Wankerbastards and autumn weather, crunchy leaves, browning heather. We want crisp, cool days and crisp, cool wine, or beer or gin. But only a couple, as we smash moderatin'.

[Frouby]

Thread 8 for Tryers to be Dryers.

Join in for help and support and lots of laughs to reduce alcohol. Whatever you want to achieve with your alcohol intake, whether it's alcoholidays, dry days, less booze in general we are all in the same boat.

More threads floating around but I can't do clicky links. Just look for Wankerbastards and you will find us.

Pmsl swampy.

Have got dh wittering at me now because I have told him we need manure for the allotment before we go away. Apparently it's easy for me to do because I am there every day.

For various reasons to do with the structural components of shit and straw its not that easy. And driving a pick up truck doesn't mean it's going to actually pick up shit, that's still manual labour. But I am bu to suggest he helps. Fml.

Lmao re swampy. 😂😂

Sounds like we all taking on too much shit!! Come on frouby....crack on with some curries..Madame, we are coming to stay! All of us. Leave the wankerbastards behind!!

Also it's now my fault both MOTS are due next week. Told him last week they were due. Told him this weekend they were due. Told him yesterday I was looking at paperwork today. Both due by next Thursday.

Apparently it's my fault they are both due together. It's not it's his because I looked at mine last year, realised it was due and booked it in. Which prompted him to check his and find it was overdue by 3 weeks so book his in.

But now it's my fault that they both due the same week 😂😂😂

I did it!! Day 1 for me!
How is everyone else doing x

Lol re Swampy!! Count me in re Brittany.

Day 1 here too. Pleased because i did have a wobble after woodcraft folk but weird passion flower tea has seen me through. It was my turn to run the session and keeping order over a load of kids is not my forte, especially hyperactive dd1 who was out of control. But they settled down a bit and it was just about ok in the end.

Sorry about wankerbastard cars. Mine is on borrowed time before i ditch it in favour of drive now or similar.

Tell your DH he is talking shit, Frouby.

Day One (again) tomorrow.

Well done on your Day Ones, Longest and Hedgehog. You did well to survive the Woodcraft without fortification, Longest.

France here we come. 🇫🇷

You've also reminded me, Leaving, that I read up on sedation before I had the camera down my gullet. Several sites said that people tend to talk about all sorts of stuff while they are under sedation, but that hospital staff are very discreet about what they hear. To this day, I blame it for my divorce, as XH came with me.

I did day 1 AF!

Was tempted at 9pm as everyone on the programme I was watching was out for dinner and drinking wine but I couldn’t be arsed to go downstairs and get some so resisted.

Lol at Swampy, is that you Dion?

And yes, I agree about kids wanting to talk at 10pm, why can’t they do it earlier?

How did you know, Water?

Well done on AF.

Well done longest, water and hedgehog!! Longest, I too would’ve not been AF after looking after a group of small people.

Dion - crikey I have noted that about sedation!! Yikes!! Wonder what you said..

Frouby - men like to blame us for everything. I bet he knows he’s in the wrong really, but because their like toddlers and do a major tantrum, it’s then hard to come back from it!!

NC4 - how you feeling about meeting your friend now you’ve had time to think of it? How was the funeral where you both were. Hope it went ok lovely.

Well I had mini meltdown last night that everyone was throwing their shit at me and I’d had enough!! Dh was a cold knobhead. I asked him to scoop me up, to which he said no. So I got out of bed and went and sat on the sofa, had a big bawl, and went back to bed sniffing. Still no response from dh despite him being awake.
This morning he’s tried to be nice..don’t know whether to grab it with both hands or throw it back in his Face!!
Day one today....I’ve got to!!!!!!!!

Morning all

Dh chuntered a bit about him only having a week to sort both cars out. Told him I would sort my own out if it was a problem. He huffed a bit more then said he would sort it today. Hopefully they both go straight through, could do without spending a fortune just before Christmas and holiday.

Dd is still being arsey this morning. Fml. She flounced because she came downstairs at 7.30pm the minute I had put ds down to witter at me about an english assessment. She had done really well in it, a 7 bordering on an 8. Then her friend had said that maybe her teacher was marking generously. Little cow. So then had dd stressing that maybe she wasn't as good as a 7. This all happened at lunchtime btw.

So I listened to her for a few minutes, reassured her she was doing well then asked her to let me have 5 minutes peace and could she stay upstairs until ds waa asleep. Apparently she is 15 and doesn't need a bedtime. Said it wasn't bedtime, it was that she spends every evening i her room, even goes back up in between turning the microwave on and always appears when ds is in bed and then he comes down to see what he's missing.

Then ds appeared.

Now she's just asked me to help her send some homework into school via email. Then tried to tell me how to do it even though she couldn't do it.

Love kids me, wish I had had 5 or 6 of the fuckers.

flossie hugs lovely. Your dh sounds very cold and uncaring. Mines the opposite and irritates me with his cuddles and tickles and strokes. Maybe we should swap for a bit, you would soon get fed up of being cuddled and tickled and stroked and gazed at.

Pishing down here, fuck sake. Off to ponies this morning, then better get some work done so I can pay for the MOTs.

What a chatty bunch you are - count me in for France!

Lots of busy people on here. I have the opposite problem. Not enough work to a) keep me motivated and b) pay the bills. I need to push myself to come up with something. I'm almost tempted to apply for a staff job but I don't really want to work for anyone else. I'm too feral.

Day one here. Funeral turned into a boozy affair and I only got home at 10pm. My friend (whose dad it was) was determined to have a late one, but I bailed early by comparison. Stuck to beer too - wine is not a session drink (a lesson it took me too long to learn).

Wine witch is here! Stuck to my healthy eating all day. Day 2 for me x

NC have you looked at matched betting if you have a bit of spare time? There is loads of money to be made, you just need a bit of time.

Am debating a gin. Felt shit all day cos beer yesterday. So obviously a gin will cure it. Have just sat down from 8am this morning. Am bloody knackered, mainly because hangover. Am going to have a shower and see how I feel when have had a shower. If I do have a drink it will only be 1 though. Want an early night.

Omg......I’m dry!!!!!!!! 🥳🥳

Woo Flossie! Me too. First day 2 in ages. And keep thinking about wine or beer, bur am over hump now. Have ordered takeaway but they are taking forever.

I’m dry too!!!! Day 2! Well done everyone x

Longest..that’s seriously hardcore if you can have a takeaway and still be af!! I had to cook myself a shit student-style meal tonight just so I didn’t ‘feel the lurve’ of cooking and pour myself wine to absorb the mood!!

Well done hedgehog too

Ah a takeaway is one of my AF measures. Need a vice so if not wine fatty food will step into the vacuum

Yay Flossie!!!!! We are Day One twins (though having to drive to collect DD last night played a role).

Agree with other things stepping into the Doritos Vacuum created by being AF.

Frouby, my DD does that homework thing, too. FML. Today she was a cowbag about a croissant which I kindly offered her rather than eating it myself.

Well done on Day 2, Hedgehog and Longest.

NC4, MB is well worth a look. I haven't got time to do it ATM, but will have in the next few weeks.

Day one triplets Flossie and Dion. I’m going for a day two today too. Who’s in?

The funeral was OK. Awkward friend was perfectly friendly which is the only mature thing to be really. I avoided her a bit though. I doubt she’ll contact me about meeting up now. Knowing her as I do she’ll just want to pretend nothings happened, so she doesn’t have to be accountable.
Birthday friend thinks I should just go to Mallorca, which is next weekend. It’s so late in the day I can barely get my head round going, thinking about packing, nails etc.

What a load of unnecessary drama.

NC4 - well done on af, especially considering the funeral/friend/holiday situation.
I think you should go on the birthday holiday. Don’t let the friend stop you from things that will enhance you’re life. It may seem like a lot of bother right now, but I’m sure that in the long run, it will be worth it. How many are going?? She will be diluted. You will have others around you. Be really good for you xx

Your. Not you’re. (Bloody predictive text again!!)

Well I wasn’t AF at the funeral! But yes, it’s all a bit OTT really. There would be four of us going if I go. I don’t know. I’ll speak to birthday friend this weekend.