Alcoholic Daze

This week saw me taking myself off to Eastbourne for a few days. I booked into my favourite hotel on the seafront. I just fancied a change o...

I'm not a very sporty person. I hated sport at school, always tried to be goalkeeper in hockey so I wouldn't have too much running a...

In connection with my last post and for those who are new to my blog or for those who came here, hoping to seek some nuggets about alcoholis...

In a few days' time it will be the sixteenth anniversary of Greg's death. Sixteen years. That is almost half of the time we were mar...

Earlier this week I had to have a hospital test that was new to me. In order to find out why food stays in my stomach more than the normal 3...

This week, Kay has been in France skiing with her husband and in-laws. They had return flights to Geneva  and hired a car to drive over the ...

This week, I had a very unusual encounter with a stranger.  I had popped into our local hypermarket to buy something for Kay's birthday,...

I make no apologies for repeating this post, as 1 February is a date I can never ever forget. This year sees the 25th anniversary. In some w...

  I have mentioned before that during Covid and in total isolation, I busied myself with knitting dementia mitts. It had a threefold use -...

Our choir rehearsals started again this week and we are going to start preparing for our big sell-out summer concert with the broad title of...

The weather for the past 2 weeks has not been great. I appreciate nowhere near as bad as other northern counties of the UK or Northern Europ...

Christmas went very well considering I was nervous about spending it for 3 nights and 4 days with Darcy's parents, when my stomach was s...

Sick of bland food over the last four weeks, I decided to do an experiment. As Kay, Darcy and I had been invited over to Darcy's parents...

This last week has been a week of music events and, despite still feeling ill, I managed to go to all of them. First last Monday was my choi...

I hinted in my last post that I had seen my gastric consultant and there was much to think about. To recap, I had a tumour removed from my s...

I'm not very much of a winter person as I hate the cold, damp weather and the long dark evenings which are not conducive to doing anythi...

Yesterday saw me celebrating my birthday. A milestone one at that. I am now officially 75 or in other words three quarters of a century. A 1...

Thanks to a post by Dawn Treader recently, it got me thinking about the owls I own. When I was a lot younger, I once commented that my husba...

Although I have been retired for 15 years now, I still seem to be very busy. As I have been a widow for all that time too, I find it helps t...

Although I have a smart phone which I carry everywhere with me and find most useful for texting and looking up stuff on the internet, I stil...