The very latest revision to the forecast has not changed the prediction of a day of full sunshine - for the now limited hours of daylight ! For all that the afternoon temperature will only rise to 12° C, one degree less than yesterday. There will be clear skies for a lot of tonight, but surprisingly the temperature may only drop to 8° C tonight. It will be that tomorrow at sunrise - except the sun won't rise. The forecast predicts an all grey day, with a chance of rain at 6pm. The temperature should still rise to 12° C.

   I have to confess I had a very lazy morning yesterday. Apart from having a quick shower, I couldn't raise the enthusiasm to do any more. In fact I couldn't even think of something I could do, but still wouldn't have ! Things started to speed up in the afternoon. I had to do a few preparations for a visit from Michael, and also Jodie, who had decided she had a few hours to kill before going to a gig. She decided to waste an hour or two here with a couple of cans of beer.

  The purpose of Michaels visit was to sort out a few remaining set up/customisation settings on his new phone - which is my old phone. It has proved a bit tricky because since using Phone Clone, an app to transfer all the important stuff from an old phone to a new phone, it seems to have also transferred things like icons, and other stuff I just don't recognise from when it was my phone.

  Another problem is that Michael goes into panic mode if I suggest turning off stuff to limit the amount of information Google can bleed off the phone, and in particular stuff the helps (allegedly) to customise adverts. Michael thinks that Google will send the heavies around if he turns off those intrusive features. At least he now almost believes that EE won't send anyone around to beat him up for putting the EE SIM card into a different phone !

  To cut a long story short, I did manage to achieve all the  setting that I thought best for Michael, and to answer most of his questions. He now conforms that all the important stuff is working fine on his phone, and that meant he could change the subject to talk 10 to the dozen about music. At least this was a subject Jodie could take part in. For a long time she sat quietly sipping beer, and concentrating on her own phone.

  I think that while Jodie was here we only had three cans of beer, and each was split three ways. It meant that Jodie probably had less than a pint while she was here. None of those cans, from weird breweries, was particularly nice, but they were OK. One beer I shared with Michael was a big bottle of unfiltered Stella Artois. It only had the lightest of haze. Unfiltered could have meant there would be a thick sediment in the bottom of the bottle, but there was no visible sediment. It did seem to have a slightly different, and perhaps slightly nicer taste, but I drank too little of it, and my palate had been changed by other beers, to make a definite appraisal.

  Jodie left soon after 5.30pm to meet the people she was going to the gig with. Michael stayed a lot later than usual. It was gone 6pm before he left. I think he had been enjoying himself too much ! I was fortunate that I had precooked my dinner, and once Michael had left I only had to zap it in the microwave for 4 minutes to warm it through again. It was little more than a couple of chicken thighs cooked in stock with sprouts. It was nice, but probably because of the booze, it didn't really satisfy me. I had 4 rice cakes with ham and cheese on them as a sort of dessert.

  During the evening I watched the edition of QI that Dave showed at 7.40pm. Later on I started to watch the edition/episode that started at 9pm. The silly thing is that I can't seem to remember much about it, and so I am not sure if I remember watching all of it. I do remember that after going to bed I was reading in bed feeling comfortable and warm, and starting to yawn more and more.

  I have no idea what time it was, but just before I turned out the lights I went for a pee. I had that, and got back into bed. For some reason I had gone from feeling all warm and comfortable to still feeling warm, but I just could not find a comfortable position, and various bits, including my chest and my back ached. They were the main source of discomfort, although the aches were pretty mild. They were still bad enough to keep me awake for what felt like 4 hours, but I suspect was little more than 20 minutes.

  Once I finally fell asleep, I seemed to sleep fairly well last night. I can't remember any further insomnia, or at least none that lasted much more the five minutes. In the morning I had my now normal reluctance to get up. I woke up, and went back to sleep several times in the last hours before I got up. I had left the heater on low all night, and so I wouldn't be getting out of bed into a freezing room, but I guess it was still cooler than under the duvet. There was also the fact that I seem to have found an aversion to getting up in the dark. Before I retired I had no problem in getting up and in the dark, and at this time of the year, travelling half way to work in the dark.

  The most critical thing this morning was my blood glucose reading. After two morning of very high readings, I was hoping that more sensible eating would give a much better reading. I didn't really go out of my way to work too hard at sensible eating, but it was good enough. This morning my reading was a very average 8.5mmol/l - an awful lot better than yesterday's 10.0mmol/l.

  It is sunny now, albeit still very chilly, and it will be sunny all day. I really ought to do something outdoors today, but there is still that problem of chill - particularly letting my chest get chilly with all the aches and pains that causes. It make me slightly reluctant to go out. I may stay in and take advantage of the sunshine in a different way, and not just lazing on my bed while being bathed in warm sunshine streaming through the windows. I do have a slight backlog of laundry to do, and while I don't think I would hang it to dry on the washing line, the sun ought to warm up the front room today, and I can dry the clothes on a clothes horse in there. Ultimately I will reveal what I actually end up doing when I write tomorrow morning.