It seems that today might be the first dry day for some days, although most of the day will be mildly dull. Some sunny spells are expected in the early evening, but the latest revision shows them only for 5 and 8pm. There is still a 10% chance of rain up to 4pm, and so it is still possible it might rain, but hopefully not. The temperature will not change much during the day, and most of it will be 20° C. It is worth noting that The BBC think there will  be light rain between 3 and 5pm. Tomorrow should be dry again, and with a scattering of sunny spells. It will be be a little bit warmer with 22° C expected.

  Yesterday was one of those days that was both good and bad. The bad was mainly eating quite unwisely in the early evening as a result of booze. I was also very lazy, and did go for a shower until just after 11am despite doing nothing more than laying on my bed reading and snoozing for an hour beforehand.

  Once I was washed and dressed I went shopping in Poundland (or more often two poundland, or more, these days). That was as predicted in the morning. I still can't remember what the original reason for wanting to go there was, but as suspected, I still walked out with a bag of stuff. I think maybe I was hoping to find some strawberry flavour shampoo and conditioner, but I had to make do with raspberry flavour.

  One thing I was keeping an eye out for was Gullom sugar free biscuits. They have had them in there before, and they did have some yesterday, but not the type I wanted. I did buy a packet of sugar free digestives, but for some reason I have this idea they don't taste nice. I also bought a couple of so called "skinny" bars - low calorie bars of rice crispies stuck together with something very syrupy, and a layer of some sort of chocolate. They are low in sugar if eaten in tiny quantities - i.e. barely enough to fill the cavity in a tooth !

  There was some very light rain when I walked to Poundland, but it was completely dry when I walked home. However, like a lot of today, it was quite dull. once home I had some lunch, but I can't seem to recall what it was. I feel sure some of it was more substantial than a so called low calorie chew bar thing. I was partly distracted from eating by starting some laundry. It was just a couple of t-shirts and some underwear. I got as far as one session in detergent, and two rinses before I got part bored, and partly a bit tired.

  About an hour later Jodie turned up for our Sunday afternoon beer tasting session. As usual it was slightly boring as Jodie spent half the time looking at her phone, and typing stuff on it. Also as usual she is having trouble with her phone. I must admit she hasn't complained about it for quite a long time now, but as many times in the past, she has filled her phone up with some much that she has to delete a few pictures to take new pictures, and some of her beloved games won't update.

  I did try and decant all the pictures on the memory card in her phone. I have a backup disk, and a back up for that for her pictures, but this time there was such a dense pile of stuff on the phones memory card that I couldn't see it on my PC. I suggested that Jodie might get a new, and much bigger memory card, but for some unknown reason the idea seemed to horrify her !

  One bit of "excitement".....well it was better than waiting for Jodie to do something else on her phone, was ordering some more beers. Jodie saw that some people were drinking some beers from the Ukraine Varvar brewery, and they had come from an importer called (believe it or not) https://www.tremblingmadness.co.uk/. We, or should I say I (because it was done in my name using my credit card) ordered just over £90 worth of beer that it seems could be delivered as early as Monday, but Tuesday is more likely.

  After Jodie left I started my dinner. It was a very simple ham salad - basically just salad leaves with a balsamic dressing and some ham. it was so basic that I put together another simple salad. It was just salad leaves with some mayo and cheese. After that I really sealed the fate of my morning blood glucose reading by eating three so called healthy chewy bars.

  There was a bit of entertainment on TV last night. I can't remember which channel it was, but they were showing "Jules Verne Rocket To The Moon". It was a comedy film, loosely based, on the book of the same name. There were a few well known faces in it, including the famous gap-toothed Terry Thomas. It was crap, but enjoyable at the same time. I don't think I'll add it to my small collection of British SciFi films because SciFi took a back seat to farce and comedy in it.

  When the film ended I turned over to watch a Sandy Tokstig QI, and that was followed by an edition of Have I got News For You. Finally, at 10pm, or maybe just a bit later I went to bed. It took very little time to get to sleep, and I slept for long periods between waking up several times. The odd thing is that I expected to be waking up every hour after drinking beer earlier, and eating stuff I thought would make my blood glucose very high, but it seemed I didn't pee in the night very much at all.

  I can remember waking up sometime around 1am, and think I had just had a rather interesting dream, but I now have no idea what it was about. I do remember a dream I had shortly before waking up this morning. It was another dream set in a technical college, or training school housed in a long, 4 storey building with 4 stair cases. I was trying to leave, but couldn't remember what stair cases to use. Two of them didn't go down to the ground floor. The first one I tried didn't go down the the ground floor, and neither did the second, but it did have a quirk.

   At the bottom of it there was another staircase that went up for a short distance to a doorway. The doorway opened out to a flat roof. That had no obvious other way down, but along one bordering wall was an archway, and that opened to the interior of a railway station where I could get my train home. I don't think I remember anything after reaching the station, and maybe that was a good time to wake up.

  This morning, after eating several chewy bars with a seemingly fair amount of sugar in them, plus some other stuff with sugar in it, including one of the beers I drank, I fully expected my blood glucose to be in the danger zone. It wasn't ! The new meter read 8.6mmo/l, and that is almost exactly my monthly average, and nothing to worry about. The old meter read 9.1mmol/l, and I guess that is not much higher than the new meter reading, but I don't like any read that starts with a 9 - I like some clear breathing space under the danger level above 10.0mmol/l. Overall I am very surprised I got away with it yesterday. On the other hand I do seem to feel moderately good this morning, and being well, or the closest I get to it these days, always lowers my blood glucose.

  I have no firm ideas of what I might do today - except for one thing. I have a bucket of half washed laundry that needs another rinse, and then fabric conditioner before hanging it up to dry - possibly on the washing line if it really is going to be dry today. I could potentially go for a walk today, but being dry is not enough, and it would be far more enjoyable if it was bright and sunny. There is a microscopic chance that the beer I ordered yesterday could be delivered today. it was supposed to be next day delivery, and it seems that they were boxing it up at just gone 5pm last night. I doubt they could get it to a Parcelforce depot last night, and so it is far more likely it will be delivered tomorrow - which would possibly be a better day to go out !

  There is one thing I might get started today. It is to build a new server for these web pages. The current server has been using an old laptop for many months now, and it is working well - except for one annoyance. I could probably change something to stop it happening, but like all laptops with a conventional (spinning rust) hard drive, it turns it off to save power when unused for about 15 minutes. The only time I notice it is when uploading text and pictures to it. It seems to take ages (but really maybe no more than 90 seconds for the hard disk to spin up and accept data. I've decided I am going to use a spare Dell desktop PC for the new server. It was originally going to be my new desktop PC, but despite having a slightly better processor, it lacks connectivity. It only has two sata ports - one for a hard disk, and one for a CD/DVD drive. It also has fewer USB ports. I can get something better than that, quite cheaply, when I want to upgrade my main PC.