A teenager who heard her parents talking about doing ‘Dry January’ has taken it a step further – by creating her own booze-free incentives for every month of the year.
Journalist Christoper Hope’s daughter devised the set of witty monikers to incorporate “Free of alcohol February” and “More apple juice March!” – then stuck the handwritten list to the family fridge. She also decorated the borders of the note with the motivational phrases: ‘Say no to drinking!’ and ‘no need to drink!’[Read more: Quitting Booze? We Tried Non-Alcoholic Drinks To Find The Best]It’s something when a teenager is the one telling their parent not to drink.
She decreed the fourth month of the year to be ‘Alcohol free April’ – and in a savage blow, ‘Martini free May’. June was to be ‘Drink free June’, July ‘no gin July’, followed by the sobering ‘Abstinent August’.
‘Sober October’ followed a ‘Steady September’, shortly before ‘No-wine November’. Got home to find new drinking rules on the kitchen cupboard from our 14yo daughter 👇 pic.twitter.com/sm2RHUGytn— Christopher Hope📝 (@christopherhope) September 11, 2019But all is not lost for the chief political correspondent and assistant editor of The Daily Telegraph – because, according to his daughter, he only has to wait until... December 2020.
Or, ‘Drinking December’, as it shall henceforth be known.
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