Monthly Archives: November 2013

Charity Christmas Single appeal

Dear all readers… It is nearly Christmas – must be I’ve seen reindeer at the shopping centre.  Now some people are not having a good time Kenward Trust helps alcoholics and addicts to begin and sustain their recovery – they … Continue reading

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No Sex Please We’re British

Sadly the old farce title seems to be slowly coming true if you believe the latest news.  Yes folks us reserved boring old Brits are not having as much hanky panky between the sheets as we used to. This reports … Continue reading

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18th celebrations

Right that is that – my little girl is now a woman… Friday she was less than happy at being woken up before 6:30am but if we were to get all the present opening in before heading to school it … Continue reading

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No kids

Do you remember that awful set of initials from the 80s?  DINKY – yes Dinky – my wife and I were Dinky’s from 1985 to 1990.  Double Income No Kids Yet.  Then along came Son-of-Furtheron who is a now a … Continue reading

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Where am I with AA?

I posted a couple of weeks ago about how I was feeling about AA.  There wasn’t a real conclusion in that post other than I was disturbed with AA a bit and how I was feeling like I should drop … Continue reading

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Dad

I’m raking over some old documents and stuff – mostly as Mrs F rightly pointed out after the sad death of our friend that if we both went together we need to put all our stuff in one place so … Continue reading

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My Recovery Story

Following on from My Drinking Story.  I’ve put up a page talking about My Recovery Story about how I got and stayed sober these last 9 and a half years.

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Emotions and drink – why I’m emotionally inept

Before I get into the meat of today’s post I have to say that sadly the father of my daughter’s friend passed away early this morning with all his family around him.  He didn’t even get to 50 and it … Continue reading

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Home is where the heart is. Where the heart is there is home

My good blogging buddy Jax has returned to the blogging scene after a period of absence.  She wrote a great post about Home etc.   I put up a comment to it but thought I’d steal it back as a … Continue reading

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My drinking story

I’ve created a new page on here which is my story about drinking up to the point I reached the doors of the rehab in 2004. I have a version on my other blog … but I thought I’d re-write it … Continue reading

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