The Brave Babes Battle Bus - Shaking Off The Winter Blues And Getting Out Our Booze Free Summer Shoes!

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Hello, tis me, Mouse

Welcome to the Bus. It's a Bus full of drinkers, non-drinkers, occasional slurpers, sneaky sippers, we're all a very different bunch but we ALL have the same thing in common.

Alcohol.

We all have a story or two to tell, we have all been through some terrible times, some more than others and we all have our reasons for drinking or even not.

The one true wonderful thing about this Bus is that we don't do judging!! We're all on a even playing field, no matter what has brought us to this thread.

So, if you'd like to talk, then talk. If you want to lurk and see how we work for a while, that's cool too :)

The Bus is never full, there's always is room for YOU.

And, if you'd like to see what started this off, amost good 5 years ago now, have a look at A TRULY AWESOME HEARTFELT THEAD HERE

And our last thread is just here too for those who would like some more history THIS IS WHERE WE'VE JUST BEEN

Hope to see you soon :) xxx

Indeed Sweet ,and Alias, you definitely picked up on the important part of my post. (Rippling muscles, ). I just wish Ma could've taken photos of the broad shouldered officer, before he swished her over one humungous shoulder, and they disappeared into the night, followed by fireflies, in a swirl of jacaranda petals.

Off to watch The Lion King with the youngest. x

Roaring with laughter at the fireflies and jacaranda petals.....and he would need every inch of those humungous shoulders to drape me over them!!!

I've just finished reading "Burmese Days", Ma. I see you in ivory silk, somehow managing not to sweat despite the humidity, unfazed by cobras and inquisitive elephants. The only reason this officer can take you to the bamboo stands is because you're all for it. Oof, back to the Lion King, (damping down fevered imagination...)

fevvers am loving your style....I feel a whole new fantasy coming on. Given the humidity, officer shoulders would have his top button undone, revealing the hint of a manly hairy chest....

Does Officer Shoulders cut a dash in his sarong while supine in a planters chair, drawing on a beedi, by the light of a blood red moon? Does he Ma?

Oooh fevvers...you are taking this to whole new level. I can picture him on the verandah, the blood red moon casting his chiselled features into a brooding silhouette, as the scent from the jacarandas rises intoxicatingly round him....

Ooh, I just found a photo on tinterweb of Officer Shoulders! I would have to crop his face off though in case his dp is on here!

Oooer, Ma

Oh you two! The new (properly literary) 50 Shades is obviously going to be a collaboration.

Fifty shades of Opal Fruits.

I've just bought "Keep the Aspidistra Flying" from the second hand bookshop here, so things might take a bit of a downturn on the bodice ripping front.

I have three Aspidestra, the buggers won't die, and I can't throw out a plant that hasn't turned up its roots. Did you know they're pollunated by slugs? (Sorry Geaorge!). It's one I haven't read, Fevvers.

They are fell ugly and boring Sweet, but, like you, I can't chuck them out till they are either charcoal or slime. Seeing them in copper bowls gives me the heebie jeebies. Didn't know about the slug pollination

Phwoar fevvers....!!!!!!

Ma is recumbent on ivory silk bedsheets. A soft breeze billows the muslin draped over her four poster bed. Officer Shoulders is finishing off the ironing in his scanty sarong, while casting longing looks towards Ma. . Ma sighs and stretches. Only an hour till Officer Shoulders can slide into bed with her, but first he has to do the dishes, prepare the packed lunches and empty the litter tray. Ma discovers a wee sweaty opal fruit stuck in her luxuriant hair. Officer Shoulders is cleaning the lavvy, so she whips the opal fruit out, peels off the stuck on hair, and pops it in her gob.

fevvers!!! Am crying with laughter... I feel a bus book coming on. But seriously, what's with the housework and waiting an hour? Officer Shoulders,get your muscly ass in here right now!!!!!

My husband identifies me as working class, because I don't do deferred gratification. Ma is posh, so she has to wait. "Officer Shoulders, there's a few greasy streaks on the patio windows"...

Glad if I gave you a giggle Ma, you deserve a laugh x

How's the erection going?

(That's to Sweet btw not ma )

It has a base Faire, can only go up from here!

eggy its a good thing you clarified who you meant there

Am feeling bad. Have drunk the last 4/7 nights (less than a bottle each time, but still...) My bladder is very sore (the acid?) My health generally is just poor, and alcohol doesn't help.

Hi Babes

Day 5 and I'm struggling. Avoided booze isle earlier, had my PJs on since 6 so that I don't go out on a booze run it's so flipping hard I need to get a grip.

Keep at it spanna.
I'm not even trying and not even fit to be in the sidecar these days....

Thanks Ma just eaten a load of chocolate, feeling a bit better. I just want 'the fog' and 'numbness' - pathetic, need to get a grip, need to get a grip

Joey it sounds like you are in 'self destruct' mode.

Can you pick a day, just one day, to be kind to yourself. Water, fresh air, exercise, dancing, colouring, singing, bell ringing, whatever...

Try to break the cycle my lovely. 4/7 is not the end of the world. How about aiming for 3/7 next?