09:22 BST

  There were quite long periods when there was no sunshine yesterday, but it still seemed a fair day. There were random sunny spells, and the temperature probably peaked at 22° C. The breeze seemed to feel warm too. It was day that was good enough to dry two pairs of freshly washed, not very well wrung out jeans, in as little as 4 hours.

  Today could be disappointing. According to the Met Office forecast we should be seeing the last of the sun for the whole day about now. The BBC weather forecast optimistically shows sunny spells/period through most of the day, but with a gap of three hours in the afternoon. Both forecasts predict an afternoon high of 19° C. It appears to be little more than a single degree less than that right now, and so maybe there is hope that it might end up a bit warmer. Tomorrow could be mostly sunny, or even very sunny is the BBC forecast is right. The temperature will probably hit 23° C.

  I had a pleasant day yesterday, and yet I did very little. However, what I did do was important. It started off with a shopping trip to Tesco. My rucksack was filled with 8 litres of Diet Coke, plus a 70cl bottle of Jameson's Irish whiskey. It was on special offer (only with a Clubcard), and so it had to be bought - besides which, it is a very good whiskey in my humble opinion.

  I was quite selective about what food I bought, and I didn't even buy that much for me. I did get a fair bit of bird seed. For me it was almost just lettuce and bacon, but I also bought three packs of "Asian" instant noodles, and an Asian inspired salad type thing. It was alleged to be low sugar, but all the coconut and stuff did give it a sweet taste. I think that covers my entire shopping list.

  The two things I am most proud of, if "proud" is really the word I am looking for, was to wash two pairs of jeans. Hand washing jeans, and particularly wringing them out between each stage of the wash, is not the easiest job. I did one pair, and took a rest, but I started to think that maybe it wasn't so bad, and with the afternoon expected to be dry and warm, and even occasionally sunny, I decided to wash the second pair.

  I didn't really do much after that, and I guess I just sunk back into the usual boring, and lightly depressiveness of a Sunday afternoon - the worst day of the week ! I had eaten the "Asian inspired" salad put, described above, as a sort of elevenses. For a slightly late lunch I had a simple, but maybe not perfectly wise lunch of boiled new potatoes and mixed salad leaves. It worked really well. The texture of the potato and salad leaves was really good, and somehow the flavours complimented each other. The only danger is all the starch in the potatoes gets turned into sugar as it is digested, and so I try and keep my potato consumption to a minimum.

  During the afternoon I read for a fair bit while laying on my bed. While doing so I concluded that a slightly thicker pillow might be more comfortable, but there seems to be such a fine line between too low and too high. Maybe pillows should be described in quarter inches ! My new pillow combination (or two pillows) was probably very slightly too high, but closer to ideal than the original pillows.

  Later on I would watch a couple of episodes of the ITV version of Sherlock Holmes - the most authentic version in my opinion. During the second one I had my dinner. It was three cheese and chill flavoured burger patties served on a bed of mixed lettuce leaves.  It was very enjoyable, even if it left me slightly wanting more. I could have had some Twiglets as a sort of "afters", but I had gone off Twiglets at that point.

  Earlier on I had been happily crunching away on some Twigletsm, and I remember the point when one sharp bit of Twiglet cut what was probably my gum. I didn't really pay much attention to it until later when I was preparing my dinner. It felt like I had a bit of slippery leaf caught between my teeth. I went to try and pull it out, but what came out was a blood clot. Once again the bad side of the blood thinner, Clopidogrel, that I take became apparent. It makes me a bit like a haemophiliac - one small cut can bleed very freely for ages. I am not sure what caused it to clot again - it was either strong mouthwash, or more likely, neat whisky, but it could have just been time.

  It makes me reluctant to each Twiglets again, but I have half a bag of them, and I am not going to let them go to waste. The only answer is to eat them one at a time, and even then to eat very slowly. That will be so tedious that I won't be able to enjoy them as I concentrate on not cutting the soft tissues inside my mouth.

  I had a quick flick around the TV channels after dinner, and I only found two channels with anything interesting on them. One was Dave, showing a repeat of QI. The programme description made it sound like I might not have seen before, but it would clash with better stuff on Sky Arts. When I first tuned to Sky Arts they were showing a Status Quo concert. I watched them play a few tunes, but I think I only like Status Quo one song at a time. After a couple I turned off to read my book.

  I turned on an hour or so later when there was a documentary about the making of Pink Floyd's classic album(s). It was a bit confusing because it was initially about the album "Meddle", but then wandered to Dark Side Of The Moon. Maybe the two were sort of lumped together because there were clips of some songs played live during the "Meddle" era, that were further developed for the most famous class album "Dark Side Of The Moon". I feel sure I had seen the documentary before, but it might have been the case that I had seen most bits that made up the documentary in other documentaries.

  That programme was followed by a recording of Pink Floyd (minus Roger Waters - I think) performing "The Delicate Sound Of Thunder" at some arena somewhere. I watched a fair bit of it, but so much of the show is the stunning visual effects, and they don't translate to the small screen that well in my opinion. It was probably gone 9pm when I turned off and went to bed to read for a bit before going to sleep, probably by 10pm.

  I was sleeping on my new pillow combination, and it was strange in that it didn't feel right, and yet it seemed easy to sleep on once I was asleep. Ignoring almost an hour of insomnia at about 3.30am, I seemed to sleep better than usual, and for some reason I can only remember waking up for a pee twice in the night. I have no idea when I couldn't sleep for that hour, or I think it was close to a full hour, at around 3.30am. I just couldn't seem to get comfortable, and it wasn't really the pillows that were the problem, but I guess they didn't help.

  Some of the problem was temperature related, and trying to find the impossible ration between how much I was uncovered, and how much covered by the duvet. One curious thing is that I can't seem to recall any specific bits, like an elbow, or other joint being particularly uncomfortable. Sometime it was just a single hair that was tickling somewhere on my face, and of course the more I tried to ignore it, the worse it got.

  I will admit it is more or less guesswork when I say I fell asleep again at about 4.30am. I slept for about an hour, and then I contemplated getting up, but I thought that maybe I would try for another "10 minutes" of sleep. Nothing seemed to happen until suddenly it was gone 7am ! That seemed a fair time to get up. One thing I forgot to mention about later yesterday afternoon/early evening, is that I guzzled three cans of Guinness. That could have been a good reason to get up to pee more in the night, but it didn't.

  My lack of peeing suggested a quite low blood glucose level, but it wasn't. It was only 8.8mmol/l when I checked this morning, and while a little bit higher than hoped for, it was good in respect of what I had eaten, and maybe drunk, yesterday. After my on and off sleep, and on different pillows, I seem to feel fairly OK this morning. In particular I don't seem to have any neck or back pains. I think the new pillow combination stays for now.

  I have got off to a late start, and I haven't got much to show for it. I have fed the birds, and I have fed myself. I had been thinking along the lines of skipping breakfast unless I felt any particular hunger. I can't say I felt hungry this morning, but I was wildly curious about the "Asian" instant noodles I bought yesterday. One in particular was Kimchi flavour, and that is what I had this morning. It wasn't nasty in any way, but I can't really say I enjoyed it. Now my curiosity is satisfied I doubt I will buy any more of that flavour.

  Another thing I forgot to mention about yesterday was that I received a reply to a text message I sent to Jodie about drinking. She confirmed she was recently back from Finland, and maybe it was late on Saturday night because she said she was too tired to go out - and specially too tired to bother with buses. She suggested that we have our beer tasting session today.

  My day is now planned for boozing from mid afternoon. Before that I want to do some shopping either in Poundland and/or Savers. There is nothing in either shop that I can't live without for a few days, or more, and so it all hangs on how much time and enthusiasm I have.