Alcoholic Daze

Photo courtesy of emynd and bo bliz "Out Clubbing" has taken on a whole new meaning. Kay has just contacted me to say she was out...

A World Health Organisation report issued today (see here ) states that 1 in 15 men in the UK is an alcoholic. That's a pretty high numb...

This will be my first without Greg, but for all those love-struck couples out there, here is a little cartoon to warm your heart. Based on t...

Angel of Grief (courtesy of Valerio Sibio on flickr.com) The day my father died - ten years ago to this very day - was arguably the worst d...

For the last twelve days I have slaved over a stepladder and a pot of paint, over-reaching here, turning into a contortionist there, paintin...

Picture from steadyhealth.com Last week, I went to my local Al-Anon meeting for the first time since before Christmas. I have explained befo...

The house was full of laughter and chatter over the last few weeks as both Kay and my mother shared Christmas with me. Kay went back to uni ...

Greg 1949-2010 The end of another year and what a year! 2010 will forever be etched in my memory as one of those landmark years. A year ...

In the last few years of Greg's life, we did not have deep meaningful conversations any more, in fact for the most part we hardly spoke ...

This week I joined a club. You don't have to pay membership subscriptions to become a member, in fact you are given money to join. Not e...

Prince William and Kate Middleton have chosen a fine day to get married next year. The 29th April 2011 would have been Greg's 62nd birth...

When our desktop computer died around this time last year, Greg and I bought matching Advent Roma laptops. They were fairy cheap in price (b...

You may have seen a news item earlier last week saying that alcohol was more harmful than heroin. Since then I have been scrutinising onlin...

I was clearing out some drawers at the weekend and came across an envelope containing Greg's personal effects. It had been given to me b...

picture from The Glory Site and Treasured Graphics While I was at my mother's, I took the dog for a walk at a well-known beauty spot. E...

Back from my mum's and pleased to say that her window experience went a lot better than mine. Some before and after pictures.... Before ...

You wanted photos of the windows, so here they are - or at least some of them (I have three windows on the stairs and they all look the same...

The windows are finished. Not only did three men turn up today, two to do the patio window (which took them all day) and one to finish off a...

Well, guess what, the double-crossing (ahem, I mean double-glazing) men didn't turn up today either, nor did they ring me, so at 10 o...

When we first moved into this house two decades ago, the wooden windows were rotten and needed replacing, even though the house is not all t...

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...