08:10 BST

  There seemed to be rather less rain than yesterday's forecast predicted. The first rain fell half an hour or so before the first predicted rain, and it was just a light shower. Then it more or less stayed dry until the evening. The heavy rain that had been forecast for the middle of the day fell at 11.30pm, and it was indeed very heavy. Despite being dryer than forecast, it was still a dull day, and with a top temperature of just 16° C it was a rather cool day.

  

  The weather shown in the screenshot above got off to a poor start. Just before 8am, when heavy rain is predicted, there was actually 15 or minutes of bright sunny spells. Admittedly the sun was somehow forcing it's way through a very dull and cloudy sky. What has happened since could be described as very quickly, very light, passing showers. The latest revision of the forecast correctly says there are very dark clouds overhead at the moment, but soon that will give way to lighter clouds until 3pm when there could be some sunny spells. 4, 5 and 7pm may see some light rain, and then it will brighten up again. Of course such a change in the forecast in just one hour suggests it will probably change a lot more, but I think we will still be stuck with a top temperature of 16° C. The current prediction for tomorrow can be simply described as bright morning, dull middle, with possible showers, and a bright evening. It could be 18° C for a while in the afternoon.

   For most of yesterday I was fixated on waiting for a delivery from Amazon. I know it is very silly behaviour, but I always let it dominate my whole day. It is doubly silly when the initial delivery notification said arrival by 10pm. It was pretty obvious that I didn't need to start to worry about it until at least some time in the afternoon. In one respect there was no need to get excited about it at all. It was nothing new and wonderful being delivered, just a top up of stuff I already have. It finally arrived at about 6.15pm.

  I was also hoping for another delivery yesterday. In fact I expected it to arrive with the other until I noticed it had got lost in transit. When I checked at about 6pm the earlier information saying it had been lost had been changed to "package delayed in transit". I took the bit of screenshot on the left this morning, and it said my package, containing seat pads, had left Merseyside just after midnight. If it then was taken non stop to Dartford it could have arrived by 6am (maybe) and in theory, it could still go out for delivery today. I shall be looking for updates soon.

  Just checked: My package arrived at Dartford at 8.29am, and because the lazy buggers rarely leave the depot until 11am or even midday, it is possible it could be delivered much later this afternoon/mid evening. I have one more package on it's way, and that is coming via Royal Mail. That could turn up any time today, and even if it turns up when I am out today, or tomorrow, fetching it from the sorting office is easy.


  There is not a lot to say about the rest of yesterday. I would have liked to have done some laundry, but the weather was definitely not washing drying friendly ! There was other stuff I could have found to do, like getting the hoover out, for instance, but the grey sky left me feeling depressed and just not interested. It was a day when many would turn to daytime TV, but I was not that depressed. If I had been, and had turned on the TV I would probably have slit my wrists after half an hour of daytime TV dross.

  I used up most of the day just reading, and a larger proportion of it was on the internet. Ideally I would have liked to spend some quality time reading a book, but every time I started that I soon found my eyes closing, and the temptation to have a snooze. I gave into that temptation more than once, although I probably didn't snooze for more than 20 minutes (and possibly even less).

  On such a day it would be easy to eat far too much. For a while I did have a strong desire to eat. If I had some of that nice sourdough Polish bread, one of several types that have no added sugar, I could have made quite a few big thick sandwiches. Fortunately I didn't have any bread here. I did have a very late breakfast of a couple of fish squares. They were a bit like Aldi's own fish burgers, but the ones I had yesterday, made by Youngs, had a traditional batter on them that almost puffed up when oven cooked.

  It only seemed to be a couple of hours later when I wanted to eat again. It was not warm, and it was definitely a wintry grey outside, and I fancied a soup. I had a can of lentil and smoked bacon soup. It was not the very low sugar version, but a slightly higher sugar version by a famous soup maker - Cross And Blackwell. Despite being "branded", and hence slightly more expensive, I don't rate it that highly. However, it went down so well that I then opened a can of Heinz beef broth. It is another soup that has a low, but not that low amount of sugar in it (although I guess it is very low by Heinz usual standards).

  I don't know how or why, but that soup stopped me feeling hungry until dinner time at 7pm. Dinner was flame grilled chicken chunks with mixed salad leaves doused in an excess of mayonnaise. After a few mouthfuls I sprinkled on some hot pepper sauce to liven it up a bit. It was nice, but somehow insubstantial. I resisted having any more for about an hour when I had a small amount of cheese to nibble - the first cheese I had eaten all day.

  The only other different thing that passed my lips yesterday was 2 pints of cider. The last time I had cider was a few weeks back when Jodie suggested we might have a cider session instead of beer. I think we only opened 2 bottles of cider, and one was revolting, and the other was close to it. Yesterday I had two bottles of basic cider brewed by Aspalls. One was described as medium dry, and the other as dry. I almost enjoyed the medium dry, but the dry was less enjoyable. In fact I struggled with the last few mouthfuls. It had a sort of tartness that made the mouth water in the same way that an approaching vomit does. Of course I didn't vomit, but the sensation was not nice.

  I stayed up late watching TV last night. I watched an edition of Have I Got News For You on Dave, and then quickly turned to BBC2 as the credits started to roll to catch the last 45 minutes of a QIXL. That must have finished by 10.30pm, and I went straight to bed after turning the TV off. I read for as little as 10 minutes before going to sleep. Compared to the previous two nights, I had an excellent sleep, although the dream(s) I had in the last hour featured people I really didn't want to see in either dreams or real life.

  I think I was sure I had forgotten something I ate yesterday - something that would do something bad to my blood glucose reading. Evidently I had remembered what I had eaten correctly, and I had somehow chosen it correctly, because this morning my blood glucose was a rather marvellous 7.3mmol/l - under my self set target of 7.5mmol/l. Somehow I also feel half good this morning (after ignoring the usuals).

  At this point in time I only have one plan for today. It is to go and get a bit of shopping in Tesco. I need Diet Coke, more salad leaves, and something to go with those salad leaves, plus something very nice, but still fairly safe. I have no idea what could be nice and safe at the same time. I'll just have to keep my eyes open for something. I can't imagine going out to do anything recreational on a grey day like today will probably be....Actually, the latest revision to the forecast has added a few sunny spells, and also quite a few hours that look like sunny spell icons, but they have a drip of rain coming from them. However, all those possible light showers are only shown as having a 30% chance of happening. Maybe today will be mostly dry, and mostly bright, but on the other hand it does seem that the forecasters are drawing weather icons from a hat once an hour, and sticking them at random. Anything could happen today. Part of the "anything" could be my parcel delivery, and so I have to be in and alert for that !