Sober October..

[Mick Mac]

I'm almost finished my 20 day dry spell. Whoopee.

When Saturday comes ! Look out.

[????]

...and all the rest have 31 except October alone which has 20.....according to Mick

[Mick Mac]

I'll have to find 10 days another time. Free bar on Saturday, can't be.missed.

[Gidget]

Is there a point to being sober for 20 days and then going out on the lash Saturday? Please interview your liver afterwards.

[Mick Mac]

Yes a complete rest of 20-30 days from alcohol is very good for mind and body.

[Alan Medic]

Body maybe.........

[????]

Mick Mac Wrote:

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> I'll have to find 10 days another time. Free bar

> on Saturday, can't be.missed.

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[Mick Mac]

30 days has November. I normally do November. Anyway I only ever do it until the last weekend of the month, so I'm only a week short really. I'm sure you can follow the logic.

[El Pibe]

I managed 6 weeks back in february, the longest I'd managed since I was 16.

[Ted Max]

Thread's about drinking, Pibe, not posting on the Forum.

[El Pibe]

Touch? ;)

[DulwichFox]

I gave up Alcohol some time back.....

..... Worst day of my life.. :(

Fox.

[KidKruger]

I've stopped a couple of times for a year or more, the only problem is other people continually asking what's 'wrong', like it's dysfunctional to NOT drink. Fair enough, in this country it's mathematically abnormal to not drink.

[red devil]

Mick, you're actually doing your body more harm abstaining and then going on a massive bender.

Get yourself down to the pub tonight and tomorrow, explain to the Mrs it's for medical reasons...

[Mick Mac]

That sounds like a good idea RD. Anyway I was going to have a sneaky glass or two of wine Friday night just to ease myself in. I don't want to get tipsy too early Saturday and miss Frankel !

Anyway - not drinking for a while is a very interesting experience. If you are a regular drinker normally, then you can get into a habit and its good to conscioulsy break that habit from time to time. The first week you feel inclined to have a drink in the evening because its what you normally do, but after a week it feels normal not to. You feel like a better citizen / father / employee / golfer......

[El Pibe]

I spent the whole six weeks thinking about how much I'd like a drink.

You do get more stuff done though!

[maxxi]

Does this mean the No-drink-vember that my liver had been promised a repeat of has been and gone already? Is this something to do with those bastards at the Julian calendar again?

*Sips a nicely chilled, Ch?teau de Durette, C?te de Brouilly 2009 and ponders the imminent turning back of the clocks.

[Mick Mac]

You are welcome to do your nodrinkvember maxxi, be my guest. I had a few things in November so I substituted October instead. Prob back to November next year.

[El Pibe]

Besides, Octsober scans better.

[????]

Mick Mac Wrote:

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> You are welcome to do your nodrinkvember maxxi, be

> my guest. I had a few things in November so I

> substituted October instead. Prob back to November

> next year.

Presumably that will be a 20 day November as well?

[????]

Mick I've been thinking about this, you should do it in February. That's a low party time of the year and it's a short month. You could shave it down to about 5 days or so.

[Mick Mac]

By no stretch of the imagine, can I call 5 days a month. I have tried and people are laughing at me.

[Annette Curtain]

El Pibe Wrote:

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> Besides, Octsober scans better.

Agree

(unless you're already 2 sheets to the wind)

[nimby]

Surely NO vember works better?

[Mick Mac]

Comic genius. Why didn't I think of that.