Instead of improving, the latest revision to today's  forecast just paints an even worse picture. This morning it is sunny, but not for much longer. The latest revision is similar to the early screenshot above. The main change is nearly every bit of light rain is now shown as heavy rain. Today's temperature may only reach 18° C. The BBC tells a slightly different story with the temperature possibly a degree or two higher. They also think the rain will be lighter for much of the time, but at 6pm they predict a thunderstorm. Tomorrow may be mostly dry apart from a couple of hours of light rain (Met Office) or moderately wet with drizzle in the morning, and light rain in the afternoon (BBC). both forecasters agree on an afternoon high of 21° C.

  It would have been more exciting to go out to Chattfest yesterday, but that has been postponed to August on the assumption that the weather will be better then - I have my doubts. I still managed to do a couple of useful things during the day, and I don't think I was ever bored, although from time to time I expected to be.

  I must admit I felt no rush to do anything yesterday, and I certainly didn't rush washing my hair, and having a shower. That involved a slight novelty. The previous time I washed my hair (on Wednesday) I finished off a bottle of conditioner, but I still had a small amount of shampoo left. They were matched "flavours", but didn't match the next pair I used today. I decided to use the last of the shampoo as shower gel. It seemed to work OK - as far as I could tell.

  After drying my hair I got dressed and went out to buy some stuff from Poundstretcher. There were a few things I wanted to but, and of course there was other stuff I noticed that I grabbed before in case it sold out. I was particularly after sticking plaster strip to protect my bunions when walking in some shoes. I also wanted a wrist support thing for my right wrist that starts to ache when I do too much work using my computer mouse. I also wanted some special soft drinks.
  The Dark Berry drink I really like, bit only as an occasional drink. Soon after I discovered it they ran out of stock. Now I grab 4 cans (or even 6 on one occasion).Today I noticed the Paradise Punch. it is sort of nice, but despite apparently being sugar free, it tastes too sweet for my tastes these days. I only bought two cans of it today, although I might buy more to keep for those odd occasions when it might seem like a good idea.
  It was bright enough to wear my sunglasses when I walked to Poundstretcher, but the weather changed a lot while I was shopping. It got very dark - dark enough to trigger the automatic lights on the road sign in the picture above. As I took this picture I could feel some fine rain. It seemed to get heavier, but still almost ignorable as I hurried home. Once home there was a short burst of moderately heavy rain that lasted no more than a few minutes.

  After getting home, and changing into indoor "slouching" clothes I stopped to have a bite to eat. I didn't eat anything I had bought in Poundstretcher, or in Aldi when I went there the day before. I ate a couple of so called salad pots.
  I have mentioned these many times in the past, and even showed a picture of the label (I think), but I have never shown exactly what I have eaten on any occasion except this time. I have even included the pots themselves plus a ruler to give some idea of the scale. This time I paid particular attention to the sugar content because I have had reason to suspect they are not always as healthy as they might seem.

  The Puy Lentils with fluffy couscous are fine. They have about 1.4gm of sugar per pot. The Tabouli is not so good. It has 4.59gm of sugar per pot, and that is a bit high for my tastes. Both pots list sugar as an ingredient, and I wonder why it is needed. I can't think of any reason to sweeten food like this. It still made for a nice snack/lunch, but I wish I had left it a bit later.

  One thing I did after I ate, which would have been easier to do before eating, was a bit of laundry. bending over the bath, pounding clothes in a big bucket of detergent is a good way to get indigestion. Fortunately I didn't get indigestion, but I was very aware that bending over with even a slightly full stomach is a bit uncomfortable. Anyway, I did it, and washed just two items - a hand towel, and a long sleeved thick sweat shirt sort of thing. Once dried, which will probably be overnight on  the clothes horse, it will be clean and ready to wear on cold winter mornings like I did last winter.

  With all my chores done I could relax/be blood lazy. Later in the afternoon I watched another James Bond/007 film on one of the ITV channels. The Film was "The Living Daylights" with Timothy Dalton playing James Bond. It wasn't one of the better films in the franchise, but it passed the time OK. After it finished I looked for something else to watch, and I found The Terrornauts listed as a British SciFi film. It was definitely worth watching even if the special effects were done with baling wire and, old fairly liquid bottles and sticky backed plastic. Even the "star" actor made it amusing. It was Charles Hawtry still playing a sort of effeminate character as he did in the Carry On films.

   I meant to mention a few paragraphs up that I had my dinner while watching the Bond movie. it was a lot of Aldi "southern fried chicken" cooked, as recommended in the oven. I gave it a good sprinkle of pepper to make it taste a little more authentic, and it was sort of very nice, but somehow not nice. That is difficult to explain.....let's just say I enjoyed it, but not as much as that bought from a fried chicken shop.

  After The Terrornauts film there was nothing else to amuse me on TV, and so I've sat down to write this. I'll continue it tomorrow morning with a description of my night, and the usual stuff I write about the morning.......

  One thing I didn't mention before is that I was washing down my dinner with chilled cans of Guinness. That lead to something I am not proud of. It was gone 10pm, but before 11pm when I felt so tired that I went to bed and left half a glass of Guinness undrunk ! I just couldn't seem to drink any more of my fourth can. I was feeling a bit full when I went to bed, but it didn't seem to take long to go sleep - and to wake up again.

  I think I only managed a little over an hour before I woke up needing a pee - which I guess is not surprising after three and a half (440ml) cans of Guinness. It was a little past 2am when I woke up, and as well as needing a pee, I thought I might need a poo too. It did involve a few farts, but nothing more. I think after that, despite nothing significant happening, I seemed to sleep better.

  I can't work out if it was one or two dreams I remember fragments of. One remembered fragment was being at work in a place near a fork of two railway lines. I could only see a fragment of one branch in the distance, but the other branch ran just the other side of the boundary fence of the place of work. I can remember seeing some interesting stuff pass, but I could never get my mobile phone camera out, and and ready to use in time to get any snaps.

  It could have been that frustration that leaked into another dream. In that dream I had found a Nikon camera. I think it was just lying by the side of the road. It didn't have a memory card in it, or a battery. I was hoping that I had a battery that fit without having to order on so I could test it. It seemed in good condition, and had a basic lens on it. My description makes it sound like the dream lasted for quite a time, but I think all I described happened in just a second or two, and I can't remember any more.

  It was just after 6am when I got up. I went to the toilet first, and did a very small poo. I am sure there will be more to come a bit later. Then I checked my blood glucose reading. Although the Aldi southern fried flavour  coated chicken claimed to have a low sugar content, I believe the figure quoted was for a considerably smaller portion than I consumed - probably per 100gm. I was not expecting a low blood glucose reading this morning.

  The new meter said 9.4mmol/l, and that is higher than I am happy with, but at least it is comfortably under the red line (10.0mmol/l). However, the old meter said 8.7mmol/l, and that is an unremarkable figure, and very close to my running average for most months. It's hard to say on that basis whether I am doing good or bad, but I will try and do a bit better tomorrow by trying to control my eating a bit better.

  Two things could happen today. The first is to go to Poundland. Now there was a very good reason what I want to go to Poundland, and I thought of it yesterday, but I can't remember what it was now. I hope that I'll either remember what it was before I go, or just spot what it was on the shelves. The second thing is that Jodie should be coming over for a beer tasting session this afternoon. That should happen provided Jodie is not late, and the rain has started in earnest before she leaves home !