Today is one of those rare days when the BBC and Met Office agree that a mix of sunshine and sunny spells will continue through the morning, and up to 2pm this afternoon (2 hours longer than in the early screenshot above).  The Met Office is a bit more generous in their temperature prediction. They say that most of the high temperature will be 17° C, but in the middle there will be one hour at 18° C. The BBC reckon 16° C is about as high as it will get today. The rest of the afternoon may include a sunny spell, but generally it will be white cloud - which will hopefully make it still seem to be bright. There are two views on tomorrow's weather. The Met Office say much of the day will be bright, but midday to 2pm may feature grey clouds and light rain. The BBC say mostly sunny spells all day tomorrow. Both forecasters agree on a high of 17° C.

  Yesterday was a very variable sort of day. I found I had very little enthusiasm for anything. That could be blamed on a hangover after getting drunk at the beer tasting session the previous day, but maybe not, or not as much. A more significant thing was possible my upset guts. After a few very productive visits to the toilet my guts did not feel good. There was a lingering feeling of a dull ache, and probably more because they were empty, my guts were often growling or gurgling.

  I had zero enthusiasm to go out, and besides I felt reluctant to disturb my duct tape patch to the crack in the bath. I will have to test it sooner or later, and that almost certainly means today, but yesterday I didn't wash, and so did not inflict my smelly self onto the general public. I preferred to just lay down and read for a fair bit of the day. I think it was around 11am that I had a small snack. For some reason I can't quite remember if it was any more than a chunk of cheese.

  Whatever it was seemed to calm my stomach a bit, and so I decided on something more substantial for lunch. Fortunately I had just the thing in the fridge - two potato, leak, and cheese individual pies bought from the reduced price shelf in Tesco. They had to be eaten very soon, and yesterday seemed like the perfect time. They weren't bad, but I expected them to be far more flavourful than they actually were. They almost completely cleared the rumbles from my guts, but maybe not the very gentle soreness.

  I spent quite a few hours in the afternoon going through the pile of loose CD-R and DVD-R disks that I had first started a few days ago. Some of the time I just had to let my PC get on with the job by itself as it ripped home made DVDs back into MP4 files. It makes me wonder what happened to the original files I used to make the DVDs. The originals would have been a bit better quality, and possibly not scaled to the standard for video DVD disks.

  It is a bit difficult to say when evening starts in these longer days of approaching summer, but whether evening, or late afternoon, I started to watch the usual Star Treks. I would have usually been having dinner at this time, but I wanted to try and experiment of having a liquid dinner - 5 different, but rather strong beers.
  The first two beers were both rather soupy looking, and weren't very nice, although not actually horrible. Both were quite similar in some ways - both fairly strong, both rather tart, and both very cloudy.
  The next three beers were even stronger. The beer on the left, the Vocation "Mint Chocolate Stout" was 13%. I think the other two were in the region of 9%. The Bon Secours was a Xmas drink, and not very nice. The Delerium Christmas was obviously a Xmas beer, and was fairly pleasant. The Mint Chocolate stout was very delicious, but it was also very syrupy. I am sure it was not good for my blood glucose level, and it is possible the Delirium was also bad.

  I was obviously drunk at the end of this self indulgence. That would usually make me feel hungry, or possibly just make me feel that eating would be a great idea, but oddly enough, not last night. The whole thing was an experiment to see if I could substitute liquid for dinner. I did once come home from a gig, and go straight to bed with no supper, and it seemed easy to do once I put my mind to it. It was the same last night - I seemed to have no desire to eat. In a modified form this could be a habit worth getting in to.

  I was starting to yawn a lot, but I kept myself awake to watch Have I Got News For You. I probably shouldn't have bothered because it was a compilation of the best of 2018, and it seemed like I had seen most of it recently. It finished at 10pm and I went straight to bed with a book. I barely managed to read a single page before putting the book down, and turning out the light. I think I was fast asleep by 10.30pm.

  One great annoyance last night was that I woke up thinking I had been sleeping for hours. When I looked that the clock it was 11.30pm, and I hadn't even managed to sleep through to the next day. Fortunately it didn't take long to get back to sleep again. One oddity last night is that I woke up a few times thinking that I probably needed a pee, but I only did a trickle. It seems it wasn't until 2  or 4am when all that beer made it through my system, and each visit to the toilet was really needed after that.

  The only thing I can say about my dreams was that they seemed to be happy, or at least non threatening dreams, but I can't even seem to remember what any of them were about, let alone what was happening.....except for one very brief bit of dream that makes little sense without further context, and yet is still slightly amusing. In the dream I was sitting on a tube train next to a "young lady" who I assume I knew. At one stop a bunch of "lads" got on the train, and one tried to fit himself in between me and the woman. She complained, and he turned round to look at me with a sinister scowl on his face. Somehow I made an even more sinister scowl, and he ran away. Half a paragraph to describe about 3 seconds of dream !

  To my surprise I did pass a small "stool" after getting up this morning. After washing my hands I then checked my blood glucose. I wasn't surprised that it was up to 9.2mmol/l. It is lucky I hadn't eaten a dinner as well as drunk all those beers. That could have pushed the reading up into the danger area. 9.2mmol/l is really in no man's land - it is neither safe or dangerous. This morning I wanted some solid food inside me, and had a bowl of instant noodles. I might possible skip dinner, or maybe try and find something very light. Tonight's dinner will probably be cheese salad, and that should be safe.

  Once again I have to try and think what I am doing today. One (hopefully) short bit of time will be taken up with the delivery of the beers I ordered on Sunday morning. DHL have predicted they will deliver the beers between 13:46 and 14:46. Once the beer is here I am free to do anything I like. Before the delivery time I didn't want to be too distracted in case the delivery is early - which if it is the same driver as last time it could be here an hour earlier ! He is a very fast worker.