Had half a pint of lager this evening with dinner cause we’re away from home having a holiday in our caravan. If I was at home I wouldn’t have had one. Had a big dinner with in-laws on Friday and most others present had a fair few drinks but I didn’t drink as I was working early on Sat.
I used to be a bit of a problem drinker to be honest. Very much a binge drinker in my late teens and twenties, a short hiatus for pregnancies and breastfeeding, and then went back to binge drinking, albeit less frequently than before.
As I got older, the hangovers just got worse and worse. I cut out wine, which was my nemesis. I have never been into spirits anyway, so that left me with beer and cider, both of which I like, but can’t drink loads of. And then over the years, especially as I became perimenopausal, my drinking has become very infrequent.
Prior to the beer I had this eve, I last had a drink in early February at a gig, and before that was last October on holiday. So I hardly drink now. I had some very funny times with booze back in the day, but also some bad and sad times which wouldn’t have happened without alcohol. Overall I don’t miss regular and/or heavy drinking.