A Brutally Honest Blog About Kicking the Drink

  • Reasons to Stop Drinking #1

    16th Jan 2020 by

    Here we go then, as promised. My first post which isn’t moaning or self-loathing when I’m trying to get back onto a sober streak. I’m starting this sub-category, if you like, as another reminder of why not to pick up that bottle when temptations present themselves. Weekends can be a real struggle. Especially when it… Read more

  • The First Week of Dry January

    7th Jan 2020 by

    Well, it’s Tuesday morning, and I feel great! Day 7 on my second attempt of going sober for the foreseeable and that weekend was, if I can say so myself, a breeze. I think it makes it easier this time of year to kick the booze because it seems like most people at work, around… Read more

  • The Great Festive Fuck Up

    3rd Jan 2020 by

    Yeah I fucked up.  2 weeks in and I cracked on Christmas Eve. Then again on Christmas Day. Boxing Day. Both days away in York and then again on New Year’s Eve. Fully off the wagon and currently feeling like shit. Feel like a failure, a scrub and basically as I am typing this on… Read more

  • An Introduction.

    11th Dec 2019 by

    I never wrote this to please anyone, just to get my thoughts on paper and hopefully re-read this blog before I naively fucking decide to go for 1 pint with a friend, an offer which will inevitably present itself in the not too distant future. I hope you appreciate the honesty. I don’t apologise for… Read more

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