08:04 BST

  Yesterday started off rather dull, and there was even a tiny light shower, but eventually reality converged with the weather forecast, and the afternoon was generally bright with sunny spells, and the temperature reached 20° C.

  

  There are quite a few clouds to the east where the sun is rising, and some look rather grey, but the western half of the sky only has mostly streaky clouds. It looks like the chance of strong sunshine this morning, and more later this afternoon, with some sunny spells to fill the gap, could well happen. The afternoon should end up very warm at 25° C, but from 8pm it looks like the garden could get a heavy watering. Tomorrow should see some sunny spells, but it may only be 22° C, and then, once again, the garden could get another good watering late in the evening.

   My hangover got the better of me yesterday morning. It wasn't a painful hangover, but one where you just feel like your brain has been replaced by a damp sock, and weights have been added to your legs. To make matters worse, the first few hours of the morning were very dull, and these days it seems I need sunshine to motivate me. I almost did nothing at all yesterday, but almost is not the same as actually doing nothing.

  I did two things yesterday, and one was fairly important. Some days ago I wrote that my electric beard trimmer had died on me. I managed to open it up, and found one of the two internal rechargeable AA cells had failed. Yesterday I replaced both cells. I was reluctant to solder directly to the two cells because the heat can cause internal damage, but I had little choice about. I have yet to use it on my beard, but it seems like my surgery has cured the problem, although there is a strange anomaly when charging. The charging light flickers. I am wondering if the charger is about to die, but at least for the moment it is taking a charge, and the cutter sounds as fast as it used to be.

  The other thing I spent a lot longer on was doing more to my train photo catalogue spreadsheet. I had half a dozen pictures to add from last Saturday, but after that it all got a bit irritating. I feel sure there are are pictures I have that I haven't included, and I spent a lot of time going through all my years of pictures looking for anything I might have missed. I did find a few things, but maybe less than expected. It is premature to say the spreadsheet is fully up to date now, but it must be very close - until I got out and take more pictures !

  I don't feel I was particularly lax about choosing what to eat yesterday after starting the day with a moderately low blood glucose reading, but maybe I was. I can't remember of I had one or two bowls of instant noodles for breakfast, but I think it was probably only one. At lunchtime I fancied something different, and I had a couple of Turkish sausages. They were of a different make to the usual ones I buy, and I was quite disappointed with them.

  My dinner was very simple. It was ready cooked and sliced flavoured chicken on a bed of wild rocket. It was nice enough, but somehow it didn't satisfy. Only half an hour or so passed before I made up some supper. It was two rice cakes with cheese and ham on them, and two Marmite rice cakes with just cheese on them. I think I had more rice cakes earlier in the day, but I was probably stupid and ate them while working on the train pictures spreadsheet. I diverted all my attention to the spreadsheet, and barely noticed I was eating.

  There was only two things on TV last night. It seems that all the schedules changed recently. Channel 4+1 were still showing The Simpsons as usual, but Dave seems to have dropped repeats of QI in favour of repeats of Have I Got News For You. I watched the later, and then went to bed. That was at about 10pm, and I only read for a short while before I went to sleep. I had a very strange night. It took not thinking I was sleeping well, but obviously was, to new levels.

  I think I only woke three times in the night, and that must be some sort of recent record. Each time I woke up I didn't think I would get back to sleep because I couldn't get comfortable. The off thing is that the discomfort wasn't actually pain. It felt uncomfortable for almost unknown, or unrealised reasons. Maybe silly things like the duvet not covering me quite right. As far as I am aware, each time when I seemed to be thrashing around in bed, thinking I would never get back to sleep, I was probably fast asleep again in a time that could have been almost timed in seconds.

  The last time I was awake was just after 3am - if I remember correctly, and there is a lot of doubt about that - it could have been a dream. One solid fact is that one minute I was trying to find a comfortable position to get to sleep, and the next minute it was as good as full daylight outside. That was at 5.30am, and too early to get up, but I couldn't seem to find any good reason to stay in bed, and I was up earlier than expected, or wanted.

  I must admit I took my time getting up, but after a while I had scrubbed my hands (to avoid contamination of a finger prick bead of blood), and checked my blood glucose. It was annoying that it had gone up to 8.5mmol/l. That is very close to my average reading over the last year or two, but I was hoping for a figure under 8.0 like yesterday, and the day before were.

  Today the weather should be good for outdoor activities, and I have been thinking of another voyage of discovery using my Freedom Pass. There are still 2 more stations, Ewell East and Epsom Downs on Southern's network I have yet to visit. If I was feeling really energetic I could then change on to South Westerns network, and visit Ewell West and Chessington South. I did investigate walking between Ewell East and Ewell West, but I think it may be a bit too far for this sort of exploration.

  Of course none of this will probably happen because I need to stay in for a beer delivery today. It was on Sunday night, after quite a few beers, and with Jodie's assistance, I ordered yet more beers from Beautiful Beers. I was particularly keen with their clearance offers, although I only ordered two from that list. Anyway, the fact is that they will be here today - and probably right in the middle of when I would/could be doing other things. Oh well, one useful thing today will be to wash some clothes, and get them on the washing line to dry in the sunshine.