I suppose it is possibly that the sky may clear in the next 30 minutes, but there is enough cloud to block the sun at the moment. Both the BBC and the Met Office say a sunny start, and so maybe it is just too early now, and it will happen later. Both got the temperature about right, a very fresh feeling 16° C. If we do get some sunny spells they may only last until midday, and then the rest of the day will be dull - unless the BBC are right, and there will be sunny spells from about 5pm. Once again the afternoon temperature will only reach 23° C. Most of tomorrow will be dull with a small chance of a shower in the morning. Maybe just a single hour tomorrow afternoon will see 23° C.

  I think I started the day as if I was planning to be OK to go out in the evening to a gig. I guess that got boring, or perhaps I just wasn't in the right sort of mood, because I didn't go out. Today it doesn't feel like yesterday was boring, and I'm not sure I found it that boring yesterday. The fact is that I did very little of note yesterday.

  On reflection I can't see how I passed most of the time yesterday. I did a little reading, and maybe I had a snooze or two. I do remember trying to read a couple of times, but my eyelids would start to droop after 10 minutes or so. I think I remember actually trying to go to sleep when that happened on one occasion, and nothing happened. There was just one concrete thing I did yesterday, and that was another small bit of laundry. Like on several previous occasions, the sun came out after a long dull period just as I was hanging the laundry on the washing line.

  For most of the day I was still trying to eat as if I would be going out in the evening, or to minimise my sugar intake. Breakfast was the usual instant noodles. Lunch was just one can of Irish Stew - which can easily be mistaken for a chunky lamb soup. Later on in the afternoon I fancied a nibble, and this time I just had 3 rice cakes with salad leaves and ham on them. I thought I would leave off the cheese on this occasion.

  As the evening approached I began to feel cheesed off. That was partly because I realised the reality was that I just couldn't be bothered to go out to a gig. I began to feel that what I would really like was a takeaway to cheer me up, and about 45 minutes before dinner time I ordered a couple of large shish kebabs. When they were delivered the delivery man seemed to actually work for the takeaway, and he implored me to give a good review because that were under new management.

  I didn't think my takeaway was up to standard, and so they never got a review. It was still nice, but the portions seemed smaller - probably about what I would expect for a small portion, and not a large portion. The lamb didn't seem to be very good. It seemed almost tasteless. I guess the chicken tasted OK, but I couldn't get excited about it. Possibly the worst thing is that the chilli sauce seemed to be very syrupy. If my blood glucose is high this morning I know what to blame.
  I washed my dinner down with more genuine, brewed in Poland, Polish beers from my now dwindling pre-Brexit stash of cans. I think the strongest beer was 5.6%, and I didn't end up feeling drunk, or not too drunk, like I did whenever it was I had four cans of Polish beers to lubricate my evening.

  I passed most of yesterday evening watching TV. Quite often Sky Arts shows something good, and music related on a Saturday night, but not last night, or at least nothing that would grab my attention. I actually stared my TV viewing on The Talking Pictures channel. They were showing a "Spaghetti War Movie", and it was "interesting" ! It was also crap. It was set during The Battle Of Britain, during WW2, as imagined by an Italian director. The film had a very limited budget and the aerial action sequences were very weird.  There is a full write up about the film here > https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064571/, but the wikipedia page is a quicker read > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eagles_Over_London

  I note that wikipedia refers to it as a "macaroni war movie", and not a "spaghetti war movie". Read either of the links above to find out why. If I recall correctly, I was checking the electronic programme guide when that film ended, and noticed that a "Bond movie" was just starting on ITV. It was "The World Is Not Enough". Bond films live in that curious juncture of crap but good. I watched it to the end, and that took me nicely to 10pm, and bedtime.

  Another thing that seems to hover at the juncture of crap but good is my sleep. Some of it was good, mainly the first 5 or so hours. After that it was crap. After 5 hours (at a guess) of good sleep with some entertaining dreams, I was increasingly more awake than sleeping. I even briefly got up at 5am because I didn't seem to be sleeping. It was partly because I couldn't work out if I was feeling cold. Pulling the empty duvet cover over my legs seemed to make little difference, but if I pulled it too far up my body I felt too hot.

  There was no actual time when I really got up because it was sort of done in very small increments, but I guess I was fully out of bed by 6.30am, and 10 minutes later I had gone down to the kitchen to get my bottle of chilled water from the fridge. While passing through the dining room I checked for any signs of the mouse. There were none. The baited traps were still as I left them. I still won't believe that I now have a mouse free house, but I suppose if there is no sign of it I may have to start believing it.....until next time.

  Well the good news is that this morning my blood glucose is down to 8.4mmol/l. That is just slightly over my running average from January to July this year (8.38mmol/l). Maybe things aren't as bad as they seem to be. Today may be slightly better than some recent days, but probably not ideal. My plan this morning is to go to Tesco to buy, amongst other stuff, some bird food. This afternoon I believe Jodie will be here from mid afternoon for another beer tasting session. Like most times, some of it will be very boring as she spends more time ignoring me in favour of here phone, but at least some of the beers might be good.