Alcoholic Daze

My local High Street boasts four national banks and a handful of building societies. Until recently, that is. Two of the building societies ...

I failed to post a couple of weeks ago that Kay became a fully fledged member of the Royal College of Physicians. To enter their hallowed po...

WFH. Another modern abbreviation creeping into our language. It stands for 'Working From Home', a concept born of necessity during t...

Do you ever have one of those days when by 9am, you wish you'd stayed in bed? I needed to go to the post office first thing this morning...

I have been busy the last four weeks with no time for blogging. The main reason is that the two choirs I attend had two choir concerts with ...

I've just been away. On holiday. By the seaside. I managed to escape my cage for a short break with my best friend of 53 years. I even w...

Kay and her fiance's hunt for an affordable house in London continues. First of all most of the prices are completely unaffordable.  But...

Much has been said over the decades about the great North-South divide in this country. Most of its proponents from the North argue that Sou...

For the last four years I have volunteered at a foodbank which is run from a local church. It started a good few years before I joined, when...

This picture shows an advertising board outside my local cafe. It made me laugh, but it also reminded me how we as a nation love our pets. Y...

When you work for the NHS as a junior doctor, you are not supposed to have a life outside the hospital. That is, at least what is looks like...

One of the choirs I attend at the local boys' school had its first concert of the year last weekend and its theme was loosely musicals. ...

The weather here has recently been incredibly mild for March and today I was even able to walk around without a coat or even a cardigan. It ...

My  sore thumb has continued to cause problems all week - it is difficult doing things one-handed, particularly doing up waistband buttons a...

Kay and Darcy visited me for the weekend to celebrate their engagement officially. We went out on Saturday evening locally for a lovely Ital...

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...