The benefits of giving up alcohol
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31 Aug
7:54pm, 31 Aug 2024
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mrs shanksi
Thanks guys, back from the hills and having chips in Ballater.
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31 Aug
8:09pm, 31 Aug 2024
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Fenners-Reborn
mrs shanksi wrote: Thanks guys, back from the hills and having chips in Ballater. Sounds a fab day ![]() |
12:02am
12:02am, 1 Sep 2024
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LindsD
Two people tried to get me to drink today. One was my SiL, and the other was a waiter trying to get me to have the free drink everyone else was having. After saying no politely twice he asked me why. I told him I was an alcoholic. Felt weird saying it and a bit worried it would cause gossip for my husband's family who I was with but my BiL told me it was good to tell the truth.
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4:44am
4:44am, 1 Sep 2024
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Big_G
I really think that people not drinking is much more commonplace these days, so a waiter questioning that I think is really bad. There could be all sorts of reasons that someone is not drinking, and not really sure that’s any business of the waiter. Well done for sticking to it though, but not nice for you being put on the spot like that.
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Useful Links
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- Alcoholics Anonymous
- Swittle's wonderful 14,611 days blog
- Rebel's brilliant blog of history to non drinking :-)
- There is No Wall, book by ultra runner Allie Bailey
- A Summary of the benefits
- I Am Sober
- LindsD's Alternative Drinks
- Drink Aware
- Joopsy's 17 year blog
- Swittle's excellent 42 years sober blog :-) G
- Guardian article about problems with alcohol (free just now, but may not be in future...?!) :-) G
- Maclennane's excellent blog on his journey. Nice! :-)
- Sigh's brilliant 1000 blog! :-)
- Dirt Monkey's Wordpress Blog
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