08:15 BST

  The forecast seems very accurate at the moment - it is very dull and cloudy ! The temperature prediction seems to be about a degree lower than reality, but that is close enough. If we are very lucky we will see sunny spells from midday, and full sunshine from 3pm, but they have made similar claims in the past and all we got was more dull and depressing greyness. The temperature forecast of just 21° C brings very little joy. Tomorrow starts a degree cooler, but there could be sunny spells from 10am, and they might continue until the end of the day. No full sunshine is predicted, but there is a 4% chance of rain at 10am. Once again the afternoon temperature may only be 21° C. I'm think it might be time to get out my long trousers again soon.

  Yesterday could be described as a good day, but the only really good bit of it was getting the two lots of beer I had ordered being delivered. Admittedly one was a bigger reason for joy because I was not sure if it would even turn up. The company was mysteriously quiet after I made the order, and then on Monday it all burst into activity.

  One thing I thought I was going to do yesterday was to have a shower almost straight after I had finished writing. I felt like I needed a shower, but I realised it was getting too close to the advised beer delivery time. I was given a one hour slot between 11:08 and 12:08. I think it was about 11:30 when the man from DPD arrived with a big and heavy box of 24 different beers.

  As many couriers now do, they took a picture of me clutching my big box of beers as proof of delivery, and that at least one side of the box showed no damage - the box and contents were in perfect condition except for one bottle. That one bottle had been shaken up enough, and being bottles conditioned, with live yeast still working in the bottle, a very small amount of beer/froth sprayed out from under the crown cap. It is of no consequence, and could even be seen as good sign that the yeast was still working, and possible the alcohol content of the bottle had actually risen a bit.

  I spent 10 or 15 minutes moving stuff around in the fridges, and managing to get over half the new bottles and cans chilling in one of the fridge in the dining room, and one can that I am sure I am allowed to drink unsupervised (by Jodie the beer overlord), is in the kitchen fridge to chill for future drinking.

  With that done I had my post writing rest rather later than usual - I had been on high alert for the courier almost as soon as I had finished writing yesterday's piece. It was a fairly small rest before I went and had my shower. That felt rather good. The day before, and the night had been sweaty at times despite not much sunshine.

  After I had finished showering I put some laundry in to soak. I deliberately tried to keep it small, but apart from only two t-shirts, there were about half a dozen pairs of underpants. That did not empty my laundry bag, but it was a good start, and a start that won't be finished until this morning.

  Time seemed to slip away far too easily yesterday. Apart from having a fairly light lunch of an Aldi, ready made, and rather nice, tomato and mozzarella salad, with added corned beef and coleslaw, I didn't seem to do much, but all too soon it was time to go on high alert again as I waited for the next beer delivery. This one had a two hour time slot of approx 3pm to 5pm. It arrived at just before 3:30pm.

  Once again I got a proof of delivery photo of the two boxes. All the cans were in one box, and just three well wrapped bottles were in another box. Once I had opened the boxes I took out the three bottles and stored them with the bottles fromm the first delivery that I could not fit in the fridge. I couldn't fit any of the cans in either, and so I left them in the box they came in for now.

  Both deliveries had an itemised list of what I had ordered. I had not done it before, but a quick tally up showed I had ordered, and received 52 bottles and cans. That is quite a bit of beer. Some, the beers Jodie approved of, will go quite quickly, maybe in under a fortnight, and then she will have to grit her teeth and suffer some of the beers I chose because I expect to like them.

  At this point I should have gone back to my laundry, but I didn't. Before that second delivery I had received a phone call from my friend Keith. As usual it started off semi interested, but after an earlier warning I would have to drop everything when the courier arrived, I saw the courier arrive, and said I would call him back in 10 or so minutes.

  My phone said my last call to him lasted 46 minutes, but I think I might have called him twice with a brief pause between calls, because I know it was just coming up to 7pm when we finished speaking. I had missed the BBC news, and I was feeling like my dinner was overdue. When thinking about my dinner I realise what I had was what I described as my lunch further up the page. That lunch was actually rice crackers and some pâté. I think it might have included some ice cream. I had 4 ginger biscuits as a dessert after my dinner of the salad with added corned beer as previously described.

  I ate my dinner while watching Star Trek: The Next Generation. It was a sort of cute episode, and although I ignored the commercial breaks by reading stuff on the internet, I watched the whole thing. Meanwhile my laundry was still soaking in detergent. When Star Trek: Deep Space Nine started I tried to do more of that laundry during the commercial breaks. I did manage to wring out the detergent, and got as far as getting everything in the second rinse water, before either giving up for the day, or doing more when I would, and did got to bed. That was after watching Have I Got News For You.

  Soon after 10pm I was reading on my bed, and maybe 20 minutes later I was fast asleep. last night was another night when I know I got up to pee 3 or 4 times, but the memory of it is more like a hazy dream. The only thing about my sleep that I have a partial memory of is a dream - except that sometimes I think I was awake, and still exploring the subject of the dream - a sort of idea about how to present files on a computer screen.

  It was a strange idea where folder of photographs (but it would still be relevant to other stuff) were colour coded between light grey through to black in order of importance. The idea was that you would never have to bother with anything that was not coded black. Somehow this had brought about the ire of the tabloids who claimed that stuff was being hidden from them - even if it was "hidden" in plain sight.

  The very idea seemed like it could be easily possible, but maybe not very desirable. I know I was thinking about the possibilities of how it might actually work in real life when I was awake. At least I think I was awake. The lines between sleep and being awake are very blurred. It probably meant that my last hour in bed was possibly less than an hour of the sleep I could have had.

  I was quite happy to be busting for a pee when I finally got up. That big pee was responsible for a 300gm loss of weight this morning. I am now hovering on the edge of having to change the colour of the figure in my technicolour spreadsheet of daily weights so far this year. (With just one single figure every morning I can get the whole year on one spreadsheet). Just 100gm would be all that is needed to change from dark green to light blue. Just 8 times this year, all in the last couple of months, have even used dark blue. I am aiming to make dark blue more regular, but it seems every time I manage it, a disaster happens, and I am back into light green territory.

  My blood glucose is not great but not bad this morning. The Contour meter read 7.0mmol/l, and I guess that is very good. The GlucoRX meter read 7.4mmol/l, and that is just under my current target, and so must be very good too. The Contour Plus, as often happens, let me down again with a reading of 8.2mmol/l, although that is still fairly good - except it feels wrong again. Today I should get new test strips for my new NHS supplied meter, and that seems to match well with the Contour and GlucoRX meters.

  The big thing today will be another Wednesday lunchtime (and a bit) in The jolly Farmers. I will probably take along one of my bottles of Aldi own brand Tequila Rose so Ayse (my favourite barmaid) can try it (if she has not bought her own from Aldi). I'll suggest she lets other people who she knows could be curious about it, have a taster as well. It is a rather odd, and somewhat naughty, to bring your own booze to a pub, but I know Ayse will not complain.

  One thing I ought not do is to get too drunk this lunchtime - which probably means Kevin will drop in, and extra drinks wil be had ! It is not essential, thank goodness, but on my way home I will go via the pharmacy where they will hopefully have my next repeat prescription bagged up and ready to take home. It should include test strips for my new, NHS supplied, blood glucose meter. I may start officially using it, and recording the results on my spreadsheet next month, and my Contour Plus meter will then become redundant. I will probably still use it to check my blood glucose before then, just not record it on the main part of the spreadsheet (just a note on the side).