First impressions
13/01/12 • 0 Comments

I wouldnt say I am a big drinker in terms of volume, but I have tended to have a drink with dinner 5 or 6 nights a week for probably the last 10 years. As I got older if I had more drinks it would take a day to recover, which was made more complex by having kids running around the house demanding attention etc. Increasingly, if I extended my dinner drinking to two wines I would wake up feeling lethargic and ordinary. During this first week of HSM I have found it really interesting to contemplate the role of habit in my life, and I have also looked quite differently at how Australian society embraces alcohol. What’s been most interesting is that I dont even think I tried to contemplate these things, it was just as if a light came on, and I thought, ‘Right, why am I doing [...]

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