The forecast has changed quite a lot since taking the screenshot above. There was rain in the small hours of the morning but it was all over by 7am. As I look out the window now I see a lot of blue sky, but there is one bank of dark looking cloud, and it is exactly where the sun should be rising. If it were not for that one bank of cloud it would be sunny right now. Apparently it will now be sunny for just one hour at 11am today. The rest of the day will see light cloud. Between 1 and 3pm there is a 30% chance of light rain, and there could be more light rain at 7pm and 10pm. I expect even these predictions will change drastically in the next, and following revisions of the forecast. The one bit that has changed little is the temperature. After a cool morning the temperature should peak at 16° C, but now it is predicted to be that high for just one hour at 2pm. The one feature about tomorrow that may also be correctly predicted is the temperature, and a cold day is predicted with the temperature possibly not rising above 14° C. The rest of the forecast for tomorrow looks to be random samples of everything between rain and sunshine in all degrees.

  In some respects, yesterday was a more bad day than a good day, although like most days it had it's moments. I finished writing yesterday saying I had started the process of doing a bit of laundry. I had got as far as soaking a hand towel, a t-shirt, and three pair of underpants in detergent. I finished the wash, three rinses, and then fabric conditioner, no later than mid morning, and hung it all on the washing line to dry.

   I reasoned that if I acted fast enough if it should start to rain, I could at least get it three quarters dry before bringing it all in to dry indoors. It was a good theory, but it had one fatal flaw. I fell asleep in the afternoon, and woke up to see a black sky. By the time I had put on some shoes, and went downstairs there was torrential rain, and a very strong wind. That wind was strong enough to rip the plastic tarpaulin on the scaffolding around the house at the back that is having a loft extension built.

  I decided not to go out in that torrent to bring that laundry in, and just resigned myself to the fact it was possibly wetter than when I hung it up. The rain went as quickly as it came. By the time Jodie arrived, maybe 15 to 20 minutes later, the sun was out again. Unfortunately Jodie was not in a sunny mood. She thought she had a cold. It could have been bad hay fever, but she also said she didn't feel very good in other ways.

  I'm not sure why Jodie came over yesterday because she wasn't enjoying herself. It wasn't until the end of the session, that ended a bit earlier than usual, and after a few whiskies that she perked up. She announced that she was going to inflict herself on Armitage because he had more whiskies or something. Once Jodie had left my thoughts turned very quickly to food. I had a plate of grilled bacon for a late lunch. It was, of course, to buffer the beer I would be drinking, but it was also very delicious !

  I had eaten almost nothing apart from that bacon, and decided that with my blood glucose rather high in the morning, I was going to have to be very careful about what I ate for dinner. The simplest solution was soup - and lots of it ! I ended up having three cans of soup - one can of pea and ham, one can of lentil, and the third can was chunky vegetables and beef. The latter can had a higher, but still low-ish sugar content.

  It's hard to say when I went to sleep last night. I feel sure it wasn't that long after 9pm. After watching a few more ancient episodes of Blakes Seven I went to bed with the book I am currently reading (the autobiography of Isaac Asimov), and I read for quite some time. As I get near the end of the book more and more deaths are mentioned. What is interesting is the amount of people who died from their late 50s to late 60s. That is sort of my age, but what is most interesting is that many of them were sudden deaths - things like heart attacks. It makes me wonder if one daay I won't make it back from, for instance, the supermarket !

  There is not a lot to say about my sleep. It was interesting that I thought I woke up at 3.04am to go for a wee, and apparently woke up again at 3.05am, before I had even got back in bed, for another wee. Was one a dream, and if so, how many other times have I dreamed I had woken up for a pee ?  Maybe I ought to keep a notebook in the toilet so I can jot down the time, and then not have to rely on possibly false memories.

 The only other thing of note was that it was at 3am that I decided it was getting a bit cool in my bedroom, and turned the heater on low. I seemed to sleep a lot better for a while after that. I don't know if it was the extra warmth (only a matter of a couple of degrees), or whether it is the whirr of the fan that is some sort of soothing sound. My sleep did seem to be a bit disturbed from maybe just before 6am until 7am when it seemed like time to get up. Maybe I could have got up earlier.

  Since 7am I have been a bit busy. I've had a shower, and I've been to Aldi. Once upon a time I used to enjoy my early morning visits to Aldi when it was quiet in there. Now I feel I don't have to get there that early, and there is some thought that getting there later, such as at 9am like this morning, is better because there is a better chance of a manned checkout being open. Since they opened the self service checkouts I have viewed each visit with something akin to fear. This morning I had no worries because someone else with a trolley full of stuff had to do the big wait before the checkout was opened. I just had to queue behind her.

  The first rain is now expected at 1pm today, but there is only a 30% chance of it, and even if it does rain it could be just a light passing shower. I probably ought to go out for a walk of something today. The trouble is I really don't feel like it. My legs and joints feel stiff after the recent rain. Even the walk to and from Aldi didn't seem to loosen them up. I might possibly compromise and go and play on the trains for a few hours. I could potentially go to Clapham Junction to do some trainspotting, but I bet I don't.