Once again the BBC and Met Office do not match at all ! The latest revision to the Met Office forecast has removed the sunny spells for 3 and 4pm, and replaced them with more white cloud. The BBC, which has been going through a rare phase of getting closer to reality, now, after it's latest revision, shows sunny spells from 11am to 5pm. They also show an afternoon temperature of 14° C while the Met Office show only 12° C. The forecasts for tomorrow show a similar, but maybe more severe disparity. The Met Office paint a very gloomy picture for tomorrow with an afternoon temperature of just 10° C, but the BBC show an afternoon temperature of 13° C, and sunny spells for much of the afternoon. Let the best man win !!
 
   The first half of yesterday was good. The second half not so good. The morning was enhanced by the bright sunny spells, and the afternoon's disappointment was softened by the sunny spells. Also the morning started well with low blood blood glucose, and a feeling of seeming to feel almost like I was well.

  The feeling well was as good as proven when I went shopping to Tesco. It seemed a very pleasant walk there while wearing my sleeveless denim jacket. For some reason I keep thinking I didn't wear a coat at all, but that couldn't be possible....could it ? On the whole I was careful about what I bought in Tesco, but I did make a mild mistake, and I had one disappointment.

  I was hoping to get another 1 litre bottle of Haig whisky at the clubcard discount price that made it cheaper than the price of a 70cl bottle. The one little mistake I made was to buy a tub of garlic and herb cream cheese. That was only a mistake is so much as if I had some of that as part of a pre-drinking lunch the garlic fumes would gross out Jodie. Of course on other days, when I see no one, I can indulge in as much as I like !

  There was one other disappointment, or maybe it equated to two disappointments, was when I looked to see if Kallo did anything similar to the beetroot veggie cakes I had bought earlier in the week, and which turned out to be very nice. Sadly they didn't, which was part one of the two part disappointment. The second part was to steer me to buying some snack-a-jacks. These are like rice cakes, but made from corn. Their sugar content is low, but like the beetroot veggie cakes, still 3 times as much as plain rice cakes. That was no special problem, but they could be described as thick and lumpy, and I find that unpleasant.

 When I got back from Tesco my bedroom was feeling very nice and warm without the heater on, and I spent a little time behind my PC while eating a light lunch of rice cakes and corn cakes with assorted cheeses on them. What I should have been doing was hand washing a medium sized bath towel. I had left that towel soaking in detergent after I had a shower, and washed my hair in the morning.

  Instead of going for manual labour I had my lunch, and then laid down to let it digest. I read for a while, and then, if I recall correctly, I had a quick snooze. By the time I got back to the towel the water was all nasty and cold. I did 5 rinses, and as is typical of towels, the rinsing water remaining stubbornly frothy. I decided to have a rest at that point because manhandling a medium big, water soaked towel is quite a handful.

  I adjourned to the dining room and kitchen where I did some washing up, and prepared the glasses for beer tasting later. I also washed up my casserole dish that I use to cook my dinner every day (or every day during winter). Yesterday's dinner was based on the other turkey breast slices from the pack that the previous day's dinner was based on. I started them cooking in the microwave, and then rested.

  Rested and waited. I was expecting Jodie at sometime after 3pm, and typically near 3.30pm. I waited and waited and Jodie did not arrive. After some time a very vague memory filtered through the alcoholic haze from last Thursday. That memory was Jodie saying she wasn't sure about Sunday (yesterday) because she had a gig that was more important than beer.

  Not having a beer tasting session was a disappointment, but I didn't go thirsty. I had bought 4 bottles of beer (4 bottles for £5 !) while in Tesco. In the end I only drank one bottle of Abbot Special Reserve, 6.5%, beer). Later on I had one or two whiskies, but first of all I wanted to complete the cooking of my dinner. I added a whole, fist size, head of cauliflower, plus a couple of green chillies, to the almost cooked turkey breast slices. I also added some curry powder.

  It has always seemed to be rare that "curry powder" added a good flavour to a meal. Maybe it is because it tastes nothing like you might get from an Indian restaurant. On this occasion it did add a delightful, but not strong taste to me dinner. It turned out my invented-on-the-spot recipe was a good one, and I will probably try and duplicate it in the future. The one thing in needed was some sort of dessert, and I had some fairly well washed, banana flavoured Turkish delight.

  Sunday evening was as bleak as Saturday evening, and I fulfilled my apparent need for some moving pictures with more episodes of Futurama ripped from my 13 disk DVD box set. It was of series 7 (of 8), and I had definitely not seen any of these episodes before. It pains me to admit that I cans see what the series was drawing to an end. The episodes I saw from series 7 were rather weak, although still enjoyable.

  There was something, maybe an episode of QI that I could have watched late last night, but I opted to go to bed and read for a while. I didn't have much to say about the previous night, and I have little to say about last night. I think I was asleep by about 10pm, and I slept in 2 to 4 hour blocks with a visit to the toilet for a pee between them. Sometimes, and at least once last night was one of them, going for a pee is more habit than need.

  I think I can blame the Turkish delight I ate for dessert last night for raising my blood glucose. I had washed most off the icing sugar off it under hot water, but there were some places where the icing sugar was trapped in the gelatine, plus I ate rather more than I would usually eat - maybe 6 blocks instead of 4. It was more the timing of it than the actual amount of sugar. Earlier in the day would have probably made a lot less difference, but this morning my blood glucose reading was up to 8.7mmol/l.

   That is not particularly bad, but I shall try and do better today, but....One of my aims today is to take a walk, or maybe a train, to The Jolly Farmers for a couple of pints of Guinness. This is partly based on the theory that a) It should get mild enough to need no more than my sleeveless denim jacket, and b) there will be sunny spells. If these things look unlikely by midday I may opt not to go.

  Assuming I do got I will be peckish when I get home again, and I will probably have what I had after my drink there last Wednesday. Namely cheese on toast. That seemed to be a possible reason why my blood glucose was very high the next day, but now it seems like that was just the effect of fighting my cold. Today could be the test to prove it one way or another. There will be one slight change today. Instead of melting cheddar cheese on the toast I will smother it with garlic and herb spreadable cheese ! It will help keep the vampires at bay !