08:39 BST

  The forecast for today looks absolutely terrible ! The BBC weather forecast (above) shows loads of thundery showers, but the Met Office forecast shows no thundery showers despite still showing heavy rain. We are definitely going to get wet, and my new guttering will be having a severe test today, but maybe our ears will not be assaulted by thunderclaps. The temperature now is one degree higher than yesterday's peak, and today we may see the heady heights (sic) of 19° C. Tomorrow may start wet, but the afternoon may be dry with some sunny spells. Once again the temperature may peak at 19° C, but perhaps only for a single hour at 4pm.

  Yesterday was a day that was semi good and semi bad, but this morning it seems the baddest was not that bad, and maybe I don't feel so bad this morning. I did get two important jobs done, but one of them was the root of the worst bits. All these vague hints and stuff will be explained in due course.

  Maybe the most important thing I did yesterday was to have a good scrub under the shower (although I will admit I didn't wash my hair - mostly because I expected it to get wet again a bit later). Once clean and (hopefully) fragrant I could go out and do some shopping in Aldi.

  So far so good, but I did not enjoy the walk to Aldi. It seemed to be quite taxing, and I worried what the walk home would be like when laden down with shopping. It seems I did get carried away in Aldi, a result of not going there for weeks, and bought a lot more than was good for me - or my wallet ! It would be fine if I managed to ration all I bought, but I was like a kid in a candy shop yesterday.

  On the way home again, my rucksack just had the usual 4 two litre bottles of Diet Coke, and so the weight of that was "normal". What was unusual was that my two shopping bags seemed extra heavy. I think it was only the realisation that I would soon be needing a pee that semi hurried me along towards home. I did feel dead beat when I got home. I was short of breath, although only to the point of breathing deeply, and getting close to getting angina like pains.

  As soon as I got home I dropped all my shopping, and hauled myself up the stairs to have the pee I could feel building up inside me. I can't actually say it was hard work coming down the stairs again, but I did have to take it a bit easy. I then put all the food away except for several items that would form quite an unhealthy, and too big lunch. I stuffed myself with a double chicken club sandwich pack, a chicken tikka nan wrap, and a Morrocan style wrap.

  The chicken club sandwiches were a bit disappointing. They seemed like a good idea when I bought them, but there was a lot of cucumber in those sandwiches, and since Covid mucked up my taste buds I can't stand the taste of cucumber. It was curious that after several days of no sense of taste and small, everything would return to normal except for the taste of cucumber. It now has a taste that reminds me of washing up liquid would seem to taste judging by the smell, and sometimes some residue left on a plate.

  After the walk, and then all that food, I just had to have a lie down. I'm a bit hazy on the next bit, but I am sure I tried to allow myself to snooze, but it never happened. I still rested on my bed, often reading, for well over half an hour, and maybe a full hour. Then I felt I had to do something useful, and that turned out to be finishing washing another fitted sheet. Apart for a short break in the middle, to go to the toilet, I did the whole thing almost non stop, and had it hanging up to dry soon after.

  With that important job done I seemed to lose enthusiasm to do much more. One thing I did do, but I can't quite remember when it was in the afternoon, was to sample some new ice cream I had bought in Aldi. It was called Dubai style, and it was basically chocolate and pistachio nut ice cream. It was incredibly nice, and it was hard to stop eating too much of it. I did actually eat more than was wise, but not enough to do serious damage (but it came close).

  I think I spent the next hour or so reading a backlog of technical news stories. It was soon approaching dinner time, and after all I had eaten earlier I decided I should have a very light dinner. I almost did. I started with a corned beef salad made with a ready made "house salad" from Aldi. I added a few extra baby plum tomatoes and some fresh basil leaves, although the corned beef plus horseradish sauce rather overpowered any other flavours. It was either stupid, or incredibly brave, but I finished dinner with a chunk of angel cake.

  I may have missed out something else I ate during the day, but I am very sure I didn't eat anything more after my dinner. Like almost all weekday nights I watched a couple of Star Trek episodes and an edition of Have I Got News For You. That took me up to 10pm, and I retired to bed then. I didn't try for sleep straight away, and read for a while. Once I tried for sleep I think I fell asleep fairly quickly.

  There is not a lot to say about my sleep. I have hazy memories of getting up to pee several times in the night. At some point I adjusted the heater. I can't seem to remember if I turned the heat up or down, although the most logical thing would be turn it up a bit as it cooled down outside. The only thing that felt significant at the time was waking up at about 4am thinking it was time to get up, but I was soon asleep again, and didn't get up until gone 6am.

  After eating stuff like the sugar laden ice cream (plus the angel cake) I expected to pee a lot last night, and I even drank a fair bit of chilled water to help flush it through. It was not enough to make me appear to have lost weight, and in fact, this morning I seem to be 300gm heavier than yesterday morning. That was less severe as I expected, and so a sort of good thing (but no gain, or even some loss would have been far better).

  I was probably more surprised when my blood glucose was not too bad this morning. It was higher than yesterday morning, but still, except for one reading, still in an average, mostly safe sort of area. The Contour meter read a horrendous 9.9mmol/l, but when I realised that was a lot higher than the other two, I rechecked it. The second time it read a more reasonable 8.0mmol/l, and that was exactly the same as the new GlucoFix meter. That agreement suggests it was probably accurate, although the usually reliable GlucoRX meter did read 8.4mmol/l, but even that is pretty good for me.

  This morning I have already done a few important things. Even before I had breakfast I went online to but a new month of talk and data allowance for my two phones. One of which should theoretically be retired now, but I can't seem to get around to the last tricky bit of transferring all my WhatsApp details from the old to the new phone. Other than that, the two phones are almost clones of each other.

  The main event for today will be my usual couple of pints of Guinness at The Jolly Farmers at lunchtime. As I write this it seems to have stopped raining, and it is brightening up a bit, but I still expect I will get wet walking to the pub, and possibly a lot wetter walking home again. If the BBC have their way I mat even be fried by lightning on the way home....or maybe the sun will come out instead !