My thermometers reckon it is a degree or two warmer than the forecast for this morning. It is currently quite bright out, even if the forecast actually predicts it should be a bit dull now. There is a fair bit of thin cloud that could weaken any sunshine, but the forecast says that by midday we will be back to sunny spells, and full sunshine from 2pm. It will only raise the temperature to 21° C, but that is a very comfortable temperature. Tonight may not be quite as fresh as last night, and tomorrow may start at 17° C. A mostly dull day is forecast for tomorrow, but it will still be dry, and the afternoon could see 22° C.

  Much of yesterday was a fairly bland day. Maybe the only time it wasn't, was in the late afternoon/early evening.

  During the morning I had no get up and go, and that was mostly because I could not raise the enthusiasm rather than being unable to do anything. I never did get to have a shower, and relied on a fresh squirt of deodorant to stop my smelling too much. You can never be sure, but I think it worked OK.

  One thing I did do was to have some lunch, but I can't seem to remember what it was. I know I had some, at least I am sure I must have, because I wanted to line my stomach before the late afternoon beer tasting session. Maybe it was just some snack food because my fridge and cupboard are starting to look a bit bare.

  I managed just a minimum amount of stuff to prepare for the beer tasting. I freshened the kitchen a bit, and washed and polished the beer glasses. This time I remembered to take extra care to make sure there was not a "tide line" near the rim after they had been left filled with water that had evaporated away to leave a ring of limescale from our hard water here.

  The beer tasting was just with Jodie, and it was not a great occasion. Jodie, like a 50+ year old teenager spend more time on her phone than being sociable. The beers that I had selected and ordered were not always that wonderful. I think we probably only went through about 5 cans, maybe 6, and at least one was difficult to enjoy. One may have been almost enjoyable. We finished on a small measure of Blackberry Jack Daniels. Now the odd thing about it is that I thought I had tried it, and didn't think much of it. I found the bottle still sealed, and once I definitely tried it I found it was not that bad, maybe even slightly nice, but not the sort of thing you would want to make a habit of drinking.

  Once Jodie had left I had my dinner. It was the final bit of my recent takeaway from a local kebab house. It was 12 grilled wings with salad.After three days the salad was going off. Some bits didn't taste very fresh, but I judged that it was all still safe to eat, and this morning I have little reason to doubt it. The worst thing is that when gnawing on the chicken wings I got bits of meat stuck between my teeth. My effort to floss it all out left my gums worse for wear (I possibly cut them) and I ended up with toothache for an hour or so.

  There was not a lot to watch on TV last night, and I think I may have given up at about 9pm, and gone to bed. I hadn't drunk enough booze to make me very sleepy, and I read for maybe an hour. That meant I might have fallen asleep soon after 10pm, but it might have been later because I did not feel comfortable. Several bits of my mildly ached. One thing was a continuation of what I had in the morning - a sort of bloated stomach. I certainly passed a few farts, and there was more gurgling from my stomach.

  It was a strange state of affairs - not constipation, and not diarrhoea, and I was sure it had nothing to do with the wilting salad I had eaten with the chicken wings. Considering it had first bothered me in the morning it could have been something I ate the day before yesterday, or it could have been for some unknown different reason. Yesterday morning it was nothing dramatic, and the same this morning.

  I probably fell asleep faster than I thought, and I think I slept solidly until about 5am. I woke up definitely feeling uncomfortable. I needed a pee, and with a bit of patience I also "emptied my bowels", or at least I thought I had. It was nothing spectacular, and not much different to any morning. After that I went back to bed, and I presume that because I felt much more comfortable, I fell asleep again, and didn't wake up for around 2 hours (and possibly a bit longer).

  Getting up that second time was a lot like getting up on a usual morning. I went for a pee, and then "emptied my bowels" again. I finally began to think I had passed about the right amount. When I weighed myself I found my weight was exctly the same as yesterday morning. Considering the negative effect booze can have on my weight, I thought that was fairly reasonable.

  My blood glucose measurements were pretty reasonable as well. They were not as magnificent as yesterday, but still very good. The average of the three readings was 7.4mmol/l, and that is just under my self set target of 7.5mmol/l. My blood pressure seems OK this morning even if not ideal. It was, on the second attempt, 106/85 with a pulse rate of 77bpm.

  For all these things, I may feel better than yesterday, but on the other hand I am, as usual, intending to have a rest, and a snooze once I have uploaded all this to my web server. After my rest and snooze I really have to get the laundry out of the big bucket in the bath so  I can have a shower and wash my hair. After that I hope I will feel like going shopping in Tesco. In an ideal world I would them feel like a walk in the park with my super heavy 500mm zoom lens, and try to get some close up pictures (maybe just head and shoulders) of some squirrels and ducks, possibly other birds as well. I don't think it is an ideal world today, and I may practice my post retirement, Olympic level laziness for the rest of the day (aided by eating who knows what I might buy in Tesco) !