New beginnings!

HI Lucy,

Its so nice to see you back, and maybe appropriate that the olympic torch is coming your way, a little bit of light to brighten those dark days for you, you continue to ride out the storm (Literally with this weather), so be proud of what you have achieved.

Life can be tough and pretty cr** in places, but take heart that your still edging towards the dream, your strong lucy and your resliant and you have the biggest smile still shining inside you, it will come back and the dark will lift.

Enjoy your weekend.

Blondie xxx

Hi Lucy, really, really glad you're back and feeling a lot happier despite the weather. Enjoy the tennis and have a good weekend. Steve.

Really glad 2 see you back posting mate and you smiling again enjoy the tennis finals over the weekend

Hi Lucy

Really pleased ur doin ok after a sticky patch as u can imagine I fully understand where ur comin through on that one as we both know it's a real bumpy ride

Just wanted to thank u for ur support in my dark times it meant so much just really had no enthusiasm to reply to anyone but hopefully now I'm back on track gonna try do things a bit differently on here think just burnt myself out

Always had a great bond with u as lots of similarities in our lives and the bit of banter we had so couldn't just let that go out of my life

Our lives av turned around so much and all for the better and and that's all by understanding what gambling can do to us and simply choosing not to

Take care

Castle2

Lucy,

Thanks for the post on my diary. This morning I was up at 3am until 4am with the new baby and then up with the other kid at 7am watching yet another episode of Scooby Doo. Shaggy has had a haircut in one of the more modern versions, which doesn't seem quite right.

I hope you enjoy your holidays and hope the weather is a little nicer in your part of the world than it is in mine.

Tomso.

Good Morning World

What is happeneing to the weather, and thought we could miss it but no it has been hissing it down all night, my c*l de sac is flooded , seems i might need aqua car to leave home!

Anyways , the skys may be grey but Lucy is feeling better a day at a time 😉

Some great tennis yesterday , the mens doubles was great , i just love underdogs!

No urges at all , feeling just well not a lot, don't know if that's good or bad really but as long as i stay away from the gambling all is good really!

Today my inspiration will be a couple of lines from a poem which is above a door going onto centre court at wimbledon......

'If you meet with triumph and disaster and treat those two imposters the same'

Well , why bother if you do !

Today my triumph's are that i am still bet free, getting happier and that life is what i will make it!

So i defo don't treat triumph and disaster the same cause i'm so different from when i was in disaster mode!

Enough said!

Keep Strong all

Smiling Lucy xxxx

lucy. Good morning to you i am one of the fortunate few who can dip into gamcare to get my much needed ray of sunshine! And i may need my shades the sense of wellbeing i gain from our forum is truly emmense. I carry that poem with me 24/7 and the other line for us all is "If you can risk all on a turn of pitch and toss, lose and pick up at your beginings and never mention a word of your loss" i feel through all our recoveries we go through this. And i doff my cap to you mr r kipling for bringing poetry to my life and moreover my eldests you are his biggest inspiration. Lucy i am so pleased you have found again your light and keep "believing" i know in you i do. Tonight i am out with my lad and i will raise a glass to you. The light is there and we will all bathe in it gamble free. Duncs stepping forward never back.

hiya Lucy,

I know that poem too..its Rudyard Kiplings 'If"....

Glad to see you are in fine fettle and that each day you are going from strength to strength....xx

Flooding everywhere I think..ad considering going in the wellie business...pets and humans and maybe bringing back the trusty gagoole as a fashion accessory.

thanks for thinking of me and posting hun...am on the up again and just have a few dips now compared to 6 months ago when I was broken .

Hugs

Rach and doo xxx

Hi ya miss Lucy,

You sound in fine fettle. Which is bloody wonderfully.

I have talked a lot about being in the middle , lately , have decided it is far more preferable than the immense lows and even the highs ( few and far between I may add) .

So I think you are joining me in the middle, there's plenty of room , no tears are shed, no one cheering and shouting, just a sense of calm in the air .

Just pulled up a chair for me and one for you . So we can sit and watch the rest of the world rushing here and there . Sort of glad we've taken a step back and left them to get on with it .

Shiny xxxxxxx

Hi Lucy glad you're feeling more like your usual self. Hope the floods have subsided by now. 'If' by Kipling is one of my favourite poems, my Dad gave me a copy of it when I was a kid and I hung it on my wall for years. I'd recite it and try to lead my life according to those words. Probably paid too much attention to the two lines in the third stanza(I think):

"If you can make one heap of all your winnings

And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,"

Well I took that guidance too literally and here I am today as a consequence. Thanks Dad.

Have a nice day Lucy, just go with the flow. Steve

Hey,

Great to see you BACK!! Smiling Lucy was sorely missed. Just picking up on what you said about not feeling anything that can only be a good thing really. Realistically how often does that happen? Prob not very at all so I would say embrace those times. See them as a relief rather than a void. I think our minds have been overworked for far too long as gamblers and I know that in recovery there isn't much peace either. Just my way of looking at it!

Flagg

Hi Loo,

Missed you posting on mine hun!

Having bit of rough time at the mo, Have decided to open up a bit...Feels weird asking strangers for support...What are us gamblers like!!!

Need a bit of Smiling Lucy!

Sue xxxxxx

Hi Lucy

After a nice welcome back post thought it was bout time to straighten a few things out , b4 my 3 weeks in a black hole I seemed to remember been bout 20 posts in front of u but now I find I'm over 56 behind 57 including this one not that I'm counting , I also noticed a duplicate post I put on by error right at the beginning of ur diary I av no idea how to remove it or I would , so Lucy I will av to concede to u and admit defeat for now ! So just like the oap at the baths u just simply glided by me with no effort at all lol

However I av been off today and took the time to count all the words on both our diaries and unfortunately I av to tell u 76563 words are on urs and 77121 on mine so that cheers me up immensely lol

U can recount if u like ! But undoubtedly ur not a saddo like me and it took me 9 hours 24 mins and 8 seconds

On a more more serious note so pleased ur doin tremendously well and proving how valuable u r to this site gonna go now and think of other ways to av a little tease

Take care

Castle2

Thank you 4 your post this morning lucy we both joined this forum on the same day and youve been a great support frm that day fourth as you know today meant a lot to me and thank you again your support has helped me loads.

Dear diary

Sad to hear the passing of Sabine , I hope I can continue to remain bet free and get to the 5 years one day just like she did a day at a time

Today I'm still bet free

Lucy x