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  Yesterday started dull, but from mid afternoon there were some sunny spells, and they made the 11° C, that it had warmed up to feel quite warm. The day eneded almost the same as it started at 8° C.   Maybe we will be getting the traditional April showers, but this morning only drizzle is forecast, and there is no sign of that yet, although it does seem dull enough, and maybe the road looks like it had seen a tiny splash of rain recently. By 11am the drizzle may turn to light rain for a couple of hours. There may be a 2 hour dry break before light rain starts again at 3pm. From 8pm it may be dry for the rest of the day. The only positive thing, if it can be experienced without getting wet, is that this afternoon may see 15° C. Tomorrow may also see 15° C in the afternoon, and it should be a dry day, but any sign of the sun will probably be late afternoon.

   Yesterday could probably be called a good day. My beer delivery by APC was in the estimated 1 hour slot at about 2pm. That gave me time to unpack it all, and get most of the beers in the beer fridges, and also to cut up the box for the recycling bin.

  Before and after the beer delivery not a lot happened apart from some lunch. For some odd reasons (failing brain cells ?) I am unsure what I had for lunch. I think it was a couple of cheese rolls followed by some ice cream. Actually, when I think about it, I am getting a strong impression that I had more ice cream than ideal. It was the raspberry ripple ice cream, and because there was about a portion and three quarters left in the tub, I ate the whole lot. This probably had some repercussions.

  Jodie was quite late arriving to taste some of the new beers yesterday. She says she still has not got accustomed to the clocks changing from GMT to BST, and didn't get up until 1pm ! I think it was about 4.30pm when she arrived. Michael turned up about 20 minutes later.

  One good thing is that my choice of beers for the new delivery did contain several that Jodie had either never tried before, of had tried them so many years ago that she needed to try them again so she could enter them in her Untappd beer social media account.

  A bit later still we were joined by Alan. With four of us there it made for a good session. Even before Michael and Alan arrived Jodie was not completely silent, and her attention was not completely captured by stuff on her phone (mainly Instagram I think).

  I didn't think any of the newly arrived beers that we tried were particularly nice, but all were quite drinkable without having to pull a face ! One beer we had was from the back of the fridge where it has lurked for months. It was a 9% Abbey style beer, and I thought it was one of the nicer beer we had. To my surprise, I didn't seem to feel that drunk, or, in my deluded opinion, anything but stone cold sober (obviously I wasn't that sober, but I felt it).

  Jodie and Alan left a little after 6pm to get a train to Waterloo East where they would go over to Waterloo Mainline station for a train to Raynes Park where there was a gig they wanted to see in The Cavern Club. There were alternate routes they could have taken such as a train to Peckham Rye from Catford, and then change to a London Overground train to Clapham Junction, and get the train to Raynes Park from there. I suggested that in my days of commuting* it used to take an extra 5 minutes to go by London Overground - and that was in rush hour when trains were more frequent.

* My commute was to Earlsfield station, and Raynes Park is a couple of stops after that, and so I knew the route really well.

  Before everyone left, Michael leaving about 5 minutes after Jodie and Alan, I put the finishing touches to my dinner. Like a week ago, I had bangers and mash for dinner. I had prepared the mash earlier in the afternoon, and the only preparation I had to do was to cook the sausages, and finally to reheat the mash. I kept the mash simple, apart from a sprinkle of dried mint, and yet I don't think it was a lot better than the previous week when it had cabbage in it.

  Maybe the sausages were better. Last time they were Lincolnshire sausages (unless they were Cumberland sausages), but last night they were (alleged) "traditional" pork sausages. It is sad they they didn't taste as wonder as when I was considerably younger (maybe early teens). Even my home made mash didn't have the same thrill about it. It is probably just me and my ageing taste buds, but it does seem everything I have made with the bag of potatoes I bought a week or two ago, has been less than thrilling. Some of the problem may be the type of potatoes - there are many different types, and some are better than others for some uses.

  It feels very repetitive to type it again, but I ate dinner while watching what was left of the 6pm news (about the last 15 minutes), and then I watched more TV before deciding it was time for bed. (That was the brief version of the same thing most nights). I think I was in bed around 10pm, and I read for 20 to 30 minutes before turning out the light. I think I fell asleep almost instantly. It is a shame that it is only by doing the same thing that I can fall asleep so quickly. Any variation and it can take an hour or more before I fall asleep.

  My sleep seemed fairly good, and I was not even woken up by the need to go for a pee as often as usual. I have dim memories of more than one dream, but none have left enough to be able to describe any detail at all, not even what the subject was. I don't think any were erotic, but one may have been technical in some way. I don't think any involved travel, and that is a bit unusual.

  When I first got up this morning, at about 6.30am if I recall correctly, I had a pee, and I thought I should have had a fairly decent poo, but all I managed was a bit of wind. I still feel I ought to have a poo, but at the moment I don't feel like I need to have a poo. Hopefully I will some time today.

  Not having a poo is my excuse for putting on 700gm this morning, although it would need a poo of gigantic proportions to get anywhere near 700gm ! At least my blood glucose is pretty good again - just very slightly higher than yesterday. Today's average of all three readings was 7.53mmol/l, and yesterday was 7.17mmol/l - not a significant difference. Today was exactly the same as the day before yesterday, although the three readings were quite different (two were lower, and one a lot higher).

  I have a plan and a half for today. The one thing I am sure I will do is to go shopping in Aldi this morning. There is one thing in particular I want, and it is an Easter egg for Ayse (my favourite barmaid). I hope they haven't cleared the shelves of Easter stuff yet. Tomorrow they will probably be putting out Halloween stuff or something. One thing I should try and avoid is getting carried away with filling my shopping basket up. There are a few things it would be useful to have, but only a few.

  My half a plan is for tonight. I am contemplating going to a gig tonight. Some of the omens are good for it. For one thing it would still be almost light when I would be going out, and so I will be thinking less about going to bed instead. It should be dry, and possibly a mild 13 or 14° C, depending on which forecast to believe. Despite these positive aspects, I am still not sure that I will actually go. Maybe the lure of my bed will be too strong to ignore.    1444 words today.