Sunday Morning Coming Up

SUNDAY 26TH MARCH 2023 The clocks have gone forward – praise the lord!  On Tuesday I took my mother-in-law for a routine hospital appointment at 9 am and didn’t get to leave until 6.30 pm because she took a funny turn.  By the time we were finally discharged, she was right as rain and I…

SUNDAY 2ND APRIL 2023 Spring is definitely here – it had better be, the Easter holidays are upon us already!  I could bemoan the fact that the year is flying by but I’m just so glad to be moving on from the dark and the cold.  Interesting that I should’ve felt it as keenly this…

SUNDAY 9TH APRIL 2023 So, a year has now come and gone since dad died.  I’m not sure if it feels like a year or not.  In many ways, it’s like nothing has changed and sometimes I even forget he’s not here.  There have been a lot of “this time last year” thoughts and fresh…

SUNDAY 16TH APRIL 2023 A pretty non-descript week followed by a family gathering at my mum’s on Saturday as a type of memorial for dad that is set to become an annual affair.  She did offer me a glass of Pimms twice – clearly my alcohol-free state isn’t foremost in everyone’s mind! MY WHY I…

SUNDAY 23RD APRIL 2023 Another uneventful week and not much to report but I can see from looking at the date as I type that I have now been 10 months sober.  10 down, 2 to go.  Funnily enough, the shift in the balance of the numbers doesn’t fill me with joy as I might’ve…

SUNDAY 30TH APRIL 2023 Up and out running before work 4 mornings out of 5 this week.  Check me out – acting like the person I want to become!  The only reason I didn’t go for it on Friday morning was to save my energy for a gig that night.     MY WHY It wasn’t…

SUNDAY 7TH MAY 2023 Well, the king has been crowned and, as Britain officially enters a new period in history, I like to think that I too am entering a new period in the history of my own life.   Something happened this week that made me furious – the kind of anger that stops you…

SUNDAY 14TH MAY 2023 On Friday, I finished up work for a week and then went to a party at night.  Although I’ve often opted to drive for ease, with a combination of 2 reasons to celebrate, I might’ve drunk at this event, had I not been currently abstinent.  I might’ve mentioned it before but,…

SUNDAY 21ST MAY 2023 Well, if that was my week off, I’ve had it! I didn’t get done all the things I’d wanted to do but then, that’s hardly surprising – I never do. Not that I’m going to complain about it – that’s just not the way I roll these days! MY WHY This…

SUNDAY 28TH MAY 2023 Well, here I am – another year older and, this time I feel I can say, another year wiser.  I am so grateful for all I have learned in the past year – it is my birthday gift to me!  I’ve done sober birthdays before so it was no hardship and…