Alcoholic Daze

After my last two posts, I can't stop thinking about a series of old British Telecom (BT) adverts on TV that used to feature the life of...

I apologise for my mad mother cow mode yesterday, but I wanted to shout the good news from the rooftops. When Kay was a teeny tiny three-yea...

Results day and I am pinching myself in case I am dreaming. I know many of you have been kindly keeping fingers, toes and anything else cros...

Five more nail-biting days before Kay gets her A-level exam results. Kay is so on edge she is having anxiety dreams. Sometimes they are base...

I expect you may have wondered where I had got to this past ten days and whether I had disappeared down a black hole. I had in fact gone to ...

The washing's been done, the cases unpacked, the photos stored on computer, the memories put to bed. We are back home again, though I so...

By the time you read this, Kay and I will be sitting by a swimming pool in the sunny Mediterranean for a well-deserved break in Greece. It...

My one and only baby is eighteen years old today. It doesn't seem that long ago since she was a helpless little bundle that was so eager...

Kay and I went along to Notting Hill in North London today and headed for Portobello Market in Portobello Road. It was heaving with tourists...

Greg is looking like Long John Silver this morning with a patch over his eye where he had the cataract operation yesterday afternoon. He wa...

Kay and I just got back from a lovely week with my mother. The weather was fantastic - mainly hot, sunny and humid with a scary thunderous d...

As I have mentioned before I am never happier than when I am organised and everything is shipshape. I have been getting a tad frustrated ov...

Kay's last exam was this morning. Chemistry Synoptic. Covering anything and everything she has done over the last two years. She did not...

Greg looks very old all of a sudden. For decades, he was the young man I married, then (puff of smoke) he turned 60. A wand has been waved a...

School exams have started in earnest this week in our household. Of course, as always, just when you need to keep cool and concentrate, the ...

Last Friday was also another very special day for another reason. It was Kay's last official day of schooling. I say "schooling...

My blog is one year old today . I started writing it because Greg was drinking heavily after yet another attempt at detox and I could not ge...

There are times when I wonder whether the world is going crazy and what the future holds for us when there is so much greed and hatred about...

Well, I am pleased to say my "cold" did not develop. I think Crystal Jigsaw may be right, when she commented on my last post, and...

I've had a sore throat and cough for the last two days. I've checked that am not sprouting a curly tail and I don't oink when I ...

Three things in one post today!! First I just wanted to report that we DID go out last night, despite Greg having drunk two glasses of wine ...

Greg is 60 today. How do you celebrate and what do you buy a man who is an alcoholic and not in the best of health? I have resorted to buyin...

I am nursing aching limbs today. My back really hurts and my legs feel as if they are going to drop off. Have I been running today's Lon...

A while ago I wrote about the discovery that I have a high level of cholesterol. My doctor had prescribed statins to reduce the level but I...

My Easter week away has been one of mixed emotions. First it was oh so nice to be with my dear old mum who never complains and, boy, does sh...