Fuming

Just wait a few days, sparkygran. Some more research will pop up to show the correlation between red wine drinking and centenarians

I'm not giving up!

sparky by name AND nature today I see.
I think you're in desperate need of some TLC; so (((hugs))), , , and just a small glass of or .

Give up??? I'd have to change my name.

Smoothiegran does have a certain Je ne sais quoi about it though

my 96 year old mother has a couple of sherries everyday and sometimes wine with her meal. What nonsense we are being bombarded with.

You have no idea how much this means to me I really am not an alcoholic but increasingly I am being made to feel one. You have no idea grannyactivist and merlotgran I related to you from the off. Galen welcome to my world.

Go sparkygran, and all the jolly posters here. I was also cross to read this latest information. Leave us alone I shout.

On another thread I quoted St Paul:

Take a little wine for thy stomach's sake and thine often infirmities.

So there, you have it on the best authority!

I am in your debt MiceElf I will quote that to my dearly beloved

We're all with you sparky! I can't give you any lofty quotes, but we have a very close friend who is a GP (in the medical sense) and he says these guidelines are a "load of boll**ks", he and his DOH drink way more than the recommended (oops, nearly said 'dose') amount. I don't want to drink water and live on mung beans and tofu either! Life's too short. Hugs.

Well said, Nanalogue!

This may cheer you up, sparky
www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2661296/The-cardiologist-prescribes-RED-WINE-Doctor-claims-two-glasses-day-halve-risk-heart-attack.html

Cheers

Micelf
He only said a little though!
I like a lot!

He also said "wives, be obedient to your husbands'

Some hope, never when he was alive.

St Paul the misogynist probably only gave that advice to men, not women.

Re having a tipple I mean.

just wondered for a minute.
Does that mean he meant women could drink a lot?

women, that insignificant half of the human race, were probably not meant to drink at all!

I suppose if they were always the ones serving the wine they could sneak as much as they liked?

DH and I share a bottle of red every day. I'm not much of a spirit drinker but if you try and get my wine off me you'd have a real battle on your hands Personally sparkygran I think it does you good to have a glass or two to unwind and you seem to have had a lot to cope with this year. Here have one of these and another and I will join you. P.S they are big glasses not little ones !

Hear, hear!
I'm fed up of 'them up there' who keep telling us how to live.
I'm an Epicurean not a Stoic!
As far as Diogenes is concerned, the best use for a barrel is to mature wine in it!

I am also fed up with being told what to eat and drink and what not to eat and drink - especially as the advice changes slightly less frequently than I change my socks. A wide variety and everything in moderation seems pretty much okay to me. I think governments do this - the one where I live does it too - in lieu of having to do something or admit something that really is their business.

Yeah, leave us alone! Rose could you find me a quote that recommends Sauvignon Blanc please? Preferably NZ. Ta.

Sparky - When my DH was in a very stressful job he began to get chest pains. He went to his GP who said it was stress related and told him to have 'a couple of whiskies' in the evening. As he doesn't like whiskey, he substituted this for red wine or a couple of G&Ts, it helped him. I probably drink more that is good for me - my life has been (and still is) pretty difficult. OK some might say it's a crutch, well sometimes I need a crutch - there I've said it.

My Great Aunt's DiL's family owned one of the distilleries in Scotland and had a crate of Glen........ delivered to her every Christmas. She never offered anyone a glass, so presumably drank the lot over the course of the year She lived until she was 99 and survived an accident (not drink related!!) when she was in her 90s, which involved almost 200 stitches in her face, head and body, so she did all right!

I suppose the anti-drink lobby could argue that, if she didn't drink, she may have lived to be 150 . . .

Nanalogue that's my favourite too! The Nobilo Limited Release is lovely, but we only buy it when it's on offer. (Personally I prefer it to The Ned)

However I have recently discovered that the Lidl NZ Sauvignon Blanc at £5.89 is very good, much better then their French one.