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    #271
    Army Thread, Tuesday the 18th and it's almost frikken Chrimbo again!!!!

    Hey Molly it's fine, we all have our own boundaries. I am literally taking the tiniest morsel of cough medicine when I need the glycerine to stop me coughing up my insides. Don't cook with wine any more but it wouldn't stop me ordering a hot dish in a restaurant, not that I like gravy much anyway,,...only use af mouthwash. Can't even stand the smell of al. Asked my mum to buy a Christmas pudding that hadn't been drowned in shite.....

    I just pmd you re the book. Lol silly me
    I have a drink problem, I have been AF since 15 March 2011 and I am working hard to stay that way

    They don't call me Pingu Purple Pants for nothing....

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      #272
      Army Thread, Tuesday the 18th and it's almost frikken Chrimbo again!!!!

      anon;1429028 wrote: How good is MWO??
      If we aren't here for each other - who on earth is ?????
      How simple it is to see that we can only be happy now and there will never be a time when it is not now....

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        #273
        Army Thread, Tuesday the 18th and it's almost frikken Chrimbo again!!!!

        mollyka;1429060 wrote: I know hon! I'm just on my high horse ---- look - that's me dismounting:H
        Mind you - I do remember a dessert I used to make with gingernut biscuits, sherry and whipped cream. I used to be able to put nearly the whole bottle of sherry into it --- and I don't even like sherry
        Gawd I :h sherry.

        Many, many moons ago I made my very first Christmas cake and it was way before I drank every single day. I got a whole bottle and mixed away like a good'un. Stuck the one, yes, one glass of sherry in and over the course of it baking drank the rest. I woke up on the floor when the timer went off.
        It could be worse, I could be filing.
        AF since 7/7/2009

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          #274
          Army Thread, Tuesday the 18th and it's almost frikken Chrimbo again!!!!

          Ooooh I want a bat belt too....
          and a ring like RC's. Oh yes....

          Waving to the Army and Sunshine there too.
          Psalms 119:45


          ?Start by doing what is necessary, then what is possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.?

          St. Francis of Assisi



          I'm not perfect, never will be, but better than I was and not as good as I'm going to be.

          :rays:

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            #275
            Army Thread, Tuesday the 18th and it's almost frikken Chrimbo again!!!!

            JackieClaire;1429065 wrote: Gawd I :h sherry.

            Many, many moons ago I made my very first Christmas cake and it was way before I drank every single day. I got a whole bottle and mixed away like a good'un. Stuck the one, yes, one glass of sherry in and over the course of it baking drank the rest. I woke up on the floor when the timer went off.
            :H :H :H :H

            Sorry, just had to laugh...PPQ

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              #276
              Army Thread, Tuesday the 18th and it's almost frikken Chrimbo again!!!!

              You can have Robin belt.

              I am Batman, but the Adam West one not the Dark Knight one.
              It could be worse, I could be filing.
              AF since 7/7/2009

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                #277
                Army Thread, Tuesday the 18th and it's almost frikken Chrimbo again!!!!

                I totally get that Molls... I thinks we are just all finding our own way through/out having been caught by the demon drink.

                JC - you're right re how does someone know someone is a real alkie - I think some do wear it more on their sleeves than others ... BUT I also think we live in a culture whereby an "alkie" (for lack of a better word right now) is deemed someone who needs a drink first think in the morning, who LOOKS the part of an alcoholic and is seen to be drunk. I work in an industry that positively celebrates in every way it can, alcohol. It is SO easy to embrace it as others might embrace munching their way through a large choccie bar. I've worked in theatre bars and watched a scriptwriter wash down 3 bottles of red in little under 90mins... maybe it was 2 hours. Still... no one appeared to be saying anything. Perhaps some do to the imbiber, privately, those who are close to them. But the public persona, the public recognition of the person who drinks is more often NOT about them as a drinker but them as a PERSON - the writer, the doctor, the technician, the actor, the quantity banana surveyor, et al.

                And the difficulty is that this is how it should be - we should be valuing the person, NOT that they are an alcoholic. Alcoholism is an illness they have, but it is not who they are essentially. YET, if nothing is said, if society keeps embracing the person with the addiction without recognition of the addiction, then all it does is support the addiction. ESPECIALLY in our culture where drink is something you are EXPECTED to do. (There's a lovely wee actress I know who i think is t-total... even I want to go up to her and say "why are you?"). At times it seems as if everything is stacked in such a way that we all must drink, worship drink, enjoy drink, believe drink is the elixir of everything that is good... and with it some of us suffer but others can't help because they want to celebrate what is killing another...

                Sorry - I know what I am trying to get at but this post is rambling on... Essentially I agree with you JC, we don't necessarily know who is having a problem / suffering with the affliction of addiction. NO ONE (I reckon) at my work would ever think I had a problem. That I liked a drink, yes. That I looked forward to getting drunk alone, no. That I was actually suffering at work, maybe some would've thought i might have a hangover, or was tired, or was ill - but everyday?!... prolly not.

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                  #278
                  Army Thread, Tuesday the 18th and it's almost frikken Chrimbo again!!!!

                  I hate sherry
                  But I made a mean trifle for the family get together each yr

                  For the first time this yr I refuse to make one.
                  I have a drink problem, I have been AF since 15 March 2011 and I am working hard to stay that way

                  They don't call me Pingu Purple Pants for nothing....

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                    #279
                    Army Thread, Tuesday the 18th and it's almost frikken Chrimbo again!!!!

                    My sister's name was Robin....I was always Batman....I don't know if I can do Robin...:upset:
                    Psalms 119:45


                    ?Start by doing what is necessary, then what is possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.?

                    St. Francis of Assisi



                    I'm not perfect, never will be, but better than I was and not as good as I'm going to be.

                    :rays:

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                      #280
                      Army Thread, Tuesday the 18th and it's almost frikken Chrimbo again!!!!

                      Del boy and Rodney.......
                      I have a drink problem, I have been AF since 15 March 2011 and I am working hard to stay that way

                      They don't call me Pingu Purple Pants for nothing....

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                        #281
                        Army Thread, Tuesday the 18th and it's almost frikken Chrimbo again!!!!

                        Sorry - feel i just broke up the party there!! :H

                        As you were Troopsters.

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                          #282
                          Army Thread, Tuesday the 18th and it's almost frikken Chrimbo again!!!!

                          I'll be the joker... I gotta an ace GRIN

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                            #283
                            Army Thread, Tuesday the 18th and it's almost frikken Chrimbo again!!!!

                            Rc, my fricking doctor asked if I drank in the morning and when I said no she said oh good and ticked the box.....

                            Back to the party

                            Can I be the mad hatter? I've got a drippy nose
                            I have a drink problem, I have been AF since 15 March 2011 and I am working hard to stay that way

                            They don't call me Pingu Purple Pants for nothing....

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                              #284
                              Army Thread, Tuesday the 18th and it's almost frikken Chrimbo again!!!!

                              That's barmy Pingu!

                              Can Mick be Alice?! PLEEAASSEE PRETTY PLLEEAAASSEEE!

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                                #285
                                Army Thread, Tuesday the 18th and it's almost frikken Chrimbo again!!!!

                                RunningCourage;1429080 wrote: That's barmy Pingu!

                                Can Mick be Alice?! PLEEAASSEE PRETTY PLLEEAAASSEEE!
                                :H :H :H :H

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