Days 7 and 8

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FormerMember

9 Oct 2013

I don't consider myself a big drinker but I really miss wine.

This week I am spending 3 days as a "brown owl" figure (a brownie leader for those not in the know). It's busy and fun but 7 year olds have a lot of energy. When I came home I burnt the veg to my otherwise perfectly cooked roast. Smoked peas anyone?

It's days like that where I'd open a Merlot and have one glass maybe two.

I have stayed true. Although I wonder if it's because I removed most of the alcohol before October began.

All I can say is today I'm showing my commitment to Macmillan by jot giving in. That and the hundreds of other sober heroes can't beat me!

FormerMember over 11 years ago

It's amazing how often I would reach for a drink or a cigarette in the belief having one or the other, or both, would solve or help me solve a situation. Neither did.

I haven't drunk much in years, as a result I now enjoy drinking much more than ever, I yearn for that after meal cigarette, especially when eating al fresco, but I know it would not nor could not end there, so that is totally off limits.

You're doing well. If, after this abstinence has ended, you are able to look a wine bottle and think, "I'll use the vac-u-vin after a glass" rather than pouring out another glass as it "won't do me any harm", then you have achieved a hell of a lot.

You will, at the very least, enjoy and appreciate alocohol and its pleasures much more. Keep going. I can't the only one rooting for you.

Tim
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