To have a glass of champagne every day at 5 o-clock when I start cooking to get a little relaxing buzz?!

[Argos]

I love it but worry it's a bit of an unhealthy thing, I look forward to my glass for about an hour beforehand, is this wrong?!

well my dcs are in bed im just about to put washing out then will have a nice glass of rose to unwind.

i have a nice watney party seven, every evening at 6

armageddon Like a boiled egg in a deep-pile towelling robe.

If I am going to have a drink - and I often do though certainly not every day - it is 5ish, when I cook, or never. That is when I like it and especially when I am on my own, it just takes the edge off tea-bath-bed :) I don't think that is any more likely to lead to a slippery slope than a glass when you sit down in the evening or a night cap. I have one glass. (I sometimes have another when I sit down later in the evening, but mostly not.)

Look forward to, not crave it! Yes I do the spoon, have I been wasting my time?!

I don't smoke, eat well & excercise everyday. Sometimes I'll have two glasses but It's not like I'm glugging the bottle in one go, I haven't been drunk in years, just like to unwind with a glass.

good for you - enjoy it!

Find prosecco a bit sweet, I prefer a brut champangne or cava!

Your post makes me think of my own dear paternal Nana aldiwhore. She had one sherry and one cigarette every evening and died of natural causes when she was 90. She was still living independently in her first floor maisonette in Clapham. One morning she said to her cleaner that she felt a bit dizzy and funny, cleaner called an ambulance, Nanny died before she got to hospital. She was 4ft10" and had 5 children (in London, during the war) and one of those was charged with taking her sherry bottles away periodically because she didn't like to put them out for the bin men incase anyone thought she was a lush! An amazing lady.

sounds like a fucking superb idea to me. Cheers!

Sounds lovely. Yanbu, does the rest of bottle go flat ?

stick a metal teaspoon in the bottle after you've had a glass. No idea why it works but it does

madmomma it doesn't make a blind bit of difference, aparantly, according to my scientificcy friends who've done experiments to disprove the theory. Looks better than cling film though.

I think you should alternate it with a glass of port and a cigar, otherwise you are missing out on vital vitamins and minerals.

oh. that's burst my bubble. (see what I did there?)

Sorry madmomma mine was burst too..... have to admit, I still do it ocassionally for old time's sake.

G&T for me at 7pm when Mr Pedicuri gets home. Yum.
It is my sanity!

YABU Champagne should be a treat on special occasions.

I would have cava or prosecco instead as I secretly prefer them to Champagne anyway

As you've asked I would say YABU but only because I have experience of alcohol dependency in a close relative and think that generally drinking therapeutically to relax you a bad idea. Also looking forward to it an hour before hand seems a little dependant. You don't have to be drinking masses for alcohol to have a hold over you - very few alcoholics start off that way.

YABU stick to special brew like the rest of us...