The Brave Babes Battle Bus - Driving Through A Sober Winter Wonderland.

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Hello, I'm Mouse

Welcome to the Bus, he's called Gerald.... he takes us up and down and this wondrous land, searching high and low for Babes in need of some support, a warm place to sit and chat, and to have someone to listen to them.

So, grab a seat as we swing by your way. There's lots of hot drinks, food and fleeces, places to just be and places to sit around and chat if that's what you want.

We don't judge, because we've all be in your shoes, be they stilettos, wellies or crocs!...

We're just us, we're just honest and we just do what we can to help, if we can, when we can. Let's try and have a Merry Christmas without getting off our faces this year.

Here is the very first, emotional thread if you would like to see where this all started

And the last thread if you want to keep up!

well done soupey and baby

Guess what Babes? I've just been invited to the Royal Garden party in July.
well, feck!!!!
You had better all start practising your curtseys....

Hello, can I join again, I need some support. 2014 was the worse year of my life, think end of 22 year relationship, terrible money problems facing bankrupcy, Car stolen and house broken into, DS1 not talking to me, diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes just to name a few but you get the picture. Anyway 2 nights ago I chose not to drink and shamefully have to admit this was my first dry night in a year. Don't get me wrong not been getting completely bladdered every night, tend to just sip in front of the TV to "help me sleep and cope" but there have been a few very pissed up nights that have probably led me to do things that certainly would not sober. So I know this is bad for me and need to find different coping mechanisms last night got into Mocha's. Anyway sorry for epic post, just need to chat this over. Am I a hopeless cause me thinks.

Oh how exciting ma you must be very important indeed, your certainly a VIP on this bus xxx

ruby ah yes the choccy monster, try freezing some milky ways or your preferred choc bar and cut it into bits and sook away, slows you down at least xxxxx

Hello blossom, jump on board :)

Thanks Jingle. Going to struggle tonight as on a first date.

Baby that's a great idea thanks. Hi Blossom hope the date goes ok x

I did a little 'x' there - I don't think that's mumsnet etiquette! Meant

Wow, Ma! Time to start planning your outfit, you can't recycle the Downing Street one, on no.

Ruby - you still have chocolate in the house? !Hi

Baby if you're going to slice and freeze a chocolate bar it HAS to be a Boost Bar!

Evening Jingle and welcome Blossom - think how nice it will be to wake up and know that you didn't say or do anything stupid under the influence!

Has anyone seen WW yet this evening? She seems to have temporarily abandoned my kitchen. I've been actually looking forward to

Evening babea. No sign of WW here tonightt thankfully. Epsom salt bath and early night for me. (No coffee:)

Ma How wonderful, you are now the VIP on the bus!

WW has been chancing her arm here...day 7, shite weather outside, fancy curling up with a glass of wine......got to resist!!!

I'm not that important. About 5,000 people are invited I think! But it will be nice.

Got a pussy cat on my knees, couldn't get a glass if I wanted one. Get yourself a cat or a lap dog Ma

Welcome blossom hope the date goes well :)

Nearly a week done now, ww has been creeping a little. H is drinking his red, he only had a glass last night, and it's tempting on a cold night. However I am not drinking tonight.

Made it, but only just. This is going to be a long haul.....
Well done Annie

Almost ready to start week two.

Day 7 in the bag:) next goal double digits ... Night babes x

Was gonna de xmas my name but everyone calls me jingle on here so may leave it. Had a right wobble today, fed up, stuck in doors and getting cabin feaver, DH came home and I soooo wanted to be and get a drink, just a little relax and unwind. I didn't though

May have to stick my bum in the air! I'll feel like a proper babe then

Night All

All these urges to drink 'when you're tired/irritated/bored/anything/everything will pass. I promise. Just white knuckle it through them. It doesn't take that long and then you're just simply 'bored' etc. The idea of drinking doesn't automatically follow every emotion.
It's worth it babes. Alcohol is stoopid. Xx

Day 3 done , although I may have to join the sidecar at the weekend - friends coming round and it'll be a miracle if I don't sucuumb to temptation. Night all!

Evening all, hello Blossom! How are you petal? (see what I did there? )

ma!

You move in very high circles. Wowsers. So chuffed for you! Dame ma. It's coming. Word. And day 7 for you and obs!!! Well done on day 3 meh

I am on day 2. Hitting the coconut water again.

Aww bairn. Sorry you're having a rubbish time of it me dear, sending bosies and the sweet smell of horse and hay to invade your wee nostrils.

I have been indulging in Celebrity Big Brother. Guilty pleasure.

Night night all, see you tomorrow, xx

Morning All.

Pouring with rain down here this morning, I want the cold and frosty back, it feels more optimistic. Another fitful, though not awful, night.

This is, I think, the third time in 12 months that I have made it past the one week mark, plus a probably five or six three or four days AF. By most people's standards, that's an appalling level - particularly given how much I drank in-between (one bottle of wine was standard, more wasn't unusual) But I am going for the positive, for the preceding 10, my consumption had been creeping up, and certainly in the previous three, I couldn't honestly say I had be AF for a week in total.

On the whole, my life is gives me many things to be grateful for, though work is increasingly crappy, stressful and a source of unhappiness, and I know I have tendencies to both anxiety and depression, the latter of which has crept up on me and I need to get some help for now I am not completely paralysed by my alcohol consumption.

Sorry, came over all contemplative. Today, is day 8, and today I will not be drinking.

Morning Sweet and all other babes. Day 8 for me well and today I will not be drinking!