Today is another day when the weather is probably too changeable for a forecast that has any accuracy. The early forecast, as shown in the screenshot above, got off to a bad start. It was sunny at 7am, and 8am, and continues to be sunny now, although the clouds are starting to thicken. The latest revision shows that it should be dull now (9am) but as I write this the sun is still shining brightly. It also shows sunshine or sunny spells until 1pm, but 2pm could see heavy rain....or maybe it won't. It does seem certain that most of the afternoon will be wet, but whether it will be light passing showers, or solid heavy rain is anyone's guess. The temperature will probably peak around midday, and it may only be a chilly (particularly in any rain) 10° C. Tomorrow may feature very little rain, and a lot of sunshine or sunny spells, but it will be another rather cool day. We will have to wait for the weekend before the temperature starts to climb, and by Monday it could be nice and warm....fingers crossed.
 
  Yesterday was yet another day when not a lot happened except for one unexpected thing. More on that in the next paragraph or two. The big event, if something so mundane can be called that, was going out to Tesco again. I didn't by the air fryer I am thinking of buying this time, but I did get all the bits I forgot to get the previous day.

  The most important purchases were chicken and beef stock cubes, and I also remembered to get two little bottles of the smoked chipotle paste I have been using and enjoying recently. I also found a bottle of smoked chillies and garlic all suspended in a rapeseed oil based liquid. It is odd that the ingredients list shows no sugars, but the sugar content is shown to be quite high, although I think that is per 100ml, and I'll probably only be using 20 or 40ml at a time.

  While I was in Tesco I took advantage of getting yet another bottle of Haig whisky at it's Clubcard discount of £11 off a £28 bottle. On the reduced price shelf I found a few useful things. One was a couple of pork chops. I thought I might cut them up to use in a stew, but my feeling now that I will enjoy them grilled. One naughty thing was a pack of 6 miniature Melton Mowbray pork pies. I stuffed myself with all 6 for lunch when I got home.

  It wasn't obviously visible on social media, but Angela's lover boy had posted three picture featuring Angela apparently taken over the long bank holiday weekend. The one of greatest interest was (obviously) of Angela by herself, standing up with a single crutch.

  A few odd shapes under her top suggest she is wearing a surgical girdle or something to keep any strain of her cracked, but now evidently healing, pelvis. The other thing I noticed in a zoomed in portion of the original, and bigger picture, is that while Angela is smiling, it is not her happy smile. It may be that she is in pain, or it is forced smile for the picture.

  Anyway, it is very good news that she is on her feet, and evidently able to do some light exercise. It was a lot earlier in the morning when I sent Angela a message to ask if she was getting better, and if she had managed to get out on any of the sunny days over the long, bank holiday weekend.

  She didn't say she had, but she did confirm she was recovering OK. She also said she was feeling very depressed, but was still not smoking. The not smoking was obviously good news, but the depression was not good. She said she couldn't or wouldn't take the edge off the depression with her usual tonic - vodka. It is possible she has been warned off alcohol because she is or was prescribed very strong painkillers. the other likely possibility is that her fall was vodka related.

  There were actually two more events yesterday, and the one I forgot about was very minor. It was the delivery of another book I had ordered via Amazon. I had been keeping an eye on the tracking information, and by midday it had not left the local Hermes depot. I was quite surprised by a thump from downstairs around 2 or 3pm. It was the man from Hermes, and I was surprised on tow accounts. One was that after such a late start it had been delivered moderately early, and second was that the courier managed to get it through my small letter box !

  The final event for yesterday was hand washing a moderately sized bath towel. Just hand washing ine single item would seem easy, but even lifting the wet towel out the washing buckets needs a bit of strength. Wring the towel out also require gritted teeth and all my strength. As is typical of bath towels, it needed a lot of rinsing until I was happy to hang it up to dry. I think I probably gave it as many as 8 rinses in total, and I ended up doing it in two parts with a rest between them.

  I thought the 6 miniature pork pies I had for lunch would have been enough to see me through to dinner time, but it got to something like 4pm when I decided to have four Marmite rice cakes with cream cheese on as a snack. My dinner would have originally been a stew if I had not bought a pack of two, reduced price, southern fried chicken steaks while in Tesco. Originally I thought I might have had them for lunch, but there was obviously no room for both them and the pies.

  I had those souther fried flavoured chicken steaks for dinner, and for want for anything better, I had them with a small tin of (alleged) garden peas. Those peas were more like reconstituted dried peas, or they had been so long in the tin that they had deteriorated. They were not actually "off", but they lacked the taste I expected. I didn't check, but I may have left them for so long because I was worried about their sugar content.

  I watched the usual Star Treks in the early evening. After those I took an hours break, and got a bit of reading done, and then went back to the TV. There seems no predictable pattern of how Dave arrange their late evening programmes now. Last night Have I Go News For You was on at 9pm when I would have expected QI. That was actually good because there are still plenty of editions/episodes of HIGNFY that I have not seen before, and it seems very few episodes of QI that I haven't.

  I went straight to bed after Have I Got News For You at 10pm. I read for a short while, but I was feeling too tired to read much longer. Of course Sod's law meant that as soon as I turned the light out I was suddenly not tired. It took at least half an hour, and maybe longer, before I fell asleep. I had another half hour patch of insomnia sometime after 3am. Other than that I seemed to sleep well, and I had a lot of varied entertaining dreams whose content seems to have faded from my memory now.

  I didn't think that, in total, I had eaten much yesterday. I think I still sort of feel that way. I have a suspicion all was probably well until I ate those southern fried style chicken steaks with the (fully drained) tinned peas. One or both evidently had more sugar in than expected. This morning my blood glucose has just crossed what I think I'll refer to as the amber line at 9.0mmol/l, although technically it was exactly on the amber line. (As a side note I can see myself changing amber to orange, or vice versa, in a random fashion).

  There is a great unknown, and a great known today. I am definitely going to the Jolly Farmers for my Wednesday Guinness, and only explosive diarrhoea could stop me. The great unknown is whether I'll be travelling to or from the pub in heavy rain. It is now 10am and the clouds look very threatening, and I think we have just had a shower rather earlier than any forecast has predicted. As I mentioned near the top of the page, it is one of those days when the weather can be very random (or words to that effect).