Good morning everyone. A cold weekend has started here. Honestly, all people can talk about here is how cold it will be (5 C by Monday morning - which for all you folks going through snowstorms, is something for these parts!).
I went out last night. A friend is in town visiting and introduced me to the couple she's staying with. Everyone drank except me. Now my friend and I have had a couple of really big drinking nights so I wondered if she would say anything. I casually said "I am not drinking at the moment" and she thought it was amazing. Went on and on and made me feel like the smug clean-eating healthy-living my-body-is-my-temple type person at the table. She does tend to over-exaggerate, bless her, but it was funny.
So that was really OK. I have a brunch tomorrow which involves champagne (Sunday brunches always do here). I've said I'm not drinking and that will be OK too.
So much of socialising in my circles involves drinking and that's not even around people who over-do it! I want to see my friends and I feel fine at these things that involve alcohol, so going and being a non-drinker is a logical next step if I want to begin socialising again.
I'm kind of sanguine about it Jenses - I think the levels at which "normal drinkers" drink makes it fine for them even if it is poison for us. Last night, these nice people had one round of aperitifs and a bottle of wine between three of them. On a Friday night. Then they took the ferry home just after midnight and I guess took themselves to bed. Decent folk all of us except they simply don't have the disease I have.
Have a great weekend everyone. Welcome Mike aka Rattle and Hum! Throw out all that booze now y'hear
