The forecast web page has been revised today. Note the little downward pointing spikes/arrows/Vs for each hour. They weren't there yesterday morning. Anyhow, this morning, as the forecast predicted, is nice and sunny with an almost clear blue sky. That clear sky meant this morning was quite chilly, but it is warming up, and should reach 21° C this afternoon. That should feel quite warm in direct sunshine. Tomorrow should also reach 21° C, but theearly afternoon may be a bit dull. There could be sunny spells for a lot of the morning, and then again from 3pm until sunset.

   There is almost nothing to say about yesterday morning apart from what I have already written early yesterday morning. As far as I can remember I did nothing except start some washing, but I never got further than leaving it soaking in detergent. It is hard to recollect exactly what happened, mainly because nothing did, but I think I just kept putting off doing it until it was too late.

  In the afternoon I had to do a little preparation for a beer drinking session with Jodie. I invited Michael, but he was too busy to pop by. I think my preparation was no more than wash and polish a few glasses, and wipe a few old beer spill stains off the table (fortunately covered with a wipe clean PVC tablecloth. Jodie arrived at about 3.30pm, and we started on the first beer. Fortunately for me I provided all the beers except a two that Jodie left here. It was fortunate because I enjoyed the beers I had provided, and the two that Jodie left from am earlier session were also both nice.

  It made a change to have nice beers. Some of the beers that Jodie brings are very weird, and it is hard to believe they can legitimately be called "beers". The closest to weird stuff was a beer I bought from Aldi. It was a chocolate orange flavoured stout. I don't think I could make a habit of drinking it, but one can was nice. Jodie was a bit ambivalent about it - neither liking or hating it. I suppose my feeling wee almost similar, but with a slight bias to liking it.

  One other event yesterday was the delivery of a bottle of Ballantine's whisky that I had ordered from Amazon back in July. I'm sure it was caught up in a huge Brexit customs delay, but it was finally delivered just in time for Jodie to have a taste. Her verdict was that it needed some Diet Coke in it. I must say I didn't find it to be a whisky I could slowly sip, and get very drunk on, and I am not sure why. If it was something obvious like being far too smoky it would be easy to say, but there was some unknown flavour that spoiled it.

  Some might say I was just careless, but I would say it was ongoing research to test the limits of my tolerance. I am talking about my lunch. I had a rather nice bowl of chill flavoured noodles followed by a strange vegan sort of snack (or meal). The latter was a lot of gravel and grains, plus a few red beans in a sort of "add boiling water" pot noodle sort of way. I guess it could have had some merit because it tasted awful enough. The noodles were very nice, but I had an idea they may be a source of hidden sugar. I'm not sure sure about that mixed grain pot.

  My dinner should have been safer. It was oven cooked haddock in batter with tinned peas. The funny thing is that the day before I had cod and thought it might have been haddock because it didn't taste as expected. Last night's haddock, and it definitely said haddock on the container, tasted more like cod. Weird, ain't it ? I'm not sure about the peas because they were an almost unknown make, but it should have been mostly healthy for me.

  My sleep was a bit odd last night. Most of it was good, but at 1am something odd happened after getting up for a wee (although I don't think it had anything to do with that). I got back into bed and felt really hot. I was soon feeling very sweaty. It could have been some sort of fever, but they usually make you shiver. Maybe it was my liver having a freak out as it was dealing with all the booze in my blood (I was slightly drunk when I went to bed).

  I seemed to cool back to normal in an hour or less, although I think I fell asleep again before I cooled to normal so that one hour is a guess. I seemed to sleep well until as dawn approached I seemed to have dream after dream. I'll only comment on one dream because it is easy to describe. It was about a new Woolworths appearing somewhere in Catford. It's notable feature was it's size. It was huge ! The back half was devoted to fine clothes, clothing, and ballroom dancing. It had it's own ballroom with orchestra ! The front half was more normal with counters selling all the stuff that a typical Woolworths used to sell.

  My "experimenting", or foolhardiness meant my blood glucose had risen to 8.6mmol/l this morning. That is not bad as such, but it spoils any chance of getting my end of month average figure to less than 8.5mmol/l. In fact I don't see it happening now. I think this month's average is going to be very similar to the last 3 or 4 months, but that still merited the nurse saying I had "good control" of my diabetes.

  I've been quite busy this morning. I finished the laundry I started yesterday, and got it on the washing line to dry before 9am this morning (but only just). In today's warm sunshine it should be dry by 6pm. Once the bath was free of my washing buckets I had a shave, shampoo, and a shower. I think I feel clean enough to face company now. Once I have finished writing this I am going to dash out to Tesco to buy yet more cans of soup, and hopefully a bottle of orange flavoured Jameson's whiskey. I have seen a picture of a bottle of it bought from, I think, the Elmers End Tescos. I just hope the Catford branch has some.

  After Tesco I think I'll be going for a gentle walk in the park, and on to The Jolly Farmers where I hope to meet Angela. I still have doubts about whether I should bother. Oh well, I'll just have to see how we react.
  I nearly forgot to show this. This was the view to the west at 7:16pm last night. That pink sky really did herald a nice morning, and if the forecast holds true, a nice day.