Once again mist was forecast,  but it is sunny at the moment - rather earlier than forecast, although the sky is far from clear at the moment. To the north there are a mixture of white fluffy clouds, and some fair sized patches of blue. To the south the sky looks more messy - a patchwork of greys and milky white. It is surprising the sun has found some clear paths to shine through. It may get clearer soon, and the afternoon may see far more sunshine, including a couple of hours of full sunshine The afternoon may peak at 21° C again. It looks to be another cold night. Tomorrow may start at 13° C. Much of tomorrow may be grey, but there could be a few sunny spells from late afternoon. The temperature may peak at 20° C.

  Yesterday was a semi good day, but maybe because after about 8 or 9 days of being teetotal (and I have no real idea why) I finally had a few beers. More about this in a paragraph or three.

   Although I was looking forward to some beer later, I can't say I felt all that cheerful yesterday, or all that fit and healthy. Part of it was that I don't like Sunday's. For some strange reason I never got into the "read your bible" for entertainment thing that some still living 16th century peasants have. Sunday's feature very little entertainment unless you do it for yourself. My morning entertainment was mostly having a shower - nice, but 15 minutes later......

  I am sure I had a nice lunch but I can't remember what it was. I do remember it sat in my stomach (not belly, that is lower down) like a 5 ton weight, and left me feeling very uncomfortable. That was not an ideal situation when I wanted to pour loads of beer down my throat later on. One good thing is that I didn't have to do much tidying up in the kitchen and dining room in preparation for beer drinking guests - which in practice was just Jodie.

  Jodie arrived at about 4pm, and was her usual uncommunicative self. She had had loads of beer during her couple of days stay in Finland (presumably for a gig). and was still not over alcoholic poisoning. It meant that not a lot of beer was drunk. I did drink a couple of very strong beers, including a 14% Barley Wine, but I didn't really enjoy it with my stomach still feeling full.....or not exactly "full", but sort of growling or something.
  I did have one extra visitor - the neighbourhood cat - Cous Cous. He loves to see what is going on whenever there is a gathering in any house that he trusts - and probably gets fed at. In this picture he looks very sad, but I am sure that is the effect of the catnip in the Dreamies he had as part of his treats. One thing I was thinking was that it was good that his great big fur coat had no fleas. When going to bed I noticed on very small flea on my leg. Sadly it got away before I could crush it between my thumbnails.

  Jodie left to get a train at about 6.30pm, and I cooked my dinner. I had quite a big dinner planned. It included fruit and ice cream for dessert, but I only had a few spoonfuls of ice cream. The main course was an Aldi ready meal of peppered beef. It was quite nice, but the peppers referred to were mainly bell peppers, and not black or white pepper. I added a bit of hot pepper sauce to spice it up a bit. While it was quite nice, I don't think I'll be looking out for it again in the future.

  I had to look hard for any TV entertainment last night. I found a few things to watch, but I was in bed by 9pm, and possibly earlier. I read for a bit, and then tried for sleep maybe half an hour later, but I realised I had to go to the toilet. It is unusual that I need a poo in the evening, but last night I did.

  Maybe it was the need to push out a fairly solid poo that set my heart off again. I went back to bed and I could feel my heart beating faster then it should (although not in the extreme like some notable past times). It was enough to keep me awake, and part of that was wandering what might happen next. I decided to try and experiment. I tried two squirts from my rarely used Glyceryl Trinitrate spray. That opens up the arteries and makes the hearts job a bit easier.

  In turn, that make me blood pressure lower. In this case it was just low enough to make me feel wobbly. It is something one of the Cardiologist warned me about, and suggested I don't use the stuff, but a host of other doctors over ruled that idea. What the cardiologist didn't realise was that when your trying to get your flip flops on so you can go to the toilet, and you get wobbly, it causes a surge of adrenaline because you really need to pee, and have to make it to the toilet. What was interesting was that brief surge of adrenaline seemed to reset my heart back to normal, and I had no more trouble from it.

  I had my pee, and went to bed. The fact I can remember nothing more strongly suggests that I fell asleep very quickly. I do remember a dream that I think happened later in the morning. I can't remember all of the dream, but I remember the setting, a few people and one or two things that happened. The setting was the old (but still existing after a part rebuild) Railway Tavern in Catford. It felt like I was part of big circle of friends and acquaintances who had been part of getting it back in business.

  There was a strong bias towards live music in it, and one of the people was Geoff who in real life runs a very good open mic session. He was dues to run one in the dream. He suddenly disappeared, and some asked what had happened to him. They thought he had been kicked out or something, but the simple answer was that he had gone to another bar to get his open mic session underway.

  I didn't feel good when I got up because I expected the worst. I thought I had not eaten well the day before, and that the beers I had managed to drink, would just make things worse. I also felt a bit constipated, but half an hour later I made a second visit to the toilet, and did a second moderately large poo. When I weighed myself I found I had lost 100gm. That is not much, but small amounts can add up to something useful. It takes a lot of patience, but since the start of the month I seem to have lost 1.6kg.

  My blood glucose level remains neither good nor bad. One interesting thing is that this morning was one of those days when one of my three blood glucose meter gave a far higher reading that the other two. I decided to do that one again, and this time it was much closer to the other two. All three gave an average of 7.63mmol/l, and that is what I aim for (actually my self set target is 7.5mmol/l, but I'll not quibble of a mere 0.13 !

  This morning my blood pressure is a quite good (by my own reckoning) 119/62, although my heart rate at 77 is still a bit high.....or is it ? I must check on this one day. I thought resting heart rate should be around 50, but I may be imagining it. One quick internet search https://www.healthly.io/en/heart/pulse-rate-age/70-years/ actually suggests 77 is very average for 75% of all men and women. I have to admit that the information on the web page is not presented well, but it is good enough to let me know I seem to be doing OK.

  At this point I have no idea what I will actually do today. I have a yearning to go out and do some railway photography, but I am not sure I will feel comfortable doing that, but maybe there is a one in three chance I might still do it. One thing Jodie reminded me of yesterday was that Southern Trains are changing their livery to an all over dark green. I feel the need to get some pictures of them. I still want to get more pictures of the Croydon trams. They have gained some new trams, and presumably some of the older trams are being scrapped. I "need" photos of the old and new. In the same way there are now older and the very recently introduced light rail trains on the Docklands Light Railway. On top of that C2C who run the trains to Southend have some new rolling stock. There are others that I'd like to photograph, but that is enough for now. By the way, don't ask why I need to take these photos - I suppose the old answer works best - because they are there !