This morning was only a degree or two away from a frost ! At approximately 5am I am sure I saw it was just 4° C outside. It should warm up to as much as 10° C, but the chances of seeing the sun seem slim. In the latest revision the sunny spells shown for 11am above have been moved to 9am. That is only 20 minutes away, and in my opinion the chances of the sun breaking through the dull grey clouds seems very slim. Maybe it could happen later, but it still seems unlikely. Tonight it will probably rain - a lot ! The latest revision has done away with light rain at 5pm (as shown above) and dives straight into the heavy rain at 6pm. It seems likely the heavy rain will continue through tomorrow. The only consolation, for what it's worth, is that the temperature may reach 11° C.

   I would have thought it the other way round, but yesterday was a duller day then the day before. I suppose it was because I had no temptation to go out for a walk, or even to do some shopping - I think some shops were open yesterday. Maybe yesterday was a slightly more productive day than the day before, but it all depends on what metrics you use to evaluate it.

  Having a shower, and also washing my hair was a definite improvement over the day before when I didn't wash at all. After I had finished with the bathtub for my shower and washing my hair, I used it to start some laundry in my two big builders buckets. It was some time before I got around to finishing the job. Initially I just left the stuff soaking in detergent.

  One problem of days like yesterday is that there are few external cues to remind me of the time. The few cues were times when I would eat. Even then, I can't say if it was midday or 1pm when I had my lunch. It was a very big lunch ! Superficially it was another lunch of cheese on toast, but instead of toast I used the naan bread from my Xmas eve Indian takeaway order. I layered on a couple of thin slices of corned beef, and then cheese. A few squirts of low sugar tomato sauce was the final flourish before I microwaved it long enough for the cheese to start bubbling.

  It was very tasty, but it also seemed very filling. I felt quite stuffed after eating it, and it was at least an hour or two before I forced myself to go back to my laundry, and go through the rinses and fabric conditioner. It consisted of just one t-shirt, and two pairs of underpants, plus a hand towel. I hung it on the clothes horse in the dining room to dry with the fan heater on low blowing warm air at it.

  It was convenient to have some heating on in the dining room because I was spending short periods of time in there as I continued my quest to rip all 133 (I think) episodes of Futurama, spread over 8 series, from the huge DVD box set to mp4 files. As of this morning I was about halfway through series three, and there are eight series in all. This job is going to take several more days ! Once it is all done I can start binge watching loads of episodes. Maybe next Sunday will be typically boring, and a good time to start.

  There was one other possibly important thing I did yesterday, and it was to design some new icons for use on these web pages in 2023. I already had a mental idea of the style of the new icons, but they didn't turn out quite how I imagined them. It is possible I will have another go before the new year starts, but if not I have new yellow icons for each month, and the other ones I use. I thought yellow would make a change to purple, although I don't know why.

  The final big thing yesterday was dinner. Once again it was left over Indian takeaway. At this point I am relying on the food being sealed into the foil containers while scalding hot. That should/could stop any bacteria spoiling the food for a while. I had that "while" includes today because after last nights dinner there is still enough for one more dinner tonight. Looking at it like that it doesn't seem quite so expensive, but I guess each dinner would still cost roughly £10.

  There were a couple of episodes of Star Trek on early yesterday evening, and a bit later there was an episode of QIXL. That was sufficient TV viewing before I headed for bed. One thing I am forgetting at this point is that while watching TV I had several beers. Two of them were very strong, and sweet tasting Porters......err, no, one was a 11% Barley Wine ! I can't say I felt even slightly tipsy after about 4 bottles of beer, but each bottle was only approximately half a pint.

  I spent a fair bit of time reading in bed last night. I am still ploughing on through Edmond Cooper's "Seed Of Light". As I think I mentioned yesterday it is very turgid, and nothing like his later books. They were a lot lighter, and had a lot more dialogue to explain things, rather than paragraph after paragraph of descriptions. I think I would only recommend reading it as a sort of completion to reading all his novels.

   I feel sure that I won't like the next  book either. I have read it before, but I have no idea when. I am currently expecting a few more of his books, along with quite a few other things, including my new Senior Railcard, to be delivered by the Royal Mail. It all depends on what days they are on strike. Maybe there will be a delivery today, and maybe another book or two will drop through my letter box. If so then I feel I ought to read the book I already have even if I don't like it, before reading the new book(s).

  I left the heater on low last night. It was because the weather forecast was predicting the temperature to plunge during the night - and it did. It did mean that I felt too warm in the first hours of sleep. That was one reason why I had difficulty getting to sleep again. Others were from the usual selections of aches and pains. There was one other additional discomfort. It all goes back to my stodgy lunch. I still felt a bit stuffed many hours later, and I was also passing a lot of curry flavoured wind during the night.

  Any attempt at going to the toilet, beyond the usual visits for a pee, came to nought until this morning when an awful lot happened to pass ! I am starting to think that all this Indian food is not only low sugar, but contains a lot of fibre, and it is a combination of these two things that are responsible for another even lower blood glucose reading this morning. I really expected that the cheese on naan bread, and the sweet tasting beers would send my blood glucose high, and yet this morning it was just 8.1mmol/l. One more drop tomorrow and I will carry out my threat to eat the cake that has been in the kitchen cupboard, still sealed in it's plastic envelope for a year or more. I am assuming it will still be edible tomorrow if the chance arises.

  It has brightened up a little now, but the chances of the sun breaking through still seem very slim. It is not a day that entices me out further than a local shop. I think I will be going to the little supermarket on Catford Bridge to buy some Polish sourdough bread, some oranges, plus some instant noodles, and no doubt other stuff that catches my eye. Back home I will still be spending some periods of time ripping the Futurama DVD box set. Other than that, I have no idea what I will be doing.