07:32 BST

  The weather forecast got the essence of the day right, but the actual details of yesterday wrong. The bright morning was correct, but not the later rainfall. There was a very light shower at about midday, but the forecast heavy rain fell an hour late at about 2pm. Once that was over, which probably took less than 20 minutes, and maybe closer to 10 minutes. the sky brightened up, and occasional sunny spells resumed for the rest of the day. It think the afternoon temperature may have reached 21° C - more than the 19° C that was forecast.

  I have a suspicion that today may be a lot like yesterday. The morning has started sunny, and the sky looks clear enough for it to continue for some time yet. It is forecast to get very dull around midday, and I wonder if it will rain despite the forecast only showing a 10% chance for it. Some of the afternoon may be bright, and the temperature should hit 20° C this afternoon. Tomorrow should see 21° C, but it will probably rain in the morning. The afternoon should be brighter.

   I think I surprised myself yesterday by not only doing all the cleaning and polishing I set out to do, but also a little more. For countless years there had been many dusty cables hanging on two coat hooks on the back of the kitchen door. I decided I would just dump the lot in the recycling bin because I was never going to need those cables again (hopefully). I did cut off, and save one special connector on the end of one cable. I then scrubbed the back of the door, and while it would take a coat of new paint to make it look good, it looks a lot better than it did.

  The other thing I did yesterday was to go to Tesco where I almost forgot to buy milk for Patricia's coffee. Fortunately I remembered it at the last moment. I also bought a couple of ready meals to feed her. It is not the healthiest of diets, but I also bought a couple of ready made side salads so she had a bit of greenery in her meals.

  I still managed to leave a bit of time to relax, but not that much. It was lucky that I had finished all my housework earlier than expected (and more complete too) because Patricia arrived 2 hours early. Fortunately she did keep me informed about getting an earlier train, and didn't arrive by surprise.  It was just after 6pm when she arrived, and we started off with a couple of drinks, G & T for Patricia, and lagers for me, while we gossiped.

  I told Patricia that despite it still being early we couldn't go out because I was expecting a delivery from Amazon. That suited her fine because she felt more like relaxing. At 7pm, a lot earlier than expected, my Amazon order arrived. It was a couple of electronic gizmos, but I will wait until Patricia has gone back to Italy on Wednesday before I get the chance to play with them.

  Just after 7pm we had dinner. Patricia had a Tesco "butter chicken curry" with a salad salad.  I had ham, cheese and lettuce. As is often the case, Patricia had plenty more to talk about, and we chatted and drank until almost 10pm before we went to our beds. I think She slept mostly OK, but I didn't. Maybe it was because I had done a lot of physical exercise as part of my house cleaning, or maybe it was just sods law, but I had a wide variety of aches that kept me awake.

  I was also having trouble with the temperature. It was a cool night, but my bedroom didn't get quite cool enough to make the duvet essential, but it was cool enough that it was on the edge of uncomfortable to sleep completely uncovered. That, and the aches and pains kept me awake until almost midnight. Even when I did fall asleep I only slept for about an hour. I took a couple of Ibuprofen tablets before I tried for sleep again, and maybe they helped a little. I may have slept until 3am before I woke up again. The birds were singing outside, the sky was already a sort of pale grey, and it felt like the start of the day was getting quite close.

  That was when I took a couple of Paracetamol tablets to see if they would get me feeling good enough to get some deeper sleep. They may have helped, but by 6am it felt like I would just have to get up, although on reflection I think it was actually closer to 6.30am when I got up and started creeping around the house. The birds got a very early breakfast this morning, and that attracted a brief visit from a blue tit - at least I think it was a blue tit.

  I am sure I mentioned yesterday that I had run out of test strips for my blood glucose meter. I do have a few well past their use by date, test strips for my old blood glucose meter, and I had to use that this morning. I expect the reading I got was in the right area even if it wasn't exact. The reading I got was 8.7mmol/l - a bit higher than I would have hoped, but maybe some of the beer I drank yesterday may have raised it a bit. I don't think I ate anything in particular that was bad for me, although I can really remember what I had for lunch.

  I'm not really sure what I am doing today. Patricia needs to go out hunting for a USB-C power supply that is man enough to charge her Samsung laptop. An ordinary mobile phone charger does charge the laptop, but does it incredibly slowly. It took the charge from about 68% to 90% after being left on overnight. I don't think I will go with her, and maybe I'll manage to have a snooze. We may go out for a Wetherspoons lunch, but beyond that it will be a case of making it up as we go along.