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The giving up/cutting down alcohol support thread! Part 3

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  • maman
    maman Posts: 29,749 Forumite
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    :hello:Hi Everyone!

    Just catching up. All this talk of gardening is making me feel very lazy. OH does our gardening (mainly damage limitation to prevent jungle growing) and I just advise. We have plans to revamp and make it less labour intensive green painted concrete that sort of thing) but at the moment talking about it is as far as it's got! OH did plant some lettuce seeds last week and it's been a bit like Jasper's Beanstalk (if any of you know that great literary work?) all week. How sad is that?

    Made a very poor start to May due to lots of socialising and month starting at the weekend. Tonight I have an unexpected invitation which will mean driving and home lateish. I WILL NOT do my usual of getting home and downing a bottle PDQ before bed. IT WILL BE AN AF SATURDAY. I have decided that my favourite drinking time is 6pm when I'm pottering in the kitchen so if I can't have a 'full' evening's drinking then I'm not going to bother.
  • jo1972
    jo1972 Posts: 8,901 Forumite
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    Budgie, you really do make such a fantastic effort replying to everyone and keeping the list up to date, I just don't know where you find the time! I do feel for the June Scorer if there's going to be one :rotfl:

    Yes the garden is my target area this year, I have a small place, well actually it's very big but there's 5 of us living in it!! We can't afford to move, so have to stay put. The garden has always been overgrown since we moved in, at worst has been 5ft high :eek: Neither me or OH are gardeners (I think you've guessed ;)) and it's not something that either of us are interested in. I have very pale skin and hate sitting in the sun or in fact being in it, so a garden has never interested me. But since DS and particularly DD2 have come along we realise we need the space as it would be lovely to send them out there when they are on a high, or escape to it and leave em indoors!!

    I posted for some advice on the gardening board, had lots of lovely advice and have promised to post my progress photos, but so far haven't progressed any :o but, in my defence, I'm having trouble breathing, plus need some gaunlet type gloves for the brambles and had DD1 troubles this week (excuses, excuses :rolleyes:), for any of you that can be bothered or even interested, have a look on the GF board for my updates (it's probably dropped a page or two), wouldn't bother at the moment, cos as I said, I've not been out there, infact still got me PJs on :rotfl: oh sorry too much information!!

    I shall get myself dressed now, get DS out of the bath and got to take him to his friends for the afternoon and they will be feeding him tea so that's 1 child down, other one watching Mickey Mouse avidly on the TV at the moment and the biggest one is still asleep...obviously :rolleyes:

    xx
    DFW Nerd no. 496 - Proud to be dealing with my debts!!
  • jo1972
    jo1972 Posts: 8,901 Forumite
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    maman wrote: »
    I have decided that my favourite drinking time is 6pm when I'm pottering in the kitchen so if I can't have a 'full' evening's drinking then I'm not going to bother.

    :rotfl: this made me laugh, that's exactly how I've always thought, all or nothing :rotfl:
    DFW Nerd no. 496 - Proud to be dealing with my debts!!
  • ageing_biker
    ageing_biker Posts: 353 Forumite
    hello all, just up after night shift, off till wed now, yippee. ah now then wot shud I do, I know chop some wood and cut the grass, should take about 2 hours with a tea break, later
    smoke free since 16 feb 08
  • barshamhillbilly
    barshamhillbilly Posts: 2,127 Forumite
    Lurkio wrote: »
    Didn't know wee was flammable :confused::confused:

    :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:
    :) Embrace your inner Hillbilly :)
  • Pippilongstocking
    Pippilongstocking Posts: 16,336 Forumite
    edited 9 May 2009 at 1:31PM
    jo1972 wrote: »
    I had it cut down by some burley blokes that then covered it in black stuff and tarpauline, unfortunately the tarpauline is now 4ft high :eek: I'm quite clever at growing plastic so it seems :confused:

    Yes, a little at a time that's the key. Going to pot up loads of stuff for DS to tend to, then hopefully replant in the garden....'once' it's done. :) He wants a herb garden and veggies. I want a bee and butterfly garden.

    Well that works doesnt it cos most herb plants are bee/butterfly attractants. Win win When you want a plant list let me know!!

    Jo (and others) PM me if you do want any advice I even have special bits of paper from somewhere proper....... with my name on them..and everything,,,,,,,,,,, Been studying/professionally working as a gardener for um erggg ummmm - 15 or so years now :) The PhD up here is my only real chance at employment up here unless I go self employed again - whilst I do bits I don't have the confidence to just be a self employed full time gardener again.

    Oh yeah and I hate grass and generally refuse to cut lawns, (I will do it if I HAVE to) so I am really a bit rubbish :)

    Whats point of having a tame gardener if you can't exploit them.:rotfl:I always feel liek I am stepping on some toes on the gardening board as i am relatively new so I don't post there much - which I should I know but I don't want to annoy anyone.

    So I just annoy you lot instead

    I remembrer in the haze prior to drinking every day being out every night until the wee small hours pottering in the garden - slowly I am getting that part of my brain back - baby steps eh??

    AFG club - I love it!! A mug of tea with muddy hands looks so much better than trying to slurp back wine with composty fingers.
    Things I don't liek drinking wine doing:
    In the bath - bleurgh
    Gardening - bleurgh
    Reading - bleurgh
    On tinternet - bleurgh

    Have started cooking in the mornings so I don't want to open a bottle at night time whilst cooking tea - sabbotage central here slowly trying to stop the things that trigger wine consumptioin.
    Trying to stop having wine with movies - so now don't start a movie til after 10pm (cant get any wine then) and have a cup of tea instead.
    I never normally shop in the evening too much temptation.

    Also with you on the if I can only drink a wee bit then whats the point

    BB hugs and lovely scoring - yeah just updated am on 8 working on day 9 :D

    Will stop hijacking thread and go and work.
    Total debt 26/4/18 <£1925 we were getting there. :beer:
    Total debt as of 28/4/19 £7867.38:eek:
    minus 112.06 = £7755.32:money:
    :money:Sleeves up folks.:money:
  • jo1972
    jo1972 Posts: 8,901 Forumite
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    fayjmck wrote: »
    Jo (and others) PM me if you do want any advice

    Oh you're so gonna regret saying that!!
    DFW Nerd no. 496 - Proud to be dealing with my debts!!
  • Pippilongstocking
    Pippilongstocking Posts: 16,336 Forumite
    Well I owe you one anyway don't I.

    And I wont regret it - you cant imagine how plant obsessively geeky I am :)
    Total debt 26/4/18 <£1925 we were getting there. :beer:
    Total debt as of 28/4/19 £7867.38:eek:
    minus 112.06 = £7755.32:money:
    :money:Sleeves up folks.:money:
  • pariskate
    pariskate Posts: 300 Forumite
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    edited 9 May 2009 at 1:58PM
    good afternoon - have loved catching up on all the posts.

    Last night was AF for me BB, thank you so much for keeping score and checking on us, so one more on the total. i had pizza for dinner (take out) and was fully intending to have a glass of wine but in the end my desire to lose weight overcame the desire to drink and the wine stayed in the bottle, as had alread had too many calories with the pizza!. DH had some and I just didn't want it (probably sickening for something!)

    I think the AFG is a great idea. We rent our house so aren't going to do anything major in the garden but i have made myself a little veg plot - I have lettuces, toms, french beans, sweet peas and mangetout so far. Runner beans will go in soon. It's been one day rain, one day sun here and warm so everything's gone a bit mad on the plant front.
    Mmm, think I'll go out now and do a bit of pottering....
    Saving to pay the tax man
  • Wanna_Bee_Free
    Wanna_Bee_Free Posts: 2,319 Forumite
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    fayjmck wrote: »
    ok - just me then

    Apparently it's not just you, according to my OH! :rolleyes:

    So we seem to have turned into a gardening thread while I've been out. Cool. I have a teeny London garden. Used to always have a glass of wine in the evening or a sunny day in the garden (and the bath - sorry Fay!) so need to try and change that this summer.

    I've planted some cauli and salad and carrot seeds a week ago and they are currently sprouting in the garden. Actually they come inside during the night as I'm worried about frost killing them. Definitely mud pie central here at the moment.

    AF wise fraid I'm still on 1/12.
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