This morning, as predicted in the forecast, there has been some quite heavy rain. It seems to have stopped now, but it is still very grey outside. By midday we may get some sunny spells that may turn into full sunshine at 5pm - just as the sun starts to set. Even with the sunny spells, we can only expect 15° C this afternoon thanks to the wind shifting to come from the north. The rest of today should be dry. The clear skies that will bring the very late afternoon sunshine will also be responsible for the temperature dipping to single figures, maybe as low as 8° C by 4am tomorrow morning. Fortunately tomorrow may start with sunshine, followed by sunny spells. It may only warm the afternoon up to 14° C. We are now seeing late autumn weather now !

  Yesterday started with me feeling terrible. I am sure it was a bad reaction to the 'flu vaccine I had the day before. It really felt like I had 'flu with all the aches and pains that go with it.

  I wrote about it yesterday, and mentioned I had taken a couple of Paracetamol, and had another hour of sleep. Both helped, but were not a perfect cure, although I guess I was free of pain after that. I am not sure there was any time yesterday when I felt free of the effects of that vaccine. It was not unexpected, and over the years I have had at least one bad reaction, and several minor reactions. I guess it is still a good trade of one bad day instead of a week or more of terrible days.

  I think the best way to describe yesterday was "being under the weather". I must admit I have never known exactly what that saying means, but it felt very appropriate yesterday. I definitely had no get up and go, and in consequence I had a very lazy day. Only meal times induced some positive thoughts, but also, sadly, induced some negative thoughts as well.

  The negative thoughts were to do with a job I have to do sooner or later. My fridge, and probably my entire kitchen, is filled with spores for mould. Any bread left for more than a day can start to get green patches on it. I need to get everything out of the fridge, and scrub it out with either some disinfectant wipes, or even dilute bleach. I feel sure that when I move a few things I will find a wax covered cheese that is a long way passed it's use by date, and under the wax it will just be a green furry ball of mould. It could be that is the source of the problem in the fridge.

  I can't remember what I had for lunch. I know I had some plums for a sort of snack some time in the afternoon. I think I made a couple of ham rolls using a couple of rolls that were still free from mould. They were rather nice, and when I next buy some rolls, possibly later today, I think I will use them very quickly this time.

  My dinner was going to be a Shepherds Pie ready meal, but even that, which seemed to be well sealed, had a big green growth on it, and I decided not to eat it. I ended up having some (alleged) Indian street food - a sort of thin chick pea curry. It was not all that nice, although not nasty in any way. It was just a bit thin rather than a thick gloopy sauce. I followed that with some ice cream. I probably had a Caramel bar a bit later.

    Real time update: I have just had a delivery of one of my Aliexpress orders. It is two pairs of Compact Flash Cards. I am always dubious about buying memory products from Aliexpress, but the last Compact Flash card I bought seemed fine. On the strength of that I ordered two 4GB and two 32GB Compact Flash cards, and now I have them in my grubby hands. I hope I can trust them because they are for use in a couple of my big cameras. It would be tragic if I took a load of pictures, and the memory card "forgot" them, or corrupted them, but sometime you have to take a chance.  One hopeful thing is that I have just noticed they were assembled in Taiwan - possibly less dodgy than China.

   I've just taken a 10 minute break from writing to try out one of the 4GB Compact Flash cards in my old Canon 300 camera. I took two pictures on that camera, and then tried to view them via the USB connection to my PC. The download speed seemed glacial, and I had fears that maybe it was the Compact Flash card, but when I took the card out the camera, and connected via a card reader to my PC it transferred the pictures almost instantly. I seem to remember the camera provided a choice of two protocols for it's USB port, and maybe I had not selected the fastest. In the past I usually take out the Compact Flash card and read it direct, and I think I'll continue to do that because it is far faster.

  As usual, I ate my dinner while watching the news on TV, and then I watched other stuff for the rest of my evening. I think I went to bed at 11pm, and I didn't bother to read in bed. As far as I can recall, I was fast asleep within minutes. I have a hazy memory of getting up to pee once or twice, and a slightly better memory of a dream.

  in the dream I had two beer glasses (jugs with handles) and wanted to wash them out. I am not sure why I wanted to wash them because one had a very special computer program in it. It was as if the program was written into the glass itself because there was no obvious storage medium in the glass. The program was a Lunar Lander program, and itw as not an ancient 8 bit home computer game. It was a copy of an original NASA program that had been used for the real thing. It was intended to work through a satellite, and the technical college I was in had a satellite link for such purposes. I never saw the program running. I spent nearly all the dream looking for a water tap to wash the glasses out. I found several that were not ideal, and one that was OK, and all were in toilets !

  This morning I woke up feeling not that good, but a lot better than yesterday. I think this morning, and to some extent even now, I was suffering from typical old age, wet weather aches and pains. That may sound awful, but it was good compared to the 12 hour 'flu I was suffering from yesterday.

  My weight was up a bit, 200gm, but I can live with that provided it is down again in a day or two. My blood glucose was spoiled by one high reading, although 8.9mmol/l is still in the "OK" area. The other two readings were 7.7 and 7.9mmool/l, and those two were actually rather good. My blood pressure is a little bit high this morning, but still good, or good enough. I was about to do a second reading when I got a ring on my doorbell. It was my new neighbours, and they asked if they could come through the house, and climb over the fence because they had locked themselves out !

  It was a funny way to meet my new neighbours, but I have found out that the man is not a doctor, although his wife is, but not a doctor of medicine. What with coping with a visit from Cous Cous, it was all a bit exciting, and my blood pressure went up a little too high after running up the stairs. I will try it again when I am relaxed.

  There are two linked things I want to do today. First will be a visit to Poundland, and then I'll go around the corner to the pharmacy to (hopefully) collect my next Ozempic injector, and my next repeat prescription of all the other drugs I am prescribed. When that is done, and I am back home, I can relax as much as I want, but it would be handy to go shopping in Tesco later. A takeaway could be an alternative if needed. The other thing I need to do is to make a start of cleaning the inside of my fridge.