New Year, New Start. Probably dries and lows as we Tryers to be Dryers try 2019.

[Frouby]

New thread for the New Year.

Support thread for those who want to moderate and reduce alcohol. Absolutely no judgement, just advice and support. Absolutely everyone is welcome whatever your goals or hopes for 2019.

Am no good at clicky linke but there are previous threads and we look forward to continuing to moderate and reduce in 2019.

Especially today. 14 coming for 3 courses at 3pm and I have a raging hangover to start the year. Fml.

Frouby yes I was talking about Zumba with one of the lunch mums. Know i won't really be arsed though. Ditto I have been talking about doing a park run every week for about a year and still haven't got off my arse. Swimming is the only exercise I genuinely like and outdoors is so much better, especially as it's so big it's not human soup like the indoor one, but the opening hours are a bit erratic. I am trying the Turkish baths next week too.

I second NC4Now about the Class Teddy. When DD's sodding Class Teddy came to our house, he had tea, argued with DD's brother, and went to bed. She drew pictures to prove the point. If only it had been online, I would have been spared the humiliation.

Gin is not an effective moderation tool, so it seems.

This weekend is a write-off in every conceivable way, as DC1 is visiting, which means arguments between the DC, while DC1 tries to tell me all the ways in which I have failed as a mother. He is a clean freak. FML.

We had the class teddy when dd was small. Luckily it was a weekend we were out showing with the ponies so looked really healthy and wholesome.

I did have to crop one photo with my mam having a roll up in it though. And the ones with dd crying before she went in the ring. And dh stomping off because pony bit him after he gave him half his apple. And the one with the pony with coronation chicken round his mouth after he raided the picnic bag and especially the one dh took of the baby meercat with a can of carling and what looked like a spliff but was just a rolled up bookie slip.

Apparently we have Ollie The Owl to come. Am just hoping he comes spring/summer when I can easily forge wholesome events.

Love the stories about the class teddy. DS was a proper teacher’s pet in infants and we got Woody the fucking Woodpecker every other week. Jeez I don’t miss those days!
Tomorrow will mainly be ferrying the precious moppets around to their various activities - drama school, karate and party for DS, trampolining and then friend’s house for DD. Then friends round for curry tomorrow night. Dog walk, roast etc on Sunday.

Ha ha at the ball thingies Frouby, poor William’s mum!

Dionysa, 3 hours in traffic is vile, you deserve gin!

Sympathy on teens, I have two teen girls here tomorrow on a sleepover. They seem obsessed with pore strips and putting what India Knight calls spackle on their faces when anyone over 25 would KILL for the peachy skin they already have

Am in bed, have been since 5.30, dh brought me Chinese food and put a suprise packet of mini eggs in my bedside table so I found it when I went in there for the remote ❤️ - not drinking, phew

Wine is nice it turns out. Enjoying just drinking it and listening to music.

Frouby - allotments and ponies - you are genuinely wholesome!

I am at the park run! Eek!

longest good luck! You are very brave.

I want to be wholesome lol. I try but fail spectacularly most days.

Birthday party in a couple of hours. In a church hall too so cold, echoey and not even a nice coffee to compensate. Just dodgy babygroup style coffee. Fml.

Was going to work for an hour this morning but I feel rough. Am going to have a shower, get ready and see how I feel. Hate working when everyone is at home. Well when dh is at home mainly. He looks over my shoulder and wants to know what I am doing. And no matter how many times I explain it, he doesn't get it. And he likes a flutter so gets over excited when I place big 'bets' even though the outcome doesn't usually matter. So I think I am going to give it a miss.

I need an office, working at the kitchen table only works when no one is home.

I bloody did it as well. Came practically last but those older people have probably had a bit if practice, right? Am not dead, anyway, which is something.

Hope the party is better than feared Frouby! I quite like a kids' party, saddo that I am.

I am well impressed Longest. I’ve only just got up and you’ve done an entire Park Run!
You might have shamed/inspired me to go to the gym this morning. I’ve really let it slip so I should just do something.
I only had one bottle of lager last night, then went to bed to watch Peaky Blinders.
A duvet date with Cillian Murphy. Mmmmm.

Frouby that would drive me mad.

Don't be impressed. Park is 5 mins walk away and this is the first time o have ever made it. Already feel stiff. Am so overweight and unfit!

I’m still impressed. They do one at the park 5 mins from mine, but I’ve never been!

Longest, I am seriously impressed. I can't do any kind of running due to joint problems, but I have a horrible feeling that I wouldn't do it even if I could.

Feel rubbish today, thanks to non-moderating with gin last night. And, of course, I was awake at 3 AM.

Frouby, I haven't given up on the idea of the betting. I wonder how long it would take me to accumulate £500? I have a bill that has failed to be paid for a good six weeks. Hope the party is bearable. I think children's parties are probably better than teenage sleepovers, though you've had both this weekend...

Water, going to bed at 5.30 every day might be the answer .

Longest THANK YOU. Due to you doing Park Run I finally got back into the gym today. I used to train with a PT twice a week and do 2-3 spin classes, but it all fell by the wayside when my marriage fell apart.
I forgot how much I love lifting weights. I’d been avoiding it on the basis Id be shit and disheartened but I wasn’t as shit as I expected. I did a decent session, had a swim and rounded it off with a hot tub.
Oh and I bumped into my PT too, which was lovely and he was his usual encouraging self.
I feel ace!!

Dion I can’t run either, as I have EDS (hypermobility).

Wow NC4 - weights! That is impressive. I am not doing too well with wholesome. The penguin has watched moana, gone out for Vietnamese, walked under heartbreak bridge full of rough sleepers and drug dealers, gone to Poundland, attempted to go bowling, been put off by 2 hour queue and has ended up at slightly scuzzy soft play. Ah well.

On the plus side they just sent the Ofsted report through from forest school and it seems I have outsourced wholesome.

"Outsourced wholesome" 🤣🤣😂 @longestlurkerever

NC4, Wow. Just wow.

Love it Longest 🤣🤣
I’ve outsourced DS2 today. His friend’s mum has offered to take them to the trampoline park then back to theirs for tea.
This is most excellent. I have a couple of hours in the house alone. Bliss!

longest outsourcing wholesome is a bloody good idea, all the benefits without having to get cold/wet/muddy. You definitely win at parenting .

Party was horrendous with a moderate hangover. In a church hall with an entertainer. Who kept making parents get up. Ds shouted at me because I didn't win the dancing competition for him. Fml. We also had to do the hokey cokey.

As parties go it was a good ine though. About 40 kids in total I reckon so a good turn out. I obviously sat with my mate from the school run and we had a good gossip.

Teenage sleepover went well. They hid from Ds as he's a pest, so I only saw them to chuck £20 at them for their tea and snackage. We live across from numerous chain takeaways (kfc, taco bell, subway, a chippy, a noodle place, a cafe, a thai place, dominos and costa coffee!) So they are spoilt for choice really.

Been to Tescos, walked the dog, fed the guinea pigs and got my pjs on with a bottle of beer, am knackered.

I am apparantly doing a Boogie Bounce class next week with ndn and my cousins wife. Will be interesting. Dd reckons we will all die as it's quite intense so not feeling optimistic.

Dion definitely do the matched betting. There is about £400 of profit to be made just from the easy sign ups. Probably another £300-£400 doing the next easiest and some good offers around atm in reloads and good value what if bets, which aren't guaranteed profits but are juicy when they hit.

And it's the Cheltenham festival in March which is supposed to be epic for matched bettors. I didn't do it last year as we were busy with casino stuff but the serious MBers are already getting excited.

Open a bank account and when you've done that drop £50 in it which will be plenty to do the first offer. Once you have done that then you will probably have £70+, so can do the next one, wait for it to settle abd do the next one. Withdraw your original £50 and then just use your profits to keep working through them.

If you don't have Yorkshire Bank as your main accounts (or any borrowing with them) use Yorkshire B Account. If you can't use Yorkshire the Halifax or Lloyds TSB are good.

I make a decent living out of it. I aim for £200 a week profit. Hit it most weeks and some weeks make a lot more.

What’s boogie bounce? Does it involve trampolines? I’m not sure my pelvic floor could cope with that.

Frouby, thank you for all this advice. I do have an account with one of those, which I could theoretically use only for matched betting (not least as it's currently empty). Instead of drinking in the evenings, I should devote myself to this. If I could make anything like £200 a week, that would make the most immense difference to me. Even £100 a week would feel like a fortune at the moment. I am very scared of the whole idea as I know as much about any kind of betting as I do about nuclear physics (namely fuck all). But it is presumably a case of being slow and careful (neither of which I am, normally. In fact, I am fast and slapdash on the whole ).

I'm glad you survived the party and sleepover. My DD would be wanting to move in, if you're near all those fast food places. As it is, she lives in the Spar shop.

Tired and headachy and sick feeling. Not drinking tonight. I'm outsourcing drinking to DS.

Dion honestly it's simple.

You have 2 rounds of betting to make profit on the opening offers.

You do a qualifying bet which activates a free. You will lose a few pence in the qualifying bet, which is known as a qualifying loss.

You will make about 70% of the value of the free bet as a rule.

So I think William Hills is bet £10, get £30 free bet atm.

So I put £10 in WH. And probably £40 into my exchanges account.

I back a horse on WH at 2.0. I then do another bet in the exchanges and act as the bookie and take a bet in the exchanges.

If the horse wins, I get £20 into my Wh and lose £10 in my exchanges.

So the balance is now what I started with either way.

I now have a £30 free bet. I repeat the process, and will probably retain about £23 profit because a free bet is stake not returned so slightly different.

But thats MB in a nutshell.

Outsourcing wholesome.

Frouby - does boogie bounce mean trampolines?! I’d pee my pants literally if I had to do that!! I went to a kettle bells class once..thought that sounds ok..until the male insteuctor got us doing jumping jacks in the warm up!! Could literally feel my womb falling out and my bladder failing!! Never again!! Another thing to blame kids for!!

Sorry, if the horse loses I will take the stake of around £10 in the exchanges. So either way I can't lose.

If you are on FB look for the page Team Profit for newbies, its pretty good.