Both the BBC and Met Office agree that this morning was wet and drizzly.  Their forecasts diverge after this morning, and it is the Met Office that gives the most optimistic forecast (as in the screenshot above). Late morning to mid afternoon should feature sunny spells...although having said that, the latest revisions to the forecasts show both forecasters agreeing that the afternoon is going to be dry, but dull. Both agree that from early evening it will resume raining again. The Met Office says the afternoon will be just 11° C, and the BBC reckon it might be 12° C. It is going to feel cold today, and it gets worse. The BBC forecast says tomorrow will feature drizzle, or light rain almost all day, and it will be just 10° C, and the Met Office says tomorrow will be mostly dry and 11° C.

  The big question is "what did I do yesterday ?", and I can't think of any positive answer beyond eating more than I probably intended to. Having said that, maybe it was actually less than that. My belief of too much is probably based on lunch which was essentially chips with Houmous - a word my spell checker says should be spelled probably the American way, but I now know better !
  I feel the label on the stuff should have the last word on the spelling of Houmous, and as I mentioned yesterday, I was sure it had a "U" in there somewhere. It has two ! My spell checker has now been taught that houmous is the correct spelling. There was another revelation yesterday, and it didn't come as a complete shock because I had suspected it for a day or two, but yesterday came the confirmation that the mechanical timer on my mini oven/grill has gone faulty. It is probably gummed up with grease.

  When I came to retrieve my chips I found that instead of having 10 minutes to cool off a bit, the timer was stuck, and they had 10 minutes more cooking than were good for them. Fortunately they weren't burnt to a crisp, but a few had still gone very very crispy ! Using chips to scoop up houmous was an experiment. The result of that experiment was that it had no good purpose, and I shan't try it again. Combining the two foods provided no extra enjoyment.

  I seemed to spend most of yesterday either reading a book, reading stuff on the internet, or snoozing. The main exception to this is when I did a small backlog of washing up. It looked like a lot, but the bulk of what was in the sink was my casserole dish. I had to give that a good scrub so that the next thing I could do was to prepare my dinner, and get it half cooked ready for a final cooking in the evening.

  By 5pm some TV was worth watching. Having turned on the TV a few minutes early I noted I could have started watching at 4pm with an episode of Star Trek: The New Generation. At 5pm it was Star Trek: Enterprise, and at 6pm it was Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. Later TV would include an episode of The Simpsons, and an episode of QI. There was another QI on later still, but I declined to watch that one because it was listed as a Xmas edition.

  I managed to hold out to about 6.30pm before I had my dinner. It was a thickened chicken stew made with skinless chicken breasts with leeks, green bell peppers, and green finger chillies. The latter didn't seem to be hot when I ate them, but a little later I burst into a sweat, and they may have been responsible for another night time battle between feeling too hot and too cold depending on how much duvet I had over me.

  I'm not sure what time it was when I first tried to go to sleep, but I am sure it took as long as an hour after turning off the light before I fell asleep. There were two reasons for the difficulty of getting to sleep. One was like recently when I just couldn't seem to find a comfortable position, but it was only half as bad as that. The other was, as I mentioned in the last paragraph, that old battle between feeling too hot when covered by the duvet, and too cold if uncovered. Once again it was only half as bad as it has been in the past, but the two reasons together really messed up my sleep.

   Another disruption to my sleep was when the phishing text message arrived on my phone at 1:48 am. It was probably more annoying because it was so stupid. A phisher was hoping I would click on the link, and reveal my apple ID and password to a false web page made to look like a genuine apple page. The biggest flaw in this pointless exercise is that I have an Android phone, and not an iPhone. as far as I am aware you can't have Apple Pay on anything except an Apple phone!

  Fortunately I got back to sleep fairly quickly after this interruption to my sleep. If I had ended up staying awake I might have been tempted to follow their dodgy web link, and entered some choice language as my credentials for Apple Pay.

  I probably woke up for a pee sometime between then and about 4.25am when I do remember getting up for a pee, and also turned on my bedroom heater. I don't know why I did it, but once again I made the stupid assumption that my bedroom would warm up very quickly, and indeed it might have if I turned the heater on full, but it was only on low, and going to sleep partly uncovered could only have one result - I woke up later feeling frozen !

  Somehow I still managed to get back to sleep again, but at sometime I must have kicked the duvet aside again, and once again woke up feeling freezing at nearly 7.30am. That is when I got up - almost 90 minutes later than I might have got up.

  I must interrupt the narrative at this point to say that for the last 10 or 15 minutes, full sunshine has been pouring through the window, and not only is it earlier than forecast, but it also feels rather glorious !

  Upon getting out of bed, and before I had a drink to wet my dry and gummy mouth, I checked my temperature. It was a typical value that I would get when the weather was warm enough to completely ignore the duvet, and still feel very comfortable, perhaps even too warm. That reading was 34.8° C.  I also checked my blood glucose once I had washed any sweat or other contamination off my hands. A nice clean little bead of blood on the test strip showed my blood glucose to b a very nice 8.1mmol/l, and once again my average for the month took a little dip. In the highly unlikely event I can keep this up to the end of the month I could get the lowest monthly average so far this year !

  My plans for today are fairly simple. It is a Wednesday, and I shall do what I do most Wednesday's with or without Angela. I shall be going to the pub, newspaper with crosswords inside in hand, to the pub for a couple of pints of Guinness. There is a microscopic chance that I could see Angela today. I have left mention that I shall be heading to the pub in a place that Angela can see. Whether she takes the bait or not will be revealed later. I suspect she won't, but at least this week she should know where I will be if she does feel thirsty, and maybe fancies a walk in the sunshine - if we do get the sometimes promised sunshine at 1pm.