{"id":25138,"date":"2024-12-04T02:06:45","date_gmt":"2024-12-04T02:06:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=25138"},"modified":"2024-12-04T23:49:36","modified_gmt":"2024-12-04T23:49:36","slug":"health-wellbeing-when-will-i-ever-learn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=25138","title":{"rendered":"HEALTH & WELLBEiNG: When Will I Ever Learn?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Bugger! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Had a few drinks. What an effin\u2019 tit! I seem impervious to learning from my mistakes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One thing of note: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I seem most apt to abject tomfoolery in the depths of winter, when very stressed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And I\u2019ve done this two days\/nights in a row. On both occasions swearing \u2018never again\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The day after (nearing midday!).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

This is the kind of behaviour that leads to ruin, or the AA\/religion. When one\u2019s own inner strengths just aren\u2019t enough, or just aren\u2019t there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019ve tried AA meetings. My goodness, they\u2019re depressing! Or at least I found the March AA very much so. They\u2019re also generally quite late; 8-9.30 pm. I\u2019m usually in bed by then!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019ve found, thanks to a helpful AA lady in Wisbech, a daily week-day meeting. But it\u2019s miles away\u2026 in Cambridge. And smack dab in the city centre! So access and cost become issues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anyway, might be worth a try? It\u2019s 12-1 pm, Downing Place, United Reformed Church, Downing St, Cambridge, CB2 3EL.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Looks like they\u2019ve altered this entrance?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Here are some pics of this lunchtime meeting venue. It\u2019s a building I\u2019ve passed by countless times in my life. Never once been inside, tho\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Poss\u2019 an older photo?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I have to admit I love \u2018proper\u2019 olde churches. Anglican, or \u2018High\u2019, perhaps? Often they\u2019re quite dark n\u2019 fusty. This has the feel of a more utilitarian, plainer (more Protestant?) vibe. But it is pleasingly open and bright. And I note elements of green. My favourite colour. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Rather plain interior.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I even watched some snippets from this churches\u2019 YouTube Sunday Worship series. Hmmm!? I liked the olde musick with which they opened \u2018the show\u2019. And I even quite like the idea of singing some good ol\u2019 hymns. It\u2019s the sermonising bit that really puts me off. Oh, and the whole God\/religion schtick.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But when you\u2019re lost at sea, being tossed (oo-er, snigger) about in gales of anxieties and emotions? You\u2019ll reach out for any driftwood\u2026 verily, doth the drowning man clutch at straws.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bugger! Had a few drinks. What an effin\u2019 tit! I seem impervious to learning from my mistakes. One thing of note: I seem most apt to abject tomfoolery in the depths of winter, when very stressed. And I\u2019ve done this two days\/nights in a row. On both occasions swearing \u2018never again\u2019. This is the kind … <\/p>\n

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