It is a comparatively mild morning (11° C), and by 1pm it could be 14° C. Unfortunately it is going to be either dull, or very dull today. Despite only a 10% chance of rain this morning it is actually drizzling as I write this. I would not be surprised if there were not more drizzle to come - the day has that sort of feel to it. Funnily enough, the forecast for tomorrow seems to be a better match for today, but I admit I base that purely on the fact that is shows light rain for 8am. It might actually be duller than today, and it will be 1° cooler or more.
 
  Yesterday was the day I finally went out. It didn't go quite as well as planned. That was 90% due to the weather, and 10% due to a brief period of passing wind. For a while it did seem that maybe something more was on it's way, and indeed it was, but not until gone 8pm last night ! The thing about the weather was it was nothing like the forecast - even the latest revision shapshotted while I was out.
 This is what the Met Office weather forecast was showing on my mobile phone while I was just about to start my walk.
  This was the reality while waiting for a train to take me to Clock House station. I planned to walk back from there. You can see a small smear of blue sky in this picture taken looking north from Catford Bridge station, but it also shows the darker and threatening clouds. The whole scene looks pretty gloomy, and it was !  As I mentioned above, there was also quite a chilly wind blowing despite the air temperature just changing from 14° to 15° C when I took the picture. Another negative/worrying thing was that just before I went out I had been in the garden feeding the birds, and it looked like I had just missed a light shower.

  My original plan was based on the idea that there would be a lot of sunshine, and that it would feel fine in just a t-shirt. It was bearable, but not enjoyable. I planned to explore a footpath I had seen when leaving Cator Park in Beckenham, that was signposted to go to Clock House station. To walk to and from the start of that footpath was a 6.82 mile walk (see 21st February 2021) and there was no way I was going to be able to do that again without a lot of practice. I reckoned that if I got the train to Clock House station it would be a much more manageable 3 and a bit mile walk.
  I had made it to Catford Bridge station before I gave up, but thought I would hang around a bit and do some train spotting. This train, lead by 376006, would have been the train I would have caught. I was a bit disappointed that it wasn't one of Southeastern's new (second hand) class 707 trains. The ast time I was "train spotting" it seemed like most of the services to and from Cannon Street were class 707s in the middle of the day, and that the trains to and from Charing Cross were class 376 trains. I am positive this train had started from Cannon Street.
  This train was definitely heading to Cannon Street, and it is a class 465 train. It is almost as if all the class 707 trains were out of service - maybe for a software upgrade - maybe something as simple as the WiFi being reprogrammed to say Southeastern instead of South West Trains. I didn't think to even check the WiFi on the last class 707 train I used, but Jodie, who has to rely on WiFi because of here very heavy data usage, playing silly games, did check and confirmed that the WiFi had the wrong company name. I almost wish I had checked it, and taken a screenshot so we could all have a laugh in the future.

  The picture above is also a good example showing the dark brooding clouds instead of the forecast blue skies and sunshine. After taking pictures of the front and rear units of the train to Hayes, and the train to Cannon Street, I decided to go home via the old Turkish Supermarket that is now a semi international supermarket on Catford Bridge.

 It was my intention to buy a few beers in there, plus a few other things. I was only one pace inside the shop when I spotted all I would need for my beer purchase. There was a stack of 4 packs of Debowe, 7% beer priced at £4 for the pack of 4. That made it equivalent of £1 per tin, and with each tin being 7% that made it a good bargain. That is even cheaper than Wetherspoons, end of date, beer costs.

  There were two other things I bought in there. One was a nice crusty loaf, and the other was actually two packs of spicy, sliced, Turkish beef. The pack I bought a week or two ago was really nice, but maybe that depended on what it was eaten with. When I got home I made a sandwich using two thick slices of that crusty bread, and maybe the taste of the beef was lost in the taste of the bread. I'll use more slices of that beef the next time.

  I spent a bit of time in the afternoon preparing the photos I took while out. As well as the few I showed here, I also prepared 4 photos to add to my spreadsheet cataloguing all my train photos. It shouldn't have taken that long to do all the photo editing work, but somehow it seemed to. Maybe munching on a big sandwich slowed things up. Once the photos were done I went into pure lazy mode and lay on my bed reading, and I think I had a snooze too.

  Eventually dinner time came around, and I had a Tesco ready meal of liver and bacon to use before it went out of date. It was bigger, and better than the Aldi version, but mainly because the Aldi version comes with mashed potato. The bacon in the Aldi version is horrible. The bacon in the Tesco product is merely unpleasant. One day I should try cooking/heating them in the oven. Maybe if the bacon is cooked that way it will taste better.

  The liver and bacon should almost have been my entire dinner, but I had strange, impossible to resist, desire for some cheese on toast - like Welsh Rarebit but with extras ! I had all the ingredients I needed, and because I was using the microwave to heat the liver and bacon, I could use the mini oven/grill to make the toast. I had two slices of crusty loaf with sliced jalapeños and spicy beef slices under melted mature cheddar cheese. The only error was not to leave it grilling long enough for the cheese to start to brown. It was still delicious though, and the pleasure was multiplied by the fact that it must be 20, 30, 40 (?) years since I last had anything like it.  Pizza seems lame by comparison.

  I ended up watching, or half watching a fair bit of TV last night, and didn't get to bed until 9pm. I tried to read in bed, but after as little as 15 minutes I couldn't stop yawning. Very soon after I was fast asleep. For another night I seemed to sleep well. I remember dreaming, but I can't remember enough to even try and describe what the dream(s) were about, let alone any details of them. Evidently I got enough sleep because I felt ready to get up just after 6am.

  I ate a fair bit of bread yesterday, and a few other things that were once not good for my blood glucose. Yesterday it was like I was almost eating normally without a care of what I was eating, and yet this morning my blood glucose was just 8.1mmol/l. That took my running average down to 8.26  - a new record low for this year ! Had I taken some car I may have got this morning's reading closer to my target of 7.5mmol/l.

  This morning I feel neither good nor terrible. How ever I do feel a bit bad. My legs seemed to be a bit stiff, and my chest is still not fully OK. I could hear my ribs (seemingly) grating away as I was doing no more than drying my hands on a towel. Fortunately it didn't cause any pain or discomfort, but it did give the impression of being on the edge. Today I could potentially inflame my ribs/chest again by taking a walk in the cold and damp. With luck I shall be meeting Angela for a drink at lunchtime.