The temperature dipped to little more than 6° C in the small hours of this morning, but warmed to 12° C when the thick cloud moved in. The forecast says there will be a lot of heavy rain. It is certainly raining now, and has been for the last hour or two, but I don't think I would call it heavy, but heavy drizzle may be more apt. If nothing else it is persistent. The latest revision to the forecast says it will all be over by 11am, and soon after there will be solid sunshine until sunset - which is ridiculously early (4.36pm) now the clocks have changed. This afternoon's temperature is unlikely to be better than 14° C, although it should feel a bit warmer in direct sunshine. Tomorrow should be dry with sunny spells, but rather cool with only 13° C predicted for an hour or two.
 
  It was inevitable that the horrible grey and wet start to yesterday would quench any desire to do anything, but then it started to brighten up. By midday I started to think that maybe I could do something - even go for a walk. I spent a little while, maybe 20 minutes, checking, and changing a few settings on my Nikon D80 camera to see if I could change the auto exposure to make the picture look a bit brighter. Essentially I changed spot metering to whole picture metering. That might mean some part of the picture (probably the sky) would be over exposed, but hopefully the main subject would look better.

  I think it was 1pm and I was ready to go out, but the appeal of a long walk was just not there. I did go out, but without a camera, and only to Poundstretcher. I managed to spend a fair bit of money in there buying bird food and (not terribly noticeable) scented candles. I also bought a few other odds and sods - which included some food. I very nearly bough a bag of chocolate things, but I thought that might be pushing thins too far. I did buy a packet of Cadbury's chocolate fingers though.

  I probably spent most of the afternoon working on my spreadsheet catalogue of trains I had taken fair to good photographs of. Sometime it feels like I am getting close to the end, albeit the first end, of the project, but then I discover I went on another trip that involved lots of photographs. As I said yesterday, in so many words, once I get to the end I will have to start from the beginning (as in my earliest photographs) again to include links to missed photos. Then I will have to consider all the photos of old slam door trains. That might mean investigating what classes of trains they are - new trains have a number that instantly tells you the class, but older trains just had a cryptic 4 digit number.

  I had fish fingers for breakfast yesterday. After that I ate few snack, but I did eat a lot of instant noodles. I had instant noodles for lunch, and instant noodles for dinner. It was an experiment to see how they might affect me. It was also a good opportunity to compare Batchelors Instant "super noodles" with cheaper "Pound shop" instant noodles. Without exception I found the higher priced (as much as double or treble the price) Batchelors "super noodles" to be very inferior to cheap instant noodles. The bacon flavoured noodles that seemed like a good idea were particularly bad !

  I was hoping that instant noodles would add very little sugar to my food intake, and because of that belief I did allow myself 5 or 6 chocolate fingers. They were, or course, very nice, but I did feel it was impossible to savour the full flavour without eating double that amount, but that would be almost the whole box. It was probably worth stopping where I did so I can do it again - maybe tonight. I also treated myself to three small bottles of beer.

  I did a bit more to my spreadsheet, and watched the 9pm QI on Dave before going to bed at 10pm. I don't remember much after that, and so I assume I fell asleep fairly quickly, and I think I slept fairly well until I woke at 2am feeling like it might be time to turn the heater on low. By that time my outside thermometer was saying 6° C, or possibly even 5° C, and I was wondering if there would be a frost in the morning.

  If the temperature continued to drop there could have been snow instead of rain this morning ! However, the temperature must have started to rise again soon after that. The most significant thing during the night went by completely unnoticed. It was the clocks changing from BST to GMT. I woke up when my PC and phone said to was about 6.15am. I thought that was much to early to get up, but then it dawned on me that it was actually 7.15 BST, and so not an outrageous time to get up. Whether my body will drift into sync with GMT remains to be seen, but I can imagine wanting to go to bed before the afternoon is even over because it is dark outside.

  Once I had been to the toilet, and washed my hands, I checked my blood glucose to see what my experiment had produced. My blood glucose was up a bit, and initially I was dismayed to see it was 8.0mmol/l, but it was still low compared to most of the month. Best of all is that it was low enough to bring my end of month average down to 8.31mmol/l, and that is a new record low so far this year.

  I now face a dilemma. This morning is very dull, and very wet. I don't fancy doing anything at all, and yet if the afternoon is bright and sunny I ought to try and make use of it. I suppose the most interesting thing might be to take a wander in the park, probably the linear park, and see if the river is a raging torrent after all this rain. Before that I might just do some quiet reading. I might even have a shower....I probably need one.