Alcoholic Daze

I have been a pathetic lump these last couple of months or so. I just seemed to have lurched from one ailment to another in a sort of contin...

Today mark's the fifth anniversary since I had a tumour removed from my stomach. Here is the account of the where, what and when.  The...

Recent articles in the press have suggested that singing is good for you and has helped many people during lockdown to control anxiety as we...

The recent death of Sarah Everard was tragic for various reasons, but mostly because she was an ordinary woman going about her own business...

It was lovely having my bubble-buddy (Kay) here for the weekend and to speak to a human being for a change and have somebody to fuss over. A...

 "You'll get square eyes", mum used to say, if I sat huddled up to our black and white television set as a child. She was from...

Growing up as a child in the 1950s and a teenager in the 1960s, alcohol wasn't even a word in my vocabulary. I came from a fairly workin...

Today I got my Covid vaccine and I must say I was really impressed from start to finish.  I first received a text message on my phone a few ...

In my last post, I alluded to the NHS drowning under the current pandemic. I wrote about the social media morons who believe that Covid is a...

I am unashamedly a follower of Facebook, having first signed up when Kate was at university to "stalk" her and see what she was up...

My best friend's mother is 100 today. What an amazing achievement to reach that grand old age. Sadly she has dementia and is not aware o...

As I write, 2020 is drawing to a close, and "good riddance", I say. What a ghastly year this has been for the world. Little did we...

Happy Christmas and here's to a better 2021 for us all. 

Yesterday (29 November) was a milestone birthday in my life - one with an 0 on the end. I don't know why they become such important birt...

Today is the third anniversary of my mother's death. How that time has flown in many ways. I am so grateful she is no longer around to w...

It is quintessentially part of the British way of life, particularly in sport and politics, to be a good loser and to accept defeat gracious...

This week has shown me the best of people and the worst. Locally there has been news of thieves stealing catalytic converters like it is goi...

Although a linguist, I have always been extremely interested in medicine, devour medical programmes on TV and like to think I am doing my bi...

picture courtesy of bbc.com So,  President Trump has caught Coronavirus. Obviously, the disinfectant didn't work. But then the whole wo...

My doorstep was looking a bit tired and weather-beaten lately (it faces west so gets the brunt of our common westerly-driven winds and rain)...

The one clear thing to come out of this covid pandemic is that it is baffling. To be sure I had chosen the right word, I looked up " to...

Before Kay went on holiday recently to Yorkshire, she was very stressed. Apart from having worked over 18 weeks in a hospital Intensive Care...

For the past five and a half months I have been living like a hermit.  At the onset of Covid, I was advised to shield by the NHS, because I ...