Yes Minister, and that was most definitely funny.

  I realised there was one thing that might cheer me up a bit, and that was to make an all too rare call to Sue. We had several common themes to discuss - mostly music, gigs, pubs and covid - and one particular thing, and that was Lee's party. I had forgotten it was happening today, and that may be because the last time he talked to me about it the date was not confirmed. I never intended to to go it because I thought it would be a crashing bore, and more importantly it is an arse to get to his place by bus, and I am not using buses until they stop making face masks on buses compulsory.

  In some lame attempt to make the party more likeable he had tried to hire Chain to play in a pergola in his big garden, but with Petts Wood Calling happening on Saturday, and Jo being the chief organiser, there is no way she could take the time out to play a gig today (plus I doubt that would have been keen to as well). I think Lee has got a few very amateur musicians to play some cruddy music - it might even be good, but I am still not interested.

  On the other hand Sue is semi keen to go to see what sort of car crash it ends up being. However she will only go if her friend Toni drives her there. For a while Lee said he was good friends with Toni, but I am guessing he managed to piss her off the way he pisses off most woman. ( I can't describe the process in detail, but he seems to think that all woman are brainless sex objects, and while he could have got away with that 80 years ago, it doesn't go down well today).

  I managed to keep my call to Sue short - as in less than 8 hours long ! In fact it was only two and a quarters long - possibly some sort or record ! It was quite late, getting on for 11pm, when I hung up, and as I had already brushed my teeth I was ready to go straight to bed - which I did, but I found I didn't seem to feel sleepy. I laid in bed for what was starting to feel like ages, trying to fall asleep. In reality I think it was probably less than 20 minutes, and maybe less than 15 minutes. It just felt like forever until I suddenly realised I was waking up, and a couple of hours had passed.

  I can't seem to think if I woke up more or less than usual last night. I do know that on at least one occasion over three hours had passed without me even realising I had been asleep. I'm not sure why, but it did feel like I was getting better sleep last night, although in the last hour or two I did seem to be having long and complex dreams. One was another dream about being back at work.

  It is all a bit hazy, but I don't think I was back at my old job, and it was more like I had dropped in to say hello to everybody. It wasn't long before I found one of the developers having a problem. I have no idea how I came to the conclusion that the problem was two data lines had become crossed with each other when the circuit board was designed. There was a mad panic to get samples of this new product out to a potential customer or so, and so I said leave it with me. It was almost a mirror of a real job I did where I had to cut two hair thin tracks on the circuit board, and cross the signals over using very fine wire. It was all done under a microscope. That was one of the specialities that made me so useful when I worked there. Maybe someone learned to do it after I left, of maybe they just write of the faulty boards and try again (something that would be done for production versions of the circuit board in the end).

  I think I felt sort of OK when I finally decided it was time to get up. I felt rested, like I had had at least a fair amount of sleep, and the aches and pains were fairly light. For some reason I assumed it would all be caused by bad news. Sometimes it seems I wake up feeling better when my blood glucose is much higher than desired. With the guilt of eating those four wholemeal rolls hanging over me, I was on tenterhooks when I checked my blood glucose. I was amazed that it was just 8.0mmol/l - the best it has been for some time ! Maybe it is safe to allow a few wholemeal, or other forms of bread that don't have sugar in them (if it is possible to confirm it) into my diet again - in moderation.

  Today I have only one thing planned. At Lunchtime I am going for a pint or two of Guinness in The Jolly Farmers. I don't even know if Angela is at work today, or if she will be free at lunchtime if she is, but I hope she will be able to join me for a drink. After my drink I will probably have some soup (I got a few more flavours from Tesco  - all carefully checked to have low amounts of sugar in them). After my soup I expect I will lay down on my bed, start to read, and then have a siesta. After that the boring evening shouldn't seem too long.