Alcoholic Daze

Kay's back at uni and I am back home in London again from taking her there. I had a nice 4-day break with her, courtesy of a dogsitter w...

To the low-life scumbag who stole Kay's purse while she was out at a nightclub on Thursday night, I wish you all the worst that can happ...

Kay did the last day of her summer job yesterday and I went to visit her at work. Embarrassing? Not really, she has been working here, so I ...

Last week I managed to finish decorating my bedroom, wall-papering the bedhead wall, and was quite pleased with the look I had achieved. Apa...

Summer is on the wane. I can sense it in the chill of the evenings (not to mention the chill of the wet days) and the mist I wipe from my ca...

All is calm, all is bright in London again (for the moment) and there is a definite increase of PC Plods on the streets, outside shops, in ...

Woman jumps from burning building in London riots It has been impossible to escape the terrible news unfolding on our television scr...

It seems a million years ago since I was in Venice, although it was just little over four weeks ago. On my return, I scooped up my mother wh...

It was a shock to hear about the death of Amy Winehouse tonight. She was so young and the facts surrounding her death are still to come out...

I'm feeling a bit cross with myself at the moment. This afternoon I was supposed to go to an annual summer meeting at my old secondary s...

Well, did you guess correctly? Well done to Flowerpot, Doglover and Nota Bene for solving the clues. The clues were a bit obscure. The first...

Well, we are coming back home today, so I'll upload my photos in a while, so you can see whether you were right.................but mea...

OK. You must have some idea now. Does this tie in with your thinking?

Kay came back from Glastonbury yesterday with another two washloads of clothes - this time caked in Glastonbury mud. She thoroughly enjoyed ...

Unwittingly I have intrigued some of you as to the whereabouts of my forthcoming holiday with Kay. I thought I'd drop a few clues . Add...

Kay came back home from uni yesterday for the summer vacation. Fourteen glorious weeks stretch ahead together. I shall savour them and soak ...

Back home yesterday after a nice week with my mother enjoying the lovely sunshine, hence I have not written myself or visited anyone else...

Who needs a bed, when the stairs will do? My cat is very strange. When she was a kitten, I bought her a proper cat bed. She refused to sleep...

I don't know if anyone saw this story in the press last week, but it jumped out at me. A study by the British Liver Trust says that Brit...

The rot has set in.........I had two most definite senior moments today and it's only lunchtime. OMG it's the slippery slope. I...

Today was great for two reasons: 1. We put the "great" back in Great Britain, doing what we do best - selling the brand Britain to...

I am still chasing my tail, trying to get two rooms decorated simultaneously (why oh why did I agree to have two ceilings painted at the sam...

I met up with my two best friends yesterday - I have known them for 42 years. We met at university all those years ago. They were studying F...

Kay is 200 miles away revising for an end-of-term exam this week, so I had intended to spend Mothers' Day on my own just bumbling about ...

The painter I mentioned in my last post has stood me up. He has been stringing me along since November promising he would come to paint my k...