This morning started with a remarkably pink sunrise, and that heralds poor weather today. It is possible there may be another short periods of sunny spells this morning - the original forecast said 10am, and the latest revision says 9am. Most of the day will feature light coloured clouds, but around sunset they will thicken to give rain tonight (which the garden will like). It is some compensation for losing the sunshine that it will be a little bit less cool today. The afternoon should reach 11° C. Tomorrow could be an awful day. The current forecast says rain continuing from tonight, and then non stop rain until 11pm tomorrow. Most of the rain should be just light rain. It will be cooler with the afternoon only being 8° C.
  I can't recall doing anything but a bit of photo and video editing yesterday morning. At lunchtime I made a very dubious lunch. It was no more than a whole packet of bacon. It had to be the whole packet because it was three weeks after it's use by date, and as I opened it there was a feint whiff of decay. It seemed safest to cook and eat it all before it got worse. After 30 minutes in my little mini oven/grill it had shrunk to half size, and I had a load of fat to pour off. I think it was very well done. It tasted OK, but maybe not quite perfect.

  I rested after lunch, and didn't even get the dining room ready until just before Jodie arrived for an afternoon beer tasting session. In fact I was still polishing the beer glasses when she arrived. It was another almost lonely session as Jodie spent more time on her phone than talking to me. However we did have some good beers, or maybe that should be one good beer. I guess the truth is that we had one excellent beer.

  That beer was a special Xmas stout made with hazlenuts and vanilla. It was like a nice cake, but unlike a cake beer it wasn't made my dissolving cake in beer. I've had a few of them, and while they can taste nice, they are very soupy. The other bad thing is that they are full of sugar. last nights special stout may have had some sugar in it, but it was far from syrupy.

  Jodie left soon after 6pm, and I immediately started to "cook" my dinner. It was actually couple of cans of soup heated in the microwave. I could have made a sort of beef stew, but I thought soup would be far easier, and maybe a bit lighter. I still wasn't completely sure that bacon wasn't having some negative effect on my guts. I did have a few twinges, but thankfully it never felt like I would throw up. I guess it couldn't have been that bad despite that hint of an unpleasant smell when I unsealed the packet.
  Another picture of Whitestar taken on Saturday night. I was quite happy with the final selection of pictures I had taken of Whitestar. I was only there for 30 minutes, and I didn't have a great deal to select from, but I found 9 snaps that with a bit of editing made up a small photo album. Maybe the best thing is that I didn't seem to have lost any skill I might have built up taking pictures in dimly lit pubs. After dinner I would have liked to have gone through the pictures I took of Chain, but decided I would leave those for today.

  I didn't even bother to see if there was anything on TV last night. I was feeling a bit tired, and I just fancied laying down and reading for a while. It wasn't long before my eyelids were drooping, and I am sure it wasn't long after 8pm that I fell asleep. I don't think I had a good sleep. I was having difficulty getting comfortable, and apart from the first time I fell asleep, I thrashed around a bit trying to get comfortable after every time I woke in the night.

  I don't know if that dodgy bacon was having some sort of funny effect on me, but from about nidnight I got into that silly cycle of where I was sweating under the duvet, and feeling chilly if I kicked the duvet off. I turned the heater up full, and after an hour or so the room was almost warm enough to sleep partly uncovered. I seemed to wake up a lot in the night. Sometimes it was for a pee, but on one occasion it was because I got cramp in one leg, and had to leap out of bed to put some weight on my legs.

  That cramp was at the end of a dream. I can't remember any more of the dream than the lasts second where I said to someone something along the line of "oh bugger, I'm getting cramp in my right leg". One second later and I was awake, and standing by my bed feeling the muscle relax. I only remember one other bit of dream. I was with someone, and I think it might have been my old friend Aleemah, and we were getting a bus from Lewisham to head home to Catford.

  The first bus we could have got in the dream didn't stop because there was already a bus at the bus stop (a bus we didn't want), and the bus drove past. I ran out and a little way down the road shouting at it. When I looked back I could see another bus, and this one had pulled up alongside the bus that was still standing at the bus stop. It was a very strange bus. It was the wrong shape, and painted a reddish brown colour.

  The very weirdest thing is that it was narrower than a standard London bus, and to make up for it, it had some seats hung on the outside of the bus. It had started to pull away as I got there, and I had to leap onto one of the outside seats. I only got it by the skin of my teeth. A hundred yards down the road the bus driver leaned out of his window (strangely on the left of the bus) and asked to see my ticket or pass. As I fumbled my freedom pass out of my pocket, and handed it to the driver to scan it, the driver was still looking back, and not where the bus was going. Somehow we stayed on the right bit of the road, and didn't hit anything. Once the driver handed me back my freedom pass I woke up.

  I was unsure what to expect when I checked my blood glucose. A few of the beers we had were marginally sweet, and my eating pattern yesterday was not exactly what has been giving me low readings. I was very happy to see the reading was 7.4mmol/, or just under my current target of 7.5mmol/l. That, along with mostly good readings all month, has given me a record low of just 7.8mmol/l for the end of month average. Last month it was 8.2mmol/l - also a record at the time. This is all very pleasing, and I wonder what I might achieve once I start to do a lot more walking exercise as the days warm up. Of course that could make things worse because a 5 mile walk does leave me feeling very hungry.

  There are only two things I am definitely doing today. The first is some laundry that has been soaking in detergent for nearly 24 hours (because I could be bother to do it yesterday). The other thing is to complete the selecting and editing of the Chain photos from Saturday night. There are far fewer to select from, and I think I might be lucky to get 4 decent photos out of them, but I'll do my best. I expect I will end up doing a bit of shopping today, and most probably I'll just be buying a few things from Tesco. I may do a bigger shop in Aldi tomorrow, or the day after, or....