Today has started very cold. As forecast, it was indeed -3° C at 8am, and it may well take until 11am until zero is reached, and 3pm before the temperature reaches it's peak of just 4° C today. The latest revision has only changed 1pm from sunshine to sunny spells. Other than that it should be bright and sunny all day. It is just a shame all that sunshine it too weak to warm things up outside. Oh well, at least the warning for fog came to nothing.  Tomorrow should see a similar range of temperature, but there may be almost no sunshine at all. Next Wednesday may feature mist and fog, but that could change to anything over the next few days.
 
   It was interesting looking back at my first ever post on this website, and other early entries. Twenty years ago I wrote very brief entries, and it made me think that these days my entries are very bloated. The main problem is that it takes up too much of the morning to write them. On the other hand I do write stuff that could be useful/interesting just to me in the future. Well that would be fine if there was some sort of indexing so I could search for stuff I ate that made my blood glucose increase, but I can't be bothered to complicate things.

  I had a good lie in this morning, and I feel I should make some sort of attempt at keeping it brief today. In some ways that should be easy because almost nothing happened yesterday. I was initially saving myself for the evening, but by early afternoon it became obvious that it was unlikely I would be going out in the evening. The revisions to the weather forecast, showing how it was going to be even colder last night, were very instrumental in confirming my decision to stay in the warm last night.

  I spent the rest of yesterday morning just relaxing by reading, and I think I even had a short snooze. That also describes a fair bit of the afternoon until I started seeking out, and downloading stuff to put on my PC. I followed that with binge watching more rips of my DVD box set of every Futurama episode made. There is still a long way to go - I have still not finished watching all of series 3 - and there are 8 series in total.

  My breakfast was the usual instant noodles. Lunch was a bit more expansive than usual. It was three slices of cheese on toast, plus a Matterson's smoked sausage. The latter didn't seem as good as they used to be. Maybe I have been spoiled by some of the smoked Polish sausage I occasionally eat. Dinner was rather unusual. It was, in effect, fish and chips. The chips were thick cut oven chips, and the fish was a couple of Aldi fish burger (patties). I had hoped it would be a lot nicer than it actually was.

  Considering not a lot was happening, the day seemed to pass by quite quickly, and maybe the evening passed even more quickly. I didn't realise how late it was getting when I stopped watching Futurama episodes. That would have been fine if it were not the case that I was getting so close to the end of the book I had been reading. It was gone 11pm, maybe even midnight, when I read the last words, put down the book, turned out the light, and went to sleep.

  Last night it did seem that I was going to stay awake, but after 5, 10, 15, ?? minutes I went out like a light. It was one of those nights when I can barely remember getting up for pee, and after each pee I seemed to fall asleep again in minutes. At 5am I turned the heater up full, and I don't think I can remember waking up again until about 7.50am. That is about the latest ever ! One thing that could have changed my night is if the threatened mist and/or fog had descended. While the memory of it is vague, I am very sure I did check how it looked outside on my way back to bed after going to have a pee.

  Had I seen fog outside I may, but only may, have got up extra early so I could put on my thick, hooded winter coat, and gone for a walk through the fog. I think I am probably glad I didn't do that because even in my warmest clothes I would probably still have chilled something that would ache for the rest of the day....still, it might have made for some good pictures, but no fog makes the decision mute.

  One thing I forgot to mention is that after my fish and chips I had the second sweet juicy orange of the day (the first was during the afternoon). That orange, plus the chips, and even the batter the fish burgers came in, contained enough sugar to raise my blood glucose to 9.0mmol/l this morning. That is annoying rather than being of any great worry, providing it doesn't go up even higher tomorrow.

  Today I want to do a bit of shopping, and it will probably be in Tesco. Top of my shopping list is a white cabbage, but a few other things should be useful. Later this afternoon Jodie should be over for another beer tasting session. Hopefully we shall have a few good beers, but I expect I'll be topping up with some beers I know I will like (or hope I will).