Alcoholic Daze

I have managed to find time to escape to the computer to write this. I am not doing anything clandestine; it is just that with my mother sta...

Kay and I managed to find a small window in our timetable this weekend to decorate the Christmas tree and put up all the other festive decor...

There are times like today, when I feel very angry. It is true that Greg is still trying very hard, is not drinking any alcohol and managin...

Well, I am pleased to say, I am fairly confident he is not drinking any more. It has been about ten weeks now since he came out of hospital ...

While Greg had been in hospital, I had not used his car at all, only mine, and so the battery in his car had gone flat. He seemed very keen...

1. A tip I picked up from Cologneblog - if the print you are reading on this or any web page is too small and you would like to enlarge it, ...

It was early October. Greg had been in hospital almost four weeks, bar a day. His discharge notes listed the ailments for which he had been...

Jill and I were crestfallen. We could not believe that the hospital had been taken in by Greg. The social worker asked to see me separately ...

Strawberry Jam Anne has been kind enough to give me the Kreativ Blogger Award, the rules of which are to reveal six things that make me hap...

I thought the decision to have Greg home (or not) was an option I was being given by the hospital. The way the question had been put to me s...

Sorry to those of you waiting for the next instalment of my story, but I had to post this one now for it to be relevant to the time of year,...

Having had a break from the story to write about current issues, I now resume where I left off about ten days ago....... The pneumonia had l...

Cologne Blog has very kindly awarded me the Friendship Around the World award. I in turn should like to pass the gesture on to the followin...

I was horrified to read in today's press that already there are serious death-threats on Obama's life and on his family too. The FBI...

PS to the post below. (Added on Wednesday 5 November)....... OBAMA DID IT!!!!!!!!! YAY!!!!!

I have just had my MOT today. For those non-UK readers, MOT stands for Ministry of Transport and is a test that a car has to undergo once a ...

We live in a small cul-de-sac off a fairly busy road in London. There are 32 houses in the cul-de-sac and everyone knows everyone else by na...

The next morning on 6 September at breakfast-time we got a call from the hospital to say that Greg had been transferred to the Intensive Car...

On 5 September 2008, Greg was due to have the angiogram and angioplasty. We were told to report to the hospital at 7.30 am , so that they...

We are now coming very close to the point in my story, when I shall eventually catch up with the present day. .... August 2008 - Once I ha...

A lot of Kay's friends are turning 18 at the moment and she has been busy several evenings this week making birthday cakes to take into ...