To be craving a glass of wine at 3pm

[Pavementworrier]

Is it the dark nights giving me dopamine issues? I mean I know people can have a glass of wine at 3pm I am just not usually in the mood plus I know it will make me really sleepy about an hour later.

I've just bought a sad lamp will report back but meantime if anyone has any other ideas for midwinter dopamine id be very grateful!

OP I see you had your glass.

May I suggest for future use, on a cold wet afternoon, just as its drawing in, a coffee with a Baileys in it.

I know people like it with a hot chocolate but thats way too sweet, you need the counter balance of a good bitter coffee with your Baileys in it (or Lidl/Aldi dupe if you so wish)

Also, dont dismiss a tot or two of Harveys Bristol Cream of an afternoon

Go sophisticated.

Well that’s the point though. It is depressing and cold and wet so sometimes sitting on the sofa is the only option. And many find that boring and depressing. As the other
options are taken away.

I find it being dark at 4pm oppressive and restrictive. Completely understand people having a glass of cava or a mulled wine.

I had a small Christmas sherry, 10 years ago, plus a glass of champagne at my cousins wedding, 5 years ago. Booking an AA meeting and going into rehab. Love MN 🥂

dinnae worry hen, if yer feelin' gallus ye could try a cold shower or even better wild swimmin'? 🤣

I had a glass of wine this afternoon to break up a 6 hour train journey through France. Very enjoyable it was too, watching all the villages fly by, while sipping my wine. Followed by a spectacular sunset.

I don't drink alcohol, but I honestly cannot understand the fake shocked Puritan attitude to anything pleasurable in British society. A drink, what? It's only 4oc on a Sunday are you mad, you are an alcoholic in the making, the slippery slope remember?

A hot choc with Baileys? Are you mad, no don't have it, it's too indulgent, have a piece of straw covered muck instead. Good for the constitution.

A piece of cream cake. OMG, how could you? Don't please, it is a sign of gluttony. Resist and say ten Hail Marys and the Rosary right now. By the time you're finished your prayers the longing will be gone.

Suffer it, ride it out, you will kill someone but you will have resisted temptation. Unlike Oscar Wilde.

Agreed. That’s what I said.

Um, people - have you not seen any of those tv murder mysteries where the attacker is sneaking around in the dark garden? And the victim is inside the house, every light blazing, curtains open? Dh and I always remark 'Storyline would be different if they'd closed the curtains'.

I only close the curtains at the front of the house. I can be murdered, but only from the garden end.

I love my DP, he brought me home wine and some bubble bath. He is a keeper. For now. The hormones are quite unpredictable.

Because we're on a main road and once our lights are on, it's like being in a goldfish bowl with everyone walking along the road peering in.

It is. Like craving other things.

why are some people so superior?

No honestly. Im not being disingenuous. i used to live next door to an alcoholic and used to hear awful sounds through the walls and wondered what the hell was going on. ....horrific vomiting, banging and crashing, it was dreadful.

Craving, really?

Oh you've done this on purpose haven't you op? You knew what replies you'd get 😏

My personal rule is no booze before 7pm. If I get the urge before that I drink a cup of coffee instead. MBut it’s only 6pm now, and my gin bottle is calling to me, and I’ve already had three cups of coffee…

I often have a glass of wine on Sunday afternoons with my roast dinner. Or I take the dog for a walk and meet a friend for a glass in the pub. If that makes me an alcoholic then so be it. I’m currently sitting on the sofa, fire is on, reading a book with a nice glass of Amerone. Heaven.

Ha. I relate to all of this…

I crave things all the time!

My recent craving is a huge doorstep sized wedge of fresh baked bread, with a huge slathering of proper butter and an enormous wedge of brie.

Terrible for my arteries I'm sure and my diet, so I haven't done it but holy crap am I craving it.

Is there a 10 step programme for craving carbs and French cheese?

I cracked open the red at 4.51pm when I put dinner on. Fuck it, really. I'm not an alcoholic. Its pissing down with rain, windy as all hell and I'm all alone.

The first sip. Absolute bliss.

Wouldn't it be less oppressive if it was 5pm, at least you would have an afternoon of daylight?

I would have BST all year round, as stated on many threads.

Yesterday, I had a rare day to myself. The first one this year, I got up and had tea, coffee, vegan bacon butty (sorry), showered, got dressed,, walked the dog, had a chip shop lunch, a whole bottle of wine, a whole box of chocolates, packet of crisps and binged watched tv- the end of the beast in me, love actually and Malice (David Duchovny 😋). Bed by 10pm and up at 7am.
It was bliss! I have zero shame!
It’s not a problem at all but you can’t do it all the time.

I love a glass of wine about 4pm on a dark miserable afternoon. I go to bed about 830 so dont drink after6

How’s that related to someone fancying a glass of wine on a Sunday afternoon.

Honestly I forget that some people are so aghast! I mean each to their own I really don't enjoy builders style tea at all.