Alcoholic Daze

It took two weeks. Fourteen days from the day symptoms started to appear and twelve days from the day I tested positive for Covid, I finally...

I thought things were going too well. My ankle has taken five weeks to feel anything resembling normal. First it took over two weeks for the...

My last post reported that my daughter Kay and her fiance Darcy have now finally acquired their first property near me  - a modest Edwardian...

The last few weeks (if not months) have been a bit chaotic here in Alcoholic Daze Towers. My organised routine has been somewhat overturned ...

Yorkshire Pudding's recent post about a kindness done to him while on holiday in Greece reminded me of a similar story about a holiday w...

Autumn has arrived. The mornings are much cooler and the evenings are getting dark earlier and earlier.  Occasionally I wake to mist floatin...

I am so glad I made it to Central London on Wednesday and stood for over two hours in this spot at Horseguards Parade.  They were 3-deep in ...

HM Queen Elizabeth II 1926-2022   I feel totally bereft with the news that our lovely Queen Elizabeth II has died. We all knew it was  comin...

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...