Portsmouth Convention 2011
Flyer for local AA convention. Sunday 27th November Admiral Lord Nelson School.
Recovery
The Pill That Prevents You Getting Drunk – Would You Try It?
From Huffington Post :-
The Pill That Prevents You Getting Drunk – Would You Try It?.
Wouldn’t have stopped this alcoholic drinking I would just not have taken the pill when I was searching for oblivion.
May have played with them on those times I thought I’d have just a couple before loosing yet another night/day, but my delusion was such I thought it would be different every-time.
Two British Pubs ‘Close Every Day’
Two British Pubs ‘Close Every Day’ Due To Tax Increases, Cheap Supermarket Deals.
Not that I spend much time in them any more but The British Pub is on the wane, just looking around my home City they are closing everywhere.
No mention of the smoking ban in this article but can’t help thinking it is a contributory factor. They don’t even smell like pubs any more just stale sweat and booze. The only exception is country pubs with a log fire and old wooden floors.
‘Beans on Toast’ said it best for me with his “F*ck the smoking ban”
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fg6aFJ7xGhE
Average sozzled Brit sinks 5,800 pints during life • The Register
Average sozzled Brit sinks 5,800 pints during life • The Register.
Think I drank my quota and a few other peoples a bit too quick.
12 years – medal
Forgot to post this pic of the 12 year chip my other half got me.
A hectic day full of life stuff. Work, family, friends and AA.
First post with the Android WordPress app.
Step 10
This thought brings us to STEP TEN, which suggests we continue to take personal inventory and continue to set right any new mistakes as we go along. We vigorously commenced this way of living as we cleaned up the past. We have entered the world of the Spirit. Our next function is to grow in understanding and effectiveness. This is not an overnight matter. It should continue for our lifetime. Continue to watch for selfishness, dishonesty, resentment, and fear. When these crop up, we ask God at once to remove them. We discuss them with someone immediately and make amends quickly if we have harmed anyone. Then we resolutely turn our thoughts to someone we can help. Love and tolerance of others is our code.
And we have ceased fighting anything or anyone–even alcohol. For by this time sanity will have returned. We will seldom be interested in liquor. If tempted, we recoil from it as from a hot flame. We react sanely and normally, and we will find that this has happened automatically. We will see that our new attitude toward liquor has been given us without any thought or effort on our part. It just comes! That is the miracle of it. We are not fighting it, neither are we avoiding temptation. We feel as though we had been placed in a position of neutrality–safe and protected. We have not even sworn off. Instead, the problem has been removed. It does not exist for us. We are neither cocky nor are we afraid. That is our experience. That is how we react so long as we keep in fit spiritual condition.
It is easy to let up on the spiritual program of action and rest on our laurels. We are headed for trouble if we do, for alcohol is a subtle foe. We are not cured of alcoholism. What we really have is a daily reprieve contingent on the maintenance of our spiritual condition. Every day is a day when we must carry the vision of God’s will into all of our activities. “How can I best serve Thee–Thy will (not mine) be done.” These are thoughts which must go with us constantly. We can exercise our will power along this line all we wish. It is the proper use of the will.
Much has already been said about receiving strength, inspiration, and direction from Him who has all knowledge and power. If we have carefully followed directions, we have begun to sense the flow of His Spirit into us. To some extent we have become God-conscious. We have begun to develop this vital sixth sense. But we must go further and that means more action.
Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous