Today has started at around 19° C, and so not as fresh as would be nice. On the other hand, the sky is almost clear blue with just a scattering of thin wispy clouds. There may be some sunny spells at almost random times today, but the afternoon should still see 25° C. No rain is shown as falling today, but a tiny chance of rain is shown at various times - just 15% is the most likely at 7pm. There is a small (39 to 51%) chance of rain tomorrow morning. The whole day is predicted to be dull, and the afternoon may only reach 24° C. It is looking like the rest of this month may be dull and cooler than I thought I expected for August.

  Yesterday was yet another day where very little happened. Even the afternoon beer tasting didn't happen, and I only broke my teetotalling (if such a word exists) by having a single, but very large whiskey in the evening.

  I started yesterday in a slightly odd way. After having lots of dreams about ice cream I decided to have ice cream for breakfast. It was, of course, initially delicious, but it did leave me feeling slightly sick after a short while. It was an experiment worth trying, but probably not one to repeat.

  I did not feel very dynamic yesterday, and felt more comfortable reading, but I knew I had things to do, things like having a shower, and cleaning and polishing the beer glasses for a Sunday beer tasting session. Now I must admit I knew there was some doubt about it happening, but I was quite surprised when I got a reply to a message I sent to Jodie.

  I remember she had said that Alan, her partner, had expressed a desire to go to the Inclusivity Festival - a festival mostly aimed at the neurodiverse, but with some live bands as part of the entertainment. Jodie's reply was that they had arrived a bit too late to see the whole set by the one band they were aiming to see (Probably Ransom). She also commented that it was a little too "inclusive" for her tastes. That mirrored my own thoughts, and had put me off wanting to go. There is nothing worse than being out weirded by someone more weird as oneself.

  With the drinking called off I was free to relax. The news came early enough that I never did get around to having a shower. I could have still had one so I could go out to get a bit of shopping, but there was nothing I needed desperately, and also I don't seem to like the idea of late afternoon shopping - although it could not be too late because Tesco's shut at 4pm on a Sunday (like most shops).

  I sort of missed having some booze, but it gave me plenty of time to get some reading done, and I did manage to read quite a lot. I did have a few distractions, and one was camera related. I can't remember how the idea came up, but I decided to check and maybe clean if needed, my collection of lens filters. There was one filter I had not considered before. It was a UV filter that was attached to one of the lenses I bought from Ebay. A UV filter can increase contrast when taking pictures in bright sunshine. It was on one of the Sigma 24 to 70mm lenses, and has a diameter of 82mm. Basically that means those filters will not fit any of my other lenses, but that is no problem.

  I found a few things to watch on TV last night, but I finished early enough to spend half an hour reading before trying for sleep. It seemed warm and sticky last night, and I slept uncovered, and with the fan on me. That was not all that successful. By the middle of the early hours I had to turn the fan down because it was starting to feel a bit too cool. My dreams included a funeral, which was bad, but I think it was for Donald Trump, so maybe not so bad.

  The worst aspect of the funeral was that it came down the road just as I wanted to cross the road. The lead car was full of goons with big guns and sour faces. I did not want to upset that lot !!  After they had passed I crossed the road, and walked up the hill until I entered what seemed to be an underground bunker. Now the significant thing about it was that it had a fully equipped bar, and I was trying to persuade the man in charge, who was actually my boss during my second job (I only did three jobs during my working life), to open the bar because after the funeral we needed some cheer.....or maybe I just fancied the beer. There was more to the dream than that, but everything else is too hazy to describe.

  This morning I checked my weight after getting up, and managing to eject a poo that seemed a bit smaller than expected. It was very slightly annoying that my weight was exactly the same as yesterday morning, and that was the same as the morning before. It is no surprise that I didn't lose any weight because I didn't take any care at all about what I was eating. It might have been possible I might have lost weight the unpleasant way, but didn't. One thing I ate was 7 days after it's use by date, and although well sealed, I did think a bit of it had an odd taste. It had the potential for causing a complete clear out, but didn't affect me at all.

  My blood glucose was actually a fraction less than yesterday, and seeing as yesterday I considered to be good enough, I guess I can describe this morning's readings as good. I got 8.0, 7.8, and 8.5mmol/l. That gave an average of 8.1mmol/l - slightly better than yesterday's 8.23mmol/l. It is a shame the third figure was not closer to the middle reading, or the average could have been almost excellent.

  The first thing for today has, by some miracle, already happened. I was expecting a delivery from Amazon. My general experience is that such deliveries tend to arrive very late in the afternoon, or even mid evening, but today's Amazon driver got here before midday. That is one for the history books ! My delivery contained three very expensive 64GB SD Memory cards, and a spare pack of inks for my Canon printer.

  I can now take the rest of the day easy. I intend to have a shower before going out to Tesco, and also to Savers, but I may have a short (or long - it doesn't really matter) snooze once I have uploaded today's words to my server. The rest of my day I will probably spend practising being lazy......because I can !