The latest revision to the weather forecast has removed the sunny spells that existed in reality at the start of this morning. The latest revision only shows sunny spells for 11am and midday. Meanwhile something with warm ansd bright rays is playing across my bare back, and it feels delicious ! The latest revision to the forecast shows light rain for not only 5 and 6pm, but also for 8 and 9pm. According to my outdoor thermometers it is now just under 11° C, or 2° higher than the early forecast, and 3° higher than 9am in the latest revision. If the temperature continues to climb it could possible reach 15° C by early afternoon. Tomorrow could start off wet, but it should dry up before midday, and the afternoon may be dull, but almost warm at 15° C.

   Yesterday featured a rather poor evening, but both day and night were quite good. Apart from several visits to the toilet in the morning, to seemingly clear a backlog after not going much, or at all, the day before, nothing much happened yesterday morning. I didn't even have a shower as intended.

  The highlight of the day was just after 1.30pm when my latest box of beer was delivered. Until then it had been mostly sunny, and I was surprised to open the front door and see the sun was still almost shining, but there was quite a heavy fall of rain. If I had not been more interested in opening my box of beers I could have popped outside with a camera, and possibly got a good rainbow photo.

  As I mentioned yesterday, and/or the day before, my beer delivery was of all beers chosen by me, for me, although there are some in it that I think Jodie would like to have a taste of. There was a mad temptation to dive straight in and have a few beers straight away, but after Friday morning's hangover I decided to lay off the booze for a while, and to definitely save getting really pissed to next Thursday.

  I still had a misguided idea that I might possibly go out last night. I can say now that I didn't, although I did try and act as if I might go out - or in other words I had a very lazy afternoon. I did suspend being lazy to make myself some lunch. It was a couple of salami sandwiches made with Polish, sourdough, 0% sugar, bread. Later on in the afternoon I had some sugar free "Maria" biscuits with some sliced Gouda cheese (or was it Edam ?).

  One other thing I did while in the kitchen, making sandwiches, and washing Thursday's beer glasses, was to prepare what is going to end up as today's dinner. I cooked some diced pork, with herbs and spices, plus stock cubes, for about 20 minutes in the microwave. I then left it covered to let the grease float to the surface, and then harden as it cooled off. Today I will skim that congealed fat off the top, and have a healthier dinner tonight.

  It is hard to be definite about how I passed the time in the afternoon. I did some reading, both from book and from the internet. I changed the batteries in my blood pressure meter, and dickered around with a few odds and ends. There was almost nothing constructive about it, but I didn't let that bother me, and I guess I could say I enjoyed it.

  A little after 5pm I started to prepare my dinner. By then I felt sure I would not go out to the gig I would have liked to have gone to. It seemed to be getting cold outside, and was possibly drizzly, although it may have just felt like it could get drizzly, once darkness fell I didn't reall look outside. My dinner was very simple, apart from the fact I cooked it in two parts in the microwave. First of all I cleaned, and sliced a couple of smallish sweet potatoes. I gave them 10 minutes in the microwave. While they were cooking I cleaned and prepared some sweetheart cabbage. I then gave that 10 minutes in the microwave.

  Microwaving the cabbage was a good learning experience. I didn't fully cover the leaves with water, and expected the leaves at the top to cook in steam, but that didn't happen, and they just went a bit limp and yellow. They looked horrible, but seemed to taste OK....although I have decided I don't really care for sweetheart cabbage. Maybe the heart of it is good, but just a load of loose big leaves was not good.
  It was gone 6pm when I ate my dinner, but to get my juices flowing beforehand I did treat myself to a single bottle of a dark German beer - as pictured above. I almost forgot to mention the other ingredient in my dinner. It was a small pack of ready sliced ham. It would have been better if it was thick sliced, unpackaged ham. The Polish shop on the high street does some good, sliced to order, ham.

  It was just before 7pm when I got an unexpected phone call. It was from my old friend Lee. He sounded surprisingly sober, and I wonder if he has cleaned himself up. The last time I saw him he looked like a tramp, stunk to high heaven, and was probably doing a bottle of whisky a day. In that state I declared him an ex-friend, but if time proves he has cleaned himself up, I might feel able to call him friend again.

  It was during our chat that I felt an ominous rumble in my guts, plus some discomfort. I rushed to the toilet while we were still talking, and passed a lot of very loose poo. I was surprised there was so much after going quite copiously in the morning. It came on quite quickly, and it made me feel very glad that I had not gone out last night - doubly so when 10 minutes later I was rushing back to the toilet to do another "pan filler" !

  I used the second time as a good excuse to finish the phone call so I could concentrate on the real job at hand. I must admit I did feel much better after that second, and thankfully last visit to the toilet. It almost seemed to cure a few other, seemingly non related aches and pains. That seemed to suggest I might sleep better last night, and I did, although I helped things further with a couple of Paracetamol tablets.

  About the only live TV I watched last night was "Secrets Of The London Underground" that was on between 8 and 9pm. I headed to bed after it finished, and read for a while. I am sure I was fast asleep before 10pm, and I did seem to sleep well. I only woke a few times in the night, and one was to turn the heater up after waking up, admittedly mostly uncovered, feeling cold. The fact that I didn't pee much in the night was a good sign, although I have been mislead by it before.

  I was hoping to describe some dreams from last night, but they have all faded from my memory. That is a shame because I remember waking up at around 1am from quite a rich series of related dream that involved motorbikes, food, music, woman, and other good things in life. I remember most of it was set in a very big house, but all I can remember now is just a few isolated snapshots, featuring the things described, but none of the action.

  This morning maybe my lack of peeing during the night (or I should probably say less peeing), did indeed prove to be because of low, getting on for normal, non diabetic, blood glucose readings. The Contour meter read 7.6mmol/l, and that is very good. The GlucoRX meter read 6.7mmol/l, and that is fantastically good for me. Even the Sinocare meter was in good humour with a figure of 7.4mmol/l. Maybe I am doing something right, and maybe that is being helped by my new Chromium supplement tablets.

  So far this morning I have no had a poo. That is not surprising after all I did yesterday, and yet there are light rumblings from my belly, and maybe last night's dinner is getting ready to be expelled. Had it not been for that, plus it not being very warm outside, and if I had not been busy writing this, I might have possibly gone for a walk in the sunshine. If there is enough left by the time I feel ready to go out, I may go for a short walk today.

  By a short walk I was thinking of maybe nothing more that a quick walk around the park, but maybe it will more likely be a short walk to the shops. I would like to top up on toilet cleaner - particularly some of the fragrant toilet cleaner gels that tend to be quite cheap from Savers. I would also like a quick spin around Poundstretcher to top up on a few things from there as well.

  Other than that I still have a shed load of recording made on my big TV that need top and tailing, plus advert removal - and some of them are worth watching rather than just archiving. On top of that I have recently started reading another book ("Glory Road" by Robert Heinlein), and having got through the slightly dull bit where the setting and main character is described, is just about to enter the good part of the story. I can imagine getting through a few more chapters of the book today.  Fortunately there are no tempting gigs on tonight, and I don't have to worry about that today.
      







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