Brave Babes - Barging through 2017 in style

[SweetLathyrus]

Hello, I'm SweetLathyrus (Sweet for short), and I've been hopping on and off Gerald the Brave Babes Battle Bus for three years now because, like some many of us, I struggle with alcohol.

The Bus is a supportive community at all stages in their relationship with alcohol and with lots of different goals - for some, it's abstinence, for others it's moderation, for others, it's just about getting a bit of control and perspective.

So, if you think you'd like to join us, don't be shy, flag us down and jump on board and share as much or as little as you feel comfortable with; sometimes there will be silliness, but there will always be help and support.

If you would like to know how the Bus first rattled into action, here is the first ever thread

And if you would like to know where we have been more recently, here is the most recent thread

Yeah.A Nowt and Tonic!
A favourite on the bus,along with L & T - lime and tonic.

Hi choc. Yes, we filled up the last thread and started a new one.

Ooh thank u ma I didn't read through but don't reconise names!

Hi choc you welcomed me onto the last thread before I became a luxury woman 😀.

How are you doing so far?

Some "old" posters are back who you may not recognise and we have some newbies too to replenish the gene pool.

I'm ok luxury who was u?

Ooh u lot don't half give me a head ache! Hello new thread new people new names! 😀

I was Goawayquickly, then name changed due to my daughter wanting me to be more glamorous like 'the other mums' so i decided to go with it basically.

Oh maybe I should change my name! My 4 year old told me I was the worst mum he has everest seen lol coz he wasn't allowed to watch horrid henry at 8pm.

guggs definitely my dog! she'll be up beside me on the sofa, the cushion starts flirting with her then it's game on. She starts grinding away and all the while her tail is helicoptering my face. I'm trying to ignore it as don't want to make it a 'thing' but oh me. Where did my puppy go?

Day 4 almost done here too! I've gone retro tonight and I'm on Lilt. It doesn't tast the same as it did in the eighties Just finished playing with my new iron. Just did some scrubs but it rattled through 'em.

I just need a Columbo or two at the weekend and I'll tackle the pile I studiously ignored today while I was knitting.

hope o clever soul....bad grammar alert...my heart wants to say the dog watched intently whilst I knat. But what is it? The dog watched intently whilst I knitted? The dog watched intently when I was knitting? I like knat. Going purely by shit and shat. Knit and knat.

Hello lux I remember now x

Aaagh on phone now. Laptop is just making a ping noise when I try to type. No letters happening.

spanna your beach is beautiful. So peaceful.

Off to google the pinging keys. Back in a mo x

Shit and shat...

When dd2 was small she came up with the rather lovely "squoze" as the past tense of "squeeze".

Evening, can I hop on?

I was last here after a fairly shameful episode two Summers ago, I was so ill from wine. Since then I've traded wine for gin and been ok but still a heavy drinker.

I so want to stop but there's that little voice in my head reminding me about how good a nice wind or Bombay Sapphire tastes.

I'm doing DJ and haven't given in, in fact I think ( and hope) my resolve will grow stronger as the days AF increase, just need to get this first weekend out of the way.

Hope you're all doing well yourselves.

*wine, not wind.

Oviously my laptop isn't a fan of knat.

Switched it off and on again . Knat. Knat. Knat.

It's a real word hp.

ma I love squoze!

I am trying to decide what my LW moment will be tonight. I think maybe a tache epilation. Sorely tempted to grow the bugger and wax and twirl it.

Ha I'm lying in bed plucking my chin hairs. The glamour!

lux ouch

Come aboard classy! How would you prefer we address you?

Aaah. The gin. I'm a Hendricks fan when not on the wine. I am so determined to give DJ a good go. The weekend is not far away. I'm off duty so it will be my hardest point too. Gird your loins lass, this bus will see you the worst of it.

lux I'm too much of a coward to pluck. I might make a body scrub for tomorrow.

I am peeling away the old me bit by bit!

Evening Cuilean, I'm happiest with SanDiego but anything will do.

My witching hours are 5-7, after that I relax and am happy with a cup of tea but at about 4.00 I start to twitch and think about , that little voice just sits on my shoulder chirping away.

I will get through it but fuck, it's hard.

Evening all, made it through day 3 but only just. Made myself go for a swim instead. Back hurting now which is probably just because I'm thinking about it more. Sorry not to name check, I'm a bit of a snotty over-emotional mess tonight. And absolutely knackered. Just really, really hoping for sleep. Well done on all the day 4s! Xxx

You did it Elba even if it was tough. A swim may help you sleep, it's a different kind of tired I experience after swimming, very natural kind of tired. Can't explain properly but anyway. ..

Hope everyone gets a good sleep tonight. Tomorrow will be a tough one for me, need to decide my LW moment. Maybe a face mask.
Anyway sweet dreams everybody x

SanDiego it is!

It is a fucker, that wee voice. Just the one? Don't mind if I do. It won't hurt. Trouble is it does. I'm better off not starting, if I have 'just the one' I'm always left wanting more.

If I stop at one I'm bitter and itchy, if I don't it's not good. I'm an all or (almost) nothing girl. I have been a totally nothing girl for 4 days, and I am bloody proud of myself.

I have however, given up the totally healthy eating. Mostly healthy though. Haven't enough willpower to do it all. My other resolution was to be cheerful. At all times.

That's hard. One out o three ain't bad

elba keep going quine. Day three! Well done, that is bloody brilliant!

Hope you get the rest you so sorely need my dear. It will get better, you'll see. Sweet dreams lass.