Apart from a little light housework, I didn't have anything special to do after my shopping trip, and I spent the next few hours just being lazy. I might have even had a snooze. I certainly spent some time laying on my bed reading. Nothing much happened until about 3pm when Jodie sent me a text message to say she was running very late after oversleeping, but would get to me eventually. Apparently she had been kept awake half the night by the storm.

  Maybe the storm was worse where she lives in Elmers End, but although it did wake me up, I slept through most of it. It was almost 5pm before Jodie arrived, and we could get down to some beer tasting. A few of the beers were the very sour beers that Jodie likes. They can be so acidic it makes me salivate, and my cheeks cave in ! A couple of the beers were very nice, very nice indeed.

  The last one before Jodie had to dash off to meet her boyfriend by Clock House station, was a very sweet tasting stout flavoured with chocolate. It was like drinking a thick cocoa with alcohol in it. The best thing is that Jodie didn't have time for more than a quick taste, and I got to drink most of the can. It was delicious, but I did worry about it's sugar content.

  I had my usual instant noodle for breakfast, but I didn't have a formal lunch. I just had a few snacks instead. Most of those snacks were of Hula Hoop pufts (or whatever they are called). They are rings of baked potato and wheat, and most of them are just bubbles of air. They were alleged to be grilled steak flavour, but I just found them to be a nice savoury flavour. I think that in the end I had eaten  4 form the packet of 6 I had bought from Poundland.

  My dinner was a bit scary because it involved "washed and ready to eat" mixed salad leaves. It was probably these, although a different bag or different types of leaves, that was the most likely cause of my dysentery (or whatever) at the start of the week. I gave them one more wash before using them as a bad of leaves for the 4 small beefburgers I had on them. It was sort of nice to get a bit of green stuff back into my diet.

  TV was a bit boring last night. By 8pm I had turned off the TV, and took my book to bed. I think it was as early as 8.30pm that I fell asleep. I was woken up at about 9.30pm by a scam text message saying my Apple account (that I don't have) had been suspended. It directed me to link that almost certainly went to the other side of the planet to where Apple are. I deleted the message, turned over, and fell asleep almost instantly.

  The next time I woke up it was annoying, but only for the simple reason that it was still Thursday - but only just. The only reason was to have a pee, and I was soon asleep again. I woke for a pee a couple more times, although some of the later times didn't seem necessary. I think it was because I feeling a bit cool in the last hours of sleep. At about 5am I pulled the empty duvet cover over me, and that felt a bit warmer. It doesn't seem like it will be long before I will have to put the duvet into the cover, and keep it handy for the forthcoming cold mornings.

  This morning I feel moderately OK, and after rehydrating myself with a pint of cold water I found my blood glucose reading was a very good 8.3mmol/l. Evidently some of those sweet tasting beers were not bad for me at all. In fact those Hula hoops I ate were probably not ideal, although the nutritional panel does say they are fairly low sugar. It makes me wonder if I am going through another phase of low glucose readings for no obvious reasons, although it wouldn't come as to great surprise if tomorrow reading was very high again.

  There were several things I originally thought I could do today. One was a bit of trainspotting, or a bit of exercise. Maybe I might do a little of each. The main plan is to go to The Glades in Bromley where, if I can find them, Hell On Tap (or actually the Caz and Steve Duo)  will be doing a busking sort of gig between midday and 2pm. Apparently there have been a series of these gigs going on all summer, but I've seen no advance information about whose is playing except for those by Carrie and Steve. I missed the first time. Let's hope I find them today for their last performance there.