Alcoholic Daze

How time marches on. It's a year since Snoopy died. I cannot believe a whole year has passed.  I still miss him like mad. If truth be to...

A very good friend/relation on Greg's side of the family contacted me a few weeks ago to say she was coming down to London from Scotland...

Why did I never notice I had so many stairs in my house before?  Forty to be precise. Five flights of 8 stairs between my six levels. To rem...

I spent a few days last week in Eastbourne. It was meant to be a treat for my dear 91-year-old Mum who used to live there until I wrench...

Every now and again, there is a situation where you feel you would like to send one of those "yours disgusted" letters to someone....

Well, Kay's come and gone. Thankfully on Friday she arrived in one piece from her 10-week adventure in Tanzania, but I only found out tw...

I've been counting the days - one more to go to be precise. One more day until my gorgeous 23-year-old daughter and all her luggage walk...

We really are so lucky in this country to have the National Health Service. We complain about it, but seriously have nothing to moan about i...

I worry when Kay's out of physical reach, so I cannot scoop her up and comfort her in trouble. When she was mugged a couple of weeks ago...

I've always been a big fan of the programme Who do you think you are? I find it fascinating to delve back into the pasts of celebrities...

I was shocked to the core to learn that two young medical students had been stabbed to death in Kuching (Borneo) yesterday. Kay was there la...

I have written about this before, but today, the hundredth anniversary of the beginning of the Great War, seems more pertinent to mention it...

Well, I obviously spoke too soon. Things to be thankful for - yada yada.  I am so grateful - etc etc.    Glad I am safe - de-dum de-...

I am known to have the occasional moan or rant about some things and I suppose it is only human nature that we do. However, there are time...

Germany 1 - Argentina 0.  Fantastic result! Hospital 1 - Addy 0.  Not so fantastic result! Removal of one basal cell ca...

To Kay ( if you are reading this) Have a lovely 23rd birthday, somewhere up Kilimanjaro. Hope the view from up there is fantastic. Come b...

I'm sitting here at my laptop at stupid o'clock too tired to function but too wound-up to sleep. The last few days and the last 24 h...

I'm fed up of watching TV weather forecasts or looking them up online only to find the weather is in reality doing something completely ...