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This is it kids - Alcohol Eve. Happy Drinking and a Merry Hangover!

I have survived - no WE have survived - 6 weeks without the demon drink. Here is a summary of the completely scientific results of this social study...

Weight
I have lost no weight, except for about an ounce of knee skin when I came off my bike the other day (yes, I have been excercising like a bitch too). So all you people out there on weight watchers who get told a pint is about a million points and wine is the devil's own choice - DON'T BELIEVE IT! Liver Watchers maybe, Weight Watchers no.

Activities
I have been unusually active - getting on all sorts of courts to play with bats and balls, bowling (ten pin) and even a spot of rugby (though I nearly put my back out doing that). I have also been to watch rugby sober (unheard off) and been to the horses with nowt but a coke. Verdict - Rugby is for drinking beer at, not playing.

Feel good factor
Do I feel good? Yes, but generally I do anyway, as I am a bit of a cheeseball. My wallet feels better. My liver hopefully is loving it, and looks brand new, with tags on. The only major feelgood factor thing is the positive feeling that I have done this. Six weeks ago I did not feel confident about it at all. I know that I can easily have a few nights a week where I can live without a glass of wine, or a cold can of beer. A cold can of beer with little droplets of cold water dripping down the side, just out of the fridge...

Social side of it
As four of my close friends/significant others joined me in this, we did lots more things that we would not have done (see activities!) and we survived many a pub visit without beer. The hardest night out for me was CN's birthday - a pub crawl down Brauny Gate on my first alc free Friday night, with alc fuelled buddies. Verdict - If you are going to do this, do it together!!

The awards:

Best Non alcoholic beer: A toss up between Cobra Zero and Bavaria 0.0%.
Worst non-acl beer: Becks - it's shit.
Best Non alcholic drink: Fever Tree Ginger Ale
Best pub for non drinkers: Always the Pump and Tap, second place Dry Dock, cos there's lots of distractions (mad video games where you shoot african wildlife not one for the veggies, sport on TV, pool, quiz machines etc)
Best night out without alcohol: Bowling - all the way. The horses was okay without a drink too.

That's all folks. This blog is closed. Bring on June 1st, bring on our camping trip so we can test the new tent, bring on Glastonbury, bring on a summer full of happy days.

Ps sorry for the general problems I have in spelling the word alcohol throughout.

Pps Kasabian was good. Were we the only ones not drinking? Yes we were.