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Day 184 GF, broken the 6 months mark can't believe it.

Silver

Checking in on 101 🙂

Mari xx

Silver lining wrote:

Day 184 GF, broken the 6 months mark can't believe it.

Fantastic...Right behind you 🙂

Keep going - we have this beat

Sbb

Silver

Sillycow wrote:

Checking in on 101 🙂

Mari xx

Wow - Well done SC.

You must feel proud !

Sbb

*** LATEST ROLLCALL for the 100 DAY CHALLENGE - COUNTING DOWN THE FIRST OF OUR GROUP TO HIT THE 100 DAY CHALLENGE FINISH LINE! ***

Welcome to our group where 35 magnificent hardy souls are choosing life over misery, day by day. Our aim is to get to 100 days gambling free (GF). Join us, just drop us a line!

• For members of our group still Gambling Free, and with at least 94 days GF - *** DAY 94 COMPLETE! *** Start date: 14th Dec 2016, End Date: 25th March 2017 - finish line crossed ONE DAY after this!
• For our members who've had a wobble, and have had the courage and fortitude to tell us, thank you for your honesty and it shows your character and determination that you are right back in the saddle - more than doubly committed this time.
• For our members with less than 94 days GF under their belts, let's see how you're getting on below! You are doing great and the rest of us will wait for you at the finish line, cheering you on!

Here's where we all are. The first column represents your consecutive GF days, and the second the number of days towards the 100-day challenge.

1 Allana 24 / 24 … 24/02/2017 --> 03/06/2017
2 Athena 69 / 69 … 01/01/2017 --> 11/04/2017
3 attraction 42 / 38 … 09/02/2017 --> 19/05/2017
4 babapapa 102 / 94 … 14/12/2016 --> 24/03/2017
5 Clarkey 58 / 58 … 21/01/2017 --> 01/05/2017
6 Dean0 193 / 5 … 15/03/2017 --> 25/06/2017
7 dsh 95 / 94 … 14/12/2016 --> 24/03/2017
8 Emily82 52 / 52 … 27/01/2017 --> 07/05/2017
9 fiddlesticks 106 / 94 … 14/12/2016 --> 24/03/2017
10 HeroToZero 5 / 5 … 15/03/2017 --> 25/06/2017
11 JayD 127 / 94 … 14/12/2016 --> 24/03/2017
12 Jim24 95 / 94 … 14/12/2016 --> 24/03/2017
13 JI 24 / 24 … 07/01/2017 --> 17/04/2017
14 Kirsty 23 / 23 … 01/03/2017 --> 11/06/2017
15 KO (Mick) 49 / 49 … 30/01/2017 --> 10/05/2017
16 Lady H 49 / 49 … 01/02/2017 --> 11/05/2017
17 LHN 79 / 79 … 29/12/2016 --> 09/04/2017
18 M (SC) 101 / 5 … 14/12/2016 --> 24/03/2017
19 MarkMan 69 / 69 … 10/01/2017 --> 20/04/2017
20 mccawpa 25 / 25 … 24/02/2017 --> 04/06/2017
21 Mixer 5 / 5 … 15/03/2017 --> 25/06/2017
22 Our Lady 29 / 29 … 19/02/2017 ---> 29/05/2017
23 panders 67 / 67 … 13/01/2017 --> 23/04/2017
24 Rainman 5 / 5 … 15/03/2017 --> 25/06/2017
25 Rhoda 42 / 5 … 15/03/2017 --> 25/06/2017
26 Sam 294 / 94 … 14/12/2016 --> 24/03/2017
27 Samson 190 / 94 … 14/12/2016 --> 24/03/2017
28 Silver 184 / 94 … 14/12/2016 --> 24/03/2017
29 Skyblue 167 / 5 … 15/03/2017 --> 25/06/2017
30 Smorgan 24 / 24 … 24/02/2017 -->03/06/2017
31 Sodawater 40 / 40 … 21/12/2016 --> 24/03/2017
32 Triangle 1104 / 94 … 14/12/2016 --> 24/03/2017
33 Vamp 44 / 44 … 05/02/2017 --> 15/05/2017
34 Wardal 113 / 94 … 14/12/2016 --> 24/03/2017
35 woodley 83 / 83 … 27/12/2016 --> 06/04/2017

*** ROLLCALL SUCCESS *** Mari (SC), you've hit the big 100 and are on Dalmation Day - 101 - today! A marvellous achievement and proving your unswerving determination day by day. We salute you! And salute Samson and Silver for crossing the symbolic, important, half-year point. 6 hard fought months; what can we say. We congratulate you because - we care, and it matters.

Hello everyone and thank you as always for keeping active on these forums, so that I can help ensure you're still on board with this challenge and, most importantly our continued GF recovery! It's an exciting week, as some of our number become the first to cross the 100 day line. I acknowledge personally the selflessness some of you have shown in resetting your day count to zero, in order to walk along with me, but your counts will not be forgotten come the day!

Some of us, including me, will have pangs of disappointment not to be crossing the finishing line but, my god, friends, if we have lapsed, will we get across the line? I thought I heard you right - YES.

There are 6 days before some of our group cross that line - March 26th marks when the finish line is substantively and successfully breached! What happens then, you may wonder. Is this 'it' for those that cross? Is the pressure off, is the game over? The answer is; NO, of course not! But recognition will be there as we start the next phase of our recovery... all to be revealed in the next few days!

Markman, Kirsty, JayD, Dswright, you are doing great - keep going! And Sbb; as supportive as ever, a real 'rock' in our group. (I strongly recommend to our group to read Skyblueblue's diary - a genuinely inspirational read.)

*** QUOTES OF THE DAY *** from famous Brits. Always deliciously understated...

A member of Parliament to Disraeli:"Sir, you will either die on the gallows or of some unspeakable disease.”
"That depends, Sir, " said Disraeli,"whether I embrace your policies or your mistress."

"He had delusions of adequacy "
-Walter Kerr

"He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire."
- Winston Churchill

"I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure."
-Clarence Darrow

"He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary."
-William Faulkner (about Ernest Hemingway)

"Thank you for sending me a copy of your book; I'll waste no time reading it."
-Moses Hadas

"I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it."
-Mark Twain

"He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends."
-Oscar Wilde

"I am enclosing two tickets to the first night of my new play; bring a friend, if you have one."
-George Bernard Shaw to Winston Churchill

"Cannot possibly attend first night, will attend second... if there is one."
-Winston Churchill, in response

"I feel so miserable without you; it's almost like having you here."
-Stephen Bishop

"He is a self-made man and worships his creator."
-John Bright

"I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial."
-Irvin S. Cobb

"He is not only dull himself; he is the cause of dullness in others."
-Samuel Johnson

"He is simply a shiver looking for a spine to run up."
- Paul Keating

"In order to avoid being called a flirt, she always yielded easily."
-Charles, Count Talleyrand

"He loves nature in spite of what it did to him."
-Forrest Tucker

"Why do you sit there looking like an envelope without any address on it?"
-Mark Twain

"His mother should have thrown him away and kept the stork."
-Mae West

"Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go."
-Oscar Wilde

"He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts... for support rather than illumination."
-Andrew Lang (1844-1912)

"He has Van Gogh's ear for music."
-Billy Wilder

"I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But I'm afraid this wasn't it."
-Groucho Marx

WCAWW!

Hi Mixer - really sorry to catch up and read about your slip. You're a true legend amongst these internet walls and I wish you every success in life and this challenge. Keep a positive picture in your mind of a gamble free future.

"I feel so miserable without you; it's almost like having you here."
-Stephen Bishop

Says it all really in relation to gambling...

Keep the faith

Northern Soul

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uB3bW6I5gEA&list=PLD7D13FBD8A0E7572

Great quotes Mixer - are you sure they are all British?

Markman D70GF

Hi guys, Checking in and gf. Been working overseas for a few weeks so glad to see how well we are all doing. I'm excited to get to that magic 100. Jim

Still gf all good

Mixer wrote:

*** LATEST ROLLCALL for the 100 DAY CHALLENGE - COUNTING DOWN THE FIRST OF OUR GROUP TO HIT THE 100 DAY CHALLENGE FINISH LINE! ***

Welcome to our group where 35 magnificent hardy souls are choosing life over misery, day by day. Our aim is to get to 100 days gambling free (GF). Join us, just drop us a line!

• For members of our group still Gambling Free, and with at least 94 days GF - *** DAY 94 COMPLETE! *** Start date: 14th Dec 2016, End Date: 25th March 2017 - finish line crossed ONE DAY after this!
• For our members who've had a wobble, and have had the courage and fortitude to tell us, thank you for your honesty and it shows your character and determination that you are right back in the saddle - more than doubly committed this time.
• For our members with less than 94 days GF under their belts, let's see how you're getting on below! You are doing great and the rest of us will wait for you at the finish line, cheering you on!

Here's where we all are. The first column represents your consecutive GF days, and the second the number of days towards the 100-day challenge.

1 Allana 24 / 24 … 24/02/2017 --> 03/06/2017
2 Athena 69 / 69 … 01/01/2017 --> 11/04/2017
3 attraction 42 / 38 … 09/02/2017 --> 19/05/2017
4 babapapa 102 / 94 … 14/12/2016 --> 24/03/2017
5 Clarkey 58 / 58 … 21/01/2017 --> 01/05/2017
6 Dean0 193 / 5 … 15/03/2017 --> 25/06/2017
7 dsh 95 / 94 … 14/12/2016 --> 24/03/2017
8 Emily82 52 / 52 … 27/01/2017 --> 07/05/2017
9 fiddlesticks 106 / 94 … 14/12/2016 --> 24/03/2017
10 HeroToZero 5 / 5 … 15/03/2017 --> 25/06/2017
11 JayD 127 / 94 … 14/12/2016 --> 24/03/2017
12 Jim24 95 / 94 … 14/12/2016 --> 24/03/2017
13 JI 24 / 24 … 07/01/2017 --> 17/04/2017
14 Kirsty 23 / 23 … 01/03/2017 --> 11/06/2017
15 KO (Mick) 49 / 49 … 30/01/2017 --> 10/05/2017
16 Lady H 49 / 49 … 01/02/2017 --> 11/05/2017
17 LHN 79 / 79 … 29/12/2016 --> 09/04/2017
18 M (SC) 101 / 5 … 14/12/2016 --> 24/03/2017
19 MarkMan 69 / 69 … 10/01/2017 --> 20/04/2017
20 mccawpa 25 / 25 … 24/02/2017 --> 04/06/2017
21 Mixer 5 / 5 … 15/03/2017 --> 25/06/2017
22 Our Lady 29 / 29 … 19/02/2017 ---> 29/05/2017
23 panders 67 / 67 … 13/01/2017 --> 23/04/2017
24 Rainman 5 / 5 … 15/03/2017 --> 25/06/2017
25 Rhoda 42 / 5 … 15/03/2017 --> 25/06/2017
26 Sam 294 / 94 … 14/12/2016 --> 24/03/2017
27 Samson 190 / 94 … 14/12/2016 --> 24/03/2017
28 Silver 184 / 94 … 14/12/2016 --> 24/03/2017
29 Skyblue 167 / 5 … 15/03/2017 --> 25/06/2017
30 Smorgan 24 / 24 … 24/02/2017 -->03/06/2017
31 Sodawater 40 / 40 … 21/12/2016 --> 24/03/2017
32 Triangle 1104 / 94 … 14/12/2016 --> 24/03/2017
33 Vamp 44 / 44 … 05/02/2017 --> 15/05/2017
34 Wardal 113 / 94 … 14/12/2016 --> 24/03/2017
35 woodley 83 / 83 … 27/12/2016 --> 06/04/2017

*** ROLLCALL SUCCESS *** Mari (SC), you've hit the big 100 and are on Dalmation Day - 101 - today! A marvellous achievement and proving your unswerving determination day by day. We salute you! And salute Samson and Silver for crossing the symbolic, important, half-year point. 6 hard fought months; what can we say. We congratulate you because - we care, and it matters.

Hello everyone and thank you as always for keeping active on these forums, so that I can help ensure you're still on board with this challenge and, most importantly our continued GF recovery! It's an exciting week, as some of our number become the first to cross the 100 day line. I acknowledge personally the selflessness some of you have shown in resetting your day count to zero, in order to walk along with me, but your counts will not be forgotten come the day!

Some of us, including me, will have pangs of disappointment not to be crossing the finishing line but, my god, friends, if we have lapsed, will we get across the line? I thought I heard you right - YES.

There are 6 days before some of our group cross that line - March 26th marks when the finish line is substantively and successfully breached! What happens then, you may wonder. Is this 'it' for those that cross? Is the pressure off, is the game over? The answer is; NO, of course not! But recognition will be there as we start the next phase of our recovery... all to be revealed in the next few days!

Markman, Kirsty, JayD, Dswright, you are doing great - keep going! And Sbb; as supportive as ever, a real 'rock' in our group. (I strongly recommend to our group to read Skyblueblue's diary - a genuinely inspirational read.)

*** QUOTES OF THE DAY *** from famous Brits. Always deliciously understated...

A member of Parliament to Disraeli:"Sir, you will either die on the gallows or of some unspeakable disease.”
"That depends, Sir, " said Disraeli,"whether I embrace your policies or your mistress."

"He had delusions of adequacy "
-Walter Kerr

"He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire."
- Winston Churchill

"I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure."
-Clarence Darrow

"He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary."
-William Faulkner (about Ernest Hemingway)

"Thank you for sending me a copy of your book; I'll waste no time reading it."
-Moses Hadas

"I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it."
-Mark Twain

"He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends."
-Oscar Wilde

"I am enclosing two tickets to the first night of my new play; bring a friend, if you have one."
-George Bernard Shaw to Winston Churchill

"Cannot possibly attend first night, will attend second... if there is one."
-Winston Churchill, in response

"I feel so miserable without you; it's almost like having you here."
-Stephen Bishop

"He is a self-made man and worships his creator."
-John Bright

"I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial."
-Irvin S. Cobb

"He is not only dull himself; he is the cause of dullness in others."
-Samuel Johnson

"He is simply a shiver looking for a spine to run up."
- Paul Keating

"In order to avoid being called a flirt, she always yielded easily."
-Charles, Count Talleyrand

"He loves nature in spite of what it did to him."
-Forrest Tucker

"Why do you sit there looking like an envelope without any address on it?"
-Mark Twain

"His mother should have thrown him
away and kept the stork."
-Mae West

"Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go."
-Oscar Wilde

"He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts... for support rather than illumination."
-Andrew Lang (1844-1912)

"He has Van Gogh's ear for music."
-Billy Wilder

"I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But I'm afraid this wasn't it."
-Groucho Marx

WCAWW!

Checking in for this week. Good luck all. tri

Checking in GF on day 69! No interest or inclination to gamble, horrible result from my sisters brain tumour pathology...so far more important battles for me right now than this one.

Hi All, day 116 for me today. Mixer I am behind you, please reset my challenge I will walk beside you xx you have been a create help throughout all of this xx

Work is keeping me busy (and on here less) at present, but still fully committed and behind everyone on their journey to a better life.

Treble Twenty,
Treble Twenty,
Bullseye.

170 Not out.

Sbb

*** LATEST ROLLCALL for the 100 DAY CHALLENGE - COUNTING DOWN THE FIRST OF OUR GROUP TO HIT THE 100 DAY CHALLENGE FINISH LINE! ***

Welcome to our group where 35 magnificent hardy souls are choosing life over misery, day by day. Our aim is to get to 100 days gambling free (GF). Join us, just drop us a line!

• For members of our group still Gambling Free, and with at least 97 days GF - *** DAY 97 COMPLETE! *** Start date: 14th Dec 2016, End Date: 25th March 2017 - finish line crossed ONE DAY after this!
• For our members who've had a wobble, and have had the courage and fortitude to tell us, thank you for your honesty and it shows your character and determination that you are right back in the saddle - more than doubly committed this time.
• For our members with less than 97 days GF under their belts, let's see how you're getting on below! You are doing great and the rest of us will wait for you at the finish line, cheering you on!

Here's where we all are. The first column represents your consecutive GF days, and the second the number of days towards the 100-day challenge.

1 Allana 27 / 27 … 24/02/2017 --> 03/06/2017
2 Athena 72 / 72 … 01/01/2017 --> 11/04/2017
3 attraction 45 / 41 … 09/02/2017 --> 19/05/2017
4 babapapa 105 / 97 … 14/12/2016 --> 24/03/2017
5 Clarkey 61 / 61 … 21/01/2017 --> 01/05/2017
6 Dean0 196 / 8 … 15/03/2017 --> 25/06/2017
7 dsh 98 / 97 … 14/12/2016 --> 24/03/2017
8 Emily82 55 / 55 … 27/01/2017 --> 07/05/2017
9 fiddlesticks 109 / 97 … 14/12/2016 --> 24/03/2017
10 HeroToZero 8 / 8 … 15/03/2017 --> 25/06/2017
11 JayD 130 / 97 … 14/12/2016 --> 24/03/2017
12 Jim24 98 / 97 … 14/12/2016 --> 24/03/2017
13 JI 27 / 27 … 07/01/2017 --> 17/04/2017
14 Kirsty 26 / 26 … 01/03/2017 --> 11/06/2017
15 KO (Mick) 52 / 52 … 30/01/2017 --> 10/05/2017
16 Lady H 52 / 52 … 01/02/2017 --> 11/05/2017
17 LHN 82 / 82 … 29/12/2016 --> 09/04/2017
18 M (SC) 104 / 8 … 14/12/2016 --> 24/03/2017
19 MarkMan 72 / 72 … 10/01/2017 --> 20/04/2017
20 mccawpa 28 / 28 … 24/02/2017 --> 04/06/2017
21 Mixer 8 / 8 … 15/03/2017 --> 25/06/2017
22 Our Lady 32 / 32 … 19/02/2017 ---> 29/05/2017
23 panders 70 / 70 … 13/01/2017 --> 23/04/2017
24 Rainman 8 / 8 … 15/03/2017 --> 25/06/2017
25 Rhoda 45 / 8 … 15/03/2017 --> 25/06/2017
26 Sam 297 / 97 … 14/12/2016 --> 24/03/2017
27 Samson 193 / 97 … 14/12/2016 --> 24/03/2017
28 Silver 187 / 97 … 14/12/2016 --> 24/03/2017
29 Skyblue 170 / 8 … 15/03/2017 --> 25/06/2017
30 Smorgan 27 / 27 … 24/02/2017 -->03/06/2017
31 Sodawater 43 / 43 … 21/12/2016 --> 24/03/2017
32 Triangle 1107 / 97 … 14/12/2016 --> 24/03/2017
33 Vamp 47 / 47 … 05/02/2017 --> 15/05/2017
34 Wardal 116 / 97 … 14/12/2016 --> 24/03/2017
35 woodley 86 / 86 … 27/12/2016 --> 06/04/2017

*** VERY CLOSE NOW! *** Only 3 days before some of our group achieve the objective- to hit 100 days together!

Thank you, as always, for updating your diaries and checking in! There are some truly stunning consective GF days attained by so many of us - let's keep it going! And only 3 days before the first of our group cross the 100 day finish line.

I would personally have loved to be part of your number. But, I am not prone to excuses or self-pity, and have started again and will, day by day, ensure I join you in due course. I will join you. We are all beyond excuses, because we CAN do this.

So, what will happen come the happy day, March 26th? Well.... here's the plan.

Everyone who hits 100 days on the challenge receives a BRONZE medal! I am currently commissioning the production of a medal, with a simple '100 day' motif, that I will arrange, through Gamcare, anyone who attains bronze medal status to collect. It is not expensive; but it is symbolic and unique. Once 100 days are reached, the medal cannot be taken away and can be placed in your wallet, or purse, as a permanent reminder of your achievement. I will sort out the logistics. (P.S. You may not wish to receive a medal, however you will be noted, with your permission, with 'Bronze' status, in future rollcall stats.)

Then ... once anyone has reached 100 days then the clock is reset to zero!!!! And then..

... the aim will be to reach a fresh 100 days. After which a silver medal is obtained, but only if 100 days follows the previous 100 days. In other words, 200 consecutive days. If you should relapse during this time, then the count resets to zero, however if you have previously obtained a bronze medal that is yours to keep as a reminder of your previous achievement.

The 100 day challenge will continue, with many of us striving for our bronze and some of us aiming for silver.

At the moment, here are our group members in the bronze medal position, heading towards 100 days in 3 days time:

babapapa
Dean0
dsh
fiddlesticks
JayD
Jim24
M (SC)
Sam
Samson
Silver
Skyblue
Triangle
Wardal​

Over 50 of us have passed through this challenge, and above will be the first 25% (13) to pass through the 100 day gates in 3 days time - always one day at a time, of course, but proof to us all that, with the right attitude, support and the blocks in place - it CAN be done.

Let's all look foward to Saturday, when we can toast our first Bronze medallists. There are plenty of us in the slipstream, not far behind, so the celebrations will keep on coming! We will then focus on the next level - Silver.

Sbb - you've reached the highest legal darts checkout - superb. Not long before the top 3-darter!

Pander - we are always with you; god knows what some of us have to face at times... keep strong, mate, I have no doubt you are being the very best brother you could possibly be...

Wardle - thank you for offering to reset your count and walk alongside me, but, along with dean0, Sbb and Rhoda, your GF totals simply cannot be ignored - all on 97 days and deserved of that bronze on Sunday. You all have my total respect: thank you.

Change- thank you for your kind words, and catchy Youtube link!

Jim, thank you to you, too - heading towards that finish line with a flourish!

*** THOUGHT OF THE DAY ***

This is an old thought of the day; I've used it before. But it's worth repeating: If you think you will be gambling free today, then you WILL be gambling free today.

WCAWW!

Late checking in still gf