There were a few light showers during the day, but generally, yesterday was bright, often sunny, and it seemed to feel warm. It didn't pay enough attention to my outdoor thermometers, but I suspect that for a while it was a degree or two higher than the forecast 18° C.
       

  As I write this it is bright and sunny. At least half the sky is blue, but both forecasters (Met Office and BBC) say that it will soon cloud over, and from 1pm it will start to rain, although the BBC say the rain could start as early as 11am. The latest revisions seem to show a trend that suggests the rain will be light rain, and maybe (fingers crossed) no rain at all. It is going to be a cool day with forecast temperature similar to the forecast for yesterday, just 15 or 16° C, but yesterday did seem to feel warmer than forecast. Tomorrow may be dull and wet, with a similar temperature range as today.

   There is good news about this morning coming later, but yesterday was probably merely pleasant, without being exciting, although maybe it was not that great because I decided to get drunk from late afternoon. I guess I can't think of anything bad about yesterday, but then again I can't think of anything good either.

  On second thoughts, there was one thing good about yesterday. It was that I went shopping. Yesterday I complained that I was technically constipated, but that it was not causing much, if indeed any, discomfort. While feeling like that I had a shower, and got dressed to go to the shops. I went to both Savers, and because it is so close, I also went to Poundstretcher. One particular good and positive thing is that this time I remembered to buy a packet of 300mg dispersible aspirin.

  The aspirin came from Savers, as did some toothpaste, mouthwash, toilet cleaner and a couple of nice smelly candles. Over the way, and into Poundstretcher, and most of what I bought was food. I bought quite a few pots/tubs of instant noodles, and also one packet of alleged "no added sugar" biscuits. The latter were particularly low sugar because in the big box there were no more than 6 almond flavour biscuits - and they were quite small biscuits. It would be hard to have a sugar overdose on such a small amount of biscuit !

  It was a moderately pleasant walk to and from the shops. I was just in t-shirt and shorts, and it felt quite comfortable like that. There was even a few rays of sunshine. Rain had been forecast, and indeed it did rain - but only when I was wandering around inside Poundstretcher. I thought I heard someone, near the front of the shop, say it was raining again. When I came out of the shop the ground was quite wet, but it seemed like the sun was shining even harder to make up for it.

  I can't remember when it was that I heard from Jodie. I think it was just after I got home from shopping. I had sent her a message to say that there were no trains from Elmers End because engineering works meant that the trains through Catford Bridge were being diverted to Beckenham Junction station. She had made her own enquiries, and asked if we could do the beer tasting today when there seems to be a normal weekday service of 4 trains an hour. I said yes, and so we will be drinking this afternoon.

  I had already got the place close to ready for some boozing, and with no need to do the finishing touches, such as polishing the beer glasses, I shifted into extreme lazy mode. That laziness included just having a few small packets of crisps for lunch instead of preparing anything more healthy(ish). On the other hand, I now know that most crisps seem to have very little effect on my blood glucose, and now they tend to be less greasy, they are almost low calorie too.

  I spent the afternoon almost doing nothing but quietly reading. I may have had a snooze as well. It may have been around 4pm when curiosity got the better of me. While shopping I had bought two or three more little pots of instant mashed potato. Last week sometime I had bought two or three of them, and had never got around to trying them to see if it was worth keeping a few handy. Yesterday I tried one pot, and it seemed pretty good. I think it was fried onion flavoured mashed potato.

  It got to about 5pm, and almost out of the blue I decided I was going to have some beers - lots of beers - very strong beers!!!! I started with two 500ml cans of 8.5% beer, and moved on to two cans of 9% beer. Before I got too drunk I prepared, and ate my dinner. It was little more than a pile of mixed salad leaves, grated cheddar cheese, and boiled new potatoes. I don't think I added any tomatoes, and it didn't seem to need any. It was quite tasty just as it was.
  These were the strong beers I drunk yesterday evening. They left me feeling a bit odd - I knew I must have been quite drunk, but I didn't seem to feel all that drunk. I can almost remember the whole evening, but then again there was not a lot to remember. It wasn't long after 7pm, with two hours of daylight left, that I decided to take my book to bed, read for a bit, and then go to sleep. I might have been asleep by 8pm.

  After drinking close on 2 litres of beer, it was obvious that I would be getting up for a pee several time in the night. I can't be sure, but I think it was around midnight when I first woke up. By then I had a big hangover, and felt pretty awful. I somehow managed to get back to sleep again fairly quickly. I woke again about 2 hours later, and I still had quite a throbbing hangover.

  Fortunately it seems my liver is in pretty good condition, and in the next 2 hours it cleared the alcohol out of my system, and at 4am my hangover was over. I was able to better enjoy the next two hours sleep. I enjoyed it so much that I can't remember anything of it at all. It just seemed like one minute the sky was just starting to brighten up, and the next minute it was sunny outside.

  The first of the two bits of good news from this morning was about my blood glucose measurements. They were exceedingly good ! The Contour meter read 7.0mmol/l, and the GlucoRX meter read 7.1mmol/l. Both very firmly in the light green, and almost in the dark green. The Sinocare meter was in the dark green with a wonderful reading of 6.7mmol/l. Somehow it seemed even better that that sometimes unpredictable meter, that often seems inclined to over read, could give such a great reading.

  The other good news is that this morning I am most definitely no longer constipated. After 2 days of not going, nor even feeling that I needed to go (although knowing that I ought to be), I definitely started to feel uncomfortably constipated. That didn't last long, although actually getting things moving did take an uncomfortable 10 minutes (or seem to feel like 10 minutes - it could have been less). Once things were moving, boy did they move fast ! It was like uncorking a bottle of champagne...well, sort of. I made three visits to the toilet in very quick succession before I felt confident that it was probably all over (apart from the many flushes it is going to take to get the toilet free of a big floater).
  This morning I tried a new instant noodles for breakfast. The pot pictured above says it is 75gm - or about half way between big and small portions. I had once tried some plain chicken flavour noodles from the same brand and size, and I think I think they were a little bland. These spicy chicken curry noodles are quite nice, although I am not sure I approve of the finely diced carrot in it.

  Most of this morning I can be lazy right through to when Jodie should arrive around 3.30pm to start on the beers that were delivered last Saturday. There is only one specific thing I intend to do, beyond reading and snoozing, and that is to find some of my best pictures of Miranda, Angela's daughter. It is her birthday today, and I should be able to find some very good pictures of her while she was singing with The Life Of Brian, or back To The Fray, to send as part of a birthday greeting.


 





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