The Brave Babes Battle Bus - Carry On Past The New Year Wine Offers!

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Hello all.

We are the Brave Babes. We're on the Battle Bus, travelling around sobriety and going day by day, hour by hour, through the detox hell of not drinking, cutting down or sometimes even not.

Come say hi. We won't bite.

No doubt one of us has been where you are now......

It's fine. No judging, no nasty jibes, just us, the BBs.

Come meet the others..................

can we talk about ME now x

hello silver!

FFS! There you are! Have been trying to text you but my shitty phone keeps dying!

How are you?

Saw you were around earlier, how's AA, life, love and laundry?

Sorry, that was to Silver but feel free to answer JWN - the same could apply

hmm, dont talk to me about laundry!, i thought i had emptyed the basket and then dd came home! , dear god!, that girl gets through some clothes!

ha! x posted!

oh! and phones!, i need a new one, mine now spends more time charging than working, so, i went in a shop, chose one that is silver, so that it shows up in teh bottom of a handbag and also has nice big buttons so i dont need to put my specs on to use it (vain!)- apparantly, according to dh, they are daft reasons! WHY?, all i want is one that makes calls!, i hate gadgets that need baffle me!

goes off to sort hair out!

aaanywaaaaaaaaaaay

finally get the house to myself for a couple of hours - DB out, DD at high school show with her uncle, DP on his bike somewhere - just me and the phone charger eating cat.............

and

I FEEL LONELY

poor me with my broken fractured rib.

I'm pretty damn good as it appens babes x

Need to mention that I am on very high dose painkillers so can't really feel rib at the moment, however, this morning woke up and was pain killer free, so felt every slight move of body.

Later on chatting to bro and he says 'oh yeah I heard you yelping this morning - i thought you and DP were at it' .......... ...MEN............like i'm gonna be up for sex let alone moving any part of my body...

I have a plan tonight - no not that you filthy minded women - set alarm for 5.00am and take pain killers so by 7.00am when have to get up they will be working - how fecing clever am I !!!!!!!!!

get a grip woman!! , how can you get lonely in 2 hours?, havent you heard of internet shopping?, its my latest addiction! , i can while away hours on this here interweb thing!

and I'm going to put them in a little plastic cup by the bed - just like you get in hospital.......

Hmmm

Gone very quiet

Oh, babes,

am totally, totally gutted. DC2 got turned down from Durham, his 1st choice uni, after deciding that Oxbridge wasn't for them (didn't like the courses he wanted).

Work has been bloody awful. What I actually do, would bring joy to your heart, but, it's all the flipping red tape.

DC doesn't want to talk, but has gone up to play music very loudly (I completely understand).

I very much want to go to a commune in the world, anywhere, where children no-one is tested.

Sorry, sorry, nowhere else to go .....

no fecking money JWN otherwise be with you on that one.

think I have got too used to nearly a week of everyone saying 'are you ok', 'how's your rib', 'can I get you anything'

now i am obviously getting better I am missing the attention

Gaah, just read that. TMI

shit Thurso - what are his alternatives? x

Silver I am here

Commune - now we're talking - have a think laydees - it could happen - somewhere, where the sun never stops shining but it's not so hot that you sweat your own bodyweight in fluids ..............x

oh thurso!! what a bloody fucker for him! - has he got any other ideas of where he might like to go?

can you give us a clue about what you do?, i fancy having a little bit of joy in heart! fwiw, my db is a 'filth' , he is armed and has SOOOO much paperwork its not true! i can understand the need for it, but i can also understand the frustration!

Silver

Edinburgh (in our dreams!)
Bath
Exeter offer A*AA if you can believe it
DC forecast 4 A's at A2, what are they bl**dy looking for?
Sorry again, bit fucking cross here!

this 'ere commune, has it got a spa?, is it by a golden beach? with those young surfer dudes for scenary? , hmm, book me a room will you?

blimey thurso!, what does he want to be? a brain surgeon or an astronaut?

echo that JWN - at the moment Thurso you are both so deeply disappointed that you won't be able to see the wood for the trees.

Sleep on it and look again tomorrow- maybe it's a sign that uni isn't the right path for him - maybe not.

when you have a plan that you believe will happen (and he will have done) and it all goes pear shaped you are left in a state of disbelief, panic, fear and disappointment, there is no way you can think straight.

Give him space. Give yourself space. Sleep on it and look at it again in the morning.

He is obviously very bright and will do well which ever path he choses x

JWN you have always been very honest, so....
here is what I do..

I am a Special Needs teacher, with a specialism in Dyslexia, Dyspraxia, am currently studying for a further qualification in Dyslexia which will give me specialised teacher status.

I hope everyone can forgive me, and I promise that I have never compromised the education of the children I work with, just gets a bit hard sometimes.

Phew, actually DC wants to be a rock star!! and that's ok with me