Alcoholic Daze

For seven-eighths of the year, I live on my own (well I suppose not exactly alone if you include the cat and the dog). I have a set routine,...

Kay has had a rather elongated 21st birthday which has lasted nearly two weeks. It started on the actual day itself (14 July) when we celebr...

A year ago, parts of London were being torched and looted by kids. That was a Bad Thing. This week, parts of London are seeing a torch again...

Kay and I had a lovely day on her 21st. After she had opened her presents, we went out locally for a lovely Italian lunch, taking my mother ...

My baby is 21 years old today. It seems like only yesterday when she was born. Where DID those 21 years go? I was pregnant with my first and...

Snoopy has been looking hang-dog recently, as if he wanted to slit his wrists. He lies around all day sleeping on the sofa, only occasionall...

Kay's been back with me for 4 days, as I helped her move back home on Thursday for the summer vacation. She got the news this morning th...

Miracle of miracles. I actually got a cold caller to hang up on me today. Having been inundated this last few months by the same jolly joll...

Today is Kay's last day of her third year at medical school and she's halfway to becoming a doctor. It's a five-year course but ...

I had to pop along to Soho this morning and went via Oxford Street and Regent Street. What with all the fervour of the Queen's Diamond J...

Yesterday I took Snoopy for an early-morning walk around the block and on my way back along the main road I saw an elderly neighbour and his...

It's June, ten days to Midsummer's Day to be precise, and I've just put the central heating on again!!!  Oh to be in England .

seen on Friday   click here for details I couldn't let this weekend go by without wishing Her Majesty happy 60th Jubilee celebrati...

No, you haven't come to the wrong site. It's still me.... Addy, with a new look. I thought it high time for a makeover.  My Blo...

The Queen was in my neck of the woods today. It seemed rude not to go along and say hello. Click on the photo and zoom in. It is her, I assu...

I've been giving my Snoopy extra cuddles and pats this weekend. He always gets a lot anyway but this weekend even more so. He may no...

It's funny what can keep you awake in the night. Sometimes it's not always the difficult problems of life but the stupid and unimpor...

Inspired by Don't Panic  's post about books, I got to thinking about why and how people read the books they do. What makes them ...

I've just returned from a few days with my mother again, this time to attend a funeral. It seems to be, as you get older, that funerals ...

Is it just me or do you need a PhD to buy a lightbulb these days? I had recently looked in my garage cupboard where I keep the spare lightbu...

Thank you for all your useful comments on my last post. It was pretty clear that you thought availability was not the best solution to the p...

Yet again, the powers that be seem to be totally blind to the problem of alcoholism. The latest brainwave is to increase the price of alcoho...

I have blogged before about the fact that I occasionally sell stuff on ebay. My relationship with ebay started off by accident when I offere...

Greg 29 April 1949 - 6 March 2010

It's coming up to the second anniversary of Greg's death and I'm surprised at how my feelings keep changing. All part of the gri...