Subtle innuendos follow…

As per binners, I started karate 18 months ago as the boy wanted  to try it and love it. Yesterday we were punching each other in the stomach. What fun!

(It’s not fighting really though, its self defence, different to fighting)

Meet a new woman and …erm… explore? That’s what I did …Good for fitness too  (I appear to be unable to use my cheeky selection of emojis. Oh well)

I’m in a very similar situation to you OP.  7 months sober has really made me look at the way I spend my time, which I have a lot more of as I’m not in a haze or feeling rough from the night before.  I ride my bike a lot more, I paddle board, swim, walk, read.  I’ve cut right back on nights out as I realised I wasn’t going for the event, I was going to get drunk and high.  The new Mister P is a bit boring but I’m much happier with that.  Good luck to you.

Meet a new woman

The current one has put up with me for 32 years, I’d better stick it out now

Cycling Canoeing (not kayak) grandchildren

In between stressful but shouldn’t be work, my kids taxi and PA, and horrible gardening, I do all the maintenance on a bike fleet of road and mtb’s, and have been bringing a old’ish VW t5.1 Caravelle up to a really good mechanical std.

Working on stuff is in my blood, I used to build RC stuff for a LHS back in the 80’s as a kid, then motorbikes and cars, until 35 years ago when I discovered bikes, I just stopped.  But now I am back working on cars on the drive and love it

I have a similar problem since going dry. I also find that i am awake 16-18 hours a day, every bloody day. It is relentless. You wake up in the morning without a hang over but you know that you won’t get to feel any better for the rest of the day.

I bought a very nice car and fkd it up to modify it.

You do get a lot of ‘white powder’ floating around when you are sanding it to shape though. The bike was clean and shiney when I put it away last weekend.

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May I recommend getting a dog ?

That’ll keep you out of mischief (providing you get a proper dog – you know – one that goes ‘woof’ and not ‘yap’. The sort that you’d not be embarrassed to take to the pub, if you’d only not stopped drinking).

Having a dog will also help you participate in the previously mentioned dog-biking, bike-dogging, and plain normal dog-dogging too.

The current one has put up with me for 32 years, I’d better stick it out now

Bigamy. Now that looks like an all consuming hobby. Might not keep you out of trouble but you wouldn’t get bored too quickly.

Playing live music.

Nothing like the buzz of not messing up that tricky bit Infront of people. Even just at practice it’s still a buzz.

Fencing

With swords, not fence posts. If you get it right you hit someone, get it wrong they hit you. Unlike most combat sports it doesn’t really hurt that much. Not many broken bones in a fencing club and my coach still fences regular in his 70’s. I wouldn’t fancy boxing 20 something’s when I was 20 and certainly not when I was 70.