Alcoholic Daze

For the past four months, I have been sitting on some very exciting news, but I was sworn to secrecy so couldn't tell anyone about it. I...

For some strange reason, I often wake at exactly the same time in the middle of the night. I am not sure why.  Seeing as I live close to a r...

Two of my choir friends gave me an amaryllis plant at Christmas. It was already potted with a huge bulb protruding above the soil and about ...

You may have noticed (or not) that I have not been posting for weeks. My diary has been a merry-go-round. Apart from the usual stuff that ke...

I have found it very hard to cry since Greg died. Part of the reason is that the last six years of our marriage was very traumatic.  Greg...

A friend sent me the following poem he'd received from somebody in Canada. It's an updated version of the poem "T'was the n...

Things have been hectic of late. What with stupidly decorating a difficult room (see previous post) too close to Christmas, it meant that ev...

Not surprisingly alcohol deaths have reached a new high according to the Office for National Statistics.  More people died in 2020 from alco...

I've been busy the last few weeks - too busy to blog and read other's blogs. The reason? Because I have been decorating a room that ...

Well, I'm well and truly punctured. I had my flu injection last week and my Covid booster yesterday, so am now feeling like a pin cushio...

Last night I slept badly, in fact very badly, and I knew what was worrying me.  I had very little petrol left in the car and I knew I needed...

For the first half of the pandemic so  far, I managed to maintain my weight at a healthy level and was well within the healthy BMI range . H...

I've just come back from a few days away from home - my first holiday in 18 months. I think Kay was feeling sorry for me and the fact th...

Reading a recent post by Yorkshire Pudding on his blog about the mishaps that occur while on holiday, I was reminded about an incident that...

When I had a dog and cat, I used to visit a local vet called Brien - an Australian who had a very no-nonsense approach to life. If he though...

A couple of months ago, I stupidly reacted to an advert that popped up on my smartphone feed. It was for some sandals that looked rather sna...

I can remember exactly what I was doing thirty years ago today on 14 July 1991. I was in labour at our local hospital. Just after lunch I ha...

Having lived in almost total isolation for the last 16 months because of Covid  (not going out for anything including not for groceries) and...