Alcoholic Daze

The news that Conservative leader David Cameron's six-year old child died yesterday is very sad news indeed and there is probably not a...

Dulwich Divorcee has very kindly tagged me. The instruction is to go into my photo collection, take the fourth folder and the fourth picture...

I am hoping all bad things come in threes, making the way clear for only good things to happen thereafter. Do you get the impression I may b...

I recently wrote that my cholesterol level was found to be a bit high. My weight at 11 stone is also the highest it has ever been. Married l...

We had a visitor last weekend. A very old friend of Greg's from university days. We had not seen him for the last 25 years or so. He ...

According to the news this morning, London has had its worst snow for 18 years. I think it's possibly even longer than that. I don't...

I have been given the above award by KatduGers which I graciously accept and post here. As with most awards I have to pas this on to another...

Well, I saw the programme last night and, to be honest, I was not that much wiser. A half-hour programme shortened even further by advert br...

Cough, cough. Splutter,splutter. I have had a silly cough for the last four weeks (yes, I repeat four weeks). When I say "silly" c...

Last night, to my absolute horror, Kay came up to me in tears as I was reading blogs on the computer and told me that Greg has started drink...

I have been staying away from the computer this week. I have not looked at a single other blogger's posts , visited the Internet or chec...

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,...