07:52 BST

  I don't think any revision of the weather forecasts from the two forecasters I follow (The BBC and The Met Office) managed to describe how yesterday actually turned out. The morning was depressingly dull. Thunderstorm warning were made from 10am until the end of the day, but not actually shown in the forecasts. The closest was a single hour of light rain at 5pm. That didn't happen, but there was some light rain in the morning that wasn't shown. There were a couple of times in the afternoon/early evening when the air did take on that warm and humid feeling that usually precedes a thunderstorm, but still nothing happened, however the afternoon was generally bright with sunny spells the whole afternoon, and into the evening.

  There are no thunderstorms warned of today, and there is very little chance of any rain today. The highest chance is a 20% chance at 11pm tonight. The sky is a little hazy, and sometimes the promised sunny spells are only of hazy sunshine (like right now), but hopefully it will stay bright enough to enthuse me before the sun gets covered by light cloud from about 1pm, and we see no sunshine again until (possibly) 6pm. The afternoon's high is currently predicted to be just 21° C. Tomorrow could see sunny spells from soon after sunrise until about 4pm. It will be cloudy after that, but should stay dry. The afternoon temperature may only reach 20° C tomorrow.

   The gloomy morning yesterday did it's usual trick of sapping all my energy and enthusiasm. The possible threats of thunderstorms for later in the day took away any hopes for finding some sort of second wind for the afternoon. The latter is a shame because the afternoon was actually not too bad except for feeling very humid from time to time. The net result is that I didn't do anything I thought I might do.

  I spent a lot of the day reading, and trying to snooze, but I don't think I actually had a snooze at any time. I recall a couple of times when I was almost asleep and loud noises woke me up again. Those loud noises could have been from a few houses away where it sounded like they were using a very large hammer drill to break up some old concrete in the back garden, or it could just been the kids from the local school making their typical racket. Other noises were possible, and did happen !

  If I did one positive thing it was to investigate an advert that appeared in The Metro that Jodie had cut out, and used to tempt me. The company beerhawk.co.uk seems to have found another brewery in Ukraine that is still brewing, and are distributing their main beer, a lager, here. A percentage of the price goes towards humanitarian aid for Ukraine. I had earlier checked with Jodie to make sure that she realised that it would probably mean ordering a box (usually 12, but in this case, 10) of identical cans of beer.

  Jodie has developed the habit of only drinking a beer once so she can log it on the untappd web site, but she reckoned she could drink several of the Ukraine beers if I ordered some. I went online and ordered a box of them, and to meet the £50 needed for free delivery I ordered quite a few more beers. I took the opportunity to buy some beers just for me...or probably just for me. They are all English ales from around the country, but there are probably quite a few Jodie has never tried before. I will probably try and guess which ones, and wait until she wants to try them with me.

  One of the problems of a day when so very little is happening is to fight the desire to eat. I partly failed, but I mostly failed safe with stuff I had a reasonable confidence would not raise my blood glucose too high. For instance, one of my "snacks" (or was it lunch ?) was no more than a tub of rainbow coleslaw, made with Greek yoghurt, with a heap of grated cheese on top. With the tub already full of coleslaw there was little opportunity to add too much cheese.

  My dinner also featured grated cheese, but once again not a lot of it. The biggest ingredient was Tesco, ready prepared and washed, mixed salad leaves with two fairly well cooked beef burgers. A good sprinkle of cheese added some extra flavour, although I had let the burgers cool off a lot before serving, and the cheese didn't melt. I should have put the cheese on the burgers while still cooking.

  Last night was unusual in that I didn't even bother to turn the TV on - even to check to see if there was anything on for me to watch. However, I did watch a lot of TV from early yesterday evening - maybe even before the evening started. I watched recording of the Granada/ITV Sherlock Holmes stories with Jeremy Brett playing Sherlock Holmes. In my opinion they are the best adaptation of the written stories to the screen (big or small). I think I watched 3 45 minute (originally one hour including adverts) episodes yesterday. While doing so I treated myself to a few beers.

  After having a mostly lazy day I did not expect to sleep well last night. Fortunately that wasn't the case once I got to sleep. It did take a while before I finally dropped off, but I seemed to sleep very well until about 4am this morning. By that time it was starting to get a bit cool in my bedroom to sleep uncovered, but it was not quite cool enough to sleep properly covered. I seemed to find a compromise, and I think I woke up with my back mostly covered, but my front uncovered.

  I may have been trying to convince myself that I felt so good this morning that I could easily do some of the tasks I need to do. I am not sure I succeeded, but I guess I don't feel too bad. When I went out into the garden to feed the birds I did seem to feel good, but destroyed that feeling when I did some washing up for some tools to eat breakfast with. For reasons i don't even bother to speculate about these days, washing up, with my arms stretched out over the kitchen sink, didn't feel good after a while.

  There may be two bits of good news this morning. The second hasn't happened yet, but one has, and it concerns my blood glucose reading. Despite thinking I had eaten more than I would have liked to, and had drunk a couple of bottles of some very nice strong beer, my blood glucose reading had only risen a tiny bit to 7.8mmol/l, and any reading starting with a 7 I regard as being very good.

  I am still waiting for the second bit of good news, but if all goes well the beers I ordered yesterday could be arriving today. The last tracking info I got was that they were at "the distribution" hub. They are in the (not so) delicate hands of Yodel. Past experience is that they should leave the depot a bit later this morning, and probably arrive here mid afternoon. This means I need to be here ready to receive them.

   That is no problem because while the weather should be pleasant, it doesn't look good enough to entice me out. Not only that, but I really do need to spend some time cleaning and polishing so much to make the place look a bit nicer for Patricia for when she stays here at the beginning of next week for two nights. Of course, even staying in, I can't let myself over work because I want to try and get out to a gig tonight. Chain are playing in The Swan in West Wickham, and with today not being a rail strike day, it is a relatively easy place to get to and from.