Wankerbastards move to 2020. With moderatin' a plenty. We rage against flouncers, strops and teens, and of dryness we have big dreams. We want teacups not fuckups!

[Frouby]

Thread 9 for the tryers to be dryers. Join us if you want some support to reduce alcohol. All welcome for support, laughs and moderating.

Will tag a few peoples name I can spell as I am useless at clicky links.

@flossie
@madameforest
@longestlurkerever
@dionoysa
@waterandlemonjuice

Longest, IKWYM about feeling fuck it, we’re all going to die. Hope you feel better soon though.

Frouby, sweet ds and lovely dog! I really want a dog, we can’t agree on what we’ll get though, when we do eventually get one. I want a Cavalier King Charles and dh wants a Labrador - the latter is probably more sensible as cavaliers can have heart issues but they are so sweet tempered. I’m impressed at 6 miles, that covers my mileage on the treadmill all of last week 😂

Woo hoo Dionysa, I reckon tiny glasses of wine don’t count anyway! Well done.

I was wondering about quarantine supplies. Do you reckon you can order a Tesco delivery and get them to leave it on the step?

I'm pretty sure I remember reading about a similar arrangement with bread during the plague. So long as you don't actually have contact with the middle man it should be OK, surely? Although if there's a Tesco delivery man's union they might kick up a bit of a stink.

That's amazing Dion!!! I have the 6-8pm trigger too. The cloak of sobriety has come into its own tonight.

You can, NC4 yes. Though the rest of the self isolation guidance sounds totally grim. Staying in one room for two weeks!

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-51506729

Well done Dion, that is fab. I got through the witching hour tonight.

Frouby your long walk sounds great. My girls would definitely have whinged most of the way round.

longest dd would have too. Shes refused to come on any walks with me since ds was about 18 months old and we went exploring one day after school, got slightly lost and were out about 3 hours 😂😂🤭. Luckily I had the changing bag with me, snacks and drinks and we managed to get off the trans pennine trail, and dh came and picked us up because she refused to walk any further.

Ds is fab though, loads of energy and stamina and loves being outside. Plus he was busy hunting monsters to shoot with his nerf gun.

Frouby I'm very jealous of your dog walk, it's too flat around here! How is your back?

Water a dog is always good motivation to get out for a walk,
regardless of the weather. I'm with your DH on the labrador. My border collie is part of the reason I run so much.

Dion Day 4 well done you! Because of the time difference my trigger is a little later, from 7pm. But with the lighter evenings everything is easier as there are always jobs to be done outside.

Longest good luck with the job application. Have you had any dealings with Priti Patel??

NC4 I hope you are feeling a little better and congrats on being AF.

I was AF too last night. The coronavirus is much more widespread here and there is another hotspot a couple of hours away. It will be everywhere soon.
Working from home for the rest of the week. Hoping to get one dry day to cut the grass!

No I haven't Mme, but I used to work under Philip Rutnam years ago and he's no snowflake.

I am wfh till Friday too. Bit of a relief to be avoiding the tube for a few days. Mind you I am trying to think positively - we never know how things might have turned out. The Great Fire of London cured the black death. The coronavirus slowdown could save the planet or self-isolation could stop me getting hit by a bus.

It's terrible to say but the planet has a way with dealing with overpopulation. And the coronavirus is doing more to slow global warming than any government have done in the last few years.

Hello all. Ah a border collie madame they’re lovely too. Dh grew up with collies as his dad farmed sheep so they were always working dogs.

Longest, wfh sounds good. 😂 at your fatalistic view.

Day 9 here, day 36 in 2020. Woke up feeling like I had a hangover which I definitely haven’t, I must have been dehydrated I suppose. I’ve taken dd to school, walked 2 miles on the treadmill, ironed 3 shirts and emptied all the bins upstairs.

I was watching my programme while I was walking and wondering why I felt a bit bad tempered and I think I’ve worked out that it’s that The Split is quite depressing about marriage and also, the characters are drinking ALL THE TIME In that telly-world metropolitan lifestyle way: lawyers going back to their massive houses and swirling huge glasses of red; Champagne being popped to celebrate a win in court; big glasses of wine in the pub after work etc etc etc.

My reality during the week is that dh comes in, we eat, drink water, talk, catch up and then watch something together or read, then we go to bed. Early (9pm in his case sometimes). He’s knackered, as am I when I’m working and there’s certainly no standing around companionably chatting and cooking and drinking wine. There is at the weekends sometimes of course. Why tf I’m comparing my (very lovely) life to that of slick London lawyers in a TV drama is beyond me! 😂 having analysed it I’m fine of course.

I hope everyone is having an ok Tuesday. Having finished my chores I’m free so will prep supper in a bit and not sure what then. Read maybe.

water me too! I felt proper hanging when I woke in the middle of the night but I was AF last night. Am marking it period-related but who knows.

Lol at your telly angst. Know what you mean. Successful lawyer friend was saying how a big conference had been cancelled "so all the parties and dinners will probably be cancelled too" and I thought wtf don't I get invited to parties and dinners, before remembering I'd bloody hate it if I did, but I would rather like a bit more excitement than serving up mince and courgetti while ill dh shoots aliens. One of my team was lamenting the death of civil service drinking culture the other day actually and we agreed that inter-generational societal cohesion was worth a bit of liver damage here and there, though then I worried I was turning into a candidate for Dominic Cummings.

I ended up watching Girls, which I'd never seen before and envying their youth and lack of quarantine fear, even though they're all skint and angst-ridden.

Am going to sneak out for lunch though and hopefully my meat horde will arrive soon.

Pmsl longest at your having similar thoughts. A friend was telling me about days of yore (probably only the 90s!) in a civil service department when there was a proper restaurant upstairs with starched tablecloths and everyone drank at lunchtime.

I remember it being completely acceptable to get quite pissed on Friday lunchtime or even not come back sometimes. I once worked for an ad agency on the river in Hammersmith and there was a bar downstairs, just for the agency. At 5pm people would go down and get a drink and bring it back to their desks!!

I hear you Water. Getting pissed on a Friday lunchtime was practically the law in newspapers. Although four pints was never considered pissed.

I often fancy myself as being one of those TV types, cracking on with a bottle of red after work. Like Dr Foster for example. They only ever get in a state when they are having serious turmoil. No random Tuesday getting shitfaced for them. They are too sophisticated for that.
It’s no wonder we all like a drink with these messages!

Lol at workplace pissedness. I worked in banking when I was younger. Pub lunch in 2 shifts on a friday was The Law. And when I moved into management the team quarterly meeting always started at 1pm on a friday afternoon and finished sometime Friday night.

We had a smoking room in the bank as well. And I worked for a sales company where people smoked at their desks. We all used to answer the phones puffing away and lit each others fags if you got stuck on a long call so they didn't hear the flickof the lighter. Seems mad as fuck now to think about stuff like that.

madame my back is much better thank you. Odd twinge picking anything heavy up but it's 95% better.

Had a Big Flap today. Email from university 'further to your previous email inviting you for an interview next tuesday please see attached bollocks....'. Other email had gone into bloody spam folder so I missed it. Anyway, have an interview Tuesday. Got some English and Maths assessments to do plus an interview. Bit frustrating as it's the first day of Cheltenham but I want to get the interview done and know where I am with it all so it's tough, it had got to be done.

Now need to order my GCSE results from 1993 as I no longer have them. Fml. My old school merged with anothet years ago, am not really in touch with any previous school friends and have not a fucking scooby do who my exam board was AND it's £47 per application so I definitely need to be sure which exam board it was. Going to call the school mine merged with and cross my fingers that they will be able to tell me which exam board.

If not, a maths teacher at dds school went to my school and will ask her to ask him. She will be mortified but needs must and all that.

But at least I have an interview. Am probably going to have a drink tonight to celebrate that and it's also 12 years since MIL died so will raise a glass to her as well.

Also have PMT and am stressing about the interview and the tests. Have been sent a piece of writing to familiarise myself with. Not a clue what we are going to be asked about it though. Which is worrying. Especially as my GCSEs and A levels seem a lot less complex than what dd is doing. Should be ok with the maths and I can obviously read and understand the piece, and do some wordy bollocks about it but if they ask me to start looking for subjugated verbs (is that a thing even?) I will be fucked.

Woo hoo on the interview Frouby, well done! Good luck tracking down the certificates, bizarrely I think I know where mine are. I remember smoking at my desk too. And in cinemas, on planes, in restaurants, on trains! Bet you’ll feel calmer once PMT abates.

NC4 pmsl at “no random Tuesday getting shitfaced for them” 😂😂 Quite!

Amazing Frouby!! That' brilliant news. I don't think they'll be asking you for subjugated verbs - more likely to analyse the text. Think about what we used to call 'comprehension' at school.

By my final year of my English degree I'd cracked literature exams - I always prepared an essay on gender, and one on class, using two or three texts for each and it was guaranteed I could make the questions work for me.
But that's me - I'm sure you'll be ace at it. Don't feel daunted.

I used to love smoking at my desk. The ceilings were all stained yellow, which was grim. Then they went to smoking rooms, which were also yellow - and poorly ventilated. I made most of my friends through smoking!

Longest, also lol at all the parties and dinners!

Haha i never did smoke - working in smoky pubs and clubs was bad enough- but you could smoke in the client meeting rooms when i started my training contract. Feels like another world. And the Friday lunchtime pint. God i feel like an old gimmer reminiscing. But fuck me dh is 40. He was 17 when we met.

Frouby that's fabulous news, well done you. I reckon you'll ace the interview. I was pretty good at English literature but i reckon it must be pretty intuitive because i never could put my finger on why my stretched analogies vaguely worked and why my pretentious classmate just came across as a pseud. I was grateful to him though as he'd argue with the teacher for ages about nonsense and i could daydream for the whole lesson and miss nothing. He was a fab teacher though - one of the few at our school.

Hello all,
Just checking in quickly.
Yay to interview, Frouby!!!
Good luck with finding the certificates not mentioning the fact that I am so old that I did O levels rather than GCSEs

I did once try a cigarette when I was a student, and didn't like it so never tried it again. However, I worked somewhere when I was younger where all the interesting people smoked, so I will probably die as a result of spending hours in the smokers' room.

Food for thought in your post, Water.

Day 5 of almost-AF. Had another v small glass of wine at lunchtime - it has been a funny week of lunchtime events, which is very unusual. But nothing since 1 o'clock. The evening has dragged, but I have got through it and can go to bed soon. DD was sick last night and kindly went to the bother of waking me up to tell me, so we are both knackered now.

I am finding AF evenings hard going, but I can't deny that I feel better overall. I'm liking not waking up with Beer Fear, too.

I also think I frightened myself the other day, TBH.

Frouby congratulations! I've forgotten is it English Language or Littérature you want to do? Good luck with this interview (I think you mean subjunctive verbs 😉) I did English A level but it wasn't until I started teaching English that I realised how little I knew about grammar. It is really badly taught in the UK. My students knew more than I did when I started 😳

Dion I did O levels too. So did the 5 years after me, that shows my age!

I never smoked when young, hated it. Started a little later in my twenties but never really enjoyed it so it was easy to stop.

I haven't eaten chocolate for a week now. I wish giving up wine for that length of time was so easy. Not AF, 2 glasses of wine) as DP and DS who usually get on really well aren't. I really don't need that at the moment.

longest I was always good at English at school then did language at A level but its been nearly 25 years since I did any sort of proper English. And read through the extract and it just suggested making notes and annotations.

Was like wtf? Notes on what. It's an open letter about mangoes 😂😂😂. But started the BBC bite size revision stuff and feel a bit better now. Bizarrely am not that worried about the maths, maybe because I do maths every day. Am not looking at the link for that yet though. Can only cope with 1 flap at a time 😂😂😂.

Was actually dry in the end which is a result. Didn't fancy a beer and cba to make a gin so thought I don't want one that badly obviously.

Dion 5 days is amazing whatever the reason, especially if you are feeling better now!

Hmm, it might be tricky to apply gender and class to an open letter about mangoes.... 🤔

Open letter about mangoes? Wtf?! I did O levels too Dionysa. Well done on 5 days, I’m glad you’re feeling a bit better.

Checking in for day 10 AF, day 37 in 2020.

NC4, mangoes are all about the patriarchy (the clue's in the name). So if you hit a mango with a hammer, you are smashing the patriarchy. You'd also have to be pretty middle class to be bothering yourself with a beastly mango in the first place, so that's the class aspect sorted too.

I hope you are going to be able to use this nugget, Frouby.

Day 10, Water. Wow. And Day 37 this year is massively impressive, as we've only had 60something days...

Howling Dion. I think you’ve got this covered Frouby...