The latest revision gives a nice outlook than in the early version in the screenshot above. The sunny spells that are happening now should continue until midday. At 1pm the sky may turn dark, and there could be a light to medium rainfall. The next rain could be at 3pm, and a heavy fall is predicted. It should/could stay dry and bright until one last light rainfall at 6pm. The highest temperature today could be just 17° C. Tomorrow could also reach 17° C. It will be a generally bright and dry until 4pm when there could be three hours of light rain. Naturally tomorrows forecast is pure fantasy, and today's could also be a bit fantasy.

   Yesterday was not a great day, but it was generally OK. The only thing I did in the morning was to shave, shampoo and shower ready for my Wednesday appointment in The Jolly Farmers. There was always a microscopic chance that I could have been joined by Angela, but I didn't really believe it would happen, and it didn't.
  It took me a three pint session, but I came close to finishing the cryptic crossword, but this time I could not complete the quick crossword. Most weeks I can finish the quick crossword before I finish my first pint of Guinness ! After three pints, and over 2 hours had passed, I called it a day, and headed to the station to get the train back to Catford. On this occasion I was originally thinking of walking home, but I decided I was going to the little supermarket on Catford Bridge to buy some provisions.
  I will admit I should have put this picture near the top of the page because I took it while going to the pub. It is a picture of a train with a number I had not seen before, and so it became another entry in my spreadsheet of pictures of trains and their numbers. Finding a new train number on a class 465 train is now getting quite a rare thing. I haven't had a count up, but I estimate I could have 90 to 95% of them all.

  I had a small imaginary shopping list for when I went into the little supermarket. I wanted some of their big, but sadly rather tasteless, but also almost sugarless tomatoes. I wanted some Polish Sourdough bread, and some assorted packets of instant noodles (with an emphasis on tomato flavour). I got all those things plus some sliced sausage meats to put in some sandwiches, plus 4 cans of beer.

  When I got home, at about 3.30pm, I didn't have a chance to start making the sandwiches I was looking forward to before my phone rang. It was one of my old friends, and one who can talk for hours about things like buses and cellphone transmitters ! I must admit it was nice having a long natter, but I had to make my excuses and go once I realised that the first Star Trek of the evening had already started.

  I rushed down to the kitchen and made up two sandwiches. Each contained a squirt of mayo, sliced tomato and slices of paprika flavoured chicken (with the consistency of spam). I thought they were pretty tasty for such a simple filling. During the next commercial break during Star Trek I went and made one more - except this one had slices from a lump of garlic sausage. It wasn't so nice. A little later I had a couple of little salad pots that I had also bought in the little supermarket.

  While I was out the man from Amazon (I think) had delivered my new Contour blood glucose test strips. It was only a small packet, and her just tucked in plain view of anyone passing, in the door closing handle. I must admit it did look a bit like someone had given me a used dog poo bag until I got a bit closer ! I had barely finished eating my dinner when I decided to use one of the new test strips in my old meter, and also take a reading with my new meter. Both meters gave identical readings of 9.6mmol/l. That was good in that the readings were identical, and good in that I expected a much higher reading after having just eaten.

  It seemed like as soon as the sun set, which was 7.03pm last night, I began to feel tired. I would have watched UFO at 8pm last night, but it seems it was replaced by episode one of The Prisoner, according to the listings. Just to confuse matters further the channel I was watching seemed to be broadcasting the wrong channel. I think I went to bed at 8.30pm, and I was probably asleep before 9pm.

  I seemed to sleep OK for at least 3 and maybe as much as 5 hours, but definitely at 3am I had a period of insomnia that lasted over an hour. It was partly caused by several bad aches. I took a couple of Paracetamol tablets, and they helped me get back to sleep. One reason for waking up when I did, and maybe another reason for not being able to get back sleep was because of mild nightmares. I can't remember any details apart from a general them to these dreams.

  I think they were about Saturday's marriage between Angela and lover boy. The idea of Angela being officially signed off as unavailable is definitely not pleasant, and I still have fears that it ultimately won't be a happy marriage. However I think they main theme of my bad dreams was to do with photographer. Although it hasn't been said explicitly, I think  was once ordered to go (although I have yet to get any official confirmation) because they wanted a decent cameraman. My dreams were about taking the wrong lenses and other photographic disasters.

  This morning was my first chance to do a triple blood glucose check using all three meters. It was quite interesting, and resulted in another theory. The new meter gave a reading of 8.5mmol/l. That is very average, and about what I might have expected. The old meter read 9.0mmol/l. The very old meter read 9.6mmol/l. That seemed too high, and so I pricked another finger and tried again. This time it said 8.6mmol/l, or very close to the new meter's reading.

  For a while now, since I started taking readings with the old and new meters, I had an idea that it was always the second test from the same prick of blood that was higher. Trying to take three readings from the same bead of blood just made what ever the problem was worse. My new theory is that even in the first second the blood starts to coagulate. It still looks runny, but as it starts to coagulate it becomes denser, or more concentrated. That makes the glucose content higher. Tomorrow I will test a possible solution to the problem. I shall prick my finger as usual, but only squeeze out just enough blood for one reading. I'll then attempt to squeeze out fresh blood for each reading. Maybe I might even wipe away the old blood before squeezing out the next. I would hope that would result in three very similar readings. If so then I can revert to just a single reading using the new meter, and that (at the moment) has the cheapest test strips.

  Apart from a little housework, the only thing on today's agenda is another Thursday afternoon beer tasting session. I expect Jodie will bring more German Oktoberfest beers over, and they are usually very nice. Michael keeps threatening to bring over some German beer, and maybe he might bring it this afternoon, although often what he think is a "rare" beer is one Jodie and I have already had years ago, although I will be very happy to drink it even if Jodie isn't.