Alcoholic Daze

I don't get out much. I'm a very stay-at-home kind of girl usually. I like my home comforts, my own four walls and am easy to please...

Well, Kay's back from her European tour, having taken in Amsterdam, Berlin, Krakow, Auschwitz, Budapest, Zagreb and Split. Her companion...

The news still hasn't truly sunk in yet - for either of us. To think that my little baby is a doctor, all grown up and making important...

The answer is a big ......... picture courtesy of shutterstock.com She's only been and gone and done it! The exam results came o...

Poor old Charles Kennedy . Sounds like he died a horrible death, all alone. One of the most ghastly effects of alcoholism is oesophageal var...

I tend to be very preoccupied these days with caring for my almost 92-year-old mum.  I rarely getting a lot of time for myself.  As each day...

Well, the exams are done and it's now a waiting game until the results are out.  A long wait.  A long long wait. Four whole weeks in fac...

It's THAT time of the year. Panic season, otherwise knows as exam time. This year is the year of Kay's finals. Finally the FINALS. A...

Picture courtesy of The Telegraph Only another two weeks to go and hopefully the election bandwagon will eventually grind to a halt.  I...

First the Bad..... I got an email midweek from a very distant family friend of Greg's who lives in the USA.  I met her once about 12 ...

I was listening to LBC on the car radio over the weekend.   Apparently in a survey 55% of people voted for Camilla not to be Queen when Cha...

What a glorious weekend on all counts.  First because Kay was home for a few days and I could spoil her. On our first evening together we ...

I've always taken the view that a car is a metal box on four wheels designed to get me from A to B. I can't be arsed whether it'...

The Baftas and Oscars have been and gone, so I was surprised to find myself belatedly getting a gong myself. The lovely Flowerpot nominated ...

The appropriate gift for a fifth wedding anniversary is wood apparently. Quite who in their wisdom first decided on this is anyone's gue...

I consider myself to be reasonably able to negotiate new technology, given I am now retired, living alone and do not always have my daughter...

I've been enjoying watching the BBC2 series Inside the Commons not least because, when - in a previous life - I was a Civil Servant, a ...

I realised the other day that it must be six months since I last went to an Al-Anon meeting.  I have been so preoccupied caring for my mothe...

I've decided it's a new year and about time I try to envigorate all the plans I had to get the house up to scratch since Greg died....

Twice a week I make a point of getting up really early to be in the local park by 8am. Over the years when I used to walk Snoopy, I made a l...

Something happened over the Christmas period that upset me greatly. I don't want to go into detail here but suffice to say it was a shoc...

H A P P Y N E W Y E A R !

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...