Back on the booze!

As I seem to be getting a reputation among my mates for drinking alcohol, which I only really found out before Christmas, when I was at my home group leader’s house, and he was offering drinks, he said “You’ll have a glass of wine wont you Frankie B?” (which, clearly, is his nickname for me), and also inspired by Chris Moyles, I decided to go without alcohol for a month (except communion wine, because we figured it didn’t count). Well I’m happy to say that the month is now up, and as of tonight, I am back on the alcohol!!!!! (ok maybe my mates have a point.) I may celebrate this with a beer (or maybe more) during the Liverpool Manu game tomorrow.
Seriously, it has actually been fairly easy to go without wine or beer or anything alcoholic for a month. I might even give it up for Lent. Oh hang on – the last two years I’ve given up something for lent, I’ve ended up failing on Ash Wednesday! Last year I gave up chocolate, and forgot and ended up having a chocolate ice cream on Ash Wednesday. The year before I gave up talking about football outside the stadium, and then at CU on Ash Wednesday, one of my curates from Plymouth asked me if I had watched a particular football match the night before, I naturally answered and we discussed it. I then remembered what I had given up, so stopped the conversation.