Sounds like good news, pjs!
I, erm, didn't know that we thought drinking in the 2ww might not be OK 
. I wouldn't say I drink heavily (except for a special occasion once or twice a year), but everyone does know I like a drink - I have no idea how I'm going to cover it up if I ever do get pregnant! Luckily I now drive rather than take the train to work so that's a built in excuse there: in my old job the first time I said no to a post-work pint they all would have known!
Fx for both basset and baguette as you go into your 2ww
bluebell other people have much more direct experience of this than me but I think that probably is within the normal range for the first few months off the pill. One thing I remember learning when I tried a pill that really didn't agree with me a few years ago is that doctors have a much broader definition of 'spotting' than I'd use: I said that I was having enough (brown) blood that I always had to wear a sanitary towel and they said 'oh, spotting is normal' - to me spotting is maybe a bit of blood when you wipe, literally a few spots. So in my case being told that 'some spotting' would be normal coming on or off a pill didn't really prepare me.
Cd5 and AF winding down here. I asked DH last night whether we should maybe have a more relaxed cycle this go - no OPKs, just aiming for regularish sex. I thought this particularly because I think my FW will be over Christmas. Apparently this very much is not what he wants! He admitted for the first time that he also thought I'd be pregnant by Christmas and was really disappointed last cycle. I think he was trying not to tell me that in case it upset me, but actually it made me feel less like the only one going crazy!