Today will see no sunshine according to the forecast, although a little while ago there was some very weak sunshine filtering through a crack in the clouds. I cans see quite a lot of blue sky at the moment, although it is mostly to the west, and the sun is in the east where there is more, but still well broken cloud. We could have more sunshine yet ! By midday the clouds are predicted to be much thicker and darker, but by then the temperature should reach 16° C, although that is poor compensation for no sunshine. Tomorrow may also reach 16° C, and there may even bee some sunny spells in the afternoon. Before and after that the cloud is currently predicted to be fairly light, and so it should not be too gloomy.

  Yesterday was another of those semi good days - not actually good enough to be called good, but not bad enough to be called bad. In fact I don't think anything negative happened except I couldn't get to Tesco because I was expecting an Amazon Parcel, at a completely unknown time, but before 9pm !

  I knew that the delivery had left the depot not long after 11:30am, and that slightly hurried me up when I was feeling very lazy. Something like 5 or 6pm is a common delivery time, but I did have one as early as about 12:30 once. Another one that early seemed highly unlikely, but I thought I had better have a shower as soon as possible so I would not hear the dreaded sound of the doorbell while wet, soapy and naked !

  I really don't know why some Amazon deliveries don't have the same information as others. More often than not it the only information is "before 9pm", and that is bloody annoying, and extremely double bloody annoying if it does arrive that late. (I once had a delivery close to 10pm !). Sometimes the tracking page will give more information that is updated during the journey, and suggest a possible 2 hour slot when the delivery will take place. once or twice I have seen a map with approximately where there driver currently is. That is very rare, but I wish they would do that more often.

  Once I had showered I had very little to do until first the Amazon delivery arrived, at about 3pm (quite early for them), and Jodie to arrive about 30 minutes later. The most important item in my delivery, although it's importance was mostly to satisfy my curiosity, was my fifth blood glucose meter. It does look smarter than some, and It does seem more accurate than my other two Chinese designed, made, blood glucose meters, but more about that a bit later.

  I think Jodie only brought along one extra can of beer, but that needed chilling before being drunk, and we may have it on Thursday. Yesterday was when she opened three moderately strong fruit sour beers. I tried all three, and all three seemed to have what should have been a pleasant taste, but that taste was dissolved in Sulphuric acid or something. I could feel my teeth dissolving, my cheeks bowing inwards, and my tongue shrivelling - and that was just from two sips of each beer !

  I ended up opening a few beers that Jodie had already tried, and thus had no interest in, that I drank while she drunk her nasty beers. At least one of the beers I drank was not exactly nice, but at least it was not painful to drink it. With no one else drinking with us, I was often bored while jodie was scrolling through pages and pages of Instagram, and also Untappd, the beer logging program, and I probably ended up drinking more than I might have done.
  One thing I did not realise until yesterday was that our next beer tasting session, on Thursday, is not just near Halloween, but is actually Halloween. For that, and not really by intention when ordered, I have three beers we might, or might not enjoy next Thursday. Each should be guaranteed to raise the devil. They are pictured above.

   Jodie left to get the 6:42pm train. Once she had finished faffing around in the kitchen, getting her lunch together, I had started my dinner cooking. It was diced chicken breast that I smothered in two types of chilli sauce (but not mixed - each end of the pan had its own type of chilli sauce. Later in the drinking session I went out into the kitchen to prepare and pre-cook a lot of green beans.

  Obviously my dinner was grilled chicken with green beans. It looked a bit stark, and so I squirted mayonnaise on the green beans to break up the look. It was quite a nice dinner, but it did not seem to fully satisfy, and I thought some sort of dessert may have been a good idea. I probably should have had an apple, but I opted to 5 or 6 sugar free choc chip cookies.

  My body clock said it was time for bed based on BST, and it evidently has not made the change to GMT yet. That meant that in GMT time I was in bed super early. I had nothing much to do except read, and so being in bed, keeping warm under the duvet was a good idea. It may have been an even better idea if I had managed to go to sleep the first time I tried, but as soon as I rolled over to try for sleep, at about 8.30pm GMT, I was struck down with indigestion.

  In one respect it was particularly bad, and well into acid reflux territory. I went through a short period of burping, and one burp was within a gnats whisker of being vomit. I could feel the acid, and maybe lumps of food, right at the back of my throat. I very quickly has a large does of antacid liquid. That stopped the burning sensation, but I still felt pretty bad.

  On top of that, or maybe because of it, my bed suddenly felt really uncomfortable. There were lumps where there was previously no lumps, and somehow my arms and legs didn't seem to fit in their normal places. There was nothing for it but to get up, and sit at my computer desk, reading stuff on the computer, while the antacid liquid, plus a couple of Paracetamols did their stuff. As I sat there I started to feel chilly, and so I turned the heater back on, and from then on it was on all night.

  I am unsure, but I think it was getting close to midnight (or 1am BST) before I managed to fall asleep. I woke up a couple of hour later to go for a pee, but still didn't feel all that good. I probably got up to pee every two hours, and by the morning I was feeling about normal. Once I got up, soon after 6am, I still needed another big pee. I also had a good poo too. I found my weight had gone up again, although it was still less than 2 and 3 days ago. I am still sort of stuck in a place where my weight goes up and down with no positive direction up or down trend.
  This morning I had five blood glucose meters to try. I am only officially recording the three on the left. The far left is the Contour meter, and it read 8.0mmol/l. That is good, but still a bit higher than I aim for. Next is the GlucoRX meter. That is reading a very excellent 7.0mmol/l. If every meter read that I would be very happy. To my surprise, the Sinocare meter went along with the trend with a good reading of 7.7mmol/l. For reasons that must involve voodoo or some woo woo, the Vivachek meter read a stupendously high 9.1mmol/l. I think I'll be retiring that meter again now. The last one on the right, which is the new Exactive meter, reads 8.3, and that is close to the Contour and Sinocare meters. On the basis of a single reading, it is looking like it could be quite usable, but I will need to try it daily for at least a week to decide if I am going to replace the Sinocare meter with it as my third meter.
 
  A real time update at 9:50am > in the last hour we have had quite a few, usually short, sunny spells when none were forecast. Maybe today is going to be better than originally thought.

  If these sunny spells were to become longer, which actually seems unlikely because it looks like the gaps between the clouds, are closing up now, I could almost be tempted to go out. Ideally I shall be going to Tesco today because there is stuff I definitely need now (although I wouldn't starve or go thirsty if I didn't). The one fly in the ointment is that I am expecting another delivery today. It is sort of ironic that it will be a very cheap pack of paper plates, but while very cheap, and very lightweight, there is no way even using a club hammer to help them on their way, could they be put through my letter box. All I know at the moment is that the parcel reached the delivery depot at 04:14 this morning, but as I write this it has not gone out for delivery.

  The delivery is to be made my Evri/Hermes and sometimes they can be here quite early, but the last was something like 3pm in the afternoon. The good thing is that once it is finally out for delivery the tracking they provide is usually good enough to predict an approximate delivery time at least a few hours in advance. There should be no conflict when I go out to Tesco.