10:09 BST

   A slightly odd view of this mornings weather forecast above. I took the screenshot before 6am, and at that time it wanted to show the forecast for the last hours of yesterday, which apparently ended at 6am. This morning there have been a few sunny spells, but there is a lot more cloud than the forecast seems to predict, and even now it still seems mostly gloomy out. Hopefully the clouds will break up, and we will get some longer periods of sunshine, but like in the screenshot above, the latest revision to the forecast still only shows full sunshine for the last hour before sunset. Today should hopefully peak at 23° C. Tomorrow is forecast to have 100% full sunshine during daylight hours, and that should push the temperature up to 24° C.
 
  Yesterday was generally good, but my night was a complete disaster. I'll explain that further down the page. After I finished writing I treated myself to a shampoo and shower. From the feel of it, I probably should have had a shave too. After allowing enough time to cool down, I got dressed, ready to go out.

  It was useful that I had managed to get out fairly early, and I had plenty of time to get a few things from Savers, and then go across the way (to the left instead of straight ahead to Poundstretcher) to buy a lot more stuff from Iceland. The most important thing I bought from Savers was a new bottle of high strength cod liver oil capsules, plus an extra for a spare for future use.

  The main thigs I wanted from Iceland was some ready meals from their low calorie, and usually low sugar content "My Protein" range. I also got two small tubs of ice cream from the same range. One great annoyance was that having discovered where they keep the big bottles of Diet Coke I found that they had all sold out. I did but a 2 litre bottle of (almost) sugar free mango and dragon fruit Vimto. I also bought a 2 litre bottle of sugar free Irnbru.

  One discovery I made yesterday was that at least for yesterday, I now know where they keep the instant noodles. For Koka brand noodles (from Poland I think) they had an offer of what amounted to 5p off a pack if you bought 5 of them. I bought 10 in total - 5 each of two different flavours. The final thing was the aggravation of waiting for a member of staff to open one of the two surviving staffed checkouts. After standing my ground for a few minutes a member of staff arrived, and soon there was a queue of people behind me all avoiding the self checkouts.

  I'm almost forgetting that I also bough a 4 pack of "tiger rolls". After getting home, and putting my shopping away, I had two of those tiger rolls (which seemed to have quite a low amount of sugar in them) with cheese, red onion and a generous squirt of mayonnaise (instead of using butter). They seemed very tasty, and also filling enough as a buffer against some beers a little later in the afternoon.

  It all depended on if the trains were running yesterday. They were to and from Catford Bridge, but there were engineering works that meant no trains from Catford station. With trains between Elmers End and Catford Bridge I looked forward to a visit from Jodie, and another beer tastings session. After my lunch I laid on my bed to read, and I almost had a snooze, but Jodie turned up unexpectedly early - about 3pm.

  The first beer Jodie opened was a plum gose beer. It sounded like it could be good, but I knew better. One small sample confirmed my worst fears - it was basically manky plums dissolved in battery acid ! I opened a can of 9% Kestrel lager, and it seemed a lot more nasty than expected.  Later on we did have a very wonderful beer. It was actually an 11% barrel aged porter, and it was delicious.

  Towards the end Jodie was looking for the cans of Brewdog, "own label" Ald IPA that I bought last Thursday. I was sure she had tried a bit of the first can I opened last Thursday, but apparently not, and one night, maybe Friday night, I drank the other three small (330ml) cans. It seems I now have to hope that Aldi still have some left when I next go shopping in there. That will probably be next Thursday.

  Jodie left early to meet Alan at London Bridge, although all services on his line came to a stop for some reason, and Jodie turned around at London Bridge and want back to Elmers End. Meanwhile, about half an hour before Jodie was due to go and get her train I started to finish cooking my dinner. While we were still drinking I had started the cooking by putting some baby potatoes, a couple of thick slices of onion, plus a few spare baby tomatoes in the mini oven to cook. The last bit, was to add a couple of Chinese inspired/flavoured pork burgers on top of the vegetable until the burgers seemed cooked.

  It was quite a nice combination of foods, but the pork burger was not that great, and although I might try another flavour if I see any, I don't think I'll be buying any Chinese flavoured burgers.....although, on reflection they might have been OK if served in a bun to soak up some of grease.

   One problem last night was that there was nothing on TV that I wanted to watch, and maybe I might have eaten dinner a bit too fast. In turn that seemed to make it less satisfying. First of all I filled another of the tiger rolls with cream cheese, and then after wolfing that down I had the last tiger roll with more cream cheese. That second one did seem to fill me up - maybe a bit too much.

  It was still a couple of hours too early to think about bed, and I passed the time by looking at some of my old photos. I did manage to take the occasional good photo with some of my first digital camera back in 2006 - plus or minus a few years - but many were really quite bad, and doubly so when looked at on a big screen. I also passed some time reading stuff on the internet, but it was a bit boring, and I went to bed to read quite early.

  As I lay in bed reading I became aware that I was starting to feel uncomfortable. I put it down to over eating, but it was more complicated than that. Half the problem was bad heartburn that started of barely noticeable, but ended up very bad. This time a couple of Rennies, antacid tablets only provide a tint bit of relief. The other half of the problem was in my lower half. It felt like I needed a poo, but nothing was happening.

  It was probably midnight when I started to pass wind, but nothing else. I tried to take the heartburn with a dose of liquid antacid, and that helped a bit, but not fully. It was between 1am and 2pm, possibly closer to the latter, that I finally passed a poo, or to put it another way, I had an arse explosion that instantly emptied my bowels ! I felt sort of sore after that, and I could not believe that there would not be any after shocks, but there weren't.

  Even my heartburn seemed to fade away after that visit to the toilet, but it seemed to get to almost 4am before I felt comfortable enough to get to sleep. I only slept for about an hour before waking up from a very bad dream. I have no recollection of what the dream was about, but I woke up feeling grim as if I had seen some terrible act of cruelty - maybe something so awful I did not want to remember it.  Anyway, I had a pee - the reason why I woke up, and tried to get back to sleep. It seemed really hard to get comfortable, but I fell asleep in the end.

  One problem was that my bedroom had cooled down to that silly temperature where it is far too cool without the duvet, and far too warm with it. I managed to get another hour of sleep, and then woke up needing another pee, although there actually seemed no urgent need for it. It was well gone 8am when I got up, and I reckon I was only actually sleeping for half all that time.

  When I finally decided to give up trying to get more sleep, I got up feeling pretty lousy. As well as all the lack of sleep, my guts still seemed to be a bit perturbed, although some, or all of it was probably hunger. I do feel a lot better since having breakfast. It turns out that my breakfast was bigger than ideal, and if it were not to stop the hunger pains, and also stop the burping of the taste of my cod liver oil capsule, it would have been better to have skipped breakfast.

  This morning my blood glucose readings were atrocious ! The Contour meter read 9.7mmol/l, almost as high as the red line. The GlucoRX meter reading was less terrible, but still terrible. It was 8.1mmol/l. For some reason only the Sinocare meter gave a very just about safe reading of 8.7mmol/l. Ideally I should be fasting until dinner time. I had to have breakfast for the reasons above, but I might try and skip lunch....but I feel too low to fight it.

  After all I ate yesterday, and I am sure there is one or more things I have forgotten, it is no surprise that my weight has gone up a bit, and it could take a couple of days to get back on track - provided I can find the discipline to eat properly. The only good news is that my blood pressure is rather excellent. It was an "optimum" 102/44.

  If there was ever a day when I should be out for most of the middle of it, and so not be tempted to eat anything, today is that day. At the moment it feels like today is another day when I am not doing anything, and can't even be bothered to wash, but maybe after I have had a snooze, I may feel more active. In terms of going out, it might be possible that I will take my new battery operated strimmer out to my garden, and see if I can tidy it up a bit more. It needs to be done, but I can't say I feel any enthusiasm for it at all as I write these words.