Alcoholic Daze

I've been a bit below par this week. It started the week before, when biting down on food made one tooth feel very funny indeed. It felt...

The little enclave in London where I have lived for 46 years has always been a pleasant area to live in and houses a population of about 45,...

There has been a Channel 4 series on TV ( see here ) where a clinic in Amsterdam can cure people of their phobias. Apparently getting people...

Earlier this week, I decided to educate myself and join the posh classes..... I went to the opera. In my lifetime I have only been to a few ...

This week on 6 March sees the 15th anniversary of Greg's death. For me, fifteen years as a widow.  Last week some choir friends and I we...

Yorkshire Pudding's recent blogpost about wood carvings he had seen in a church gave me an idea for this post.  My daughter Kay and her...

The weather here in London has been very wet for weeks and weeks on end and, with the windchill factor,  very cold, although temperatures ha...

The choir I go to does some very challenging pieces which is why I like it. Very often when we start the term's rehearsals of the new so...

I am publishing an old post this week, as today's date means a lot to me. You'll see why..... I suspect, should I ever die and they ...

I recently saw a programme about working from home. Since the covid pandemic, when people were more or less told to stay at home and not mix...

I mentioned in my last post that we had recently watched the DVD of One Life. My hearing is not so great to watch films in a cinema so I alw...

This week has seen me getting back to normal after the month of December had virtually seen all my usual activities cancelled because of flu...

I try not to make new year resolutions, as half the time I forget what I vowed to do and invariably most people break them by February anywa...

Well, that's another Christmas gone. I am always surprised by the amount of build-up to it and then the speed with which it passes. For ...

With just over a week until Christmas, I thought I'd make this my last post before New Year. Unfortunately the flu has knocked me somewh...

Don't get me wrong, I had a lovely birthday last week. A nice day out and lots of lovely cards (I counted 25 in all) and presents. But. ...

Friday saw yet another birthday on my calendar. The years seem to rush by. It doesn't seem all that long ago, I was lamenting becoming 7...

The other day I went to the bank to get some cash. There are just some things you cannot pay for with a card, although that seems to be the ...

I was out with eight friends yesterday for lunch, celebrating my birthday two weeks early. There's a little artisan cafe near me, which ...

The photo above is of my maternal grandfather William. He was born on 19 April 1895 in East London to a relatively poor working class family...

I regularly help out at the local foodbank. It opens three times a week and  we see over 400 families a week. Fridays (when I volunteer) are...

Many of us will already know this poem TO AUTUMN by John Keats. It is a celebration of autumn when the mists descend and the land is swellin...