The giving up/cutting down alcohol thread part VI

maman

On a lighter note: did any of you read this in the papers today:

Nichols, which makes the iconic purple drink Vimto, saw sales soar 29% to £72.4m in the year to December 31, while pre-tax profits before exceptional items jumped 22%to £12.2m.


Hope Lurky's on commission, he could be a man worth knowing!:D

Miss_Piggy_2

maman wrote: »

On a lighter note: did any of you read this in the papers today:

Nichols, which makes the iconic purple drink Vimto, saw sales soar 29% to £72.4m in the year to December 31, while pre-tax profits before exceptional items jumped 22%to £12.2m.


Hope Lurky's on commission, he could be a man worth knowing!:D

:rotfl::rotfl:

I'm guessing its not Jo thats making those sales soar!!

Lurkio

maman wrote: »

On a lighter note: did any of you read this in the papers today:

Nichols, which makes the iconic purple drink Vimto, saw sales soar 29% to £72.4m in the year to December 31, while pre-tax profits before exceptional items jumped 22%to £12.2m.


Hope Lurky's on commission, he could be a man worth knowing!:D

:money: :money: :money: :money: :money:

MountainOfDebt_2

Miss_Piggy wrote: »

We all strive to be the best parents we can. And we all look to our own parents as an example. I don't want MY son looking back when he's older and wishing is Mum could have been a better example. The very thought of that makes me want to cry.

Miss P
xx

With you all the way Miss P.

What I cannot understand of my father is that his father was diabolical to him, made him sleep with the cows (I come from good farming stock) and used to properly beat him (he used to tell us if we thought that was a beating, we should see what he had to deal with) and was generally a thoroughly unpleasant man, by all accounts (I never met him). But my father speaks of him in reverant breath: when his father died all he wanted wasa pint, so my father run to the local pub (a good 2 miles away) and by the time he got back with 1/2 a pint my Grandad had died. He sold the farm and joined the army and I am not too sure he forgave himself. I guess, in his way, he thinks he treated us better than his father treated him.

Weird. Strangely, I think it was him being senior in the army that made him the bad parent as he couldn't control young kids like he did the soldiers underneath him: the more he beat us, the more we rebelled and I think that used to make his fuse blow so the cycle would start again. He could jail soldiers, or worse, who disobeyed him. He couldn't really do anything but hurt us. For us, the pain of him not really wanting us, which was obvious, was worse than any stick he could brandish.

Your last paragraph is what galvanises me as a parent. Thanks Miss P.

MountainOfDebt_2

Anyway, I shall try and be lighter. It all your fault any way, all of you. Forcing me to address my drink issues has kind of opened up a whole can of worms, that and a very bare hotel room for half the week. Apologies, but you are all getting the brunt of my introspection and I will try and tone it down.

honeybear_2

MountainOfDebt wrote: »

Anyway, I shall try and be lighter. It all your fault any way, all of you. Forcing me to address my drink issues has kind of opened up a whole can of worms, that and a very bare hotel room for half the week. Apologies, but you are all getting the brunt of my introspection and I will try and tone it down.

Feel free, sweetie. If you can't get it out of your system on here then where can you?

Miss_Piggy_2

MountainOfDebt wrote: »

Anyway, I shall try and be lighter. It all your fault any way, all of you. Forcing me to address my drink issues has kind of opened up a whole can of worms, that and a very bare hotel room for half the week. Apologies, but you are all getting the brunt of my introspection and I will try and tone it down.

No need to tone it down. getting things off our chest is good. On the journey we are all on, whether its cutting down or giving up, we all have things that we need to vent sometimes. And where better to do it?

Miss P
xx

fedupandskint

maman wrote: »

On a lighter note: did any of you read this in the papers today:

Nichols, which makes the iconic purple drink Vimto, saw sales soar 29% to £72.4m in the year to December 31, while pre-tax profits before exceptional items jumped 22%to £12.2m.


Hope Lurky's on commission, he could be a man worth knowing!:D

It's Ribena for me I'm afraid, can't join in the Vimto party

honeybear_2

Slightly random but I have to say that I love Eddie Izzard

Marru

Bit of a chocking day today. Went to work to find a colleague having a massive anxiety attack. We had to call paramedics and she was taken home. I do worry as I know she is on same ADs as me but unlike me she hasn't stopped drinking. We have had lots of pressure at work lately and I have been able to take it (with the expense of my pesonal life thou) but it has been too much for her. So thank goodness I found you lovely people - it could have been me this morning being taken home in an ambulance. So THANK YOU!!!

On that note I am MAD tonight giving me 25 please Shaggy.