I think the rain may have stopped a little bit earlier than 8am as seen in the screenshot above. It has certainly been a soggy morning, but also a mild morning (and it was mild last night). The latest revision to the forecast says full sunshine, non stop, from 11am until sunset. That should drive the temperature up to 19°  this afternoon, and the sunshine should warm my front rooms up even higher). Tomorrow could be very similar, but clear skies overnight will allow the temperature to drop a lot lower in the night, and the day may only warm up to 17° C.

  This morning follows a day where more seemed to happen in the night than during the day. The only thing I did yesterday morning was some basic housework to make the kitchen and dining room seem a bit nicer for the afternoon drinking session. It was a bit more of an intensive job that usual because as well as doing the washing up, including the glasses, I took out two bags to the recycling bin, and two bags to the non-recycling bin.

  The one thing I had intended to do, but didn't, was to hoover the dining room carpet. It still has bits of cardboard on it after cutting up a few boxes to put them in the recycling bin. Maybe I didn't bother because I knew I would be cutting up more boxes today.....well that's my excuse ! After that little spurt of work I relaxed until Jodie arrived. I am glad I got changed into my drinking clothes early because Jodie was early.

  Jodie arrived at just gone 3pm. When I remarked that she was early she pointed out that with Sunday trains being only every 30 minutes she would have been late if she waited for the next one.  I soon learned that Jodie had had a skinful the night before, and wasn't n a beer drinking mood. She had brought over 3 cans from her own stash, and declared that she didn't like two of them. I ended up drinking the contents of both big, almost 1 pint cans.

  I can't say that I thought they were wonderful, but they were far better than some beers Jodie gets, and perfectly drinkable. Both seemed a bit gassy - something that would only really become apparent much later.  After three cans, two of which I ended up drinking by myself except for a quick taste by Jodie, she asked if I had any cider. I did, and while she drunk a sugary fruit cider I drank a can of Guinness.

  I am surprised three hours passed so quickly yesterday afternoon. I was often a bit bored because Jodie was spending so much time on her phone, and in a way, so little drinking was going on. If Jodie was in a drinking mood we would have shared each can or bottle, and so go through twice as many (although the total amount I drank would have stayed the same). I relieved the boredom by going out to the kitchen to prepare the sprouts that were to be part of my dinner.

  I also dashed upstairs a few times to check on a due delivery. The delivery actually happened about 15 minutes after Jodie had left. It was £55 worth of beer advent calendar from the Brewdog Brewery. With other advent calendars on their way I decided just to treat this one as a source of a nice variety of beers.  There were 24 different brews all from the same brewery. I have yet to open a single one because I need to find out which one have novelty value for Jodie, but also because I was feeling I had enough beers for the day.

  I don't know if it was because all the beers seemed a bit fizzy (with Guinness being fizzy in a special way), or some other reason for feeling a bit bloated. It was bad enough that I didn't fancy the beef stew with red beans and sprouts that I had carefully cooked during the day. I had a few rice cakes with cheese for dinner, but it wasn't very long before I fancied something meaty. I opted for a can of chunky soup like Irish Stew.

 Maybe that Irish stew took me over the top, because a couple of hours later when I went to bed, after watching a bit of TV, I felt quite uncomfortable. I think it was actually a mixture of problems of which maybe the bloat was almost a minor complaint. It still meant I was belching quite a bit, and later in the night I was passing some really vile smelling wind ! My other complaints may well have been related, but perhaps not to the bloated feeling. Lots of bits of me, generally joints, but also my back at one time, were really sore and aching. On top of that I often felt far too hot in bed.

  It was a mild night, but it probably wasn't mild enough that I could half uncover myself for long periods in the night. It is entirely possible that some of my aches were the result of getting bits of me cold in the night. For instance my right elbow, which has very often been very calm since I stopped taking the Clopidogrel blood thinners, was really giving me a lot of pain last night.  My chest was often hurting to. I probably made that worse when I executed a strange manoeuvre to half twist my body while trying to reach a tissue behind me. That ended with a stab of blinding pain that felt like I was ripping my chest apart.

  Overall I did not get have a good sleep last night. There were lots of times when I felt too uncomfortable to relax properly. It is amazing that I still managed to eventually fall asleep at such time. I guess I may have got 6 hours sleep in total, but most of it was very poor quality sleep. I can imagine I'm going to spend a lot of the afternoon snoozing unless some excitement comes my way.

  It somehow feels lucky that my blood glucose has stayed in an acceptable area this morning. It was a little high than yesterday, but 8.6mmol/l is good enough. What I need to do now is to take great care about what I eat today. There is one flaw in that plan because one of the things I planned to do today is to get some shopping from Aldi. Top of the list is detergent and fabric conditioner, but food will also be involved. The other thing I need to do today is a bit of laundry.