There is not a lot to say about yesterday. Apart from the afternoon beer session with Jodie, not a lot happened. Of course there was the little excitement in the morning, but that was all rather unpleasant, and I have already mentioned it yesterday. Once I had finished writing yesterday I washed my hair, and had a shower. After that I was doing little more than quietly reading, and waiting for Jodie to arrive in the afternoon.

  Jodie surprised me by turning up earlier than expected, and I had to answer the front door wearing an old t-shirt that didn't fit. I was just in the process of trying it on, to see if it fitted any better than it did when I first bought it some 8 or 9 years ago (at a guess), when Jodie rung my doorbell. The t-shirt was one of those annoying types that fit absolutely perfectly in 2 dimension, but not in the third. It sometimes make me wonder what sort men have a large chest, and possibly large gut, but are only 3ft high. That t-shirt was a very comfortable fit, but it didn't reach down much below my belly button, and of course every time I breathed out my bare belly was visible.

  Yesterday afternoons beer session was very typical. Jodie spent a lot of time on her phone, and only some of it was checking in the beers she was drinking on the untappd web site. One small difference is that I had some rather good beers, and one in particular, a special Xmas ale was very nice. The taste was different, but the style reminded me a lot of the old Young's Winter Water before they watered it down (and then apparently stopped brewing it because no one liked it then). It was a very deep ruby/chestnut colour, almost black, and it had spicy under and overtones.

  Jodie left soon after 6pm to get the train to meet her truelove (!!!) Alan at Clockhouse. She requested a final short, actually Akavit, to keep out the cold and rain. For some unknown reason I seemed to be quite happy with the beers I drank. We got through quite a few, although it has to be remembered that each can or bottle was split half each, and so many of them ended up as no more than a quarter pint taster. I doubt I even had two pints in total. No wonder I felt sober last night.

  Yesterday's morning blood glucose reading was exceptionally good, and I wanted to try and get another nice low reading this morning. I did wonder if it would be possible after the Xmas ale we drank. That did taste quite sweet, although it wasn't sticky like some strong ales can be. In the morning I had my now usual single bowl of instant noodles, and for lunch I had a single can of pea and ham soup. I did have a couple of small packets of salt and vinegar crisps before the drinking commenced.

  While drinking I had a small packet of twiglets. Early in the afternoon, well before Jodie arrived, I started cooking my dinner. It was some diced lamb in stock. I gave it two spins in the microwave before we started drinking, and as Jodie was getting ready to leave I added some sliced leek, and a few florets of cauliflower and brocolli before giving it another 10 minutes in the microwave. It was not as nice as I hoped it would be. Maybe it was because it was diced leg of lamb, although why that was I have no idea. The good thing, or at least hoped for good thing, was that it was that it should have had a very low sugar content - and possibly most of it from the leeks.

  I stayed up late last night because I watched an episode each of QI and Have I Got News For You on Dave, and I think the latter may have finished at 10pm. I then went to bed to read, and I read until my eyelids were drooping. That probably only took less than 30 minutes. It was a shame because the pace of the book has really speeded up now, and it is getting exciting.

  I slept well for most of the night, but I had maybe almost an hour of insomnia starting around 4.30am. That is an unusual time for it. Even when I did get to sleep I still woke up, and got up early at about 6.45am. It feels like I had all the sleep I needed now, but maybe later in the day I will feel a strong desire for a snooze or three. I have faint memories of a selection of dreams, and one may have included a bit of eroticism. Only one tiny bit of one mostly unmemorable dream stuck in my mind. I was saying goodbye to a woman who I was probably not going to see again. As she walked away she something that sounded like "don't worry, I have a surfboard". That rather puzzled me, and still does !

  Maybe the snacks, or maybe the beer, had their affect, and my blood glucose reading had gone up this morning, but not by much, and 7.0mmol/l is still excellent. A few more low readings like that and my running average for the month is going to dip below 8.00mmol/l for the first time in absolute ages. It was just 8.09mmol/l this morning, and so there is very little to go to get below 8. If I can somehow keep this up until the end of the week I feel I might treat myself to something that will ruin it all - maybe something like a takeaway curry or Chinese.

  The next things this morning will be to have a shower and to do some laundry. I don't know what will happen after that apart from the expectation it will start to rain from about 1pm. With no real pun intended, that will put a damper on any outdoor activities today. In theory I could go out in the morning sunshine, but I am still hoping for a parcel delivery today. If it comes it will be my new Nikon pocket camera. If it comes parcel post it could arrive at any time, and the last time was sometime around 8am. It is well past that now, and so maybe my hope lies in t being delivered with the normal post. It should only be a small packet after all. I have a feeling that I will pass a rainy afternoon doing more work to my spreadsheet listing all my train photos. Sooner or later I will have to go through my negative scans because I was taking pictures on film almost 40 years ago.