The forecast for yesterday showed quite a few hours that were supposed to be dry, but weren't ! This morning the forecasters have filled in nearly every hour with light or heavy rain. The latest revision shows that 4 and 8pm may not feature rain. It is going to be another cold day, colder than yesterday, with the temperature mostly 6 or 7° C. Tomorrow should be brighter, and there is the chance of a sunny spell at 5pm. The temperature should reach 12° C for a few hours - almost double the temperature today !

  The horrid weather dampened my spirits a lot yesterday. I guess I sort of enjoyed going out to get some shopping from Tesco in one the drier periods of yesterday morning, but I couldn't raise my enthusiasm to do much more. I ended up having an exceptionally lazy day.

  I was very careful about what I bought in Tesco, but I did make some errors. The very worst was a bag of honey glazed salted peanuts and cashew nuts. I was sure the bag I picked up just said salted. I assume there were some, and it was just an error picking up the honey glazed version. I won't waste them, but I'll have to wash off the honey and sugar before I can eat them

  Another possible error was buying some spicy prawns in batter. I had them for my lunch. Without fishing the packet out of the waste bin I can't be sure, but I have a strong suspicion that there was a lot of sugar in the batter to give it a nice crunchy brown colour. I suspect that is even more true of the cod in batter I had for my dinner. That definitely seemed to have a rich, crunchy toffee like batter. It was very nice too - which can sometime be a giveaway.

  I didn't actually do nothing yesterday. I did do a lot of reading, and I might, or might not have had a snooze or two. I remember laying on my bed, eyes closed, and just listening to music. I can't remember if I did actually sleep at any time. I wanted to because I was bored, but I'm not sure it happened. I did several very small jobs - most taking a few minutes. One was to check and charge the batteries from my mostly redundant video lights. There just never seems to be an occasion to use them these days.

  I could have succumbed to the "opiate of the people" yesterday - day time TV, or even evening TV, but it was too much effort to force myself to watch undiluted crap ! I did watch one episode of The Simpsons while I ate my rather small dinner. After that I turned off the TV, and did some web surfing. Somehow the evening seemed to flash by. It was hard to believe that even when generally bored I was actually quite late getting to sleep. I rationalised it by thinking it would be good practice for nights when I want to go to gigs.

  I think it was about 11pm when I fell asleep. A couple of hours passed by, and then I woke up feeling cold. I turned the heater up, and after a pee I went back to sleep. I have a vague recollection that I dreamed, but I remember nothing of the dream. It was actually more like that during a single blink the clock moved on nearly 3 hours. That happened twice. I think I came very close to getting 8 hours of pretty good sleep last night.

  One odd thing was that despite drinking two 440ml (just over 3/4 pint) cans of Guinness early yesterday afternoon, I didn't seem to be waking up for a pee as much as usual. It even seemed less than usual as a result of my blood glucose level. It is all odder because my blood glucose was a bit high this morning. It was 8.6mmol/l. The worst thing was just that it spoiled a nice run of lower readings. The Guinness may have contributed something, but it doesn't usually. I feel the blame lies on the battered prawns and more so, the battered cod I ate yesterday.

  It's a Wednesday, and unless I hear otherwise, the highlight of the day will be spending an hour with Angela in the pub at lunchtime. Even having to walk through the park in the rain can't dampen my enthusiasm for it. The only possible negative thing is that after an hour of joy the cold, damp and grey world could come crashing back into my reality, and leave me feeling quite depressed for the rest of the day.