There was a lovely coppery coloured sunrise this morning. According to weather lore that means a bad day. The latest revision to the forecast predicts a fair chance of a shower at 10am and 4pm.  The sunny spell at 5pm, seen above in the screenshot of the early version of the forecast, probably won't happen now, and the majority of the day will be dull and bland like yesterday. The only improvement could be that today's high will be 15° C. Tomorrow will probably feature the same temperature, and the same dull blandness except in the last 2 hours before sunset. Those tow hours could feature sunny spells, but I feel sure reality will be very different.
  

  It barely seems brighter than it was when the sun was still only tickling the horizon. The latest revision to the forecasts says there should be rain now. It hasn't happened yet, just 10 minutes into the hour, but the sky looks like it could drop a torrent of rain on us. The prediction is that the dark grey clouds will turn to light clouds after 11am, and that there could be sunny spells between 2 and 3pm (not 1pm as shown in the chart above). The rest of the day could be light grey, and rather cool with the afternoon being mostly just 14° C. Tomorrow may feature light cloud all day, but it could be a little less cool with the temperature touching 16° C for a couple of hours.
  

  Today the forecasters may have swung the other way. This morning certainly started bright, but now (09:45am) the clouds seem to be almost covering the whole sky. The latest forecast predicts sunshine, or sunny spells until 1pm. It doesn't seem likely from what I cans see outside, but fingers crossed. The afternoon is supposed to feature light cloud, and the temperature could rise to 17° C. Tomorrow and the following days will probably be very autumnal, but maybe tomorrow afternoon may feature some sunny spells - maybe the last time we see the sun for a week or so. It will probably be a rather cool day with the temperature only reaching 15° C briefly, and 14° C being more typical.
  

  Once again the weather forecast contains the fantasy that there could be an hour of sunny spells this morning. In desperation, the latest revision has moved the time of the sunny spells to 9am, but there has been no sign of the sun yet, and when I look at the sky it seems highly unlikely. On the other hand I doubted the sun would ever break through yesterday, but it did...eventually, and then only for long enough to say hello before hiding behind the clouds again. The rest of today is still forecast to be very grey, but at least the chance of any rain is still shown as no more than 10%. The latest revision does say there could be some sunny spells at 4pm. We'll just have to wait and see, but I'm not holding my breath. Today's temperature will probably be the same as yesterday - a rather cold start (true) and an afternoon high of 15° C. There is a small chance that tomorrow may feature an hour or two of sunny spells, and that it could be a degree or two warmer than today.
  

  As I write this there are supposed to be sunny spells, but the chances of the sun breaking through the murky sky that I can see seems rather slim. The latest revision to the forecast says there should be sunny spells for much of the afternoon...we'll see ! Thanks to the cloudy sky this morning didn't seem to be as cold as yesterday morning. Where the forecast said 7° C my thermometer said 9° C. I have a depressing feeling that today is, at best, going to be a slightly cooler version of yesterday (which was rather disappointing). The latest revision says a maximum of 15° C today. In broad terms, and there is no point in trying to go any deeper, tomorrow may be like today.
  

  It was most definitely rather cool at 7am this morning. My thermometer outside the spare room window said just 7.5° C. That is the lowest temperature I've seen since last spring. This morning started off almost bright, but it has only been sunny spells, and some of those sunny spells are a bit hazy. The latest revision to the forecast is adamant that there will be sunny spells right through to sunset today. It is going to be a bit of a cool day though. The latest forecast is for a flat 15° C all afternoon. The temperature may be the same tomorrow, but the whole day will be relentless light grey.
  

  There doesn't seem to be any fog this morning, but I guess there is a very light mist if you look hard enough. Maybe the fog may descent later, but right now it just feels horribly grey. Maybe there might be a sunny spell at 6pm, but to believe that feels like clutching at straws. With or without fog or mist, today would seem to be a rather dull and grey day, but at least the temperature might touch 18° C for a short while. Tomorrow might feature a few sunny spells, but most of the day looks like it will light grey. It will probably be cooler than today with a brief high of just 16° C.
  

  The forecast got off to a good start today. It said fog, and there was fog. In fact the latest revision says that 9am will feature mist, and with 9am now very close it is looking to me like the fog has not thinned that much. Maybe the fog or mist will last to 10am. We really are most definitely in autumn now ! The next thing will be frost, but maybe not for another month. Once the mist lifts it should leave a nice sunny day, and the temperature should climb from 10° C now to 17° C. Tomorrow will probably be mostly dull, and occasionally very dull, but with also a possibility of one or two brief sunny spells.

   I have to confess I felt pretty bad yesterday after my bender the night before. I really didn't feel like doing much at all during the morning, and I probably wouldn't have done much in the afternoon if it hadn't been for Jodie coming over for another beer drinking session. I fortified myself with a plate of grilled bacon. That seemed to help a bit, and more importantly it stayed down ! The rest of my day, with a few pictures, plus my night, and thoughts and stuff this morning, is described in my full archive page for today.

  The latest revision to the forecast says there should be sunny spells tight now, but unless my eyes deceive me, there is no sign of the sun now, and it is looking like there won't be any sign of it any time today except a slight chance of the clouds breaking up just in time to see the sun sink below the horizon, and darkness descend. The only positive thing is that much of this afternoon my feel warm at 19° C. Tomorrow may be very sunny, but paradoxically it is probably going to be a couple of degrees cooler.

   Yesterday was relentlessly depressing, thanks to the grey weather. I did nothing, and spoke to nobody all day until mid evening. Actually it is untrue to say I did nothing. I did do a fair bit of reading, and that was something. I also went shopping in Tesco....at least I think that was yesterday morning. It all seems very vague now. The most significant thing I did was to get very drunk ! I don't think I am even sober now, but despite the hangover from hell I have managed to write a lot about yesterday, and this morning, in my full archive page for today.

  There is no sunshine forecast for today, and some hours may be very grey, but it will be warmer than yesterday. The latest revision to the forecast, which adds a few more dark grey hours, still says this afternoon the temperature will reach 19° C, and may stay there between 2pm and 6pm. Tomorrow may be a degree cooler. The current prediction, which almost certainly wrongs, give a 30% chance of drizzle in the early morning, and the possibility of some sunny spells in the late afternoon. Other than that, it will just be grey.

  Much of yesterday could be described as rather good, and certainly better the the preceding few days. It turned that it was not perfect, and in fact it didn't end well. The first bit of productivity was to wash a single t-shirt, and some underwear. This was to take advantage of the sunshine. I then took a walk through the park to the hospitals Covid vaccination section to ask about getting the Pfizer booster shot. I will be able to get it if I wait to the 22nd of this month. All the details about that, and other stuff I did in the afternoon, evening, the night, and my comments about this morning can be read in my full archive page for today.

  I am rather hoping the forecast, shown in the screenshot above, turns out to be right. A very sunny day seems like a nice treat after so many cold, wet, and dull days. Unfortunately the latest revision now says the sunshine will be reduced to sunny intervals between 1pm and 5pm. That will have the effect of shaving off the brief 17° C shown at 4pm to 16° C like the rest of the afternoon. That is not that warm, but not that bad, and better than recent days. Curiously enough, tomorrow may not see any sunshine at all, and a couple of hours may be a rather dull grey, but the temperature could still briefly touch 19° C (but I bet it doesn't).

  Yesterday was a very different day to how I imagined it might be, and to some extent a quite positive day. That is not to say there wasn't one negative thing. I guess things started to change when I phoned the surgery to ask about 'flu vaccinations. I wasted loads of time in the phone before I finally got to talk to a human who at the last minute managed to find me an appointment for 4.20pm yesterday. There is more about this, plus loads of other stuff, including a few pictures and screenshots in my full archive page for today. It also includes boring stuff about sleep, and what I have observed, and what I might do this morning.

  There was torrential rain in the early hours of today, but now most of the sky is blue, and the sun is shining. It seems it may not last beyond 11am. The afternoon could be very dull and gloomy. It will also be rather cool. The highest temperature today may only be 14° C - just 2° higher than it is now. Tomorrow is currently forecast to feature non stop sunshine all day, and the temperature could be 16° C.

  Yesterday was another very unexciting day. It seemed like going to Aldi, to get some shopping, was quite enough activity for one day. I had contemplated a walk, but quickly dismissed that, and then I contemplated something else I mentioned yesterday morning - going for a ride on some trains, and taking more pictures of trains. With the possibility of an occasional shower it did seem a more sensible suggestion if I was going to go out. I didn't ! I discuss more of this, and reveal what I did do to pass a very boring day, plus how I spent a painful night, how I ended up getting up a lot quicker than intended, plus my plans and thoughts this morning in my full archive page for today.

  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. It got rained on. The long version of this, plus how Jodie was not very sparkling company, and everything else about yesterday, last night, and this morning, can be read in my full archive page for today.

  I don't think the latest revision to the forecast has actually changed anything except a few small changes for the end of the day. At the moment it is dry, but very dull, and the idea of full sunshine appearing at 10am, or 14 minutes time as I type this, seems like a joke. I think it would need the power of a nuclear explosion to clear the thick clouds from the sky. However, at some point the sun might break through, and most of the afternoon should be bright. The current revision still says there could be a light shower at 2pm, and adds another at 4pm, but otherwise it should be like the screenshot above. The early afternoon could see the temperature rise to 16° C. The middle of tomorrow could be similar to today, but the early morning, and early evening could feature some rain.

  Yesterday was a very miserable day. I felt no urge to do anything except vegetate. The rain that was forecast, and the dull skies sapped any enthusiasm from me, and I couldn't even be bothered to go and buy any birdseed. Those fat pigeons will just have to live off the land ! It was all made worse by an unexpected stomach upset mid morning. The unpleasant details of that are not described in detail, but I say more about them, plus anything else which happened yesterday, during the night, and this morning in my full archive page for today.

  It was another cold night with the temperature definitely down to 8° C around 5am, and possibly lower before that. At the moment it should be bright with showers. It is not bright, but it is dry. The latest revision to today's forecast strongly agrees with the screenshot above from 10am onwards. There will be rain, followed by rain, and then more rain after that. Much of it could be heavy rain. It is also going to be a very cool day with the afternoon being no more than 15° C apart from one hour when it might peak at 16° C. Tonight may not be as cold as last night, and tomorrow may be a degree or two warmer than today thanks to the prediction of the day featuring loads of sunny spells......maybe.

  To avoid any stress I will now reveal my Amazon delivery finally turned up at about 5pm yesterday. My whole day almost revolved around waiting for it even if I knew the earliest it could have arrived would have been 2pm (possibly even 1pm if the driver made me his very first drop off, and had floored it all the way from Dartford. The contents of that deliver was another bottle of Swedish whisky. The last one, bought a few months ago, was rather nice. Yesterday's one was from the same brewery/distillery, but had a different name. Unfortunately it tasted a bit too smoky/peaty for my palate, but maybe I can learn to love it. The rest of my day, night, and this morning is described in my full archive page for today.

  There was some really torrential rain around 8am this morning. It was accompanied by a quite gusty wind that blew the rain along like waves. The latest revision to the forecast tells a different story to the screenshot of the earlier version shown above. It now says we should expect heavy rain at 11am, and light rain at midday. At 2 and 3pm there may be light rain. After that the sky will start to clear bringing sunny spells, and maybe full sunshine from 5pm until sunset. Today's temperature may reach 17° C for just one hour, and 16° C will be more representative of the afternoon. Tomorrow may see rain from midday until sunset or beyond, and quite a lot of it could be very heavy. The temperature will be similar to today. We are mostly definitely in the tight grip of Autumn now !

  I think I could say that most of yesterday was a good day - sometimes for the wrong reasons (as I shall explain soon). The only thing of note that I did yesterday morning was to hand wash a large bath towel. I knew there was hardly any chance that it could dry outside, but I did get it out for the longest gap in the rain of about 3 hours. I also went to Tesco. The afternoon was devoted to beer drinking. You can read about the morning, the afternoon, the consequences of the afternoon, how I slept, and how this morning didn't start well, in my full archive page for today.