09:30 BST

  This morning has started off with full sunshine, and the forecast says full sunshine should last the whole day long. No rain at all is forecast (which doesn't necessarily mean we won't have a thunderstorm or snow), and the temperature should reach 29° C, but only for a single hour at 5pm.  Tomorrow may start dull and at only 17° C. The dullness may last until 10am when there may be sunny spells until 5pm when we may see full sunshine until sunset. Tomorrow may feel almost cold with just 24° C forecast. Sunday may see full sunshine almost all day, but it will be cooler at just 23° C. Winter is on it's way !

  Yesterday was another fair day. I did at least one thing I was not sure I would do, and I didn't do one thing I wanted to do. It was another day when time seemed to slip through my fingers, before I knew it, it seemed too late to do some stuff I was thinking of doing - and that happened several times.

  It was my intention to write less yesterday, but I actually wrote 2,170 words, and that was slightly more than the previous day. When you add in the small delays each time I added a picture to the narrative, it worked out that I finished writing a fair bit later than expected. I still had two things to do, plus have my usual rest after writing, before I could think about the other stuff that I could have done.

  After my rest, the first thing I had to do was to finish washing a small hand towel I had left soaking in detergent overnight. Wringing out a small hand towel, and not a thick fluffy one, was fairly quick, but like all towels it seemed to need a lot of rinsing. I got bored after 8 rinses, and it seemed not much soap was coming off, and I left it at that. With my big washing buckets out of bath I could have my morning shower - at gone midday !

  There was still time for me to go shopping in Aldi. I might potentially have found a new beer or two in there. That would have been handy for later because my beer fridges were looking a bit sparse for the afternoon beer drinking session. The trouble was that I seemed to have no enthusiasm to walk to Aldi and back. I'm not really sure why that was. It was probably just laziness, but I chose not to think of it that way.

  What I did do was to go online to order new beers from Left Field Beer. It will take 2 to 4 days to get here (which means there is a slim chance of it being delivered on Saturday, and in time for some cans and/or bottles to be chilled ready for drinking on Sunday afternoon), and will also mean I won't have to go looking for new beers in Aldi, although I will be going there, maybe even today, and will keep an eye out for anything new or known to be nice.

  After ordering my new beers on line, all 24 cans/bottles, I sat back and relaxed after a job well done (sort of). In fact I relaxed a little bit too much. I started off reading, and then my eyes closed. The next thing I knew was that Jodie was ringing my doorbell. I hastily pulled on a t-shirt, and let her in. I don't think she brought any beers with her, and that might have been unfortunate.

  Fortunately Jodie was recovering from two nights of drinking a lot of beers at one or more of the bars she goes to that specialise in being the first to get new batches/flavours of beers from some of Jodie's favourite breweries. She started off with a big can of lemon radler, and then added water to make it last longer.  I started off with a Shandyade (soft drink with a beery taste), and then went on to can of Murphy's stout.

  A little bit later Michael turned up. He usually brings some beers. On rare occasions he gets a beer that Jodie is unfamiliar with, but usually he just gets the only beers he knows how to buy - cheap supermarket lagers. Like last week he was not so deeply depressed and moany as he has been, but he was still barely cheerful. He left maybe 20 minutes after Jodie left, to meet Alan for another session in a specialised beer shop/bar, at just after 6pm.

  There were a few choices for my dinner, but would mean waiting while they cooked (usually just 5 or 10 minutes in the microwave), but I opted for a cold dinner. It was a (Tesco) ready made salad with added ready cooked/ready to eat cocktail sausages. I admit it was a strange sort of salad, but it was pleasant enough. I finished the rest of the pack of sausages by dowsing them in tomato sauce, and strange liquid mustard.

  The tomato sauce was made by Brewdog, the brewers, and I knew it to be loaded with sugar, but it had to be used sooner or later. The mustard was more like acid yellow custard with the merest hint of mustard in it, and maybe even a tiny hint of chilli. If I recall correctly (and I am not going to run downstairs to the fridge to confirm it) it is described as "Louisiana style mustard. Basically that means an American recipe that starts of with a non metric shedload of high glucose corn syrup. Basically it is yellow syrup that has been stored in the same building as a pinch of real mustard.

  I didn't really have anything better to do last night than to watch Star Trek: The New Generation, and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. Both seemed a bit dull, and I find it had to remember what the basic plots were. Once again I found that the next programme was QI, and a brief description of it made me think that bed was a better option. I read on my bed for a while, but the booze I had earlier, which did end up including two very strong beers that I had almost to myself, made me feel sleepy, and I fell asleep fairly quickly.

  Last night was another night when it was forecast it would be quite cool by morning, and so I closed my bedroom window to keep the warmth in. The trouble was that there was too much warmth, and I had to use the desk fan to keep cool in the night. Often that felt too cool, but without it was too hot. I probably slept for maybe 2 hours before I woke up feeling dreadful.

  For one thing, bits of me felt hot and sweaty, but where the draught from the fan was hitting me I felt far too cold. That was a repeated problem later in the night. The other problem was no more than a good old fashioned hangover ! I got up and sat at my PC while I took a couple of paracetamol tablets, and waited for them to work. I am usually lucky enough to sleep through most hangovers, but last night was a night where I was waking up quite frequently, and often taking 10 to 30 minutes to get back to sleep.

  By 6am I was feeling like I had missed too much sleep. I tried to have a long lie in. I did get snatches of sleep, but it felt like I was awake for most of the time. Having said that, it did come as a surprise when I realised it had gone 8am (almost 8.30am I think). I got up and went for not just a pee, but a rather large poo. Upon weighing myself I found I had put on 600gm. That is pretty bad, but possibly less so than some Friday and Monday mornings after an afternoon booze session.

  My blood glucose was not very good this morning, although all readings were no far off my old target, and none were in any dangerous region. The Contour meter read 8.1mmol/l, and that is not bad. The other three meters all roughly agreed - which in the case of the Contour Plus meter is a rare thing. The GlucoRX meter read 8.8mmol/l, and so did the Contour Plus meter. The new GlucoFix meter read very slightly better at 8.7mmol/l. Like my weight gain, I seem to have come away from "the morning after" quite lightly.

  I have no definite, and few very indefinite things that I might do today. I guess I feel sort of lazy today. Maybe this morning I can use the excuse of a bad night leaving me feeling tired and unenthusiastic. I may go shopping in Aldi today despite having done an online beer order. Aldi sells much more than beer ! I feel like I ought to go for a longer walk than just to Aldi. A walk in the Linear Park, which usually works out to be around 3 miles, would be sufficient as exercise, but that park is a bit boring these days. Another possibility is to jump on a train to Elmers End and do some tram spotting while walking around the South Norwood Country Park. I might just lay on my bed reading all day. I'll obviously report what I actually do today when I write tomorrow !