Alcoholic Daze

I haven't been to Al-Anon for about six weeks now, what with Kay at home over the summer, or visits to my mother, or last week's tr...

I'm back from the North having deposited daughter there for the start of her second year at uni. After all the problems relayed in my la...

By the time this is published, I shall be speeding my way up North with Kay on the train to settle her into her new accommodation for the ne...

When Kay first went up to uni last year, she was told about the marking system. If you got grade E or F, you had failed by varying degrees. ...

Following on from my post about the staircases, it does not strike me as at all odd that I have reached the ripe old age I am, without havin...

Kay has spent the last 5 days at the Reading Festival. Having got all her horrible exams and revision out of the way, she is at last able to...

Greg and I moved into our present house in January 1988. That was 22 and a half years ago. Although, it is a fairly modern house, it was in ...

My dear old mum is 87 today . I am off to visit her for the week while Kay heads off to do her delayed exam at uni. My mum is not in the bes...

As if Greg did not do enough damage when he was alive, he is still wreaking it after he has died. I try not to let it get to me too much, bu...

I am pleased to say Snoopy recovered and Kay and I managed to get to the party in Northumberland after all.......... The drip to replace Sno...

Snoopy is poorly or pawly to be precise. It started yesterday when (the world fell out of his bottom) the bottom of his world fell out, if y...

Kay turned 19 last week. For the first time in 19 years, I did not have to arrange a party and pay for it agonising for weeks on what food t...

Although Greg died and was cremated in March, we had not yet scattered his ashes. It was his wish to return to his home town in Lincolnshire...

Well, I'm back in London after a rather manic ten days, dropping off the dog at my mother's, racing up north to visit Kay, sightseei...

I'm dropping off Snoopy at my mother's tomorrow ( a mere 120-mile round trip), the neighbours are briefed to look after the cat,then...

I suppose I should have remembered that my blog had its second anniversary a couple of weeks ago. Maybe, because the whole reason for starti...

Just back from a week at my mother's, so have not had a chance to catch up with other blogs and continue mine. Meanwhile as it is the ex...

I live in London and, despite the fact that it is one of the biggest cities in the world,there is a lot of wild-life here, that you might no...

From what I have said in the past about living in a six-storey house, I can imagine some of you think I either live in a lighthouse or a win...