Alcoholic Daze

Today, if he were still alive, my father would have been 100 years old.  I posted on 16 August here that my mother would have been 100 too. ...

Living alone, as I do, and now over 13 and a half years as a widow, I have increasingly tried to fill up my time, so that I am not always on...

The last few months have been spent sorting out a medical problem I have. Following an operation I had back in 2016 to have a stomach tumou...

There have been many times over the last few years, when I have considered stopping my blog.  I started it 15 years ago in 2008, when I was ...

A few weeks ago, I had a hospital appointment in central London, so Kay and I decided to make a day of it and visit the new Battersea Power ...

My mum was born on 16 August 1923, so today she would have been 100, if she had survived. Sadly, she died in 2017 at the age of 94. She was ...

Every day I try to do the Wordle puzzle on my phone. I kid myself it keeps my mind sharp and hopefully stops me falling into old age with de...

The days seem to fly by these days and suddenly I see it is 15 days since I last posted. I have been busy since my return from Salisbury, pa...

Last week I had a much-awaited break away from London.  I rarely get the chance to go on holiday these days as I don't have anyone to go...

I regularly volunteer at our local foodbank and have been doing so since 2018. Our local foodbank hands out food on a Tuesday, Friday and Sa...

Well the run of bad luck continues. Following an operation in 2016 to remove a stomach tumour, I am prone to episodes of acid reflux. This i...

My run of bad luck (sprained ankle in November, Covid in December, washing machine flood in January, ongoing continuing saga of bed delivery...

You would think buying a bed would be simple. You go into a shop, try out a few, find the one you want, pay for it, have it delivered and ...

Just a few yards down the road from where I live is a guerrilla garden - a local resident has taken it upon himself to plant a flower and he...

Following my recent post ( see here ), I am getting more and more cross at the way the media is presenting the junior doctors' strike. A...

I sing in two different choirs on two separate evenings every week.  I have been lucky that the concerts they produce each term are never on...

Kay is on strike today, tomorrow and Wednesday. For those who don't know, she is a junior NHS doctor employed at a busy London hospital....

Today it is thirteen years since Greg died. I still remember those last 24 hours vividly as we sat around his Intensive Care bed and watched...

I have been having some work done on my guest bedroom. Having had painters in to strip some woodchip off the walls, replaster and then paint...

My daughter Kay and her fiance Darcy (not real names obviously) have been living in their first owned home for three months now. They both h...

I don't know why, but this last 12 months I have been accident-prone. I think it's because I am always in a rush to do things and ov...

Well, the new year has not been good so far. First I had a flood. Because of a blocked drain somewhere, my washing machine could not empty o...