Like some recent forecasts, yesterday's rainfall was less than forecast, but it most definitely did rain, and at least one shower was very heavy. There might even have been a distant peal of thunder, but it could have been something else. One thing not in any forecast was some sunny spells, and oddly enough, the best was between heavy showers towards the end of the afternoon.  The start of the day seemed a bit chilly, but by late afternoon the temperature had risen to possibly a couple of degrees higher than the forecast 17° C.
       

  The Met Office forecast (as in the screenshot above) predicted drizzle, and the ground did look damp earlier. For the rest of the day, The Met Office offer no more than a 20% chance of rain at any time today, and so the chances are it will be dry, but very cloudy for the rest of today. It is worth mentioning that The BBC forecast predicts light rain for much of the day ! Both forecasters agree  that the temperature will only reach 15° C today - great weather for February ! Tomorrow could be similar to today, but feature lighter cloud, and it could warm up to 18° C.

   Yesterday got off to a bad start, but the rest of the day was at least "OK", and there might have been a few good good bits. The bad thing in the morning, actually very late morning, a few minutes to midday, is that the pharmacy didn't have my repeat prescription ready.

  It was possibly good that my prescription was not ready. The friendly assistant said it seemed like the prescription was still being edited when she checked for my while I waited. Hopefully that indicated that a doctor was amending the doses in accordance with the Cardiologist's recommendation. Hopefully I'll find out later this morning when I go to the pharmacy to see if there is any news. It is possible they may phone or text to say it is ready to pick up.

  There was no reason to do it, but I rushed to the pharmacy, and I was only in there a minute or two before I started walking home again. I walked fractionally slower, but I was only about halfway home when I had to stop for a few seconds after my angina started kicking in. I am really hoping that the CT Scan I am getting in the middle of June will provide a plan to cure this angina because it is getting boring now.

  There was not a lot to do when I got home but to probably make things worse. I first had a small lunch of some very naughty crisps, and they lead on to a daring experiment. I had it in mind to have more of the ice cream I had bought from Aldi, but at the last minute I had a small/medium tub of ice cream I had bought from Tesco a little while ago. It was made by Oppo, but not the tried and tested, and found to be generally safe salted caramel flavour, but gooey chocolate. It still said it was very low calorie, but the sugar content seemed to be higher. It was rather good !
  At about 3.30pm Jodie arrived for another beer tasting session. Many of the beers she had selected for the last deliveries were "fruit sours", and not really beer at all. On the whole I find them almost undrinkable, and have almost given up even trying them. I am currently down to just half an inch in the glass as a taster, with the option for more if it has any positive virtues. The trouble is that actually finding a drinkable one is a very rare occasion !

   The further trouble is that leaves Jodie with more "beer" than she fancies - less room to sample more "beers". She has taken to knicking my already refilled many times, 500ml water bottles so she can empty them out, and use them to take the surplus beers home so Alan can try them - he likes those horrible fruit sours. One of the new beers was actually good. It was the oatmeal stout, as pictured above. It is in the left glass, and the right glass has genuine Guinness in it - a genuine stout that I was using to stop myself becoming thirsty while Jodie slowly drank the nasty fruit sours.

  Jodie left half an hour earlier than usual. It was so she could meet Alan at Clockhouse station, and then go on to a tap room where some beer event was taking place. I think it was about a brewery who make nasty fruit sours ! It was a bit early, but I rustled up a salad for my dinner. It involved an awful lot of salad leaves, and a lot of croutons - they rushed out of the bag faster than intended. It was a nice salad, but somehow it didn't hit the spot. I had a couple of small bags of crisps as a sort of dessert.

  It was not a very exciting evening, and I was in bed early again. I seemed to have little trouble sleeping, and even had a few dreams that have left fragments of memory. I'm not sure it was really the case, but I seemed to have one very long period of sleep, although with hindsight it was probably only around 3 hours - it was probably between about 1 and 4am. The thing that made it seem lone was that it was as good as light when I woke up around 4am.

  I got up unusually early this morning, and there is a reason for it. Sometime after 10am I should be visited by Lee with his small plumbing kit, and he will be changing the mixer tap on the kitchen sink for the brand new one I bought from Amazon 6 months or more ago. I just hope Lee can do it without the whole lot leaking after he has finished. The other botherance  is that he is going to be far too chummy for someone who I consider to be on parole until he has demonstrated that he really has got his booze problem under control - the signs at the moment is that he has controlled getting drunk at breakfast, but goes to bed so pissed that he can't remember where he has put things in the night - including his wallet, that he seems to keep losing.

  That comes later, but so far this morning things are good and not so good. I did quite a substantial poo last night, and so hqave not needed to have one this morning. I was hoping my weight would have been at least stable, but it seems to have gone up another 100gm again this morning. I know my eating has been too loosely controlled recently, and I must try to do something about it. Some warm sunny days would help a lot.

  One the other hand, it does seem that my blood glucose is still quite well controlled. There were no fantastic readings this morning, but all were good. The Contour meter read 7.5mmol/l, and that is my latest target, and so I can't complain about that. The GlucoRX meter read 7.1mmol/l, as did the Sinocare meter. Both are under target, and only a bit above a reading in the fantastic dark green (6.xx mmol/l) area. If it was warm and sunny, and I was able to do the walking exercise I would like to be able to do, I could make 6.5mmol/l my new target.....oh well, maybe summer 2025 will be more like summer.

  I have already mentioned that one thing I will be doing later today is going back to the pharmacy. Another thing there is a very small chance I might do, is to go to a gig tonight. There is aband I have never seen before, but I have some possibly all the band members playing in other groups before. They are called Vfoxy, and are playing in The Fellowship Inn tonight. The pub is next door to Bellingham station, and that is just 2 minutes on the train from Catford station. It is very tempting, but the last two times a band played there I just could be bothered to go out in the evening. The chances of me doing it this evening are slim, but in an infinite universe, anything is possible.


 





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