Alcoholic Daze

Yesterday I went off to do some serious Christmas shopping. After a while I began to flag so called into a High Street chain coffee house to...

On Remembrance Sunday I watched a TV interview with a woman about her husband who had fought and died in Afghanistan three years ago. He ...

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I often wonder what it was like to live in Britain four or five hundred years ago when it mattered greatly what your religion was. If you we...

It's been six months since my major operation to remove the GIST-tumour from my stomach. I had been doing very well and was more or les...

I'm not sure why, but there is a distinct lack of blogging going on these days compared with past years. My favourite bloggers are produ...

You would think that with a UK population of around 64 million and a world population of over seven billion people, it would be hard to find...

I feel compelled to write another post about the junior doctors' strike, because it has been said that public support for the junior doc...

A lot has been reported lately about cases of xenophobia and racist attacks that have been occurring in various parts of the country since t...

Twenty-two years ago, as a three-year-old, my daughter Kay used to dress up in a nurse's uniform. She'd order her grandfather to lie...

When we moved into our house nearly 29 years ago, one of our neighbours told us they were on the verge of moving, as they wanted to get thei...

Yesterday would have been my Ruby (40th) wedding anniversary. Greg and I were married for 34 years when he died (and in addition we had know...

Well, was the referendum resu lt what you wanted or completely the opposite?  No matter what side you were on, there's no doubt last we...

Having had my much-wanted only child at the age of forty, I have never  been able to completely sever the umbilical cord between me and my d...

I don't know about anyone else, but I am sick to the back teeth with the arguments for and against leaving the EU. I've tried my bes...

Well, I'm at the six-week stage of my post-op recovery, when they predicted I'd be back to normal, but I'm not.  Externally thin...

My blog was eight years old yesterday. Where has the time gone? It certainly doesn't seem like eight years, since I first felt compel...

You probably haven't even noticed, as I am not a regular blogger, that I have not blogged for a while now or commented on yours. It'...