The Brave Babes Battle Bus - Kicking The Wicked Wine Witch Where It Hurts! Mwahahahahahahaha!

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Hey, I'm Mouse, welcome to the Bus (aka Gerald!)

We're a mixed bunch of folk, some have been here for a while, and of course we have some new additions too. It matters not one jot how long you travel with us, as long as you get something from it.

No matter your story, your needs, your fears and hopes, you CAN come on here and talk. You can cry, scream, rant, let it all out and not be judged for anything. Ever.

We've all been so very low, some have hit the very bottom of the rock, rubbed the bruising better and picked ourselves back up again but sometimes, you need a helping hand or someone to listen too.....which is why we're here, sharing our experiences, or just reading each other's and nodding as we click along.....

The support here is unconditional. :)

There are two banners down each side of Gerald, our super duper Bus saying -

1. • The Vulnerable Need Our Support, Not Our Judgement
2. • Alcohol Fosters Inertia

We have lots of food on board, but mainly Opal fruits!!! They tend to be anything other than green, as they get snapped up vair fast indeed!

If you would like to know a bit more about how we got to where we are today, you can read these threads.

THE PREVIOUS THREAD

THE START OF THE JOURNEY

Hope to see you soon :) x

hope

I painted Gentle's nails with OPI's I'm Not Really A Waitress when she was a wee pupling so I would know who she was.

Little? Nup. I have to chase after her with the nail nips and the furminator. However, if I put the hoover on low suck she's putty in my hands.

Plantar fasciitis is really sore, try freezing a bottle of water and rolling it under your feet, might help with the discomfort a little.

if I sneaked into the Tardis to NYC hope I don't think I'd come back....

Waffles, diner breakfasts, burgers, hot dogs, street food of every sort, moustachioed firemen looking all sweaty, horse riding in Central Park, shopping, Detective Stabler from Law and Order SVU (he is so a real person) and Chinese takeaways in the little wire handled baskets. Leave me there a fortnight and I guarantee I would ram on about 3 stones. leave me there a month and Det Stabler and I will work it off when I'm bent over his desk

hope Paddington looks different... does he still do his hard stare?

Come on here to unload your stresses, don't hold back quine. xx

Cryin at Foggy and Edwina on I'm a Sleb.

I'm on Ginger beer. Barrs natch. My all time favourite is the Boots Shapers ginger beer. It does indeed kick like a mule.

Day 1 done again...I've had wine the past two days for no particular reason, and can't say it was even nice

Hope my wine drinking coincided with not shredding, I really need to get a grip on everything. I had an infection and that was the excuse to stop exercising and pig out. Can't believe you managed it with 4 kg weights!!! I struggle with 1.5, I'm totally weedy.

Anne when you say 'managed' with 4kg weights, yes, I got through the session but I struggled to pull a t-shirt over my head the next day without crying out in pain!

Wry, I wish I had a dog to hoover, sounds very therapeutic.

Thanks for your offer to vent. Just utterly sick of things atm, the work situation is cruel and unfair, and I am struggling to cope with feeling old for the first time (applying for jobs in a fairly young sector makes you suddenly and sickeningly see yourself as others might and our wankbadger evil overlord made it clear he wants to employ 'bright young things' - or cheap digital natives who will do unpaid overtime - despite him being older than me, and hideous with receding hair )

Maybe I will leave ds at home and come to NY for Christmas with you and Ma. Are you joining us Anne ?

Have an image of us all striding over Brooklyn Bridge to the Cagney and Lacey theme tune

See you tomorrow babes x

Just checking in after watching Benedict Cumberbatchs cheekbones...

Week 7. Wave to all babes on board!

You're damnt right it's cruel and unfair hope. Time and time again at work it seems like you can't move for the bright young things. The ability to speak twunt fluently seems to be essential these days, the overuse of wanky corporate speak is a must.

I don't buy into that at interviews either. Yes, I know what they want to hear, but I feel that my actions speak louder.

Your overlord sounds like a knob. A hypocritical knob. Another job for me steel toe capped yard boots I reckon.

Oooh I have some really nice tan knee length boots, a big sloppy joe cashmere jumper. I just need a flippy skirt and to flick my hair a bit and I'm with you all on Brooklyn Bridge.

Anne

Psst, Anne I'll have a bit more dance choices when you hit day 2! xx

Today, I am a bit pissed off with John Lewis. Picture the scene - big Christmas queue at the till, I watched about 10 people get offered a free beauty sample from a pretty basket. Sizeable qualitah samples. When I got to the till? Nada.

I scuttered putting my card back in my purse. Nothing.

Now either I presented as a style maven to equal Miranda Priestly (doubtful) or I resembled someone who doesn't give a shite about her appearance (probable). The grippy buggers. As far as I could see, no minimum spend for a free sample either.

I would have picked the face mask John Lewis. The face mask. For my poor, careworn, hardworking ageing face.

What I did see in John Lewis was a beauty gift set. With four products in. For £1148!!!!

I feel like a Pretty Woman moment. Head to the till, with said gift set, say my piece about the free sample and go "big mistake - huge."

Then leave sniggering away to self.

joey woop for week 7!!! Have you wrestled the Smock of Smug from soc?

You could accessorise... with Pumps of Proud. But those'll be more suitable for ma.

After her lentils.

Hey all

Just posting this link in case anyone who has missed it might be interested in commenting. HQ are asking for opinions on it.

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/site_stuff/2249743-Alcoholics-on-mumsnet

Hi,

Wondering if this is where I should be. I don't have a drink problem, but worried I could get that way. I don't want to get that way. Is this the right place:

Or maybe I just need a slap? I don't know.

Evening, tis me, Mouse

Wry - It's not that I can't talk to my family, I just needed to talk to someone who wouldn't take on my pain for me. I know my family would want to, but at this moment in time I am scared that it would bring them bewilderment and hurt. I need to get things straight in my own head first, kinda make sense of stuff, know why I'm hurting. I'm not even sure myself why I'm slipping.

Those words made me cry. They had an absolute underlining fear in them, something cold and dark, something that made me want to hold you.

You are me. I have those same feelings and thoughts, boxes in my head that I move to the back of my head..... try my best to keep them shut. Locked. Weighed down........... I want to take them away from you, just like I want someone, you maybe to take mine away from me.

Ma - A shoogly peg is a shaky coat hook. If your jacket is on a shoogly peg,it doesn't bode well for your future. Shoogly is a great word. Means wobbly as in wobbly tables etc. I love that poem too. Good for people who are far away sad

The coat peg I have is wobbly, and the coat hook on the coat is torn and needs sewing again, I keep thinking when am I going to do it. Maybe I should leave it.......

Today I spent two hours freeeeeeeeeeeeezing my tiny paws off on a float for the place where I volunteer, dressed as a giant wrapped parcel!!

I'm just going to set up the new thread and then go to bed. We've been watching Billy Joel on tv. Was rather good actually!

Have a great night's sleep those who are still up. I'm over tired so I feel a bit past sleep...

Just going to set up the new thread and then get in bed with my gorgeous little boy, Nemo :)

Goodnight to all the other Babes, thinking of you too :)

Me again.

I've done the new thread, as I'm not sure I'll be around tomorrow, I'll be resting.

PLEASE!!! By all means go to mark your spot or 'watch' the thread, but please fill this thread up first so that we don't lose anybabe! :)

Thank you very much. Night Babes.

NEW CHRISTMAS THREAD!

Fill this one first, please?

Night xxx

Evening babes. Just checking in and seems we're all heading to NYC on the bus for Christmas. Bloody excellent idea.
I'm closing in on 7 months and feeling fabulous. Am making other changes (nothing major) in my life so it just seems to be getting better every day. Sober suits me. I like myself sober.
Sorry to not nc. Am on my mobile. I'm trying to detox from munsnet a bit. Bloody love this site but it sucks up hours of my time and now that I'm never hungover or riddled with anxiety and guilt etc I have so much other stuff i want to do. Just telling you all so you know the other side is good. . Not wanting to sound too bloody smug and awful when so many of you have such significantly harder lives than I do.
Is it left or right and the intersection to NYC??
Xxx

Welcome quesadilla. Quite happy to slap you if you want .

Ermmm, just a cotton picking minute you lot! One minute I'm off in the Tardis for some ..ahem..special time with distracted chap ( oh God, I WISH!), and now I have you lot tagging along! Haven't any of you heard if privacy?

I believe it's second star to the right and straight on 'til morning, Soc

I am also loving being sober. It's hard to put my finger on what it is, it's nothing earth shatteringly special, it just makes everything that little bit easier. And all those little 'everythiings' add up to a lot.

Work that one out if you can

Hi to quesa, great to have another cheese worshipper on the bus. If you are thinking about your drinking you are in the right place. Make yourself welcome and feel free to add any decorations you like to the Christmas bus. This thread will fill up soon but follow the links to the new one and stick with us.

Ma we'll put a curtain up okay?

Sheesh

Next you'll be bringing the squid, and the Spirit dog and the bloody horses too!
Not to mention the Salvation Army band who were on the bus last Christmas.
Although at least my triangle saw some action .....

You're not suggesting we leave the animals behind ma?

Of course they're coming with us.

If you dangle your triangle, maybe DC (Distracted Chap) will whip out his trombone?

Ma you are forgetting the camel you brought on here last year (and then left me to look after). He's been on holiday in Egypt but is back for Christmas so of course he is coming too

Ps welcome quesa. Grab a seat and have a mince pie. Have you heard we are going to NY for Christmas in a tardis?

dangle your triangle ma

Welcome quesa and well done for being brave and posting!

Thanks for the well needed laugh you lunatics, not a good day today, feel like drowning my sorrows quite spectacularly but only a lack of decent excuse as to why I can't go to work tomorrow is stopping me.

Yayy, the tardis-bus is off to nyc, my favourite place on earth. Come along quesa, this place is completely bonkers but a wonderful place to be if drink is bothering you in any way, you'll get lots of friendly, non judgemental chat here. The sidecar is cosy for the wine days too.

it wasnt me who brought the camel......was it?
I must have been spectacularly pissed that night...

Oh. alright. You can all come with me but you have to go off Christmas shopping and leave me and Distracted Chap to make sweet music with my triangle and his trombone. Actually its more of a bugle but still nice to blow

Has he got a Distracted Brother for wry?