It might have been before midnight, but if not, not long after that I decided to close my bedroom window. There was some wind disturbing the curtains, and that wind felt quite chilly. This morning at 7am it was only 16° C, and it may well have been even cooler earlier. It is a bit cloudy at the moment, and some clouds look a bit grey, but it should stay dry today. As usual, the BBC weather forecast is far more optimistic about the amount of sunshine today, but the latest revision to the Met Office forecast has filled in a lot of the gaps, seen in the screenshot above, with sunny spells or sunshine. They have also reduced the single hour (4pm) at 25° C with 24° C. The BBC reckon it will only reach 23° C today. Tomorrow will probably see similar temperatures, but it is likely to be a wet day.
  I guess yesterday was another in the series of partly wasted, mostly unexciting days, that sort of crept up on me. In realistic terms I achieved very little. On the other hand I didn't seem to be bored yesterday - except in the evening when there was nothing on TV. Even that is not 100% true because I ended up watching a James Bond film in the early evening. As usual, my day is more fully described in my complete archived page for today, which also includes some words about my night and the start of this morning.

  Once again the BBC and Met Office have conflicting views about the weather. At the moment the BBC is closest to reality. It shows a thunderstorm for 7am. Well it is that now, but no thunderstorm, or any rain, but the pavements were definitely wet when I looked outside. I'm guessing there was a shower at around 6am. Both forecasters warn of thunderstorms today. The BBC chart shows lightning bolt icons for most of the afternoon. The Met Office show heavy rain from late afternoon until early evening - but no lightning bolts at all. All they show is the yellow bar across the forecast, as seen in the screenshot above, with it's Yellow warning of thunderstorms. I think yellow probably means it won't happen ! The afternoon temperature could be 23° C (BBC) or 25° C (Met Office). Tomorrow could feature some or more sunny spells with an afternoon high of around 23° C.   Yesterday was a good day, or at least parts of it were good. I was still feeling what I shall call "under enthused" (which I think ought to be just one word, but probably isn't). Among the good bits were an unexpected delivery, and fruitful shopping trip. On the downside I had a bad feeling about my guts even when they didn't feel too bad. That feeling turned out to be a true warning, and that is mentioned, along with other less unsavoury bits of my day, night, and even some good news this morning, in my complete archived page for today.

  Today I have to show the forecasts from The Met Office (at the top) and The BBC (bottom). As can be seen, they are rather different ! Both agree that tomorrow will feature thunderstorms, but today they can't agree whether it is going to dull, with a small chance of a splash of rain, or nice and sunny. They both agree on the temperature, although their timings are about an hour different. The Met Office has now had one revision, and it now shows a 50% chance of light rain at 9am, and 80% for heavy rain at 10am. When I look out the window I am not sure either forecaster has got it right. Curiously enough, The BBC has gone very pessimistic for tomorrow showing thunderstorms for most of the day, and The Met Office has changed to optimistic and just shows a thunderstorm for 3 and 5pm with some light rain for an assortment of hours in the afternoon.
  Yesterday was  an agreeable sort of day. Yesterday morning I wasn't feeling as miserable as the night before, but for probably a lot of yesterday I was in a sort of couldn't care less frame of mind, and yet, strangely enough, it was also the opposite of that which guided me through over half the day. If that sounds weird, it probably is, but my write up about yesterday, last night, and this morning might make some sort of sense - read my complete archived page for today.

  It seems like today will be another hot, sunny and dry day. Once again the temperature should reach 26° C. Tomorrow could see a big change....or not. The BBC and Met Office have come up with quite different forecasts. The BBC say sunny all day with the temperature reaching 24° C. The Met Office predict a mostly dull day with a 30% chance of light rain between midday and 2pm, but they do agree on 24° C. The day after tomorrow looks more definite, or at least as definite as a forecast can be for more than an hour or two ahead. Both forecasters agree that day after tomorrow, Sunday 18th, will most definitely be wet.
  Yesterday was  one of those days that was fairly dull until a brief bit of enjoyment which was followed by depression. I filled in some slack time in the morning by attempting to copy a couple of music programmes recoded on an old VHS tape to my DVD recorder. This time it let me down badly ! Why Yesterday was both good and depressing (in variable quantities), and what was happening during these ups and downs, is more fully described in my complete archived page for today.

  Today almost repeats yesterday's weather. It is a fresh start, just 14° C, but non stop sunshine from a blue sky should raise the temperature to 26° C by early afternoon. One change is that the temperature will not fall away as much tonight. Tomorrow morning could start a couple of degrees less cool at around 16° C, but once again non stop sunshine will raise the temperature to an expected 26° C. It may be that the first chink in this run of good weather may happen at 8pm tomorrow, and which is currently shown as just sunny spells. Saturday may be cooler with cloudy skies, and Sunday could see some rain. What is more definite it that the current forecast for Saturday and Sunday will be changed a lot by Saturday morning !   I finished writing yesterday by saying I wish I was able to "go" - referring to some mild constipation. Not long after that I did go, although not as much as I expected, but at least I felt OK. I think I would have been OK to go out to meet Angela if she were available, but she was far too busy at home keeping an eye of the builder(s) doing up her kitchen. She sent me several progress report pictures during the morning, and I got the impression that the builder(s) were/was taking extra care to try and keep the workplace, Angela's kitchen, fairly clean. My day, night, and the start of this morning is described in my complete archived page for today.

  As can be seen in the forecast chart above, this morning was almost chilly at just 13° C, but the sky was blue, and it is warming up quite fast now. The met Office predicts the afternoon temperature should reach 26° C, and the BBC says even higher at 28° C. Tomorrow could be the same as today, although it may start a degree or two higher.
  I find it hard to describe yesterday. A few useful things happened, but then there seems to have been a lot of nothing happening. Oddly enough the nothing didn't seem to be boring so I guess I must have been gainfully employed doing something or another. I do my best to describe my day, and I've even found a couple of pictures to go with it, plus how I slept, and good and bad news this morning, all in my complete archived page for today.

  After yesterday's heat it didn't cool down that much overnight, and this morning the temperature didn't go below about 16° C. Both forecasters, The Met Office and The BBC, have not changed a thing in their latest revisions. It seems today will be hot and sunny, although on a closer look, it does seem the Met Office have reduced their afternoon high to only 26° C, but the BBC still say 27° C. Tomorrow could be the same as today, but at 6am the temperature may have dropped to just 14° C.   Yesterday was quite a successful day, although the biggest success was really overnight, with the results of it being shown this morning. More on that later. One minor failure was to finish a small amount of laundry. For one thing it was rather too hot and sticky for manual work in the afternoon, and the threat of more rain, over what we had just after 2pm, meant that hanging washing on the line to dry might have been a futile thing to do. The story of yesterday, last night, and the start of this morning continues in my complete archived page for today.

  It seems certain that there will be some rain today, and probably in the afternoon. The forecast for light rain at 8am may still be possible, but sunny spells seem more likely. Just to confuse things, the latest revision of the forecast shows no afternoon rain (as in the screenshot above), and moves all the action to the morning. It currently shows light rain for 9 and 10am, and a thunderstorm at 11am. It is always useful to see what the BBC says in these situations. At 7am they said it would rain between midday and 4pm, and that 2, 3 and 4pm may feature thunderstorms. The latest revision still shows three hours of thunderstorms, but they are now predicted to start an hour earlier. It is looking like we may well get a thunderstorm today, but no one seems to know when it will happen. The one thing agreed upon is that the afternoon high will be 26° C. Both forecasters seem to agree that tomorrow will be dry and sunny, and the afternoon temperature will be 26° C.   Yesterday was less good than the day before, but on the whole it wasn't bad. Maybe the most positive thing I did all day was to wash two white t-shirts, and a white hand towel, and had them drying on the washing line while the sun was still shining. I decided it might be prudent to bring them in, just very slightly damp in a few places, when the sky clouded over, and a thunderstorm was predicted (and which never happened). The rest of the story of yesterday, last night, and the start of this morning, continues on my complete archived page for today.

  At 1am this morning (I was having trouble sleeping) it definitely said a thunderstorm was due at about 4pm today. By 6am that threat had been lifted, but as can be seen above, some light rain was forecast for 2am. That was to be followed by several hours of no sunshine. The very latest revision of the forecast shows most of the day without any sunshine. That was the Met Office forecast. The BBC still gleefully show sunshine or sunny spells for the whole day, but they do admit a 10 to 29% chance of rain in the afternoon. The Met Office doesn't show any more than a 10% chance of rain for a lot of the day, and 10% usually, but not exclusively, means no rain. Both forecasters agree that today's high could be 29° C. Both forecasters agree that tomorrow will be hot again, 27° C, that there should be at least sunny spells, or better, for most of the day, but that rain, and even a thunderstorm will happen sometime during the day (with mid afternoon most likely for a thunderstorm).   Yesterday was rather a good day, and it wasn't just because it was hot and sunny ! I seemed to have quite a slow morning, and I was only just ready to go out at 2am when I intended (and did) get the bus to Angela's home to attend her barbecue. As well as my personal ablutions, I had to get some cans of Guinness in the fridge early, and also some cooler bag freezeblocks in the freezer. I had to select a camera, and top up it's battery, and eventually with a well loaded rucksack I headed for the bus stop where I met up with Michael who was also going. All this is described in greater with a pile of photos, plus how the heat devastated my sleep, plus thoughts this morning in my complete archived page for today.

  We are well into summer now, and it sometimes seemed someone just flipped a switch to convert early spring to summer. There should be sunshine all day today, and the temperature should soar to a very nice 28° C. The only downside is the thunderstorm warning. There is no predicted time for one, but in the early morning forecast there was a 30% chance of rain at 3pm. That has disappeared from the latest revision, but a few hours have been changed from full sunshine to sunny spells. The BBC's weather forecast also warns of thunderstorms, but once again there is no clue when they might be, however their animated cloud prediction screen does show a very dense rain cloud passing a few miles to the south of us at 3pm. If that cloud gets blown off course we could get very wet for a short while. The BBC think tomorrow could reach 29° C tomorrow afternoon, but the Met Office say only 28° C. The Met Office have dialled down the sunshine to include quite a few sunny spells instead of full sunshine. Both warn of more thundestorms.
  This is the a snap of the BBC's animated weather forecast that shows the positions of clouds over the next two days. The heaviest rain, maybe that which will bring a thunderstorm is shown as white. Medium is green, and light is shown as blue. It is possible that the big cloud will just touch us as it passes our way, but a change of just a mile could bring disaster or not even a hint of it's passing.

  Yesterday had its good and bad points, although maybe the good outweighed the bad. Part of the bad was the usual wait and uncertainty of an Amazon delivery, but I was free to do as I pleased for a few hours after I had finished writing yesterday. I didn't have an awful lot to say yesterday, and so despite the late start, I didn't finish writing too late. I think today could be similar, but I am still marshalling my thoughts. Read about my entire day, night and this morning here - my complete archived page for today.

  It started so gradually that it is hard to say when the sun appeared this morning, but I feel sure it was probably before 9am, and possibly before 8am. It is definitely sunny now, and although the sky looks more white than blue, the cloud is thin enough for hazy sunshine at worst, and fairly strong sunshine at best. Later this morning even that thin cloud should disperse to give strong sunshine for the rest of the day. That should raise the temperature to a very nice 24° C. Tomorrow gets interesting. For a few days now the BBC have been warning of thunderstorms, and now the Met Office have joined in. The trouble is that both say that there will be strong sunshine all day with the temperature climbing to 28° C. That could "boil up" a thunderstorm, and it could happen at almost any random time, but I suspect if it happens it will be late afternoon/early evening. It could be a real BBQ destroyer !

  I keep thinking of yesterday not being a very good day, but I have to admit it did have some good points. I think the problem is all the times when nothing exciting happened. I could have gone out in the morning, even if it were just to get a bit of shopping, but like today, I started writing so late, and I seemed to have so much to say, that most of the morning passed by while I was writing. I fear the same thing could happen today. Today brings it's own problems, and these, along with other stuff yesterday, and last night, are described in my complete archived page for today.

  The sun is now shining, but it is slightly hazy because there is still enough thin cloud to make the sky more white than blue. This morning was another cool morning, just 11° C, but the forecast says it should rise to 21° C by mid afternoon. One small change in the latest revision of the forecast is that 10am is shown as dull, but 11am is now shown as full sunshine. That sunshine should continue until sunset. Tomorrow morning may start a whole degree less cool at 12° C, and another day of almost full sunshine could raise the afternoon temperature to 23° C. Saturday could see 27° C. The Met Office say light showers for Saturday, and the BBC say thundery showers ! I wonder which forecast will come closest to reality ?

  I didn't enjoy much of yesterday. I was feeling fairly rotten a lot of the time, and sometimes it was physically rotten, and sometimes mentally rotten. It was probably my negative mental and physical feeding off each other. I can think of a selection of possible reasons why my day should start this way, and once started, to only very slowly fade away. I discuss this, plus other stuff from yesterday, last night, and even this morning, in my complete archived page for today.

  This morning's dull start should be over by now, but if anything it seems even duller now ! The latest revision to the forecast shows 9am as being dull, but the forecasters have a great conviction that the sun will burst through "soon". The afternoon may yet end up as full on sunshine until sunset, and that should raise the temperature up to 20° C. It seems this June is not going to live up to it's reputation as flaming June.  It is possible that tomorrow may do better. The current prediction of both the BBC and Met Office forecasts is for a bright start, and full sunshine from mid morning. A afternoon high of 21° C is expected.

  Yesterday was a rather different sort of day to most days - mainly on account of how it finished. The start was fairly normal - a couple of hours writing here, and then a shampoo and shower. In a clean and fragrant condition I then went shopping in Tesco. The finish of the day involved beer ! Read all about my day, night, and this morning in my complete archived page for today.

  The latest revision to the forecast has brought the sunny spells forward to start at 1pm now. The single hour of full sunshine now says just sunny spells. This is almost the forecast for yesterday ! Today's temperature may peak at  19° C, but perhaps only for a single hour (4pm), and 18° C will be more representative of today's temperature, and even that only for maybe 3 hours. Tomorrow could see a return to summer. The best guess the forecasters can make is full sunshine from 9am, and a temperature of 20° C.

  Yesterday was a day of action and adventure...sort of. It took until gone midday before I felt there was a chance that the sun would finally break through the gloomy clouds. I thought it might have been a bit earlier, but it seems I caught the 13:20pm train from Catford Bridge heading towards London Bridge where I could change train for a train to Canon Street station. My full report on the day, with a lot of pictures, plus what happened when I got home, how I seemed to have a dreamless sleep, and the start of this morning can be read in my complete archived page for today.

  Today is another of those days we seem to have had a lot of recently, yesterday excepted, it has started rather dull, but the sun could break through enough to give sunny spells by 11am, according to the latest revision to the forecast. By 2pm the sky is supposed to completely clear to give full sunshine ofr the rest of the day. Sadly, the afternoon temperature may only reach 19° C today, but that should still feel hot in full sunshine. It will cloud over late tonight, and that should usually keep the temperature up, but tomorrow morning is still predicted to start at 11° C. The rest of tomorrow may be almost the same as today - dull, sunny spells, and then full sunshine in the afternoon. The afternoon temperature will probably be the same as today, 19° C.

  I had to wait until midday yesterday to send Jodie a text message to ask if she would be coming over for a beer tasting session in the afternoon. About half an hour later she replied to say yes ! From then on I didn't have to think up any alternative entertainment for the day. I did a little more than just drink. My full day is described, plus a dream described, along with a word about this morning in my complete archived page for today.

  The weather chart was quite correct this morning when it said it would only be 10° C at 7am. I can't be sure, but I think it may have been just 9° C earlier than 7am. There was clear blue sky at 7am, and the sky should stay like that all day as we are bathed in pure, warm, sunshine. The single hour of 21° C at 4pm has been removed in the latest revision to the forecast, but it will still be 20° C all afternoon. Tomorrow may be like previous days - a cloudy morning and very sunny afternoon. Once again the temperature could be quite chilly at daybreak, but the afternoon should see 20° C again.

  I don't think I was in a very bright mood yesterday. I didn't feel much get-up-and-go, or maybe I should say less than usual. As I mentioned yesterday morning, I seemed to have more of a desire to play with computers than do anything else. On the other hand, the sort of thing I was doing with computers was akin to a voyage of discovery, and was a learning experience. Maybe it was not a bad thing to do. All my day, night, and this morning is described in my complete archived page for today.

  This morning was quite cool. I think it may have been at 5am I noticed my thermometers saying it was only 9.5° C. By now we should be getting sunny spells, but all there is, is very hazy sunshine that can't even cast more than a very dull, indistinct shadow. The latest revision to the forecast now says the first sunny spells will be at 11am, and then midday will be dull again. 1pm should/could see the start of full sunshine, and the temperature could then rise to 21° C by mid afternoon. Tomorrow may see a perfectly clear sky from sun rise to sun set, but the temperature may only rise to 21° C again.

  Yesterday was yet another day where my plans never came to fruition - except for one plan. As I mentioned yesterday, I realised that a small parcel delivery from Amazon was due to be delivered yesterday. I had a bad feeling it would disrupt my plan to go to Brockley to watch a few bands playing at the Brockley Max Festival. In fact I could have gone, but in the end I chose not to. More about that and everything else I did yesterday, last night and this morning, in my complete archived page for today.

  The weather today looks like it is following yesterday's pattern. It is quite dull this morning, but bother forecasters (Met Office and BBC) that this afternoon will be gloriously sunny. Both agree that all that sunshine won't bring the air temperature up any higher than 18° C, and that only for maybe a single hour. 17° C would seem to be more representative for the afternoon. Tomorrow could be sunnier than today, and maybe the temperature will peak at 21° C.

  Yesterday was a good day on many levels. The first good thing was that the constipation that was bothering me, despite no discomfort, for a couple of days, came to an end yesterday morning, and did it with no drama at all. That made me confident that I could go out, although only a short distance because there was still a possibility of visits to the toilet to come - which didn't happen. That is all the details about the less interesting bit of my day, the hopefully slightly more interesting details can be read in my complete archived page for today. it also includes some notes about my sleep, dreams, and the start of this morning.

  The Met Office came close to correctly forecasting this morning, and the BBC were far too optimistic ! This morning was, and is rather grey, and the forecast for 7am being just 10° C was correct. The latest revision to the forecast shows 9 and 10am as featuring light cloud, and then the first sunny spells at 11am. It also shows midday as sunny spells. From 1pm the Met Office agrees with the BBC forecast, full sunshine until 6pm, and then sunny spells until sunset. The afternoon temperature should peak at 19° C for a few hours. Tomorrow should be a slightly better version of day. It should feature a bit more full sunshine.

  Yesterday was annoying. As I mentioned yesterday morning, I was constipated, although I didn't feel feel that. I usually go every morning, sometimes early, and sometimes later in the morning. The day before yesterday I didn't go at all, and in the end neither did I yesterday. As I said, I didn't feel uncomfortable physically, but I did have my brain nagging me to say something could happen "any minute now" - it didn't ! I was generally comfortable the whole of yesterday, but there was still a strong element of doubt about when and if.... I managed to stay in and amuse myself, and all the is described in my complete archived page for today. It includes my night, dreams, this morning, and brief mention that I am no longer officially constipated.