Getting over it.

Beaujolais Day or Beaujolais nouveau is the release of the years first bottle of a red wine - Beaujolais. Obviously, it's traditionally a French celebration but it's also celebrated around the world.


So, in a little pub called The Basketmakers in Brighton on the third Thursday of November 2009, myself and some friends laughed, caught up, met new people, indulged in french food and drank Beaujolais until we had drunk the pub dry. We vowed to make it a little tradition.


How quickly a year goes by. Instinctively, I thought the best option was not to go. All that wine, all that lovely french food and all those lovely friends. Then I thought about it some more and if this diet was going to be maintainable I needed to get over these hurdles.


So I saved my sins, had a large lunch of free foods with my healthy extras and put a quorn chilli in the slow cooker for my return. I got to the pub and had a small glass of the wine, followed by a soda water. Then I had another small glass of wine and found that 3 hours had passed. I was having fun even though everyone else were very drunk. Then I thought about my chilli at home and I happily said my goodbyes and pootled home. 


My flatmate came in at the same time as me and she'd been drinking wine too. She tried her best to convince me to go halves on another bottle from the offy but I suggested having cognac with me instead which was still in my syns allowance. We sat, we sipped and we had a good natter. 


I woke up feeling great this morning, unlike those I left at the pub - plenty of thick heads all round! One friend couldn't remember getting home and another felt really annoyed he'd let himself get so drunk. 


Smug? Me? Never.