The Brave Babes Battle Bus - The Wheels On This Bus Go Around And Around, In Search Of Sobriety.

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Hello, I'm Mouse

This is the brave babes bus, Gerald. He travels far and wide, to wherever he's needed to offer non judgemental support, advice and Opal Fruits!!

We can tell you about the kind of places that can help, your GP can be the first and easiest place to start, or you can look up you local community addiction centre, or even just come onto the thread and let it all out.

There are posters here who have been on the Bus from the start and those who have just joined us

It doesn't matter how long you've been here, the fact that you have taken that first amazing step in acknowledging that maybe, just maybe, things aren't quite right with your drinking is truly MASSIVE!!

This is a safe place for you to just be and to be as honest as you like, or just to talk.

We'll listen

And if you'd like to see our last thread, you can JUST HERE

Plus if you'd like to see where these threads all began, you can read all about that YOU CAN READ THIS VERY EMOTIONAL AND MOVING THREAD

See you soon,

Mouse xxx

Evening babes, day off work today (St Patricks Day) and am alcohol free. Am now in my pjs so no leaving the house:)

Evening all. In bed, AF but knackered after a 6 mile walk and an hour yoga. I don't do moderation. Bloody fool

Night babes

The yarn of my internal knitting is starting to unravel......
This.
Too much to write down. Too much hurt. Too much disappointment. Just too much.
Watching my wonderful, forgiving, amazing mother tonight at the hospital. Visiting the man who made her life a misery, who drove her to leave the house with 5 children in only the clothes on their backs, who endured physical and mental cruelty of an obsecene level....watching her dress his skeletal wasted frame in clean pyjamas, holding his hand, reassuring him that it was alright, comforting him as he asked for long dead relatives to visit him. I can't do this anymore. I can't be everyone's anchor anymore. I have my best friends mothers funeral to attend tomorrow. She needs me there. She needs me.
I can't any more.

ma hugs to you babe. Tonight let someone else carry the load, put it down for the evening and sleep. You friend will understand your feelings too.

Your mum sounds lovely, and I bet that is where your loveliness stems from too.

But sometimes we want to be lovely way, way beyond our capacity to actually deliver that kindness day after day, and we need some kindness from others for ourselves. Look around and maybe someone is offering you kindness and care. I know that everyone on the bus is holding their hands out to help you. Just wish we could all do it for real sometimes.

In tears.....
Isinde beautiful Poem. Thank you.
Ma I cannot begin to imagine how exhausted you must be.
Please, most darling of Babes, remember we are thinking of you.
Big, big hug.

Ma, I totally echo what Khalisi has said, please take care of yourself xx

thank you all
indie I love you.

Big black tie dinner tomorrow - frantic organising going on but need to leave office now to go to funeral. Keep breathing. keep breathing....

Demented chap will be there..............don't know if that's good or bad

at dinner I mean, not at funeral (smile)

Very quiet on the bus today - hope all babes are ok?

Ma, I'm sure you look fabulous!
So, be fabulous!
Remember, people only see what we show them.
And today you are GRRRR!

Hey obrigada, babes!
I'm off to get ready to run and then have a birthday dinner.
Have a good one!

Lovely boss gave me a bottle of Tattiger today to wish me luck for tomorrow and thank me for my work.
Work colleague sent me flowers as I am "having a shit time"
I am touched and truly blessed in my friends, both on this bus and in RL.

Demented chap? What are you married now or something

(((hugs)))

faire oops, that was a Freudian slip
Distracted chap!!!!

Is my computer bust or was there really not s single post on the bus last night? That must be a first. Is everyone ok.
re-names Gerald the Marie-Celeste

ma have a wonderful time tonight, relax, take time away from the real world worries, and enjoy every sparkling moment.

• clears away half emptied dishes and overturned chairs, and looks through telescope trying to spot any little rowing boats sailing away from the bus - (ok, ok mixed metaphor, I know )

Have a peek in the sidecar ma, I expect that is where many are hanging out?

However, today is a new day. Not a very inspiring one, but a new day none the less. Anyone up for an AF one, just for today?

'Just for today, I will have a programme. I may not follow it exactly, but I will have it. I will save myself from two pests: hurry and indecision.'

Yeah I was in the sidecar last ight - sorry

Hope you have a great evening ma

Morning babes, I am with you today Faire for an AF day
Ma hope you have a fantastic evening x

Morning (just). Enjoy tonight Ma

Day 4

Hi babes,

I will pop back later to say hi properly, just checking in.

ruby I think we are very similar, I'm an all or nothing gal whatever task I embrace, drinking being the most problematic but it kinda reflects on everything I do. Tonight is my 4th fitness class this week, I want everything to change instantly, I'm always chasing the pot of gold then collapse in a heap trying!!!

I know one thing I'm unlikely to die of death by Zumba and was very much more likely to die of death by wine !!!!

ma and inside I continue to will you both some well deserved happiness, I will never fathom out why bad things happen to the best people. I will shake my ass at Zumba instead of the traditonal waving of the wand to bring light and love to you both although shaking my ass may bring on an earlier solar eclipse as it will probably eclipse the sun.

Life is strange, it's such a precious gift and yet it seems at times such a hard thing to get through!!!!

Thank god I have this lovely bus to keep me keeping on xxxx

Evening. In the sidecar tonight. No real reason. I don't feel better for drinking. In fact am starting to hate it, that depressed guilty feeling afterwards even if nothing has gone wrong. I need to stop.

Hope Ma has a lovely sparkly time tonight. Hugs to all

Morning Babes!

Who is getting ready for the eclipse? It is sunny here at the moment but the clouds are coming in - I wonder if I could request an early eclipse while the skies are still clear.....

Cloudy here, as ever. Doubt we will see a thing. Am slightly worried that I am old enough to remember the last one even though it was aeons ago