@Dick Plumb1 there is no need to delete this thread as it is nothing to do with politics or bad news. Do not show authority going to your head and start throwing your weight around. We have never had this before.
I drank every day for three years straight, from 4pm to closing, 2006 to 2009. Fifteen pints of Amstel and a bottle of Smirnoff every day. Somehow I still functioned in a high pressure job with local government. My weight ballooned and my blood sugar was unreadable. And then my missus said the words that I dreaded: basically, it's the booze or me and the kids. I've never touched a drop since. Admittedly, I miss it awfully, but the alternative would have been much worse.
On a serious level, I am very pleased that you have come out of this the other side. I can imagine you see things in a different way and your health is in a much better shape. Well done I could not drink 15 pints a day, regardless of what Kojak might say. On the subject of 15, some eat this in kebabs, some have this in fat ones, and some do this with deleting threads.
I used to knock back jugs of vodka & Red Bull like it was water. Lager never touched the sides. Forty ***s each night also. Regardless of all that, I always got up at 6am for work; my performance never dipped once. Thing is, I could afford to drink to excess with my high-end wages. My biggest regret is the time I missed with the nippers. Instead of reading them bedtime stories, attending parents' evenings and watching school plays, I was propping up the bar at the Gilpins Bell, Edmonton. Shameful.
I'm more surprised that you survived Edmonton, ffs that is a shocking place. We all make mistakes but you have come out the other side.
Okay Bob, I get that the food might be a bit shaky at times, but there is nothing wrong with the booze. Multiple options and at prices affordable to me after my bet has gone down on a Saturday.
It's not the greatest place, but it had some of the best drinkers in London back in the day. The Gilps, the Boundary House at Ponders End, and the Anglers up at Wood Green were superb. All gone now. I'm a face in the area and have never really had any hassle.
Last year when @Royston Hawtrey collected his ***s from me he met me in a Spoons. For all his wealth he is still a man of the people and insisted on going there, I was not complaining. He enjoyed his mixed grill so much he ordered another one. He was belching and farting like f*** when he got up to leave.
Without going too off topic, f*** that, you go one way and you end up in Tottenham, you go another way and you end up in Enfield, or stay where you are in Edmonton. You obviously can handle yourself. I used to work near The Elbow Room on Tottenham High Road, it has character!
I am now on the Bombay Sapphire gin. Indoors I do not normally keep too many lagers here but Mrs Elfs keeps the gin out for special occasions. Needless to say Mrs Elfs is not too happy when guests arrive. Anyway, whilst I am tapping away and hoping not to offend, I'd like to know what others think of a Gin n Tonic.
Must admit I don't touch spirits, aside from a very occasional single malt, straight. Is there a Gin Goblin gag here somewhere? Historically, it was the mass addiction to Gin among the working classes around 150 years ago that led to the rise of the Temperance Movement. One of their ideas was to promote sports for the masses, to lead them away from taverns and drinking pits at weekends. And so followed the beginnings of Association Football As well as Rugby etc.
