Today should be a bit warmer than yesterday. The sunny spells started quite early. and there will be some full sunshine to warm the middle of the day up to a marvellous (sic) 6° C. At least it should be another dry day. By midnight the temperature will have fallen down to just 2° C. By 5am tomorrow morning, the temperature will have risen to 3° C, and the first rain will fall. At that temperature it would be no surprise if that rain did not fall as sleet or even snow. That rain will continue, maybe non stop through the day. As it rains the temperature will rise, and at midnight the temperature will have risen to an almost warm 14° C. Most if the day after will be the same temperature, and it will also rain all day. Just to make tomorrow (and the day after) even worse there could be some very strong gusty winds.

  After an extremely late start this morning, it is handy that I don't think I have a lot to say about yesterday, or maybe I can cut the waffle, and just concentrate on the basics. For instance I can say that I had a morning shower in one sentence. A few more paragraphs and the day could be over.

  The next significant thing yesterday was that I went to Tesco again. I bought more ingredients for some tasty cheese and stuff baps, and I bought some beefburgers and a pack of cheap sausage meat. The one thing I didn't actually need, but is always useful was more bottles of Diet Coke. I noted that Haig whisky had Clubcard discounts, and a litre bottle was once again cheaper than the 70cl bottle. Just to confound things there was also a Clubcard discount on the 70cl bottles and so the 70cl bottle was actually slightly cheaper. I still went for the litre bottle because the unit price per litre was fractionally cheaper.

  Walking to and from Tesco was not as good as the previous time, but still not really stressful. If anything it was the walk to Tesco that seemed to bring me closer to angina pains that the walk home carrying a lot of heavy shopping. When I got home I didn't make up a couple of tasty cheese and stuff baps. but instead I ate three items I was suckered into buying from the reduced price shelf - a small, individual, quiche Lorraine, and two Jamaican jerk bean filled patties.

  I blame that lunch for a good portion of some weight gain this morning. Of course, the next thing of significance, an afternoon beer tastings session with Jodie and Michael would have to take it's share of the blame too. Jodie, after he bus got caught in slow moving traffic, didn't get here until 4pm, and Michael was only half an hour behind her - which is early for him these days. I was on my second beer when Jodie arrived, although not that far into it.

  I think that for yesterday's session we had more beers to my taste than usual. Jodie only opened one nasty "fruit sour" beer, and I had a very small taste of it. One beer was one of my recent arrivals, and I didn't realise it when I ordered it, that it too was a fruit beer, but not a nasty sour fruit beer. It was a cherry flavoured beer, and it tasted a lot like cherryade, or even kids medicine. I liked it, but the other two were a bit lukewarm to it.

  Michael managed to avoid getting drunk and emotional this time, but his situation with his wife is really getting him down. He pays an awful lot of money to keep her in a care home, but then spends much of his day caring for her himself - and as far as it sounds, she actively resents it. At the moment it seems like Michael is driving himself to an early grave, and just won't take advice from anyone, including his sons and daughters, to keep some time for himself, and let the care home do what he is paying for them to do.

  Once Jodie and Michael had left I swooped on my dinner like a hungry eagle (or gannet). My dinner was roast/grilled sausage meat, and 2/3rds of it I cut into 4 slices to make two sausage meat burgers in wholemeal baps. I expected them to be wonderful, but they weren't. The wholemeal baps had such a strong, and quite nice taste, that they part masked the taste of the sausage meat. The last third of the meat I ate with just some mustard and low sugar tomato sauce. It was much nicer like that.

  I ate dinner watching TV, and did the usual of turning the TV off for an hour, before turning it back on to watch QI, and last night, also Have I Got New For You (both on Dave). I was in bed very soon after 11pm, and while I got as far as selecting a new book to read, and read the first paragraph, I was feeling tired enough to try for sleep. I think I was fast asleep 15 or 20 minutes after I had gone to bed.

  I only had one notable, and part remembered dream last night, and it was very strange. At this part I can't seem to separate out what was actually dream, and what was additions and sort of explanations added while awake, but waiting to get back to sleep. It is possible I was asleep before I knew I was asleep. The dream was about watching a movie made from a series of black and white pictures - like a slideshow presented as a movie.

  The pictures were of underpants being worn. It was obvious in a few cases it was a man wearing them, but maybe because they seemed to be Victorian in style, some could easily have been worn by women. I came to think that what I was seeing was a sort of Victorian era catalogue presented in this slide show style. There seemed no intention of making it look erotic in any shape or form. It was purely for advertising without actually presented as an advert as we know them now. It is a complete and utter mystery how my brain managed to come up with this dream. Most dreams have some sort of message, or reflect events of the in some sort of way, but this one was complete randomness.

  When I got up this morning I had a good poo, and before I got on the scales I went back for another poo and small pee. Thank goodness I did because without that second visit my weight gain looked terrible. After the second visit my weight gain was merely a bit annoying. While my weight might have been up a bit, my blood pressure was back down to my usual average. It was 106/48.

  My blood glucose level mostly seemed OK again, but once again the Exactive blood glucose meter gave a much higher reading than the other two. It is interesting that for all but one of the 22 days so far of this month, the Exactive meter has given readings a lot higher than the other two. I bought that meter to see if it was better than the Sinocare meter, Last month the Sinocare meter was the third meter of the trio I now use. I thought some of it's readings seemed to be a bit higher than the other two, but looking back over last month, I see that the discrepancy was usually quite small.

  This morning that rotten old (or actually still mere weeks old) Exactive meter gave a reading of 9.2mmol/l. That is in the pink zone - the prelude to the red danger zone, but not terribly bad. The Contour meter read 7.9mmol/l, and that puts it in the rather good light green zone. The GlucoRX meter was only a little bit higher, at 8.1mmol/l and so only a tiny bit too high to go in the desirable light green area. (readings starting with an 8 get no colour code because they are bland and ignorable).

  Today there are three things I might do. The boring but nice option is to lay on my bed, with the sunshine streaming through the windows, and just reading and snoozing. I must admit I would prefer to stretch my legs for a bit, and I could go to the shops, go for a walk, or I guess a fourth option could be to combine a walk with a bit of shopping. I don't think I'll know what I am doing until I am actually doing it. Of course if it is to be anything outdoors it would be ne done today because of the expected rain tomorrow.