Alcoholic Daze

I'm usually very organised as a rule and can be irritatingly prepared for all sorts. Christmas is usually approached with the same preci...

I seem to be surrounded by jobsworths and incompetence at the moment. My already-complicated life is made even worse by people who stick to...

It was my birthday at the weekend and I spent it up north with Kay who spoiled me rotten. She treated me to a night at the ballet, made me a...

There's been a lot of fuss about the Sainsbury's Christmas advert depicting the Christmas 1914 truce between the British and Germ...

I was chuffed to get all your supportive comments about tattoos. I thought we must be the last family in the universe not to have them and w...

I realise what I am about to say may upset, offend or stir up a hornets' nest. But I am going to say it anyway and wait for a hundredwei...

Kay was home for the weekend. I say "home". In fact she was out for some of the time - flitting in and out, as young people do, ca...

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...