There is quite a strong difference of opinion about what today's weather will be. The BBC say today will feature sunrise to sunset strong sunshine. The early version of The Met Office's forecast is shown above. The next hourly revision reduced the sunny spells, but the very latest revision shows sunny spells for the whole day. At the moment there is a lot of cloud to be seen, and I am not sure if there has been any sunshine yet. The Met Office forecast 29° C today, and the BBC say 30° C.  Both forecasters currently agree that tomorrow is going to be very hot and sunny. The temperature could touch 32° C in the late afternoon.

   Yesterday morning I complained of feeling something like, but not quite, tired or weary. With hindsight I think it was just the building heat that slowed me down. I can feel the same this morning. However, I did manage to do a few much needed chores yesterday.

  Maybe the most important chore was to empty all the assorted rubbish bins around the house. The small bin next to the washbasin in the bathroom has long needed emptying. For quite a long time I was part emptying it by getting things like shampoo and shower gel bottles out, and taking them down to the recycling bin. I did that yesterday too, but I also emptied everything else out as well.

  I emptied the very full bin on the landing, outside my bedroom, the bib in the dining room, and the bin in the kitchen. The latter got a good spraying with spray Domestos as well because it was getting a bit whiffy ! I also emptied the bin for recyclables in the kitchen as well. Now I think about it, I didn't do much more than that apart from a limited amount of washing up - but I still left half a sink full of stuff to be washed.

  At some point I found time for a snooze, and it may have been before I had a shower. One other thing I did was to try and find a half dozen or more demo tapes sent to me or the radio station in the early 1990s.  Michael is always going on about how he likes all music, and I thought I would test him. Upon hearing some of those tapes for the first time in 20 (?) years, I found they all sounded basically OK. Maybe some of them were ahead of their time, or maybe modern "pop" music is so dire, so autotuned, and other electronica designed to turn a sows ear into a silk purse, that anything is better.

  I was very surprised when Jodie turned up yesterday afternoon. She has been going to so many gigs or festivals lately that I lose track of her plans.  The unfortunate thing was that I had not bought any "exotic" beers for ages, and there was only a small amount in the fridge, but we ended up having a fair selection. Michael brought a few beers over that were very common, but we had sort of arranged that, with Jodie not expected, we would just have a drinking session of beer we liked. I put 5 or 6 cans of Guinness in the fridge, but only drank two of them.

  I hadn't prepared any dinner for last night, and after Michael and Jodie left I decided I would splash out on yet another takeaway. I felt almost justified in doing so because yesterday morning I had my gas and electric bills arrive. I was in credit for both of them. The electric had enough credit that it should pay for having a heater on for a few minutes in December !

  It was the booze affecting me, but my takeaway order was for two small shish kebabs plus a standard portion of "lamb meat and chips". The latter was, of course, very unhealthy, but it was extremely nice. It could also have been all I needed to eat if I was feeling 150% in control of myself - which I wasn't. One thing that didn't help was that I can't recall eating any lunch yesterday. I think I was pouring the booze on a part empty stomach !

  My kebab dinner featured some hot chilli sauce, and that brought on a good sweat on top of the one I already had. It was 31° C in my bedroom last night - and very sticky ! I ate my dinner watching Star Trek. After Star Trek: Voyager, which was another tedious episode, I didn't fancy watching any more TV. That was at 8pm. By 8.22pm I had tidied up a bit, and brushed my teeth. I went to bed to read, but I didn't read for long. I can't be sure, but I think I was fast asleep by about 8.45pm. That is the earliest for some time, but it was all made easier by it being fully dark outside even before I went to bed.

  I took 3 chilled, and 3 partly frozen bottles of water, in my cool box, to bed with me (but obviously not in my bed !). They didn't stay cool for long once out of the cool box, but I had enough for drinks of cold water every time I woke up in the night. I think I probably woke every 2 or 3 hours, but the good thing is that it was quick and easy to get back to sleep again. I'm not sure it was good sleep. Maybe it was, or maybe it was poor sleep because of the interruptions.  It was another night when I can almost remember tiny fragments of many dreams, but nothing coherent enough to describe.

  I thought the "lamb meat with chips" would be very bad for my blood glucose readings this morning. It did indeed make them higher, but only slightly higher. The new meter read a very slightly lower than average 8.4mmol/l, and the old meter a very slightly above average 8.8mmol/l. Both readings were perfectly acceptable.  I wonder if I can plan my eating, and stick to the plan, to keep tomorrow's reading as low, or ideally lower than this morning.

  I have very few plans for today, and the biggest, and most likely plan, is to be very lazy and keep cool. I have a feeling that today could be very humid. The sun is shining now, but a lot of the sky is still a milky white colour, and that suggests only sunny spells today. If I was in the right mood it could probably be a good day for a walk, but I don't fancy it. About the only concrete thing I expect to do today is to finish washing some stuff that I left in soak overnight. I need to do it if I am to have a shower today.
  It is not a great picture, but this is the hot and shagged out pigeon I mentioned taking a snap of while on my way to the pub on Wednesday. The bricks on that wall must have been roasting hot if the sun had been on them, but they were partly shaded compared to the blinding light of the background. I think the view was a lot better in real life, and my photograph is a waste of time, but having mentioned it, I thought I would show it.