View Poll Results: Which category below includes your age?
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What is the average age-range in here? Round 2
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Join Date: May 2021
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That made me laugh too saoutchic! Becoming a member of the National Trust so I can visit those castles for free and eat scones in their tea shops; also getting an allotment and finding myself talking about runner beans too often.....
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Join Date: Nov 2022
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Originally Posted by saoutchik 
I am getting to the age where (in Britain) people visit castles and eat scones
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I turned 71 last August. I was doing great til I hit 70 last year. My health went to hell and is still bad. One good thing is that I moved to California and love it here. 
. Also that I have my beloved dog and two cats with me. (of course I do).
But the best thing I have going for me is that I'm still sober.
. Also that I have my beloved dog and two cats with me. (of course I do). But the best thing I have going for me is that I'm still sober.
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Originally Posted by least
I turned 71 last August. I was doing great til I hit 70 last year. My health went to hell and is still bad. One good thing is that I moved to California and love it here. . Also that I have my beloved dog and two cats with me. (of course I do).
But the best thing I have going for me is that I'm still sober.
. Also that I have my beloved dog and two cats with me. (of course I do).But the best thing I have going for me is that I'm still sober.
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Join Date: Feb 2019
Location: New England
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62. Alcoholic drinker from age 15 except for ten years from age 33-43. Sober those years and probably the reason I am alive to post this. Sober this time for 63 days so far. Know what has to be done now just have to do it. Best to all.
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62. Sober, will be 7 months the last day of this month. PAWS has been very, very rough on me. Wish I would have made this decision a decade ago. I drank for about 12 years, heavily at times. At the end there it was every day and a LOT. Quit cold turkey, do not advise doing so. Actually, acute withdrawal was nothing, but at about 70 days I had what seemed to be a complete nervous breakdown where I was convinced I was dying for weeks. Now just trying to hang in there.
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Join Date: Feb 2019
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When I look at that chart and I see so few over 60, I like to think it's because most people are smart enough to quit before that. Judging by my own experience though, I have to believe most of the ones who didn't quit are long gone, as I was so close to being.
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Join Date: Apr 2016
Location: UK
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Originally Posted by saoutchik
I am getting to the age where (in Britain) people visit castles and eat scones
I want to eat a scone in a castle
Actually make it 2.
I see that a lot of younger people are choosing to be sober now in the UK - not because they have to because they're alcoholics, but because they see it for what it is.
I like this generation of under 30's they are so wise beyond their years about so many things.
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Location: NSW - Australia
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