Abstain and maintain.Stepping forward never back.

Hey Duncs and doffing my hat there to young Joe...xx

Bit of a wild and choppy day in cyber space today but the good ship GC is stable again and all is calm for all who sail in her. .

Always sailing forward at a fantastc rate of knots...

R and D xx

Morning Duncanmac

Some massive praise for yesterday on highlighting a difficult situation and handling it with great maturity , yes it was great that we all stuck together but that didn't surprise me at all and av to say neither did that one individual trying to cause as much disruption as possible from time to time it will happen

One individual will never break our unity and that showed yesterday but it couldn't av turned into a free for all , hats off to u for quickly realising and making a negative into a positive , showed ur true leadership skills who many look up to

Today is a new day and in ur own words stepping forward never back

Castle2

Hey Duncan,

I have not been around the forum over the last week much (due to work unfortunately) and when I have I have been drunk as a dog! I saw a thread this morning which you started though, the one about somebody trying to be Flagg. Anyway what I read was this guy was harrassing Gamcare members.

Well, I tell you now... Glad he didnt write on mine or I would track that m**o down! Hehe

Good on ya mate for sorting that out, there is just no need for that type of behaviour from anybody, he was more than likely a 12 year old, or that bloke from the BBC you remember Director of the Gambling Association! lol

Well hope you are doing ok mate, and work is going well. You really are an assett here and thank you for all your support Duncs.

I had a brief read of your boy's poem, very cool and abstract. I need time to make the best sense of it. Will have another few reads. Well, that's what poems are for!

Take care and have a good day, and an even better day at work!

JP

Good Evening to you,

I just wanted to say this evening it's an absolute pleasure to read your posts each and every day. You rightfully received wholesome praise yesterday and your commitment to both your own recovery and the recovery of others cannot be commended enough.

Flagg

Evening diary.

Thanks for the high praise folks, I am just happy that the outcome was one to fill the pages of this forum are filled once again with positive threads of recovery and so pleased to read charlotte amongst those.

We all were bullied by an addiction that gave us surely enough grief in our own lives that to stand by and in the emmense efforts of recovery see bullying excist for me is not an option.

Each and every person deserves in equal measure, the opportunity to recover and me I will make it my lifes work to help with that,"we can win because we did stop"

My job has started on the right note, a challenge, not unreachable and something I can see will deliver some great results, today a day to remember those fallen brave souls who made this possible I am humbled and honoured to be given an opportunity to live, love and most of all enjoy life and all it brings.

Duncs compulsive gambler No Bet today

Stepping forwards never back

Respect. xxx

I went to pay my respects yesterday morning. They have a little service outside the library in my little village. It gets me every time. Those poor souls who lost their lives to protect the country and here I am moaning about debt etc etc. Felt so guilty 🙁 makes me even more determined to do the right thing and be the best person I can be.

Lots of Love xxx

Morning Diary.

today marks 42 weeks gamble free,so by my calculations in ten more weeks I will have spent a year turning my life around.

I recieved an email from the bbc today regarding my complaint,re the panorama programme,I won't dwell upon it,it is to be honest as watered down as there programme was,I did think about playing email tennis with them for a bit,but as they will be busy dishing out our licence fees to there failed ex employees I shall not waste any more of there precious time.

I secondly recieved an email from the wonderful thing called gamcare, notifying me about the use of improper language in my saturday morning thread,to which I would like to appologize to anyone who may have taken offence to my post,language, something which in the heat of the moment was I know not inkeeping with the honest hard work we strive to do here.I hold an olive branch to anyone who like me wants to better themselves through recovering from this hugely destructive addiction.

I hope we have a 100% turnout on flagg's thread this week,for me no fitter way to celebrate recovery than in unity.

Today I am not working until late this afternoon so have walked the dog a few miles or he walked me lol depending on which way you saw it!! I knocked up a cottage pie for the herd for there supper and now have enjoyed a great big dose of "gamcare medicine" to add to my resolve,that life is there for the taking and gamble free it does tick all the boxes, I with the dawn of each day see how by making the choice not to take it all and play "chance" with it,it simply will continue to improve,ultimatly improving the lives of those of whom I love so dearly.

Off to the shops now to window shop and see what ideas come to the fore in respect of this weeks menu!!

duncs stepping forward never back.

hi Duncs

thank you for your post cheer me up as usual, and yes my girls are worth much more to me than gold, so this means i will not gamble!!!

you are such a wise inspirational man Duncs and i have much pleasure reading your diary,

i too have done a bit today walked the dog ect. and i am having a bit of "gam care medicine" as you would say then preparing spag bol with meatball's (garlic bread) for my herd when they arrive haha day 11 today and im starting to see a little bit of light at the end of the tunnel 🙂 so now the only way is up 🙂 thank you again for all your support Hollie xx

Hi Duncs

How could we ever be offended by someone so supportive, humble, caring and inspiring as you duncs. Aint never gona happen !!

Nice to see the training is going so well with hovis lol that whistle treat thing is coming along nicely lol.. Bless him some things are just meant to be free.

Onwards lead in hand and gambling stick in the other.

Thanks dunc im happy and proud to be part of the gamcare crew.

Blondie

ditto on Blondies post Duncs..your a passionate guy and people could never take offence...

enjoy that cottage pie....hugs and wuffs to your talented family and Hovis xxx

R and D xx

Duncan you are on 1 hell of a programme a day at a time fair play 2 u ur a gud un

hope u get home from work early enough

take care

Evening diary.

There are not enough hours in the day !!!!

Gladly the schedule which this week will see me wind in a seven day week at work due to it being extremely busy, hrs I will get back next week in time off, but this week I will get my head down and push on, still enough time in the morning to walk the hound and the wee hrs to enjoy sarah!!!

And most importantly not a minute to spend, not even a second to spend on gambling!!

And the few hrs spare I shall sleep!!!

Thanks for all the kind words, I will enjoy my dose of daily gamcare!! All be it by posting on my own diary.

Duncs stepping forwards never back

Dunc, I don't know how you do it. Cooking is your passion but the pressure of being a chef must be enormous. Loads of job satisfaction when you see those empty plates and well fed customers but you certainly earn your corn. You've done so well to get where you are today and your a credit to your family and to this site too. I enjoyed your son's poem too, very clever, obviously your creative side went into cuisine whilst his is drifting towards prose.

Take care, be careful on that bike.

Steve

Heya Duncan,

I was offended about the bad language. Offended that there was not more of it! LOL That idiot deserved more and needed somebody to take it away, and you did it. Nice one...

Glad to hear tyou are in your element, albeit extremely busy but that is what we are born to be otherwise we just end up procrastinating and getting jack all done and most definitely gives us more temptation to gamble. I too am in a position where I dont get as much time to post here but will make sure I can catch up properly at least once a week.

Well all I can say is hope you saved me some of that pie! LOl

Have a wicked week and hope you get that inspiration to knock up a killer menu. I have no doubts!

Onwards and upwards Duncs,

JP