Tag: alcohol
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I won’t be getting sober anytime soon but I am “drinking smarter”
Photo from Damir Spanic on Unsplash I was a grown-up last weekend. The old man and I went on a date night to a swanky restaurant and I chose to drive. In my last post I talked about the necessity of making choices in middle age, and prior to last night, I would have looked…
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Recipe For The Best Christmas Punch, (Or How To Get Your Friends Slaughtered At Your Christmas Party
So, this year’s Christmas party is done and dusted. More than thirty of us sweltered under the deck on what felt like the hottest day of the past month – as ordained by climate change or whichever God seems to take such personal pleasure out of fucking up my life as often as possible. And…
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Beware! Irresponsible Middle-Aged Drinkers On The Loose
Found on Pinterest. Four women dancing at the water’s edge. circa 1940 Picture #: 543H Copyright 2003 – Photographs Of Old America. Photosofoldamerica.com A couple of girlfriends and I have had a lunch planned in the diary for a while. It is a lunch without husbands, none of us are driving, and we are going…
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Why Do Hangovers Have To Be So Much Worse In Middle Age?
I farewelled my drinking legs in style this weekend. But there are worst places than the Hunter Valley to find out that you’re a pussy. Not even the enticement of membership to my favourite winery, Scarborough Wines, a life-long ambition of mine, along with the purchase of twelve bottles of my favourite Chardonnay (now safely stashed…
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The 5 Golden Rules Of Hosting A Teenage Party
We are those foolish parents who agreed to host a ‘gathering’ last weekend, for Kurt’s nineteenth birthday. He requested a party, but I naively thought that if I defined it as a ‘gathering’, his guests would not interpret the event as the opportunity to get shit-faced at someone else’s expense, throw food and chuck up…
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Older, But Still No Wiser When It Comes To Drinking
What I’d seriously like to know is when exactly the middle-aged wisdom/acceptance thingy that my body can no longer drink alcohol is going to finally kick in. I’d also like to know if I can justifiably lay the full weight of blame for our behaviour firmly on the shoulders of our hosts yesterday, for contributing…
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How I Survived My First Drinks Party Without Drinking
You know that I like a drink… But I’m a complex personality, hence I’m also a huge fan of Mindbodygreen, a website that publishes lots of great posts that highlight readers genuine experiences of how they improved their health or lifestyle, without that underlying virtuous and condescending ‘I’m better than you’ you approach. Found on dryjanuary.org.uk I’m…
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The Hangover That Stopped Me Competing In The City To Surf
English: Runners in the 2007 City2Surf running up William Street, Sydney (Photo credit: Wikipedia) While many smug virtuous people in Sydney were pounding the pavements in the City to Surf running competition early this morning, this sporting failure was lying in bed, head pounding, due to the worst hangover imaginable this side of winter. I’m…
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Middle-Aged Drinking And Your Relationship With Alcohol
Tetra Pak® – Couple on beach with Tetra Classic® packages, 1960s (Photo credit: Tetra Pak) I think I AM probably one of those happy people in denial about their drinking. The last time I went for a medical and was asked about how many units I consumed on average in a week and answered ‘thirteen’,…
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3 Reasons Why I Am Angry About Mia’s Rape Debate
Drunk Girls (Photo credit: This Is A Wake Up Call) There’s been so much vitriol on Twitter this week relating to that article (here) by Mia Freedman on the subject of rape. So I thought I may as well hop on the bandwagon too. To be honest, I was disappointed at the universal condemnation Mia seemed to receive…
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Middle-Aged Girls Night
Chocolate Fondant Cake/Lava cake (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Yay, it’s finally the weekend! If there’s one certainty in life about the weekend, it’s that the vast quantities of food and wine I consume over the next 48 hours will be substantially greater than the meagre volume I allow to pass through my lips on the other…
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Drinking and Driving In Middle Age
No Alcoholics / Kein Alkohol Logo (Photo credit: Wikipedia) As the weekend looms enticingly ahead, negotiations have already begun in our household. Over which of us can drink and which of us has to drive on Saturday night. It’s got to the point where I almost hate getting invitations beyond a reliable bus route. That…
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