Reflections on sobriety

I’ve been sitting on the fence around doing a sober stint for a while now. I’ve done some sober stints before in my life — who hasn’t? A few months, or just a month or a few weeks here and there. Whilst in the halycon days of my mid twenties I felt I needed to have a proper break from the booze afte a few too many heavy weekends, since I’ve got into my early thirties I’ve been doing the whole ‘moderate’ drinking thing, and for a while, I’ve seemed to be OK.

In fact, for a couple of years, I thought I’d got it. I’d found that illusive balance — being able to drink little and often, not so…