The latest revision to the forecast makes some important changes to the screenshot above. The 30% chance of rain for 3 to 5pm now shows just mod grey cloud with an unlikely 10% chance of rain. The biggest change is around midday. 10am is now shown as light rain, 11am as heavy rain, and midday as thunderstorms, and finally 1pm back to light rain. After that it will be dry, but dull. When I look at the sky I feel this revision to the forecast could turn out to be reality, but like this revision it could all change again. The chances are that that an afternoon temperature of 22° C is probably right, although having said that it seems all three of my thermometers agree it is already 23° C. Maybe the rain, if it falls, will cool things down again. Tomorrow is shown as just 21° C, and rain all day long - some light rain, but maybe a few thunderstorms thrown in as well.

  Very little happened yesterday ! In fact no big things happened, but there were some small things. Although in a way two of those small things were big things. Confused ? You ought to be ! I would define big things as a walk in the park, or a railway station spotting expedition, and maybe even doing a load of laundry, or some hoovering. None of that happened.

  As I mentioned yesterday, I was initially slightly constrained in my choices because I spent several session during the morning getting over two days of constipation. Like last Friday I could have gone out at midday when I was comfortable, and confident it was all over, but by then the weather forecast had changed to look a bit grim for outdoor activities.
  This is how the forecast looked after it was revised during the morning.  As I mentioned (in so many words) at the top of the page, it turned out to be basically nonsense. It was very dull in the afternoon, but the only rain was like a passing shower at just after 6pm. It was enough to give some of the road a wet look, but 10 minutes later those wet patches were dry again. Maybe today my garden might get a good watering !

  Two little things I did were actually big things, or so the inside of my brain said. I logged onto my two credit card providers, and paid both off fully. One was a fair bit of money because it had my new fisheye camera lens on it. That one was my Tesco credit card, and I am looking forward to some Clubcard points for the money I have spent on that card. I tend to use it for all my purchases except for in the the pub when I still use cash.

   My other credit card didn't need much money at all to pay it off. I only use that one for Amazon purchases, and I haven't made many of those lately. In terms of my shopping I seem to be living well within my means, but it is the standing orders for gas, electricity, water, and council tax that take a big chunk of my meagre income. Once summer is over, and my gas and electric consumption rises I will have to keep a very close eye on my finanaces.

  For now everything is OK, and one other little thing I did yesterday was to order another box of exotic beers to celebrate. I can do that easily enough, and so it is a small thing. Paying bank bills leaves me light headed, sweating, and dizzy - in a metaphorical sort of way ! I almost gave in to a desire for a takeaway last night, but I managed to resist that because that is a very expensive way of eating. Sometimes it need to be done, but not last night.

  With finances out the way I was free to do......nothing ! Well I guess reading is actually something, and I did a fair bit of that, and I spent some time on the internet. Almost 90 minutes was spent watching another Sherlock Holmes story from my collection of recordings of the excellent Granada TV series (with Jeremy Brett playing a very convincing Sherlock Holmes.

  One problem of not having any big distractions during the day is that I often desired to eat. I fought that most of the time, but I did give in to one odd desire. I felt a strong desire for a sachet of ready made chick pea curry that I must have bought from Aldi ages ago. Fortunately it was a very long life product. As well as chickpeas it contained loads of brown lentils. In fact I would describe it as lentil curry with some chickpeas. I thought all that fibre would be good for me, but it hasn't done anything yet. It was nice though.

  My dinner got a bit out of hand. It was going to be tempura chicken lumps with salad leaves, but I changed my mind after cooking the chicken, and decided that well grilled bacon would go with the peppery salad leaves. It did ! Bacon lettuce and tomato may now be a traditional sandwich/bun filling, but it is even nicer without the bread. I still ate the tempura chicken as a sort of weird dessert.

  It could have been the food with hot pepper sauce, or maybe it was just the weather, but it felt like another very sticky night last night. The original weather forecast suggested it might have been a fresher night than recently, but my thermometers said it was still 30° C in my bedroom, and 28° C outside at 10pm last night. I had to sleep with the fan on full. I woke at 5am and switched the fan off, but it was still too hot in my bedroom, and turned it back on again.

  I find it hard to decide how well I slept last night. On the surface it could have been good. I had little problem going to sleep, and I only have a very vague memory of being awake for 20 to 30 minutes around 2am, but I must admit I might be confusing that with the night before. It was the nature of my dreams that makes me think my sleep was often quite poor. While I can't recount a single dream now, I do remember something of the nature of my dreams.

  There was no specific subject matter to my dreams. It was like I had hundreds and hundreds of very short dreams. It seemed like most dreams contain as little as a very short phrase, or some sort of brief action, but with no build up, or after effect of these things. I guess I must be mis-remembering my dreams, and more must have happened. While I can't quote a single dream I can give a made up example of what one seemed to be like. It would be no more than me saying the words "26 miles to Nottingham", and no more. I'm not sure I have ever experienced such brief and useless dreams.

  This morning I think I feel moderately OK. I have yet to go to the toilet, and so presumably those lentils have not done their stuff yet. It makes me wonder what is coming next......Oops, spoke too soon. I am not sure those lentils have fully done their job, but I can say I am not constipated this morning. While waiting I have drunk a lot of chilled water, and probably left it a bit longer than usual. The result is that my blood glucose reading was just 7.7mmol/l this morning - the best for almost a month !

  All this leads on to the question of what to do today ? I know how I am going start. That low blood glucose reading is a great excuse, not that I need one, for a breakfast of Spicy Ramen noodles. After I have cooled off a bit after eating them, I shall have a showers, and then......? Maybe I'll do at least one shopping trip. I fancy stocking up on some Polish instant noodles from the little supermarket on Catford Bridge. They may have other stuff of interest in there too. As for the rest of the day - one possibility is setting up a camera on a tripod, by an open window to try to capture some lightning - if we actually get any. Other than that I have a book to finish reading, and I only have a few shortish chapters to read now. As the climax approaches it all gets very exciting !