Over the past few months, my daily timetable had become increasingly controlled by the habits of my elderly dog. She was incontinent and my routine was all about when she woke, monitoring water intake...
A couple of weeks ago I lit my gas fire in the living room, but around twenty minutes later my carbon monoxide alarm sounded. Knowing how dangerous things could be I immediately turned the fire off as...
Sally passed away in the early hours of this morning. I expected it sooner rather than later, but felt so scared last night when I knew she was hours away from dying. Run free my gorgeous girl...have...
So excited over an announcement of a new series of my favourite tv show - only to find it's a repeat. I keep getting caught out like this, the series is new to that channel but has already been aired...
Mine has to be when the Meat is cooking for Sunday on a Saturday night, my Mam always cooked it then and the house was was full of that lovely smell although hers was in the oven and mine in a slow...
so named because has been walking from John O' Groats to Lands End dressed only in speedos, hiking boots and an Everton scarf and not a lot else, well done i say. he has raised 268 thousand pounds so...
I feed my five year old female Whiskas cans and sometimes HiLife Chicken which has a much higher content of meat. Also sometimes with a handful of biscuits, and not large amounts of any food daily......
Apologies if this has already been posted. I've just read that the son of Princess Margaret and Anthony Armstrong Jones (David Armstrong Jones) and his wife Serena are to divorce....
There I was, scrolling through a delicious-sounding recipe online when interleaved with it I encounter an advert - graphically illustrated - for a cure for toenail fungus. It quite put me off the...
Being so much in the news at the moment, it got me thinking of someone, I knew, of, who jumped in front of a vehicle on a busy A road, it didnt kill him but he was left with life changing injuries,...
I cannot bear Alan Carr and Mel Sykes. Why don't they have Len Goodman standing in for Paul, like they used to? He's the only one who can fill the O'Grady shoes
Masses of people on social media blaming the tabloid press for the tragic suicide of Caroline Flack, but can anyone explain in what way(s) the press were to blame - examples of articles would be...
There is a new quiz programme advertised on TV this Wednesday evening called "Jon Snow's Very Hard Questions" . The blurb in the paper says Jon Snow reads very hard and very long questions to two...
Yes I am it seems a grumpy old man, but that aside I find myself more and more hating the telly, personalities, advertisements, smugness, lecturing, talent shows grrrrrrrrr. Is there a cure or is it...
Boy #2 has to have an MRI for some problem with his arm/elbow/shoulder, what should he expect? From the medical dramas I have watched they seem really noisy.
Just like my previous post, this is the music of Mali. However it's totally different, with a funky jazz feel to it. The wonderful Oumou Sangaré performs 'Yala':...
I came across an album in an Oxfam shop the other day that I wasn't unfamiliar with. (Indeed, I think I might have actually owned a copy at some time in the past, although I've no idea what could have...
