Another endorsement for Andrew Johnson. I listened to it every night during the first month or so of stopping, and loved his voice. I still put it on every now and then if I wake in the night and can't get back to sleep (he also has a sleep/relax version).
I had a weekend away this weekend, off visiting an old friend of mine who has just lost both parents in the past few weeks. She is beside herself with grief. Had yet another of those instances where I was acutely aware that had I still been drinking I probably would have made excuses not to go, but definitely felt as though I was doing the right thing. We had a good weekend talking and me listening to her just get a lot of it out. She's having such a hard time coping with the sheer volume of grief, as she describes it. She's 9 years sober and attends AA regularly, so I went with her to a meeting yesterday morning. All good stuff, and lots of food for thought as I drove home yesterday afternoon.
Loubilou - playing it forward is such a good tool in those circumstances. The first glass (esp of fizz, and in an airport, ooh look at me being all glamorous and in a business lounge 
) always looks so attractive. But that first glass would wake the sleeping beast, and it would be hard not to slip down the slippery slope...
Orange - how are you doing? It sounds as though you behaved impeccably and the dog owners have lashed out in upset and were clearly in the wrong to blame you. FFS. Those of us with drinking issues are often sensitive types and this kind of criticism/rejection hurts us deeply and is hard to shrug off. Hope you're feeling better..X