It was quite a cool start this morning with the temperature down to 14° C, but it should warm up to 24 or 25° C later this afternoon....although the latest revision to the forecast has reduced the hours of full sunshine. The latest revision almost alternates between sunshine and cloudy every hour. Only the first half of tomorrow may be sunny, but the temperature could still climb to a possible 25° C.

   Yesterday was another good day, and it was also a very lazy day, particularly in the morning. It was nice to lay on my bed, with the sun streaming through the window, quietly reading, and even snoozing until midday. At midday, or thereabouts, I panicked when I realised I had to have a shower before I had guests here later.

  I also had to do a modicum of tidying up, but that was mostly getting the dining room table, and some glasses, ready for a drinking/beer tasting session. As usual, for most Thursday's, I was joined by Michael and Jodie. A bit later on we were joined by Patricia. Like last time with Patricia, once the two great gasbags, Michael and Patricia started talking no one managed to get a word in edgewise.

  After Michael and Jodie left, at approx 6.30pm, Patricia and I continued to talk, although maybe it was a case of Patricia talking, and me listening ! One obvious topic was dinner. There was an earlier plan that Patricia would be going to Tesco to check their clothes section, and to pick up something to eat. That didn't happen, and with nothing in the fridge to make a meal suitable for a guest, I ended up ordering a takeaway.

  I'm not sure if Patricia had ever had a chicken shish kebab before, but she seemed to enjoy it. Ordering for two meant I didn't have to order extra for myself to make it seem worthwhile getting it delivered. I had a large chicken shish kebab. The kebabs came for a restaurant I have used many time, but last night I don't think it was as good as usual. The cucumber, which I always discard, looked like it was rather old, and well past it's best. The pickled chillies seems mildly stale too.

  Our dinner was delivered a few minutes later than the upper deadline of 7.55pm. I guess we started dinner at roughly 8pm, and after dinner we chatted for a bit more until at approx 9pm we headed to our beds. I could hear Patricia having a loud phone call with her brother (I think), and I caught up with some things on my PC. Once I was properly relaxed I checked my blood pressure. Earlier in the evening I struggled to get it down to a decent figure. I think I got it down to something like 123/60. Once fully relaxed my blood pressure fell right down to 91/52. If I remember anything from watching M*A*S*H it was that the patient had gone critical, and was getting close to death when their blood pressure dropped that low, but if I catch it at the right time, it is not an unusual figure for me.

  Last night was a sort of awkward night. After a warm day it was a bit too warm to sleep under my duvet, but later into the night, maybe midnight, or 1am, it was almost too cool without the duvet. For a few hours I slept with one arm and one leg under the duvet. For the last few hours of sleep I did sleep under the duvet, but felt quite warm when I woke up. I'm not sure it feels like it, but it does seem (which is a different way of looking at it) that I slept fairly well last night.

  This morning my two blood glucose meters gave quite different readings. The good thing was that a shish kebab for dinner meant that my blood glucose had dropped nicely from the slightly high readings yesterday. The new meter gave a very good 8.0mmol/l. The old meter gave a very average 8.6mmol/l. One thing I usually forget is to check my blood pressure in the morning.....or maybe not so much forget, but spend too long waiting for a time when I feel relaxed enough. This morning I didn't wait beyond checking it after breakfast. The reading was a very good 106/49.

  There is only one thing that I think will be happening today, and it is lunch with Patricia in the local Wetherspoons. It is possible we may be joined by her sister - which could be very boring once the two of them start yakking away with each other in Spanish. It is the rest of the afternoon that is mostly unknown. I may well have a long snooze ! There are a few things I have to do this morning, beyond having a shower, and the most important is to wash up yesterday's beer glasses plus a few more assorted items of washing up.