The latest revision to the forecast has cut the rain originally predicted for midday in the screenshot above, and now it should stay dry until 11pm. There is still a 10% chance of rain at any time though, and that comes as no surprise because most of today will happen under thick grey clouds. That does make for a warmer day, and from 2pm until possibly beyond the end of the day, it should be 11° C, This morning it was about 7 or 8° C at daybreak. From midnight tonight until 6am tomorrow rain is predicted, and then there may be more light rain from 2pm until 7pm. It will be colder today with a long spell at 8° C ending at 3pm, and then the temperature dropping down to 5° C by midnight.

  Yesterday was one of those days when it would have been easy to do nothing, and indeed that is how I passed most of the morning. As I said yesterday, I had a crazy idea that I might hear from Angela, although I knew it was 98% wishful thinking, but I still felt that it would be good to go out at short notice. In the end I didn't leave the house once all day (except to go out to put some rubbish in the wheelie bin). I describe my day, my night, my eating, my sleeping, and this morning in my full archive page for today.

  The consensus of my outdoor thermometers was that the temperature at daybreak was minus 1.2° C. There is currently a thick frost, and looking at the forecast it would seem likely that the frost won't melt until late in the morning, maybe even as late as midday.  Once again it looks like the day will feature a lot of sunshine, although maybe it will be more sunny spells than non stop sunshine, but even so, the temperature is only expected to rise to 4° C again. Tomorrow may feature what by comparison to the last few days, a heatwave ! It will be at the expense of it being a mostly gloomy day, and probably with light rain in the morning, but the temperature should climb to 11° C - t-shirt temperature in lots of direct sunshine !

  Sunday's are often boring days, and in one sense yesterday was a typical Sunday, and yet it felt like a satisfactory day despite nothing much happening, but not much is more than nothing. My full archive page for today has most of yesterday described, plus stuff like dreams last night, good news about my health (or maybe just blood glucose level) and some thoughts and ideas for stuff to do today.

  Today will be another very cold day. My thermometers generally agree it is currently 0.8° C (but one says 0.5° C).  From the start of the afternoon the temperature should rise to 4° C, but it will quickly fall back to 2° C at sunset. At the moment the sky is mostly blue, but the sun hasn't risen high enough to clear the roofs of the nearby houses. Once it does we should have a lot of sunshine, albeit cold sunshine until just before sunset. It should look nice from behind glass, but outside it will be cold enough to freeze the nuts off a brass monkey ! At the moment it is looking like tomorrow will see a similar temperature range, although there will be far, far less sunshine. The day after tomorrow might feature about the closest we can expect to a heatwave - a whole 10° C !

  I described everything worth describing about yesterday morning yesterday morning when I started to write late in the morning. Not a lot happened from then on until about 3pm when Jodie came over to have a beer drinking session. Before that I had made two decisions. The most important was that Jodie could come over because there was no way I was going to go to the Petts Wood Xmas carnival. My reasons for not going to Petts Wood, plus other stuff about my day and night, including memories of a few dreams, plus my thoughts and plans this morning are all described in my full archive page for today.

  There was some rain in the very early hours of this morning, and maybe a light shower around 8am, but I think it has been dry since then, and indeed the latest revision to the forecast says it should now remain dry all day. There is no change to the very dark clouds that will cover the sky from 1pm, and although no actual rain is now shown, the chance of rain for most of the day is 10%, and that rises to 20% for 2pm. The highest temperature today is expected to be no more than 5° C, and it is about that now. At 2pm it may fall to 4° C, and just 3° C at 9pm. Tomorrow morning may feature sunshine or sunny spells, but it will be a very cold day with the temperature rising to no more than 4° C.

  Yesterday was one of those days that turned out like nothing expected, and was a far better day than I could imagine. I was very slow getting myself together in the morning. It was gone midday when I finally had a shower, and was just starting to get dressed to pop out to get some shopping when a message came through on my phone.  To my surprise it was from Angela, and it simple said "fancy a drink". I couldn't refuse that offer ! My day, night, and the forst few hours of this morning are described in my full archive page for today.

  During the early hours of this morning some very slightly warmer, but much wetter air moved in. This morning the temperature had risen to 5° C, but maybe the air was not as wet as forecast. Instead of heavy rain there was just a light passing shower. The latest revision to the forecast just shows light rain for much of today. There is even a chance that the sun could peep out at 11am, and during the last two hours before sunset. The very early afternoon temperature may only reach 8° C. From 2pm the temperature will start to drop towards 3° C at the end of the day. Then things might get interesting ! At 2am tomorrow morning the temperature may have fallen to 2° C, and the light rain, that is predicted to fall for most of tomorrow, may fall as sleet. I would not be surprised if it fell as snow. It is not unusual for snow to fall when the temperature near the ground is only as low as 3° C. Of course it wouldn't settle unless enough snow fell to chill the ground. Tomorrow's highest temperature may only be 4° C. On such a disgustingly horrible day some bright snow flakes would actually look cheerful.

  I didn't feel all that good yesterday morning. It was nothing in particular, and much of it may have just been in the mind. I did try to overcome that bit because on such a bright sunny day I felt I had to go out and try and enjoy it. One of the first mistakes I made was eating a big breakfast. It was only fish fingers, and so from one perspective a light breakfast, but once I got moving it seemed like I could feel it swilling around in my stomach. As I explain in my full archive page for today, I ended up going out, but then cutting my walk short. I also describe the rest of my day, how I ate and slept, plus my thoughts and absence of plans this morning.

  The latest revision to the weather forecast has downgraded 3pm to just sunny spells, but otherwise is the same as the screenshot above. It seems it is going to be bright and sunny (almost) all day, but for all that sunshine the temperature is going to peak at just 7° C. Tomorrow should see the temperature up to 8° C, but the price for that will be mostly light rain all day long, with an occasional burst of heavy rain when no light rain is falling !

  My full archive page for today includes something I forgot to mention yesterday. It also includes the usual stuff about my day, yesterday, when on this occasion very little happened, plus the boring stuff about eating and sleeping, although the sleeping did seem to include some telling dreams. Finally, it includes my thoughts and plans about today - which are very uncertain.

  I find I don't have much faith in today's weather forecast. Last night mist and fog was predicted for most of the morning. The early forecast this morning, as shown above, only suggests mist at 11am. A later revision added mist for much of the morning. The very latest revision doesn't show any mist at all, but right now there should be fog. Maybe all these things are happening somewhere in London, but here in Catford the air is as clear as a bell ! However the temperature forecast was spot on. It was bloody cold, around 2° C, early this morning, but the temperature is slowly rising, and maybe it will make the predicted 8° C by 3pm. The latest revision of the forecast still shows 1pm onwards as featuring dark and heavy clouds with a 10% chance of rain. There could be some rain in the early hours of tomorrow morning, but most of the day is currently predicted to be sunny with the unusual curiosity with the temperature starting at around 7° C in the morning, and it falling to just 5° C in the middle of the afternoon and sunshine !

  My constipation ended at about the same time I finished writing yesterday. It was a relief to get that over in more ways than one. It meant I could go for a little walk. It was just a shopping trip though, and not proper exercise. I started by going to the cash machine outside the Tesco Express on the high street. I then went to Poundland, and finally to Korona - the Catford Polish shop. All the details of my shopping, plus how I amused myself in the afternoon, with pictures, and stuff about eating and cooking, sleeping, plus thoughts and plans this morning are all in my full archive page for today.

  This morning's forecast got off to a poor start. There was no mist, and the temperature was 2.5° C ! There are sort of sunny spells right now. It looks like there are cracks in the darkish grey clouds, and every once in a while one of the cracks passes in front of the sun, and we get a few minutes of sunshine - mostly rather attenuated sunshine. The latest revision to the forecast now shows sunny spells in the afternoon for just 2 and 3pm. 1pm is now shown as cloudy. If we are lucky the temperature may peak at 9° C for just a single hour at 3pm, but 7 or 8° C seems more representative for the afternoon. Some cloud, possibly thick cloud, will stop the temperature sinking too low tonight - maybe no lower that 6° C, but the daytime temperature may only rise to 7° C with heavy clouds in the afternoon. There is a 10% chance of rain at any time tomorrow, but no specific time for rain is currently shown.

  Yesterday was almost all to do with waiting for my Amazon delivery. I was startled to get a notification that it was out for delivery as early as 8.28am. I didn't know Amazon drivers knew that time of day. After not starting to write until late, mainly thanks to going shopping in Aldi before I started to write here, I didn't have all that long to wait until my Amazon delivery arrived. I think it was about 1pm, and the driver wasn't hanging around. He rang the doorbell, dumped the two packets on my door step, and went back to his van to watch for me to open the door and take the packets in. The full story of my day, including what was in the Amazon delivery, and how long it kept me amused, plus other stuff about eating and sleeping, morning health reports, and plans for today can be read in my full archive page for today.

  One feature of the weather I was unaware of was that there must have been a fair bit of wind in the night if the leaves outside my front door weren't dumped along the road as a prank. The nearest broad leaved trees are in the park maybe 3 or 4 hundred yards away. By my reckoning it was only about 4° C this morning, and possibly as low as 3.5° C. It is a sunny morning, although it took until almost 9am before it was very obvious. The latest revision to the forecast says the sunshine should last until sunset. The afternoon temperature should reach 10° C, and in direct sunshine that should feel OK provided there is no strong wind. Tomorrow morning may see a frost. There could be a few sunny spells, but most of the day will be a bit dull, and the temperature will struggle to reach 8° C.

  Yesterday was one of those days where it seems I forced myself to be busy. I can't think how I managed that, or even what I did, but I definitely can't remember thinking I was bored. The surprising thing is that I didn't snooze more after my lack of sleep the night before. I do remember one snooze, but it is only a guess to say it lasted for an hour. There were two main things I ended up doing yesterday, and I described them, along with some other stuff about yesterday, last night, and this morning in my full archive page for today.

  The early morning version of the weather forecast seemed to get things about right, although I reckon it was nearer 7° C than 6°, but it was definitely sunny, and now, at 10.38am, it has clouded over, and the chances of the sun breaking through again seem slim. The latest revision to the forecast say it is full sunshine right now. It most definitely isn't ! It also says that 11am will see sunny spells, midday will be cloudy, but the sun breaks through at 1pm, and sunny spells continue until sunset. I will believe it when, and if I see it. The other main feature of today's weather, and the forecast is probably right about it, is that it is going to be a cold day with the temperature never rising above 8° C. Tomorrow is currently predicted to feature sunshine from dawn to dusk, and that should raise the temperature up to 10° C - which is still chilly.

  Yesterday was one of those odd days. With the weather being like it was, cold and grey, it was a day of finding my own amusements indoors. In practice that meant washing a had towel, and a few other bits and pieces. It was also a day when I did a lot of "research". In this instance "research" meant scouring the intertubes trying to find some interesting (music wise) stuff to download. It also meant hours following links on Wikipedia. My full archive page for today contains fuller details about my day, night, and thoughts and plans this morning.

  Even the latest revision of the forecast still says that today will be grey from start to finish. It is the sort of greyness that mandates having the lights on indoors. The start of the afternoon may be 12° C, but nearly all of the rest of the day will be 11° C. There is a 10% chance of rain at any time today. That probably means it will stay dry, but gives the forecasters enough wriggle room if there is an occasional shower. Tomorrow may start with a few hours of sunshine. In the mid to late afternoon light rain can be expected. It will be rather chilly. The best we can hope for tomorrow is just 8° C !

  Yesterday was dull by weather, and dull by activities ! I think I really only did two things that were sort of productive, and one of them stopped other potential activity. The most productive was to wash a few clothes. The productive, and yet productivity blocking, was to copy 1TB of data to a 2TB external hard rive as a back up. That took a long time, and limited what I could do on my PC while it was happening. The long version of this, plus stuff about eating and sleeping, and my observations and possible plans for today, can be read in my full archive page for today.

  I optimistically suggested there could be some sunshine later when I tagged the screenshot above, but the latest revision to the forecast has removed the two hours that may have had sunny spells, and now says the whole day will be either dull, or very dull. The very dull may start at 4pm, but it is far from bright even now. There is a 10% chance of rain at any time today, but no rain is actually shown in the forecast. One very small improvement over the screenshot above is that now at least 2 hours at 14° C are predicted. Tomorrow may only reach 11° C, and there will be thick cloud, but once again no rain specifically forecast, from almost midnight tonight until midnight tomorrow night.

  Yesterday morning's sunshine was very inspiring, but there was little I could do about it because I had to get things ready for a Thursday afternoon drinking session. After having a shower, and allowing a little time to cool off, I cleaned up the dining room. The most important thing was to clear away the scattered bits, plus alternative spares, for Jodie's Mum's old Dell PC.  With that I could, and did pop out for a quick bit of shopping. All the details of my day, plus the usual stuff about eating and sleeping, plus thoughts and observations this morning can be read in my full archive page for today.

  It isn't shown in the original, or the later revision of the forecast, but it is currently sunny, and has been for an hour now. The sky looks slightly hazy, but I can still see it is blue, and I think this sunny spell may go on for a while yet. There are sunny spells forecast for midday and 1pm, but the rest of the day is supposed to be lightly cloudy until 8pm when the cloud will thicken up, and the chance of rain will increase to 10%. This afternoon should be a bit warmer with 13° C forecast. If by any chance it should still be sunny then, then it should feel quite nice unless it is too breezy. Tomorrow is looking very grey, but no rain is forecast (although it does say there is a 10% chance of rain for the whole day), and it should be 13° C.

  I finished writing yesterday saying that if I was ready in time I would try and get in a couple of miles of walking before meeting Angela in the pub at lunchtime (if she was available). Sometimes it seems that time just slips away, but yesterday morning I was ready to go out well before it was practical. If I had left as soon as I was ready I could have walked something like 5 miles, and arrived at the pub feeling knackered. Instead I stuck to 2 miles before the pub, and another 0.8 miles getting home. The full details, with pictures, plus the rest of the stuff I did yesterday, how I slept, and what my thoughts and plans for today are, can be read in my full archive page for today.

  Today marks the end of the sunshine for some time. To mark the occasion the sky should be very clear, and the sunshine non stop until sunset. Like yesterday the temperature will only rise to 12° C for a couple of hours in the afternoon. After that it will slowly fall, and like this morning, tomorrow morning may be a rather cool 7° C. It may warm up to 13° C tomorrow, but the whole days, apart from some brief sunny spells at 1pm, will be rather dull. Of course the reality will almost certainly be a lot different to what is currently forecast for tomorrow (and today !).

The early morning sunshine meant that I didn't need to force myself to go out for a walk yesterday. I was feeling quite good for a change, and looking forward to doing what I had set out to do near the beginning of the month. That was my idea of getting the train to Clock House station, and walking home from there. I have described my walk, and illustrated it with quite a few pictures in my full archive page for today. As usual it includes more about my day, my night, and thoughts and plans this morning.

  The saddest thing about today is that the latest revision to the forecast has removed the sunny spells at 2 and 3pm with light cloud. However it is definitely sunny as I write this, and it should continue, albeit as sunny spells for the last couple of hours, until 11am. It is particularly cool this morning, and it will only rise to 12° C later in the afternoon - by which time it will be dull and overcast, and so it will still feel cold. Maybe tomorrow there is hope that the sun, or sunny spells, will continue into the afternoon. We need that to happen because the forecast predicts the afternoon temperature to rise to no more than 11° C.

  Yesterday was another day where the lack of sun made me feel mildly depressed. Not actually unhappy, but lacking in any enthusiasm to do anything except doing my shopping in Aldi. That was "exciting" (sort of), but soon after getting home again the reality of the day became apparent. I did end up doing three things, but none of them took up that much time, although the middle one could have. The full description of my day, my night, my thoughts and plans this morning, plus what I ate, and how it made my blood glucose too high, can be read in my full archive page for today.

  The forecast for today predicted an even duller day than yesterday. Sometimes it won't be quite as dull, but it will always be dull. It will probably be dry, although there is a 10% chance of rain at any time. It will be another degree cooler than yesterday at just 12° C. Tomorrow may see some sunny spells in the morning, but mostly it will be a slightly less dull day than today, and it will be cooler still. The temperature may briefly touch 12° C, but most of the time it will be just 11° C.

   Yesterday was yet another day when I was not terribly productive. In fact you could say I wasn't productive at all. I blame it on the dreary day. I just get anti-enthused when the sky is grey. My most productive thing, although the actual product was close to zero, was to finally get Jodie's mum's other, and younger, old computer on the table, and to start investigating it. The rest of my day is described, with a few pictures, in my full archive page for today. As ever, it includes some notes about my sleep, and what I have already been up to this morning.

  Today may well be worse then yesterday. Most of it may be the same, but even in the latest revision, there is rain shown for 3 and 4pm, plus 6 and 7pm. The temperature will be the same as yesterday. That's 13° C, and with no sunshine it is going to feel quite cool. Tomorrow may be dry, but it will see the same mix of dull and very dull hours. It is also predicted to be a couple of degrees colder.

   Yesterday was quite a productive day when measured against what I was planning. My only plan was to try and convince myself to go for a walk if the sun ever came out (as the early morning version of the forecast said it would), but I don't think there was any sign of the sun, and so I stayed in. That left no plan at all, but I did go on to do a few things. One was to hand wash a large bath towel. That was hard work. You can read about that, and everything else significant I did yesterday in my full archive page for today. It also includes thoughts and observations this morning.

  The most recent revision to the forecast shows possible sunny spells for 11am, 2pm and 3pm. No rain is predicted to fall, but over half the day is predicted to have very grey cloud cover, and so it will look like rain about to start even if it doesn't. However there is a 10% chance of rain at almost any time today. It is going to be a bit cooler today with the temperature struggling to reach 14° C for an hour or two. However it is 12° C as I write this, and that ain't too bad. Tomorrow may be mostly extremely dull, and there is a fair chance of some showers. It will be a little cooler than today - possibly only 13° C for a short while.

   Yesterday was almost a productive day if you look at productivity in a twisted way. It was also a day when I really pushed my recent improved tolerance to sugar in my diet. It seems I broke the run of good readings, but more about that later. The most important event of the day was a beer delivery. It came at about 3pm, and if I had believed the early weather forecast and gone out, I would have missed the delivery. The rest of my day, night, and thoughts and plans this morning can be read in my full archive page for today.

  Don't be fooled by the sunny spells predicted for midday. They are no longer predicted, but the light showers for 1pm are still shown in the latest revision to the forecast. It seem that most of today will be dull, with some very dull spells. It seems almost mild at the moment, and for a few hours it should reach 15° C. The 20% chance of rain for 9am has now been reduced to just 10%, and of course there is some light drizzle falling right now.  Tomorrow is currently shown as a mix of dull and very dull. It will be a little cooler than today - maybe just 13° C - but it might stay dry, or it might be like today with random light showers.

   Yesterday was a very routine Thursday. I described yesterday how I went to Tesco to get some shopping in the morning. After that I did very little until it was time for out Thursday afternoon beer session with Jodie and Michael. It was both good and not so good. As usual, I describe my day more fully, and what was good or bad about the beer session, plus the usual stuff about eating and sleeping, and thoughts and plans for today in my full archive page for today.

  It is interesting to take a look at how the weather forecast had changed since I took the screenshot above. On the left is how part of the forecast was looking just before I started writing. It too is complete fantasy. The air is currently clear and bright, and the sun has been shining sine it rose at just gone 7am. They have got the temperature right. From about 2pm the forecast still follows the early version above. At 2pm a man steps outside the Met Office, and sees what it is like, and then will possibly describe more pure fantasy. All we can hope is that this morning's sunshine continues for as long as possible, but beyond that no body knows what will happen. It is almost meaningless to mention it, but at the moment it is predicted that tomorrow will be mostly dull apart from a few hours of sunny spells at the start of the afternoon.

 
  Yesterday could be described as generally satisfactory, and for a while it was rather good. One minor annoyance was that I made the same mistake as I often make in the morning. After I finished writing I laid on my bed, and let myself relax for a bit. I think I read a few pages from the book I was reading, and almost had a snooze. I then went and had a shave, washed my hair, and had a shower. Just to make sure I was even hotter I blow dried my hair. Now this was all well and good but I didn't have enough time to cool down before heading out on a short walk that would take me to The Jolly Farmers. You can read about my walk, illustrated with photos and a video, plus what the point of it was, what I did afterwards, what I had for dinner, show my sleep was not as good as it should have been, how my blood glucose is still rather good (and getting better), and my plans for today in my full archive page for today.