The Brave Babes Battle Bus - Sweeping Into Autumn With A One Way Ticket To Sobriety.

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Phew, just in time!

I'm mouse and I love a few to drink. I love all things cheese and I love MrMouse

Welcome to the Bus. We are a collection of drinkers, non-drinkers, and those who are somewhere in between but we all have the same thing in common, we can't just have 1 drink and then stop.

Come say hi, we don't bite .

Here are the other threads to date, if you have a spare hour or seven to kill.

OUR HISTORY

legal nice to hear you.
Oh I love love love studying.....
Look at Drew and Atkinson Order in Court, or Drew's chapter on rape trials. There is interesting stuff on mediation too.
Oh, and great stuff on Police interviews by Edwards and Stokoe, v thoughtprovoking....
Right stop prevaricating clambering and get back to work.

legal nice to hear you.
See Drew and Atkinson's order in court, Greatbatch on mediation and really interesting stuff by Edwards and Stokoe on police interviews. Have some pdfs of the latter ones if you pm me.
saf Maybe I just don't know properly how to PM you, will look at how later. Do not want to disappear, want to stay on bus, have so much more energy and cheeriness when not boozing daily

oops, double messaging, sorry for being a crap inexperienced user.

Yes, you're absolutely right, SAF. I am a bit freaked by the thought that I may smoke again if I get that pissed again. So avoiding getting so pissed that I decide that smoking is a good idea is my new goal. What lofty ideals I give myself to live up to. :o

And thanks clambering. Focusing on the good is important. Sorry for the self-pitying whinge, ladies.

Discourse analysis scares me. I did a module on it at uni and it put me off for life. :o

Afternoon everyone,

Apologies for not reading through, I just wanted to check in.

I have been in bed since Sunday with just about the worst cold I have ever had, high temp, skin hurting, the works. Hopefully the worst is done now, I have just come down to make some tea and toast, and back to bed.

I wonder if I'm a bit run down, I got over Saturday, moving DC1 in, and then Bam!

Love to all
xxx

Oh no, thurso! That sounds a bit miserable. You could well be a bit run down. I know that my body can often keep going through the important/difficult stuff, and then when it gets the chance, it just conks out completely. Yours sounds similar. I hope you feel better really soon.

obrigada, you sound more than a bit miserable, you poor love. What's going on?

Nothing going on really, just tired of the same old, same old!

Yeah, I know that feeling. Can you do anything to break out of the routine? Plan a day/weekend away somewhere, or just go out and do something you wouldn't normally do this evening? Or plan to do so? Or alternatively just flop on the couch in front of a crappy comedy or something? Just something that is about being nice to yourself and stop you dragging yourself through the days?

Omigod? I've, like, typed like a teenager in that lost post? I'm, like, really sorry?

Ahem. I'll stop doing that now. Sorry.

Thurso - I was wondering where you were, wasn't sure if you were in London with DC.

xx

Afternoon, quick post ... I have survived brum and meeting with client went well (apart from me bursting into tears ... Note to self, think carefully before working with a bereavement charity).

Awarding myself a night off work tonight. Hurrah.

Much love and strength to the babes x

Have just had a quick catch up, loads of posts & lots of not so good stuff for a lot of us. Hope this cheers you up a bit . . .

obrigada I have been dieting for two weeks and all I've done is gain half a pound

I've had a rotten day at work today

Note to self Theala - drinking = good times stinking hangover

I have no idea what discourse analysis is but please don't try to explain it to me. My head hurts.

MsGee glad you made it home. Nice warm bath and cuddles with DD maybe?

Just been out for another walk with Nemo and the crazy man eating wolf . If only! He's as daft as a brush! He'd make a rubbish guard dog! He gets spooked by leaves blowing past him!

Pjs are on here, DH is making his world town village family famous chicken balti sweet and sour curry! Tis LUSH!

It's chilly here tonight.

Saf I spend my days with 30 five year olds. 'Nuff said?

Warning, moan alert: I've had a run of afternoon/ evening hormone related migraines - missed meetings the last two nights, and feeling frustrated with myself. Maybe should have gone anyway. Just want to sleep so I think that's what I'll be off to do. Grrrr. A bit stressed, maybe?

noteven I'd say go to bed early tonight, relax and sleep. But make sure that you go to a meeting tomorrow - I know how important it is to you and to your ongoing sobriety. You'll be glad to be back there.

saf I googled discourse analysis, whoosh, over my head. However I do remember several years ago when I was involved in a series of employee disciplinary meetings of which there were transcipts. When we were in the meetings they all seemed to make perfect sense to everyone who was there, but reading the transcipt nothing made sense! Most of the sentances were unfinished, quesstions and answers were not in sequence. I don't know how we managed to come to any conclusions during the meeting and I'm glad that the decisions were not challenged because I'd not have wanted to try and unravel what actually went on.

thurso poor you. Just rest, and rest, and rest. Read good books, keep warm, and ask your dh to bring you little treats.

just reporting back, haven't read the articles you mentioned yet but found some interesting material on the use of the term "rights" in the context of digital rights management and the treatment of fishing quota as property rights, seems that discourse analysis is very relevant in a policy development perspective.

I also found some other very interesting empirical legal studies articles not related to discourse analysis. studies into commercial law and negotiations are quite thin on the ground.

Off to bed ladies.

SAF - sleep well after your EPIC day! What a busy bee! Give DS a cuddle from me. I bet he looks ace in his uniform. All grown up and uber cute! xx

noteven - bed. Pain meds, water, darkened room and bed. Yes to stress, 100%. You are under a lot of pressure to 'make things right' so to speak for DD. Take a step back, take some time off and just breathe in and out, in and then out. In........................ out.

You need to let some of this go, whatever it is that is hurting you, pushing you, holding you down. Let it go xx

thurso - sending huge get well soon vibes tonight. Rest xx

Night to all of you wonderful Babes, I've had 2 Becks Blue topped with lemonade tonight and now I'm off to bed, Nemo is asleep so I need to go too.

Nursery tomorrow is he's okay, then his nurse is coming in the afternoon.

Night lovelies xx

just checking in yawn
thurso I wondered where you'd been isn't lying around in a bed a bit risky? You are asking for trouble!!
obrigada what's up?