Thanks all for the welcome! This seems like a very big site, it'll take a while for me to find my feet.
Allport - a fellow Brit! I'm from Cheshire originally, but became a southern softie years ago...
Fubarcdn - thankyou, I'll have a look in newbies. Been on here for HOURS already today! Spent about an hour trying unsuccessfully to load an avatar
Ananda, thanks for the offer of discussing AA. I'm going to check out another, different, meeting next week and see how that goes. I was on a different recovery site and mentioned my problems with the religious aspect of it (oh, and the "powerless" thing too) and was told by one poster that if I didn't follow it all to the letter, and give my life over to god etc, I'd end up drinking again. Not helpful! That's when I decided to try to find another site...