Alcoholic Daze

When you are young, for most people anyway, thoughts of your own death tend to be far off. It seems so far away as to not be worth thin...

I've been doing a lot of knitting lately.  I've also been trying to lose a little bit of weight. Not a lot but a little. About ten...

There's been a lot of publicity recently about alcoholism.  First the  revelation from Brad Pitt that alcohol was responsible for breaki...

About fifteen years ago, when Kay was about ten years old, we took a camping trip to France. We used to go camping a lot in those days, as w...

It would have been Greg's 68th birthday today. Happy Birthday up there on the clouds, doing whatever they do up there. Are you allowed a...

"Have you heard the news?" said Mum animatedly yesterday. "Theresa May is calling for a general election." "I kno...

Sorry for my rather long silence, but I've been away.  Last week Kay and I had a mini-break in Stratford-upon Avon. I've been t...

  At the end of th is month the new 12-sided bimetallic £1 coin makes its premiere appearance. The current pound coin was too easy to...

It's seven years to the day  and to the hour since Greg died. Or to be even more pr ecise 2,557 days (and nights) without him. Why do ...

Sitting in the GP's surgery is not a barrel of laughs. My local surgery has four doctors and one nurse, so at any one time there is usua...