This morning is most definitely wet and soggy ! The worst of the rain should ease off after 9am, but occasional showers might now continue until midday. Maybe the last couple of hours of daylight will be bright and sunny, or as sunny as it can be with the sun hovering over, or below the local roofline. Most of the afternoon may be just 14° C, but it could be 15° C just before midday. Tomorrow may well end up just like today, but maybe a degree cooler.
 
  Yesterday was one of those odd days. It started quite well. As I suggested I would do yesterday, I went shopping in Tesco. That felt like a nice brisk walk in sunshine both there and back, but soon after I got home the sky went very dark, and that seemed to drain all my energy and enthusiasm away. From that point on I seemed to do nothing that didn't involve a book or my PC.

  While in Tesco I mainly concentrated on some essentials like soup (8 cans) and cheese (3 varieties), but I did buy a few dubious things like tuna and sweetcorn, and chicken and bacon, sandwich filler gloop. I had an insane idea that they might go well on some oatcakes that I had bought as part of my Star Bargains order that arrived on Monday. Basically they didn't, and even cheese on those oatcakes didn't excite. I am thinking that the only thing that is going to go well on those oatcakes is Marmite, and I forgot to look for a new jar when in Tesco (but I do have some left in a jar here).

  I did have a moment of madness yesterday when I had a look at what other beer suppliers might be doing in the way of beer advent calendars. Advent means nothing to me, but boxes of mystery beers can provide pleasant surprises - or at least I hope they do. I found two other companies selling Advent Calendar boxes of beer, and they seemed cheaper than those already ordered.

  The most expensive was the order with Ghost Whale (yes, that is the name of the company !) that Jodie and I went halves on. She reckons that will have some really exotic beers in it. That is being despatched on 23rd November if I recall correctly. The box of beers from The Bier Company are already here, and I have no idea what is in it. That was the second most expensive, but it does contain more than just beers. It has nuts and socks as part of the package. Yesterday I ordered beer advent calendars from Beerwulf, and Beer 52. It seems that my order with Beerwulf is going to be delivered today - possibly less than 24 hours after ordering it !

  I wasn't expecting to spend so much time on it, but I seemed to spend quite a few hours on my train cataloguing project yesterday. I have made the project more time consuming by including a link to a high(ish) resolution picture of each train that appears in the list. I will have to go back to earlier entries at some time to include the links, but at least I have managed a smooth process to add the links to the spreadsheet now. My only worry is whether the one other person who may see the spreadsheet will be able to view it properly on his PC. It is quite likely he could still be running Windows XP, and an old copy of Office 2003. He might find he will have to download Libre Office and install it (it is free).

  I ate a selection of junk through the day, mostly using oatcakes as a base, but I was trying to bide my time until I could eat the other half of the Chinese Takeaway I ordered the night before. I couldn't really remember what it was, but at dinner time I found it was possibly all the worst bits for me. There was special fried rice. I only ate/had room for half of that, and when it stops raining I'll put the rest out for the birds. There was a dish that had prawns and other stuff in a thick, and maybe sweet tasting "gravy". I can't recall what that was, but it was nice.

   Finally there was a Singapore fried noodles (I think). That was an awful lot of noodles compressed into a "standard" size container with assorted meats in it. That should have been quite spicy, but I added some hot chilli sauce to make it medium hot. It was quite a big dinner, and I knew my blood glucose was probably going to suffer a lot after all that...at least I thought it would.

  I thought I was ready for bed at 9pm last night, but my brain seemed to have other ideas. I think I finally managed to convince it to go to sleep by, or maybe soon after 10pm. I think I slept mostly OK, but for some annoying reason I couldn't seem to get back to sleep after 6am. I fought it, but after maybe 20 minutes I gave up, and slowly started to get up. It wasn't long before I could confirm it was raining outside because my knees felt really stiff (they seem mostly OK a couple of hours later).

  As I knew it would be, my blood glucose had gone up again, but it was only to 8.8mmol/l ! I was expecting much more. It slightly raised my monthly running average to 8.41, and now it is equal to my best month. If I am "good" I still have two days to get the average down a little. Of course having two bowls of instant noodles for breakfast, as I have just done, is not doing myself any favours !

  Today has started as a disgusting grey and wet day, and that means I have no interest in the outside world - except for three little things. I could be expecting up to three deliveries today. Two of them are from Amazon, and although from different orders, they will probably come together, and probably late afternoon to mid evening. The other, the beer delivery, could arrive around lunchtime like the last delivery that came via Yodel.

  Apart from having my ear glued to the front doorbell, I guess I'll be passing a lot of time today on my train cataloguing project, but I may find other things to do. There is a fantastically small chance that I could go to a gig at The Black Cat tonight, but if I do go it may be only for long enough to take some pictures. The band, The Pinheads, are, if I recall correctly, an old style rock and roll band, and I am not keen/slightly repulsed by that. Before any of that I must rush off to have a shower and wash my hair in case I am seen in public !