Sunday Morning Coming Up

SUNDAY 6TH NOVEMBER 2022 Things came to a head at work earlier in the week so the air has now been cleared, much to my relief – God, it has been exhausting!  Here’s hoping that this time the air clearing lasts for longer than a couple of months.  Yesterday was my 15th wedding anniversary –…

SUNDAY 13TH NOVEMBER 2022 The calm after the storm.  A week of just plodding away with no drama has been a welcome change work-wise but it did free up a bit of head-space for me to look at my personal life again and come to a sorry conclusion:  I thought I’d be doing better by…

SUNDAY 20TH NOVEMBER 2022 A fairly unremarkable week, other than the fact that it has rained and rained and rained.  Qatar have done a U-turn on their promise to allow alcohol in stadiums at their farce of a World Cup and, despite my low opinion of alcohol at the moment, I think my low opinion…

SUNDAY 27TH NOVEMBER 2022 I have totally up-levelled my Gratitude practice this week so I’m putting my feel-good week down to that, rather than to the lack of alcohol in my system, although I’m sure that helps – it’s hard to ever feel great when your base level is mildly depressed and/or hungover.  Last night…

SUNDAY 4TH DECEMBER 2022 A busy, busy week – Christmas is looming with much to do at work and at home, plus there was a birthday in the house (which would’ve been well before the advent period, had my womb not been so cosy and the outside temperatures so cold back in 2010!)  Personal highlight…

SUNDAY 11TH DECEMBER 2022 Baby, it’s cold outside!  Gutted not to have been able to run this morning because the pavements were so treacherous.    I did try but decided that all I want for Christmas is not to have a broken leg so I gave in, picked up some coffee and came home.  Total blow…

SUNDAY 18TH DECEMBER 2022 Finally, after a full-on working weekend, then a day to clear my desk, I have come to the end of a full-on, trying, dramatic and utterly exhausting working year.  My New Year’s resolution is, most definitely, to sort out my work-life balance because I so do not want to have another…

WEDNESDAY 28TH DECEMBER 2022 Well, Christmas has been and gone and I’ve survived my first one without dad.  There was a moment on Christmas Day when I debated locking myself in the toilet and just letting it all out but I held it together and the day unfolded well.  I won’t deny that Christmas morning…

SUNDAY 1ST JANUARY 2023 Embracing the first day of a new year with zero hangover from the night before. It’s not the first time I’ve done it, of course, but the previous years have featured baby making and baby feeding and, like I’ve said before, that doesn’t really count.  I so wanted to go and…

SUNDAY 8TH JANUARY 2023 I’ve never done Dry January before – mainly due to the fact that, in my opinion, a true Dry January would mean stopping drinking at midnight on Hogmanay.  Never an option. And even if I’d allowed myself to count from when I woke up on New Year’s Day, that didn’t seem…