To have started on the gin already?

[billiondollarwhale]

I'm dangerously bored.

YABU. I try to wait until at least 3pm before drinking through boredom. I’m eagerly watching the clock 😂

Jealous. Pregnant and would love a bottle of wine

I need some just to survive a morning with toddler & work..... luckily she is napping now

How long till I can have gin?!

No op. It’s lovely and sunny out I’m thinking if sitting in the garden and having a can myself. Enjoy your gin

@TheSpottedDog

YABU. I try to wait until at least 3pm before drinking through boredom. I’m eagerly watching the clock 😂

Too late

@Saladd0dger

No op. It’s lovely and sunny out I’m thinking if sitting in the garden and having a can myself. Enjoy your gin

Thank you, I am. Sadly not in the garden. Sat in my kid's room watching him play

No idea if this is supposed to be “lighthearted” or not, but if serious, I don’t think drinking during the day (or anytime) on your own because you’re bored or lonely is a good precedent to start setting for yourself because it can all too quickly become routine and begin to lead to problematic associations with and triggers for drinking. Are you enjoying the taste of the gin and the situation you’re drinking it in, and the time to relax? Or are you just whiling away time and wanting to feel tipsy?

And I am someone who drinks “far too much” if you go by NHS guidelines so am not coming at this from the position of the many MNers who claim to only drink a thimble-full of Bailey's at Christmas and judge a regular alcoholic beverage.

Sat in my kid's room watching him play

Ah - well that changes the tone a bit.

I've done it, then admitted I had a problem

I wouldn’t drink if I was in sole charge of my DC during the day - no way , not ever.

I also certainly wouldn’t sit and sip gin in their room whilst they were playing.

And I love a bottle of wine at the weekend so I’m not averse to alchohol but there is a time and a place and the playroom on a Friday afternoon is not it.

Thank you, I am. Sadly not in the garden. Sat in my kid's room watching him play

I am a pretty big drinker by MN's standards (and the government guidelines) but this isn't ideal at 2:30 in the afternoon.

I'm waiting until 430 when I will be still be in sole charge of my kids but they'll be eating dinner and I'll be sat watching (painful). Seriously 1 gin isn't putting kids at risk! Lols to MN

Errr have a coffee and a biscuit.

Are you alright @billiondollarwhale?

No judgement.

@namechangefail2020

I'm waiting until 430 when I will be still be in sole charge of my kids but they'll be eating dinner and I'll be sat watching (painful). Seriously 1 gin isn't putting kids at risk! Lols to MN

I drink around my kids when I am the sole adult in the house and also do so when they are eating dinner, but you can't say that is not quite different from sitting in a child's bedroom at 2:30 with a gin. Not sure why, TBF, but I think it is.

You've started this thread to ask the question so I think you know that it is a bit early.

@LaceyBetty I genuinely don't see a difference as if you were out for a Sunday roast, same time of day

[quote namechangefail2020]@LaceyBetty I genuinely don't see a difference as if you were out for a Sunday roast, same time of day [/quote]
I think it’s different because if I was out for a Sunday roast at a pub then DH would be driving and I’d have a glass of wine with lunch no problem. Because that’s what you do in a restaurant...

Not in a child’s bedroom.

Must be judgemental hour on here 🤣

I’m in the bath with a glass of wine. Wonderful

I'm not 'sole carer' either. My husband is here.

So, garden ok? Bedroom bad?

What are these odd rules?

Mumsnet rules!!!
Or Batshit made up crap in real life

FYI I’m drinking a gin too.
Whilst working
Shock
Horror

Some people do have such odd rules around drinking alcohol. Always makes me laugh to remember when a friend commented that drinking cans of lager in the park is really common but happily sat there drinking a bottle of lager herself!