Alcoholic Daze

Do you remember that old poem "For the want of a nail, the shoe was lost"? For those, who don't know it, you can look it up he...

Kay had her five minutes of fame yesterday - her photo was on a lot of the media websites as she protested about junior doctors' work...

Today I got quite a big shock. The 12th January is the date Greg and I moved into our house.................in 1988. When I worked it out I...

Christmas always comes and goes in a flash in our house. I spend weeks, if not months preparing for it, making lists, ticking things off lis...

I mentioned in my last post that I had had a health scare a few weeks ago that required further investigation. Part 1 of the investigation (...

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...