The latest revision of the forecast has improved on that in the screenshot above. 10am to midday may feature full blue skies, and full on sunshine. All we seem to have sacrificed for this is the sunny spells originally predicted for 6pm. It was a rather cool 13° C this morning, but all the sunshine should raise the temperature to a fair 20° C. Getting the forecast for just a few hours ahead seems beyond the capabilities of the super computers used by the forecasters, but here's hoping the forecast for tomorrow comes to fruition. It should be sunnier, and a 1° warm than today....hopefully.

   Yesterday was both good and bad. Fortunately the bad was not that bad. After the brief excitement, sort of, of shopping in Aldi, and then writing yesterday morning, the only thing to do was to invoke patience mode, and wait for my parcel deliveries. First to arrive was my new lens for use on my Nikon D80 camera. It arrived just before midday, and it wasn't long before I tried it out. I am happy to say I was very happy with the results. The only difficulty was finding some views to snap when just standing in my back garden

  My second parcel arrived at around 6pm. That was later than I was happier with, but at least it arrived safely. It was a new camera bag for my Nikon D80 camera. It was perfect except for one rather important point. It was smaller than I thought. The picture looked like the Camera bag I currently use for my Canon 600D, but I think I ordered the next size smaller. The solution was to swap around the camera bag used for my Canon 1200D. That is a slightly bigger bag, and the Canon can squeeze in the smaller bag. Some time I might order and even bigger bag for the Nikon D80 - it is a big camera with big and heavy lenses.

  I filled in the waiting time by doing a bit of reading, and I think I also had a snooze. Some, if not most of the rest of the time I back to cataloguing my electric train pictures. The curious thing is that I thought I was taking less train pictures in the last 4 or 5 years, but it seems to be the other way round...or it could be that with more sophisticated cameras I am getting more usable shots. There is also the fact that in the days of using a film camera it was expensive to buy film, and get it processed. I used to be more selective about what I used that film for - which is a shame because in those days many of my pictures were rather crap !

  One of the things about yesterday was that I couldn't manage to find the resolve to manage my eating in the way I hoped. I had fish for breakfast, soup for lunch, and more fish, with marrowfat peas for dinner. I also seemed to get through quite a lot of peanuts. On top of that I had several bottles of beer from late afternoon. Two of those beers were ales, and one was an old ale which was full of flavour, and quite sweet tasting. It all didn't bode well for today.

  Last night my sleep was, with the benefit of hindsight, rather good....I think. Whole chunks of hours seemed to pass by with no recollection, but between those long chunks it sometimes seemed I was having trouble getting to sleep. I have a suspicion it just seemed like that, and it is possible that what seemed like an age in the dark was only 5 minutes or something.

  I know I had a varied selection of dreams, but only one is noteworthy because it was rather interesting. I think it happened after my first couple of hours of sleep. I remember laying in bed waiting to get back to sleep. I must have gone to sleep very gently because a dream seemed to ease it's way in (if such a thing could happen). In the dream I was still laying in my bed, but I had been transported to my mum's old house. I heard a door close downstairs, and maybe a creak on the stair. I knew it was my sister going to bed after watching some late TV. I heard her go into the toilet, and then come out again. She then went to her bedroom, and as the door closed I seemed to fall asleep except I was actually waking up still laying in my bed in the dark. It was like I had slipped into the past for 5 minutes, and then returned as if nothing had happened.

  This morning was yet another morning when I dreaded checking my blood glucose. I was rather shocked to find it had actually gone down instead of up. Yesterday morning it was 8.8mmol/l. This morning it was down to 8.0mmol/l. I also noted that my running average for the month was 8.5mmol/l on the dot, and it almost seems possible that the average could end up slightly lower than the very best month so far this year when it was 8.46mmol/l at the end of June. All I need to do is to control my sugar consumption as well as I apparently did yesterday for the next week and a bit. The trouble is that I don't know how I achieved that yesterday !

  I think my body is in fair working order this morning, but I can't really do much with it today. One thing happening today should be the very long awaited delivery of a bottle of whisky I ordered on 6th July (if I recall correctly). It will be arriving "sometime before 9pm". In practice I hope it is much earlier than that. Also happening today is a combined Sunday and Thursday drinking session with Jodie, and maybe Michael. Jodie couldn't make it here on Sunday, and can't make it this coming Thursday. So today is a sort of compromise.