The latest revision of the forecast doesn't really look any different to the screenshot above. Even the BBC web site forecast agrees that today is going to get very wet, but their prediction has the rain staring later at about 2pm. Curiosly enough, the chance of rain from 11am to 2pm is only shown as 50%. That means that there is a fair chance it won't rain, but the 70 and 80% chance from 3pm to 5pm suggests it definitely will. There is still room for doubt though, and maybe it will not be heavy rain (although it probably will be). With a top temperature of just 17° C it is going to feel rather autumnal. Apart from a couple of hours in the morning, when there could be sunny spells, most of tomorrow will range between dull and very dull. There is thought to be a 50% chance of rain for 4pm, but the day will be a couple of degrees warmer than today.

   Yesterday was a very mixed up day. Despite the sunny spells in the morning I just couldn't seem to find any get up and go. I had ideas that I might go for a walk in the park, or to spend a couple of hours in the garden, but I had no enthusiasm for it. I started to realise there was a paradox here. Mostly last year, but also some of earlier this year, when lockdown, and all it's constraints were at their tightest, I seemed to be out more than ever. Now I can use trains, and even most buses, plus there are no barriers to shopping, I seem to be staying in more and more !

  It was almost as if I was going to do nothing yesterday, but I ended up doing more housework than usual (although not as much as I should). The first thing was to do quite a heavy load of washing by hand. It included a big bath towel, and a pair of shorts, plus a few smaller items. I managed to get it all on the line by midday, and apart from the towel, that had a few small damp patches, it was all dry when I brought it in at 6pm last night.

  The other bit of housework I did was a bit of a rarity, or overdue. It was to get the hoover out. I hoovered the living room, the dining room, the front hall, and the stairs. I even took the hoover upstairs so I could do the landing, the spare room, and any bits of my bedroom floor I can get to - even more if I dumped all my camera stuff on my bed instead of on the floor.

  I did have one other achievement yesterday. I managed to fast after my breakfast right through to 6pm and dinnertime. Just before dinner time I checked my blood glucose. It had fallen from 7.7mmol/l to 7.3mmol/l. I had hoped for more - particularly when I had some strong doubts about my choice of dinner. It was Tesco southern fried chicken (cooked in the oven). It was nice, but nicer with some salt on. Later I would realise it had more black pepper in it than the taste would suggest. Unfortunately I suspect it had a lot of sugar in it.

  I carefully checked every channel I can get on my Freeview TV last night. I have never bothered to count how many channels that it, but it is a lot, and not a single one of them was showing anything that grabbed my attention. I spent the evening with a a few cans of lager, and three episodes of series three of Blake's Severn. That kept me going until I felt sleepy enough to head to bed around 9pm.

  I assume it was the black pepper used in the "southern fried" seasoning of the chicken, but it could have been the added sugar, or even the lager I was drinking, but an hour or two after eating I came out in a fierce sweat, and I was feeling very hot when I went to bed. I was too hot to pull the duvet over me, and I ended up sleeping like that for most, or maybe even all the night. It seemed to be a warm night, or at least a bit warmer than the previous few nights. Maybe it was the thick blanket of clouds, although having said that, as I write these words there is some hazy sunshine.

  It was a big disappointment that this morning my blood glucose was up to 8.6mmol/l. After fasting right through the middle of yesterday I was hoping for something under 8. I don't think I can blame the lager, although that may have made a contribution to it, but I feel the blame lies squarely on the southern fried chicken. It is one of those cases of "hidden sugar" - sugar where you don't expect it. Oh well, lesson learned - avoid Tesco southern fried chicken in future.

  Today I feel "edgy". It is hard to define that. I feel physically OK-ish, or similar to most days now. The edginess is all in my head. It is partly a tug of war between part of my mind that wants to be active, to go out, or do stuff, and the other part that says why bother ?  More than anything else it is the calm before the storm - a literal storm if the weather forecast is correct. It seems that going out could be a very wet experience. Maybe that is a good excuse to get on with doing stuff indoors.

  I still have a lot of work to do cataloguing all my train photos, but I am starting to wish I hadn't started the project because since expanding it to all types of trains it seems like a job that will never end. Oh well, if I can get ready to go out before the rain starts, I might still stretch my legs as far as Poundland. I am also thinking I would like to go to Lidl again. Like Aldi, I almost stopped using them when they replaced most of their checkouts with self service tills, and I hate those. Maybe Monday morning might be a better time for Lidl, but it is only curiosity, and so can wait for a good time if such actually exists.