The forecast suggests today will be very similar to yesterday, but with a few added sunny spells. Midday, 1pm and 3pm are now shown as featuring sunny spells in the latest revision. Also, most of the afternoon is now shown to reach 9° C. Tomorrow morning is shown as starting at a chilly 5° C, but it might reach 8° C by mid afternoon. Like today, it should stay dry, but apart from a couple of sunny spells it will be a bright grey.

   Yesterday morning started off sort of quiet and lazy. Apart from having a shower I had little need to do anything else in preparation to an afternoon's beer tasting session with Jodie. Of course I could have done stuff like hoover the dining room, although in an ideal world it would be a job better done today - after Jodie had dropped crisps on the carpet, and not before !

  It was just before 2pm that Jodie sent me a message. She asked if it would be OK to get here later than usual, and then stay a bit later. She suggested getting here a bit after 4pm. I agreed. It was all to do with the timing of the football match. Jodie is not interested in football, but Alan, her boyfriend is. I think he wasn't going out until the football started at 7pm, and Jodie didn't fancy waiting ages for him, by herself in the pub.

  Some delays on the trains meant that Jodie didn't actually arrive until around 4.20pm. During my long wait in the afternoon I did a lot of yawning, and tied to have a snooze once or twice. After the fever of preparing all the best photos from Sunday's birthday party/gig, it was pleasing to be able to relax, but evidently not enough to snooze.

  Apart from being shifted in time by starting and ending roughly an hour later, and also on a Tuesday instead of a Sunday, yesterday's beer tasting session was pretty normal. We got through maybe 6 cans of beer - half each. In between drinking Jodie was typically engrossed in her phone, and I was bored. I wanted to tell her about what I great time on Sunday, but of course there was not really anything there she could relate to.

  After Jodie left to get her bus I went to get my dinner. I had not pre-prepared a suitably healthy meal, and this was a deliberate act. I knew it would be a disaster, but I had two ready meals I had bought from Aldi. One was an Indian style curry, and the other was a Chinese style curry. The latter was the worst of the two for two reasons. It had the highest sugar content, and the least flavour. Apart from a few unidentified lumps, it was like thick gravy, with a hint of curry powder alongside some very bland, allegedly egg fried rice.

  The Indian style curry was a bit more flavourful, but both were terrible - such are the rewards of Brexit. I am sure Brexit the ready meals from Aldi were much nicer, but the increased cost of ingredients means they are just bulked up with cheap stuff like gravy powder. I ended up only using half the rice from each dish, and that made for quite a light dinner. I then did something even more stupid and had a couple of wholemeal rolls as a sort of pudding.

  I think I read in bed for just over half an hour last night. As far as I can recall, I fell asleep fairly quickly after I turned out the light. Also, as far as I can recall, I slept really well last night. Once again I didn't seem to get up to pee as often as usual. It goes against the face of the usual advice, but it does seem I pee less as night when my blood glucose is very high. It almost give a false impression of what my health is really like.

  After the curries, and the two rolls, later in the evening than I usually have dinner, I knew that I would get a high blood glucose reading. I was still shocked when it came up as 11.3mmol/l. That is well past the red line, and into the danger zone. In an ideal world I would fast until dinner time, but it is cold, and I will be going to the pub at lunchtime, and I felt hungry this morning. I have started the day with one of the smaller packets of instant noodles.

  I am debating whether to eat more before going to the pub. If I hear from Angela to say she is going to the pub (she said she would let me know when I asked about it on Sunday) I will probably walk all the way to the pub, and walking is less pleasant for me after eating. On the other hand I might cut the walking down to (at a rough estimate) 2/3rds of the distance by getting a train.

   I might get the train anyway, although the main reason for it would be because I wanted to get a copy of the Metro from the station so I have the crosswords to amuse me if I am drinking alone. At the moment there is no word from Angela, and I'll have to reveal whether I see her or not when I write tomorrow. I hope I do because there is so much to say about Sunday - I expect we both have our anecdotes, and a desire to relive it again if only by the spoke word.