Like yesterday, the BBC weather forecast is far more generous of it's sunny spells than the Met Office. Their latest revision now shows sunny spells from 9am to 1pm, and then at 6pm. The only fly in the ointment is that the clouds seem to thick to let any sunshine through for several hours. Curiously enough, this is what the BBC forecast now says - the first sunny spells at 11am, and then continuing until sunset. Another reason for hoping the BBC may be right today is that predict an afternoon high of 19° C. The Met Office says 18° C. Tomorrow could start several degrees less cold than this morning, maybe around 15° C, but may only rise to 18° C. Both forecasters currently agree that tomorrow is going to be dull all day, but like today, it should stay dry.
  Yesterday was a much more productive day than the day before. It was partly due to the nicer weather, but mostly due to the fact that stuff needed to be done, and that was because it was also a beer tasting day. As I wrote yesterday, I had left a big buck of clothes soaking in stone cold detergent for 24 hours (although it started as warm). Top priority was the finish that washing, and free up the bath tub so I could have a shower.

  It might have been possible to dry those clothes on the washing line, and I feel fairly sure it probably would have been fine, but I deliberately only did a small amount of things so I could dry them on the clothes horse with the fan on it. One novelty yesterday as that by the afternoon it was feeling mild enough to open the front room, and back room windows for a bit of movement of air. That speeded up the dry, but not enough to get everything completely dry by the evening.

  The other big chore I got out of the way was to clear the kitchen sink, and surrounds, of quite a bit of washing up. It included the glasses we would be drinking out of a bit later in the afternoon. To speed things up a bit I turned the temperature up on the water heater, but I had to turn it back down a bit for my (late) morning shower. While in the kitchen I made a start on preparing last night's, and tonight's, dinners. Both featured meatballs in thin gravy. Tonight's dinner also includes some curry powder.

  Eventually all was ready for Jodie's arrival. On this occasion she was almost spot on time - 3.28pm instead of 3.30pm ! We got through a fair selection of beers, but many of them were Jodie had brought from home, and she has developed a bad (in my opinion) taste for fruit sour beers. Some I find OK, but most of them were not really enjoyable yesterday. We did have a few others which were nice, but I don't think anything we had was really nice.

  While we were drinking I put the last touches to my dinner. It involved adding some broccoli. Jodie left here at about 7.50pm, and so I had my dinner as soon as she left. It was a generally healthy meal - although that statement is biassed to my personal needs, which basically means it had a very low sugar content. Most of what I ate yesterday was also low in the sugar department, although I had doubts about the Singapore fried rice I had for lunch. It was the last leftover from my Chinese takeaway the night before.

  I watched a bit of TV last night, but some was in the form of old recordings. Probably less than 20 minutes after I finished my dinner, which was smaller than it looked once a lot of the gravy was drained away, I got peckish again. It was the sort of situation where I would have had a cigarette in the past, but last night I had 4 rice cakes with ham and cheese on them. The last thing I watched on TV was QI. On a Sunday it is on Dave between 8 and 9pm, and so I was in bed earlier than on a weekday.

  I may not have needed it, but I took the precaution of taking a couple of paracetamol half an hour before going to bed. It is difficult to know if it helped my sleep better or not. If any useful affect was still working 6 or so hours later, then maybe it did help. I did wake up once feeling too hot, and as usual partly pushed the duvet to the side. I fell asleep, and slept for about 2 hours like that. I woke up feeling rather cold, but didn't seem to suffer from stiff joints as a result. On the other hand it was not a very cold night.

  When I try and remember the dreams I am sure I had I keep bringing up snapshots that I feel sure were from the night before. I do have a niggling feeling that I specifically wanted to describe one dream, but whatever it was seems to have evaporated along with my sleep.

  I think the thing I was most worried about, the Singapore rice, was actually quite safe - maybe only because it was eaten at lunch time. This morning my blood glucose was down to a rather wonderful 7.9mmol/l. It is one of life's mysteries how I can get low readings without even really trying some times, and high readings when I thought I had been extra careful. It seems very likely that there is a mechanism in play beyond what I eat. I know that illness makes my blood glucose go higher, but sometime there is no obvious illness. I guess it is probably some hidden killer. I just hope that I can read to the post mortem from the afterlife so I don't go through eternity pissed off not knowing what killed me.

  The Chinese takeaway I got 2 nights ago was really rather expensive, but it was nice, and seemed to be safe to eat as an occasional treat. I don't fancy paying all the extra of ordering it via Just Eat. I could order direct from the takeaway - as I used to once upon a time. It is a shame that "Very Nice" is not on the high street because I I could try and force myself to actually collect it myself on foot. I ought to investigate what I can get less than 10 minutes walk away.

  I don't think I'd like to go out and collect any food this morning because I don't feel that good. It is hard to describe what I feel, but I am sure it doesn't help that I feel cold. It is probably a good reason to put some heating on, but I still want to resist that for as long as possible. At the moment I an hanging on to the dream that the sun will finally break through the clouds. The BBC are still sticking to the idea that the sunny spells will start at 11am in the latest revision. The Met Office say the sunny spells should start before, or by 10am, but with 26 minutes to go, that seems unlikely.

  On the assumption that there will be sunny spells starting some time this afternoon, and continue for a few hours into the afternoon, I think I will try and convince myself to go out and stretch my legs. I'm thinking of a bit of train spotting - possibly ending up at Cockfosters on the Piccadilly line. It is one of the stations I need to visit on my Freedom Pass quest to visit all the extremes of free travel on it.