I hope that after yesterday's generally incorrect forecast, the forecasters are hedging their bet by saying that today, apart from maybe a brief flash of sun in the evening, will be very dull. Hopefully they will have got it wrong again, and there will be sunshine today. We need it because it is starting to get cool without it. Just 19° C is forecast. Maybe tomorrow will see a sunny afternoon, and the temperature up to a more friendly 23° C.

   I felt generally awful yesterday. I am not sure when my hangover had reached it's half life, but it was probably late afternoon. The added effects of excess alcohol, such as am aching stomach and other internal organs (probably mainly my liver) faded even more slowly. On top of that there was the tiredness after not going to bed until 5 or 6am, and then only sleeping an hour or two.

  Of course I did have several snoozes during the day, but sometimes they seemed to only last 10 minutes. At least one was a lot longer, and the others may have actually been longer than my subjective view of them. Of course the result of this tale of woe was that I hardly did anything yesterday. I didn't even wash, or get dressed beyond underpants and a pair of shorts. I didn't even eat that much.

  I don't think I had any breakfast, and for lunch, a fairly late lunch if I remember correctly, I had a couple of cans of soup. They did perk me up in some ways. For dinner I just kept things very simple. I had Spam and rice crackers with some sliced pickled jalapeños. I have a nagging feeling that I may have eaten something else. It might have been some cheese and rice crackers, but I can't think if I had them in the morning, middle, or evening.
  The last thing I did yesterday was to take the picture above. As a view it looked far more dramatic when seen through the 4 inch high opening of the bathroom window. Being in a well lit room made the view far more dramatic. I used a pcket camera, on auto, to take this picture from my garden. The camera decided to do a long exposure, and I don't know how I managed to keep the camera steady while it did it. It came out looking like the sky was bright blue, and so I did some post production to try and get the sky looking more like it did to the naked eye. I probably should have made the sky even darker to match how it looked from the bathroom. From there it looked like "art" but on reflection my photo has nothing good about it.

  That scaffolding could be just for a roof replacement, but I wouldn't be surprised if it didn't turn out to be another attic extension. They seem to be all the rage now. One problem with that scaffolding, or at least the noise and disruption as it is put up, is that all the pigeons have been scared away. That is more or less the roof and chimney pots they would sit on to watch my bird table. I noticed there was still uneaten grain on it when I went out to it this morning.

  I didn't go to sleep as early as I thought I might. I waited until it was almost dark before I went to bed. I read a page and a half of my book, just to relax, but I needed very little relaxation. I doubt it was even past 9pm before I was sound asleep. I haven't had a sleep like it for ages and ages. I have the faintest of memories of having one pee during the night, but essentially it was like I went to sleep at (for the sake of argument) 9pm, and didn't wake up until 5am. That was more full 8 hours "beauty sleep", and then after a wee I got another hours sleep.

  This morning I still don't feel I am fully over the previous night's excess, although, having said that, I do seem to be feeling better and better with each passing hour. At this time I am not over it, but it can't be long. This morning my blood glucose was slightly higher at 7.9mmol/l. That may suggest I did have an extra snack of cheese and rice crackers sometime yesterday. However it was still good reading for me compared to the average of the last few months.

  So far today I have had a good shower. I feel much better for that. I have been to Tesco for more cans of low sugar soups, and some whole meal bread rolls. I also bought some fish. My breakfast was two smoked salmon rolls. They were nice, but I am thinking that cheese and tomato might have been nicer. Although walking to and from Tesco seemed perfectly OK, I still don't feel very dynamic this morning.

  The next thing I think I'll be doing is laying on my bed reading. I wouldn't be surprised if my eyelids start to close, and I end up having a snooze. I have all the time in the world so I may as well enjoy it if it happens. The next thing on my agenda is to try and get myself out tonight for a gig. Chain are playing in The Railway next door to Blackheath station. Unfortunately there are no trains to Blackheath today and so I'll be forced to go on a bus.