14 Units

I’m delighted that Dalgliesh is back on channel 5 at 9 o’clock so a glass of Sauvignon blanc will go down nicely.

I agree Iam64 I enjoy a G&T or red wine with a meal. I limit myself if I think I am overdoing the alcohol. My secret vice is Baileys though.

Have a g&t and a small glass of red every day😳

I haven’t drunk any alcohol for 18 years does nothing for me, much rather a cuppa

merlotgran

^Shopping with my son last week and this lady was on the same route as us. Her trolley was full of booze and little bits like bread, milk and a few veg. Her face was bright red like she drinks too much.^

Surely that’s her business? 🤔

Most people notice what others buy, especially on the conveyor belt.

Maggiemaybe

merlotgran

Shopping with my son last week and this lady was on the same route as us. Her trolley was full of booze and little bits like bread, milk and a few veg. Her face was bright red like she drinks too much.

Surely that’s her business? 🤔

I was thinking the same, merlot. How awful to be judged by the contents of one shopping trolley, and a complexion that could be down to any number of things.

And the whiff of spirits that lingered around her. My son commented that he hoped somebody else would be driving her home.

Primrose53

merlotgran

Shopping with my son last week and this lady was on the same route as us. Her trolley was full of booze and little bits like bread, milk and a few veg. Her face was bright red like she drinks too much.

Surely that’s her business? 🤔

Most people notice what others buy, especially on the conveyor belt.

Really? I’ve got no interest at all in what other people are buying.

I have absolutely no interest whatsoever in other people’s shopping.

So judgemental.
Everyone’s shopping is their own affair.
Judge not lest ye yourself be judged ( or something similar).

She could have been stocking up for a charity event she was hosting? The booze was on offer?
When Sainsbury's Buy 6 save 25% is on I go specifically for wine.

Though I have to say that I'm fascinated by other people's trolleys - but what they are buying is up to them.

I only have one glass a night

Spinnaker

I only have one glass a night

🤣🤣🤣

I have a good wine cellar and often bulk buy especially from Waitrose so that it will be delivered. It doesn't mean I am a heavy drinker, I like to offer my guests a decent wine with their meal.

Maybe the woman in the supermarket was stocking up for visitors. Maybe she has a drink problem. If so, she has my sympathy.

I never drank at all and at 45 my Dr suggested a glass of red wine a night would do me good. My mum was teetotal and died youngish at 72 my father was a moderate drinker and lived into his late 80s…

I probably used to have a couple of bottles of wine a week. Three and a half years ago I did '30 days alcohol free'. It had support and chat and incentives online. Never drank alcohol again.

Other than a glass of something fizzy on high days and holidays I rarely drink anything now, not because I think it's bad for me but because it makes me feel grotty the next day.
The drinkers amongst you are very lucky to escape this!

FranA

Does it hit the sweet spot. Are you over or under? Does it matter to what you want to do in the future? I am restricting my alcohol intake. The person I would like to be goes running at dawn. The person I am chills out and carries a glass of wine round my garden in the evening. Where do you fit in?

I think I'd get on better with the person you are than the person you'd like to be, Fran! Interesting that most of the responses are from those who don't drink or limit it? 😇

1 double rum and calorie free coke while waiting for dinner to cook, sometimes another one after that but that is it. I like wine but it gives me a headache so I only have it now if I go out for lunch with a friend or stay after a meeting at the local pub and have a glass of wine. Not even once a month for the wine though. However the rum is generally one double a day or two perhaps 3 times a week. so I guess I am probably having about 22 units a week.

I was creeping towards 14, so I’ve cut out wine, now one or two cans of shandy an evening 0.3 units each can.

Nannylion

FranA

Does it hit the sweet spot. Are you over or under? Does it matter to what you want to do in the future? I am restricting my alcohol intake. The person I would like to be goes running at dawn. The person I am chills out and carries a glass of wine round my garden in the evening. Where do you fit in?

I think I'd get on better with the person you are than the person you'd like to be, Fran! Interesting that most of the responses are from those who don't drink or limit it? 😇

Interesting that some seem to get awfully defensive about their own and others' alcohol intake...

Statistics say that the over 50s drink the most-more than those younger. I guess that might be true as the health risks were less well known when that generation was younger and habits became ingrained. I know that very many of those similar in age to myself (66) drink more than the limit. A bottle of wine each night isn’t unusual and certainly those I meet socially have few concerns about how much they drink. I don’t drink at all and haven’t for some years due to health problems. I have lost all desire to now! However much we are told being teetotal is acceptable though, I can feel very left out as drinking is the expected norm amongst those I know, plus the more relaxed behaviour it encourages, with which I find it difficult to join in. I comfort myself with the fact that my Dad was teetotal all his life by choice but still managed to be the life and soul of the party. I really don’t know how he did it!

If that was a year I would still be under wink

{wink} fist time I have tried an emoji

3rd time lucky?