Alcoholic Daze

Back in the middle of summer, I visited J, my sister-in-law (Greg's sister) in the Midlands. I haven't seen her since August 2024 an...

Imagine. Imagine a country in civilised Europe. Imagine a country in civilised Europe where the usual major political parties are losing vot...

It's that time of year, when the medical profession want to use me as target practice. In other words, it's annual vaccination time....

For the last couple of months or so, I have had a little robin that comes to visit. That is actually an understatement. He virtually has mov...

For any professionals out there, please excuse the rather poor drawing of my stomach above. It is the best I can do in the circumstances but...

Just to update my previous post, I thought I'd record my waking last night. Having gone to bed at 11.30pm I woke at 00:01 01:17 02:31 03...

  The  picture above is typical of what I often see in the night. Sometimes it says 12:31 or 2.54 or 3:17 or all of those. The fact is I wak...

In my front garden, I have a climbing rose that I have had for about 3 decades. This is a picture of it when it was blooming its heart out a...

I was travelling back home on the local tram the other day. A woman got on with a little boy of about 6 years old and a buggy carrying twins...

Our third full day was quite busy and involved studying the transport timetables carefully to work out a strict timetable to see everything ...

I've just returned from a lovely holiday on the Isle of Man with my daughter Kay.  Her husband Darcy had a very important (expensive and...

To complete my bunch of theatre visits to musicals as delayed presents for Christmas and birthdays long past,  Kay and I went to see the Tin...

I am having a feast of theatre visits at the moment.  This week saw me going to see Fiddler on the Roof at our local theatre. I saw the film...

In my life I have been three times to Chartwell, the Kent home of Winston Churchill. It is about a 30-minute drive from my house. Churchill ...