My Year Without Alcohol

I got home from my New Year dinner and posted the photo featured below on Facebook. This was taken at the beginning of the evening and at first glance there is nothing extraordinary about it, except that I was holding a gin cocktail with a caption saying how excited I was to be tasting my first drink after abstaining from alcohol for the whole of 2018.

I was surprised by the positive response I received, many people did not know I had set this as a personal challenge for 2018. They asked a number of questions, so I thought I would respond with this article about my reasons for doing it…