
Mrs WES is insisting, so I'm left with no choice. 5th day in a row with no booze today. I watched the Bournemouth game without a beer. And I have some very nice red in my wine fridge, purchased for the holidays but yet to be drunk.
It's not right
Course it's only partially Dry Jan. Back in the UK on the 22nd for my son's birthday and will be heading straight to my local in Bramley.
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My 7th day today, so far not too hard. Plan is to go to our local bar and have a couple of Perriers on Friday night.
If I make it through that I should be ok.
Does it change your drinking post January at all, Herb? Did you start drinking less the rest of the time?
"Le Defi de Janvier". Damn silly idea.
It doesn't really work in Europe as people binge more, on a seasonal cycle. For example, when asparagus is in season, you eat it every day until you're sick of it and then the season ends and you don't touch it anymore until the following year and everyone does it all again. During Karneval, you'll see middle-aged men and women, responsible folk with important jobs in stolid companies, dressed as clowns or Jedi or Pokemon or whatever, with full face-paint, sleeping on street corners in pools of vomit and piss and other things. But it's alright because it's carnival and they will be back at their desks, all prim and proper on Monday morning as though nothing happened. Ready to do it all again the next year.
It's only Anglos who insist on the right to eat everything, all the time, all year round and whenever we want. It's probably the main reason we don't like them very much or get along; these people even have rules and practices and procedures governing hedonism and getting ****faced.
"Plenty of strikers can score goals," he said, gesturing to the famous old stands casting shadows around us.
"But a lot have found it difficult wearing the number 9 shirt for The Arsenal."
Why would you want to bin alcohol during the most depressing month of the year.....and yes, I'm very grumpy. No![]()