This morning started fairly cool, just 13° C, but like yesterday it was dry with some sunny spells. The sunny spells should continue until maybe 4pm when we might have up 4 hours of light rain, although the highest chance of rain is just 41% at 5pm. It may stay dry all that time on such low chances. This afternoon may reach 20° C. It looks like it could be another very cool night. Tomorrow could start as low as 12° C, but the cause, clear skies, will also bring full sunshine until mid morning when it will change to sunny spells for the rest of the day. It could reach 21° C tomorrow afternoon. 

  Yesterday included some good news, bit was not a very exciting day except for the late afternoon beer tasting session, but even that had it's downsides.

  The first good thing I did yesterday was to wring out the clothes that had been soaking in detergent. That meant I could get the big buckets out of the bath without breaking my back and slopping water everywhere. In turn, that allowed me to have a shower so I was clean and fragrant for my two visitors later in the day.

  It was my intention to go out to Tesco to buy some food, and possibly a few beers to make up for my beer delivery not taking place as hoped. Unfortunately it seemed like I was in slow motion yesterday, and I didn't leave myself enough time to go shopping. At one time it seemed I barely had enough time to tidy up the kitchen and wash and polish the beer glasses. It is lucky that Jodie contacted me to say she would be a bit later. I had noticed that leaving the beer glasses being left with water in them for days had left a tide mark, and I had to wash them again - a bit more aggressively !

  I think it was after 4pm when Jodie arrived, and I had to break the bad news that my beers had still not been delivered. Fortunately there was still plenty of beers in the beer fridges so we didn't go thirsty. Despite Michael saying he was not sure if he could make it, he turned up about his usual time. It seems he does this pantomime of saying he doubts he can make it, and still turns up every week.

  The beers left in the fridge, and chosen by Jodie (as usual) (except for the beers Michael brought with him) were not the nicest beers, and that was a shame because it seemed likely they had a high sugar content (or so my blood glucose readings said this morning). On reflection, it was not the best beer tasting session. Of course, and as usual, Michael brought the mood down a bit with his constant moaning about this, that, and the other.

  It was after Michael and Jodie had gone home that I got some good news. Left Field beers had decided to refund me for the one beer that they had sold me before they had got it in stock, and had been hoping they would get it sooner or later. The email I send asking if there was any news may have sparked their sympathy, or at least given the impression I was very dissatisfied, and they chose the simplest route - send the beers they did have, and as I have already mentioned, refunded me for the one beer they didn't have.

  To bring the story up to date, the beers were despatched by APC, who are not great, but they seem to do the job OK. This morning I got an email from APC to say my delivery would probably take place between 15:15 and 17:15. I would have preferred a morning delivery because it gets it out of the way, but at least I have an estimate to work to.

  One problem I had after the beer session was that I had no food prepared for my dinner. Not only that but in one sense I didn't have any food to cook - that one sense is something that would cook quickly and would be a fairly safe food to eat. The latter was important after drinking quite a few lager type beers that probably (and seemingly, did) have a high sugar content.

  My dinner was to be roasted potatoes and roasted root vegetables. I had hoped that I had some chunky chips in the freezer, but sadly no. The roast potatoes (all three of the little things) and the prepared for roasting parsnips and carrots needed quite a long time in the oven when I really wanted to eat in the next 10 minutes ! I had to wait 45 minutes before I could eat. After those roast vegetables I had a Aldi ice cream, and cream sundae with a cherry on top. (That could have been the major source of sugar) and I followed that with some plain vanilla ice cream.

  TV seemed a bit thin last night, and I was in bed reading by 10pm. I think, although it is mostly a guess, that I went to sleep around 11pm. I can't seem to recall anything about my night. I have a notion I had a dream or two, but not a single memory of them remains this morning. I do have a very hazy memory of getting up for a pee in the night, and I think it was the need for a pee that got me up at just gone 5am this morning. I didn't stay up, and although I may not have been asleep all the time, I was in bed for at least two hours before I got up again.

  It didn't seem like I would poo this morning. I thought those roast root vegetables would have hurried things along, but it was at least an hour after getting up before I passed a couple of fair poos. After which I weighed myself and found a small improvement on what I had weighed a bit earlier, but my weight was still very bad. I had gained 800gm since yesterday morning, and yesterday was also very bad.

  This morning, thanks to the beer, the Sundae, and probably other stuff, my blood glucose is terribly bad. All three readings were in the nines, and the average was an awaful 9.53mmol/l. I dare not eat any breakfast, and I will try to have a very small, and carefully selected lunch - maybe just rice crackers and cheese. It has all left me in a bad mood this morning, and it is only tempered by the good news my beers should be delivered this afternoon. There is also a slight chance that I may get my special "Hydrogen light" camera lens filter, ordered from Aliexpress in China could be delivered today. It has reached the grubby hands of Evri, but the last time I checked it was at some unnamed hub. Past experience says it has to be passed to a London hub next, and then it can go out for delivery. Unfortunately that may mean waiting until Monday for a delivery.

  The other thing I was hoping for delivery today is my new super zoom camera lens. The tracking said it reached the Accrington (somewhere up north) office last night. I hoped it would travel to Croydon overnight, and then to Catford in time to go out for delivery by my local postman. I've just checked, and it still says it has not moved from the Accrington District Office since about midday yesterday.  At least Royal Mail do deliver at weekends.

 STOP PRESS: this just in "We've received your parcel. Delivery is due: Saturday, 22 August 2026* Delivery is estimated between:10:30am and 2:30pm*. So there is hope I'll have my new lens before lunch tomorrow.

  Today is another in a very long series of days when I really don't know what I am doing, although there are a couple of things that I should be doing. One is obviously waited with baited breath for my beer delivery this afternoon. Another is to finish the laundry that since yesterday has moved on to it's second rinse water. One more rinse and I can do the fabric conditioner, and then, with a final wringing out I can hang it up to dry. Maybe if I am quick I might have time to have a shower and get to Tesco to buy something for dinner.