Alcoholic Daze

I had a milestone birthday this last weekend and am now officially an Old Age Pensioner at 65, although these days the retirement age is any...

Why can't the world live in peace? Why are there some evil people in the world who want to destroy things for everybody else? Why a...

I don't know whether it's something to do with these dark early mornings and  dark late afternoons or the cold windswept swirly-leav...

Greg's sister has been staying with me for the weekend and yesterday we had a lovely drive down from London through the beautiful autumn...

I'm not sure why, but I have noticed a definite downturn in blog production. Not production of my own blog - I've always been a once...

A good friend of mine has recently been diagnosed with cancer. She is not comfortable with hospitals or things medical, tending to feel fain...

It suddenly dawned on me the other day that it has been a whole year since I last went to an Al-Anon meeting. The  Al-Anon meeting I used to...

The last of the Alcoholic Daze menagerie has sadly met her maker.  In the summer of 1999, we took on two kittens and a puppy. We must have...

Well, September's here, the kids are back at school and the shops are getting ready for the usual Christmas retail madness. So that w...

I guess we are all addicted to something. My poison is chocolate. I can't be in the same room as chocolate and not eat it. It worries me...

Kay finally got through the first twelve-days of her new job and came up to see me yesterday to celebrate my mum's 92nd birthday. It was...

Two days ago Kay started her first ever real job (not counting Saturday jobs as a teenager or the hospital placements as a medical student)....

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...