The early forecast didn't mention that it was actually raining this morning. Some of the rain looked to be moderately heavy, but it is probably no more than drizzle now. The latest revision to the forecast says the rain will stop by 11am.  The latest revision also says that the first sunny spell will be an hour later at 2pm, and they will continue through to sunset - which now the clocks have changed to GMT will be at 4.37pm today. It is going to be quite a cool day. The morning was actually quite mild at around 15° C, but the highest temperature may only be a degree higher. Tomorrow may see 17° C, and it could be a sunny day.

  I predicted I would go shopping as one of the last things I wrote yesterday morning. I also said that on a warm sunny day I could go out, but for unknown reasons I didn't really fancy the idea. That pretty much describes most of yesterday, but I did do a couple of other things.

  My shopping trip to Tesco was a fairly pleasant experience. It was warm enough that I didn't need a coat, and walking like that is usually pleasant. It must have been very slightly cooler in Tesco because it felt like a summer's day when I left the store. When I got home I opened nearly all the windows to get some fresh air in the place. That included the bathroom window, and that allowed the room to dry out a bit. It was a bit damp in places before that.

  Although it was "naughty" I did buy one little treat from Tesco. It was a reduced price (about a third off I would guess) pack of caramelised onion and cheese sausage rolls. (Not actually sausage rolls, but sausage roll style.) They were the first thing I ate when I got home, and they tasted very nice. The could have been the biggest source of sugar that I ate yesterday. The rest of my lunch was Marmite rice cakes with corned beef and sliced red chillies - tasty !

  After allowing a bit of time for my lunch to go down I did a little bit of housework. I hand washed two t-shirts, and some underwear. I cleaned all my computer stuff off the dining room table, and scrubbed the PVC "wipe clean" tablecloth. It now looks a lot better for it. I also did all the washing up except for the beer glasses that will be used later today. I will do them later this morning.

  All that was done in time to lay on my bed to read, and then trying to snooze, while the window was open, the room smelled fresh, and the sunshine was shining straight on my bed. It was like laying on a sunny beach (I think I used the same expression a day or two ago). Eventually that got a bit boring, and I looked for other stuff to do. I didn't really find anything I fancied doing.

  I tried turning on the TV, but with all the channels Freeview offer, there was nothing on that took my fancy. Eventually I dug out my hard disk with TV recording on it, and watched about 5 episodes of Drop The Dead Donkey from 1993. I also started on what was to end up as a lot of whisky drunk yesterday.
  One of the whiskies I drank was the whisky pictured above - Bain's whisky from South Africa. I had forgotten what a nice whisky it was. It has a sort of mild nutty taste. I think I had two shot glasses of it, and then left it alone in favour of Tesco Special Reserve whisky that I had bought it Tesco yesterday.

  I was starting to feel a bit peckish, but it was too early to get my planned dinner ready. Initially I thought I might have a bowl of instant noodles, but then opted for a couple of cans of soup - one very low sugar, and the other just low sugar. That might have been as late as 5pm, or just a couple of hours from when I tend to have dinner. When dinner time arrived I found I didn't really want any, although an hour or two later I did snack on some cheese.

  After I watched the last episode of Drop The Dead Donkey from series three I went to bed. I am not sure when that was, but I don't think it was much after 8pm.  I was mildly drunk by then, and I thought the whisky would act as a soporific, and get me off to sleep nice and quickly. In fact nothing happened, and I thrashed around for something like an hour trying to get to sleep. I decided to get up again and try a bit later.

  It was back to my DVD of TV recordings, and this time, for a bit of alternative entertainment I watched an episode of Secret Diary Of A Call Girl. I guess it was a bit of titillating entertainment before bedtime, but it was all done in a very tasteful way. The weird thing is that I didn't find "Belle" (played by Billie Piper) very attractive. Maybe I am just not keen on blondes, or something silly like that.

  As I tried to get to sleep I was sort of comparing Belle to Joy Merryweather - a character from Drop The Dead Donkey. I could really fancy Joy despite her character being a bit wild, or sometime grumpy. The thing is she looks so nice. She has a lot of black hair, wears plain jeans, and a shirt or t-shirt, occasionally under a sweater. She is portrayed as a bit of a goth, and it is a look I rather like. It is odd how the one that is supposed to have sex appeal hasn't any (well maybe a bit now and again), and the other whose part doesn't need any sex appeal, is actually very sexy in my warped mind.

  Once I had concluded my mental comparisons I fell asleep very quickly. I was very drunk by then, and I seemed to sleep solidly until about 3.30am (GMT - so there is a loose hour in there somewhere). I have no idea when I fell asleep. I had given up paying any attention to the time. My best guess was that it might have been as late as 11pm, but it could have been an hour earlier. I may have got 5 hours of solid, dreamless sleep in before I woke up. The only trouble is that it seemed like I hardly slept at all after that, and I got up just after 6am.

 It didn't seem long before it started to get light outside. That initially threw me until I realised the clocks had changed to GMT. I had quite a hangover when I got up, but it has almost faded now. Maybe my breakfast bowl of instant noodles helped. My blood glucose was down to a nice 8.2mmol/l this morning thanks to having soup for an early dinner yesterday. Today I might have another light dinner of grilled fish with yoghurt based coleslaw (which I believe to be unsweetened).

One thing that is annoying me at the moment is a long wait for the delivery of a beer advent calendar from Beerwulf. They sent me an email 4 days ago saying that they had booked Yodel to deliver it. During those 4 days it hasn't left Beerwulf's premises, and the way it is worded on Yodel's tracking page is that they are waiting for Beerwulf to arrange for it to be picked up. The screenshot on the left is of part of the email that was sent to me. When I received the email I was looking forward to it being delivered in time for Jodie to inspect it today when she comes over for a Sunday afternoon beer tasting session. That will be today's main entertainment, although with Jodie probably scrolling through stuff on her phone, or playing games on it, she sometimes has little entertainment value.