Potentially the greatest achievement of my life. Built a bug hotel from some scrap wood, made a bumblebee nest section. The bumblebees have decided to move in 🥳
Quite a big run/walk (mostly walk), but cut short as I'd planned to buy more supplies on the way but managed to leave my wallet on the side and ran out of water at 30km 😖🥵 thank you to @jack_raine123 for driving out to pick up his severely dehydrated step dad 😂 Feel very lucky to have all this within running distance of my house.
I dont really drink energy drinks, but bought a couple in Spain in case I needed them for the wee hours of the drive up north. I ended up not drinking either of them....mostly because they look terrifying. This one looks like it could give me a heart attack by just sniffing it! 🔥🔥🔥
At 23:00 last night I was sat in a service station in France, feeling very pleased with myself. That was the moment that marked exactly 5 years sobriety from alcohol.
I remember saying in the early days that my goal was 5 years, and I've done that. In that time I've realised I'm probably not going to be able to drink again. I have several friends that have gone on a similar sobriety journey, and many of them tell me that they dont miss it any more. Well.....I do! I massively miss it, and think about it every day!
However I dont miss the blackouts or the fear of what I might have said or done, I don't miss relying on it to have a personality or confidence, and I dont miss the long list of physical and mental health issues that came with it.
Since I got sober I quit my day job and started doing something I loved, I have a succesful business, I see my family more than ever before, I've been able to help Jack with acheiving his own goals. They're big things! But the little things are amazing too; being able to drive home from places at the end of the night, having my evenings back, having a clear head in the mornings.
It is the single most important health decision I have ever made. 🥰
It never takes 23 hours, normally 26-28 hours. Walking the dogs at every fuel stop and begging them repeatedly to "do wee wees" always adds an inordinate amount of time. 😂 Also, driving 2500km in a diesel car when people back home are panic buying diesel is a good idea isnt it? Isnt it?!! 🙏⛽️
