Red sky at night is supposed to be a sign of good weather the next day, but last nights very colourful display seem to have come to nothing today. Both forecasters I check say it will be a cloudy day, although The BBC predict light grey cloud, and The met Office say very dark cloud. What neither predicted was the 30 seconds of weak watery sunshine just now. The sun seemed to find a somewhat misty gap in the clouds. It doesn't look there is much chance of any more sunshine getting through those clouds. The only positive thing is that today could be 12 or even 13° C. Tomorrow looks like it might be identical to today, but with one slight twist - The BBC say very dark clouds, and The met Office say lighter grey clouds.

    There were good and bad things about yesterday. One good thing was that I went shopping in Aldi. One bad thing is that I went shopping in Aldi ! I got some good and useful things in there, but I also gave into temptation and bought stuff I shouldn't eat.

  The bad/naughty stuff from Aldi formed my lunch. I wanted something semi substantial to line my stomach before a beer drinking session in the afternoon, but I could have made a better choice of two packs of ready made sandwiches, and a couple of cheese and ham crunchy things (that looked like fishcakes). The sandwiches were chosen to have the least amount of sugar of all that were available, and they were nice and tasty. The ironic thing is that the worst thing for sugar content, the crunchy things, were a disappointment - even with 30% off (the main reason I bought them.

  Later in the afternoon, when Jodie finally arrived late after missing her train again, we had some beers that tasted very sweet. One was a beer brewed using lumps of fruit, ice cream, and energy drink powder. Apart from the lumps in it, it did taste sort of nice, but I dread to think how much sugar that had in it.  There were a couple more that seemed to be slightly sweet.
  I took a brief break from drinking to pop outside to get this snap of the glorious sunset. By tradition weather lore it should have heralded a nice day today, but it let us down badly. I also took a few minutes break to put some sausages into the mini oven/grill. Once Jodie had left I dished those sausages up as the single item for my dinner. After all the sugar bearing stuff I had during the day, I wanted something relatively sugar free.

  The only trouble with eating sausages by themselves is that I had greasy sausage flavoured burps for the rest of the evening, and even into the night. I had to take a couple of antacid tablets because one such burp contained acid reflux. It was the case that I had over done the booze during the evening, and the chances of vomiting were quite high, but fortunately nothing worse than the one hit of acid reflux happened.
  The wheels came off when I discovered I had a big liking for Scapa whisky. I think until last night I had only had the odd shot glass full at the end of a beer drinking session as a "one for the road". Last night I rather over did it ! Fortunately it gave me some good sleep, but I am unsure how much. I think I may have been asleep by 9.30pm last night, and I slept like a log until gone 1am.

  It was during that first lot of sleep that I had an odd dream. I dreamed that Jodie was staying here like she used after late night gigs 20 or 30 years ago. Although in the dream it wasn't quite the same because the room, with two beds, was more like my mum's old living room. The first big oddity was that because Jodie is a vegetarian her bed had a caterpillar and several flies on it. They were apparently attracted by all the green stuff she eats.

  When I went to bed I was disturbed by a sort of scratching sound. It sounded like a mouse in one corner of the room, right by my bed. It appeared to be coming from behind a pile of books in a corner. I thought that the books were in quite a tight pile that wouldn't leave any room for a mouse. I was trying to work out what was going on because the noise was very persistent. At that point I woke up, and realised what I was actually hearing, maybe a bit distorted as it was imported into my dream. It was the rattle of the fan in my fan heater !

  It wasn't long before I was asleep again, and I think I slept non stop until about 4.30am. From then on I got very little sleep, although I did get up very late on purpose. My morning routine was very different this morning. I didn't take my morning pills until almost 10am instead of typically between 6 and 7am. I still haven't checked my blood glucose readings because I decided I wanted to drink a full litre of tap water to make sure I was hydrated enough to not make my blood glucose readings seem higher than they really are. I have almost finished my one litre now.

  I have now just checked my blood glucose readings, and to my surprise they are all very reasonable. All three meters gave similar readings. I got 8.3mmol/l, 8.4mmol/l, and 8.5mmol/l. The last one was from the usually grumpy Sino Care meter. This time it was not so grumpy. I have no had any breakfast, but I think I deserve a light lunch - possibly a Greek style salad - I bought all the ingredients for it in Aldi, yesterday.

  One significant thing yesterday was that as far as I can remember, I didn't do a single poo. I have no idea why that should have been, but I do that this morning I have made up for it with three very productive visits to the toilet. That improves my odd for enjoying today more, although I doubt I will be doing much today. The weather does not entice me out, and I am not sure if I am over my hangover..... although I don't seem to feel too bad just sitting here typing away. I think I imagine myself having a quite day doing a lot of reading.