The morning rain has been on and off, but if the forecast is correct it should finish soon. From 11am there were supposed to be sunny spells, but the latest revision says sunny spells at only 11am and 2pm. The other hours should be dry and bright until the rain starts up again at 6pm. The temperature should rise to 20° C. Tomorrow should be dry and bright, but early morning and late evening could see the temperature down to just 9° C. The afternoon temperature may be no more than 13° C. There could be a lot of sunny days in the near future, but they will be quite cool days.

   Yesterday was another quite good day. The late morning featured a shopping trip to Tesco where, as usual, I tried to be careful about what I bought (i.e. low sugar content), and as usual, I ended up buying a couple of things that were a bit dubious, and also as usual, they came from the reduced price shelf !

  One possibly dubious thing I bought had a big Clubcard on it, and it was a packet of (alleged) extra cheesy corn puff type things. I haven't tried them yet, and I just hope they don't turn out to be a disappointment (although I fear they will be). What was a disappointment was a pack of 6 "Chinese style", duck flavour, spring rolls. I found them with a half price sticker on, and I had them for my lunch. They had the potential to be nice, but they tasted like they had been cooked in old chip fat or something.

  Yesterday afternoon was when I could reveal my latest beer purchases to Jodie and Michael. Michael was typically underwhelmed, although I think he liked a couple of the new beers. Jodie actually displayed some strong enthusiasm for at least one beer. She was surprised by a couple of the beers because they had only recently been released. Of course she had rushed to one of her favourite beer emporiums, to taste them as soon as she could. That means she is no longer interested in them ! I did manage to find a couple of beers from breweries she has never heard of. So that is something.

  I managed to get pleasantly drunk, and that was strongly helped along by the last beer we opened. it was the beer Jodie was very excited about. I think it was from the Omnipollo micro brewery in Sweden (https://omnipollo.com/pages/about - this doesn't open properly in my simple web browser, but should on others). It was a very strong, 10% or more, dark porter style beer with a sweet and chocolatey taste. In an ideal world we would have had one 330ml bottle each !

  After Jodie and Michael left I turned on the TV (actually an app on my PC) for my usual weekday evening dose of Star Treks, and because it was gone 6pm, I started on my dinner. It was quite a simple diced beef and sprouts stew flavoured with some dry chilli flakes. Maybe "some" is an understatement, and that could possibly be significant. I was not sure how hot those dried chilli flakes were supposed to be. They didn't seem anything more than slightly warm, but it is possible they had another effect on me, or more specifically, my digestive system.

  I remember washing dinner down with a large vodka and diet coke, and that got me a bit drunker. I have a vague memory of deciding to have a pair of Tesco "Finest" Scotch Eggs as a sort of dessert. It is possible I dreamed it, but it's unlikely. I haven't dared check the fridge to see if I really did it. The rest of the evening is very vague now, but I think I was fast asleep in bed by, and possibly before 9pm.

  For at least 4 hours I was dead to the world until I got up for a pee. I think it took a while before I fell asleep again, but I woke up again just before 3am, and I am unsure if I got any sleep at all after that. There didn't seem to be any special reason why I couldn't sleep apart from a very vague feeling of discomfort. Some of the aches were just the usual things like right shoulder and elbow, but there was something I couldn't really pinpoint.

  It was when I finally gave up trying to sleep, and got up, that I had a strong indicator of where the discomfort was coming from. It is possible those dried chilli flakes had a laxative effect, although it might have been those duck spring rolls. I did mention the odd taste they had, although it didn't seem to be an "off" taste. To cut a long story short, in two sessions, little more than 10 minutes apart, I seemed to empty half my digestive tract. It was all perfectly formed, but there was an awful lot of it. 20 to 30 minutes later I emptied another quarter of my digestive tract. I seem to feel comfortable now - I think !

  I suppose after all my excesses yesterday, my blood glucose readings were quite good, although only in relative terms. The actual readings were 9.0, 9.1, and 9.3mmol/l. Readings above 9 are a warning to be careful. The only good thing is they are only just over 9, with a fair margin from the red line at 10.0mmol/l. Tonight I am going to have something very safe that will probably be stewed chicken and cauliflower. I shall try not to add a dessert to that. I don't feel enthusiastic enough to skip lunch, but I'll try for something relatively safe.

  I have already done the most important thing today. I have rung the pharmacy, and ordered my next repeat prescription. I meant to do it at the start of this week instead of at the end. My current drugs run out on Monday, but with luck I will be picking up the new prescription late on Monday afternoon, and I can continue to keep taking the pills with no interruption. It will still be OK if I don't get the new pills until Tuesday afternoon.

  I don't have any idea what I shall do for the rest of the day beyond probably snoozing a lot to catch up on last sleep. I did have a mad idea that I might have a walk in the afternoon sunshine, but the weather forecast was revised to say there might not be any sunshine. The very latest revision has gone back to saying the afternoon may feature sunny spells again. The fly in the ointment is that the BBC forecast only give a three hour window between rain showers. It seems likely that the weather is in a state of flux, and every hour will see a different prediction to today's weather. I think it would be safer to stay in, although  quick visit to the shops might be possible.