To have started on the gin already?

[billiondollarwhale]

I'm dangerously bored.

I know it should be no alcohol before tea time, but just because Joe Root and the other cricketers in Chennai had theirs several hours ago is no excuse.

Because I have no issue with alcohol, I don't feel the need to have odd rules for myself!

I had a glass of wine with lunch- now on my 3rd

No calls or Teams today ( am self employed and started at 7 am before you all say I am ripping off my employer)

I have had enough- We have stopped midweek drinking (no reason but trying to mirror normal life- we go to the pub on Friday and meet with friends/family on Saturday, family meal on Sunday)

Working at the moment but may have something later

Before I had my child I worked in Mayfair and previously in The City. We sometimes had boujolais breakfasts! Shock horror

I was pouring a glass of wine at 4.30pm on the dot when I finished work every day before xmas and then realised that my relationship with booze was becoming a problem (for me). I was using it as a reward/comfort (single parent to teenage kids) and feeling like I 'deserved' it.

I haven't drunk now for over 5 weeks and that craving has gone. I realise that what I deserve is to take care of myself - a bath, a walk, a run. All provide the same wind down after work without the negative side effects.

I'm not saying I'll never drink again but I wanted to stop completely until I felt my relationship with it had changed and I could have a drink now and again if I really wanted one, rather than because it's 4.30pm and that's what I do.

Anyway, I think you know that drinking gin in your son's bedroom at 2.30pm isn't ideal but only you know the reasons for wanting to do so and whether something else would give the desired effect.

We're in the front room now

I think your approval ratings will go up.

Love the memory of Beaujolais breakfasts .... I resisted the urge to have a glass of wine at lunch time (no children at home, not working - before I am criticised ) but but it off in favour of meeting a friend for a walk and then home for a glass of wine around 5ish.

Does the fact my son's bedroom is on the ground floor make a difference

@billiondollarwhale

Before I had my child I worked in Mayfair and previously in The City. We sometimes had boujolais breakfasts! Shock horror

Oh wow remember Beaujolais breakfasts - half cut by 9am

Majestic rang me up this morning to try and flog me some surplus stock . I showed up to collect within 10 minutes 😁

Remember the days of those epic lunches in the City as well.

@CloudPop

Remember the days of those epic lunches in the City as well.

Yerp! Thirsty Thursday

@billiondollarwhale

Before I had my child I worked in Mayfair and previously in The City. We sometimes had boujolais breakfasts! Shock horror

Nouveau day in the pub The city pubs around the old markets opened at 7am ( or earlier?)

Oh what a lovely thread to find as I've sat down after getting in from crappy work. Straight after sending this I'm heading to the kitchen to pour a large glass of merlot. Wouldn't usually but I think it's a sign. Thank you OP!

Friday was alway POETS day

Piss off early tomorrows Saturday

@MissMarpleDarling

Oh what a lovely thread to find as I've sat down after getting in from crappy work. Straight after sending this I'm heading to the kitchen to pour a large glass of merlot. Wouldn't usually but I think it's a sign. Thank you OP!

Just make sure you don't consume in a bedroom or something

Glass 3 has gone- off for glass 4

And I was economical with the truth- it isnt wine - it is very expensive vintage champagne. But I deserve it.

GFI and enjoy OP - it’s just after midnight in Hong Kong

(I’m in the U.K. but not a fan of imposition of “rules” set by society which judge solely by the correlation of the ‘act’ to the positioning of the hands on the Gregorian clock, and thus quaffing gin on the occasional Friday lunch can be easily explained by identifying in and out of “appropriate” timezones (Or by just owning it 😃) )

I am having a glass of wine- and working.

2.30 is Gin o'clock for me. BastardCat and I settle down for an hour of shite reality t.v (think RHOBH or MAFS). I sip my perfectly mixed (mostly Gin, splash of tonic and squeeze of fresh lime to ward off scurvy) artisan Gin in a crystal balloon glass (definitely not ASDA special out of stolen pint glass). BadtardCat shares my chilli stuffed olives - because we're both dead posh.

Cheers!

I'll be opening a bottle soon , Im looking forward to it , maybe a glass in each room

Must be judgemental hour on here 🤣

Can almost see them clutching their pearls! LOL.

OP I'm fairly sure your post was meant to be lighthearted - for goodness sake you can't say anything on here without being jumped on by the "Do gooder brigade"
I'm just about to log off from work - my commute to the kitchen will take approx 30 seconds and I expect I'll crack open a bottle while preparing tea. 4:30 - does that make me a rebel or is the kitchen ok???

@Member984815

I'll be opening a bottle soon , Im looking forward to it , maybe a glass in each room

Like a safari supper but a safari beverage?

How many rooms do you have?

We have 17 counting bathrooms. So that 2.5 bottles