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Congratulations @Tammy for being 9 Months Smoke Free! Well done Tammy.... and welcome to the 75%ers Club... you are 3/4ers of the way to your first year of freedom. What a fantastic quit you have going. Your journey has been one to lead and inspire, not just those coming behind but even those of us ahead. Make sure you do something special today to spoil yourself. And what a way to celebrate your first smoke free Holi.... enjoy the colour and the festivities and the clean, clean air. This is how you should be celebrating....

And out comes an album bound to go platinum.... I put in Singer 127k.

False...not in the last year. TNP has had stitches.

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Congratulations @despair not for being smoke free for 2 years. Well done Notski... Yet another successful smoke buster. 2 years is fantastic and it's great to still have you with us to share you wisdom (especially the facts about chocolate ) and ease the road for those coming behind. Cheers mate.

....frickin predictive text.....although I've been known drive 6 hours for a snot block (vanilla slice).

Welcome back DD. Don't dwell on the lost quit... its gone now, save your energy to focus on this quit, lets make it the forever one. I'm sorry you were caught up in Fridays terror. Keeping you all in my thoughts and prayers.

About 8 hours is on the money @Doreensfree .... just depends which way you got and where you stop... lots of good wineries between Canberra and Melbourne .... and how could you not stop at the Ettamooga Pub..... and then you could come through Kelly County, stoping at Glenrowan.... or Gundagai and the dog on the tucker box..... so much to see which way will you come.... lol. Depends which way ya drive... but between 660km & 730km.... just depends if you go the flat way or the bumpy mountain way.

Yeah cept instead of ice and snow in the middle of our country we have dessert and a giant rock and no real mountains to speak of and add distance... so Gold coast to Carnavron about 5,100km.... and 54hrs of driving time. Don't worry Reci we get the distance thing.... an you guys have Quebec... we have South Australia..... you guys have New Foundland .... We have Tassie....twinning yet opposite.

I just love this whole thread....that's what it's all about!

Ok nearest town for me Melbourne, in the smallest mainland state, bottom right hand side....then CBdave is Brisbane (or BrisVegas) which is kind of the widest part of mainland Australia on the right side (east coast) ..... The cyclone called Trev is hanging round the top at the big pointy bit.

-2 ... I spose it's only normal your scared of Bakon?

And for our American friends who still use the size of King Henry's foot to measure things...Dave lives 932miles from me and the cyclone is 1367miles from him (Dave and the cyclone are in the same state though)

Most women in western societies have one or 2 thyroid nodes and never even know and they are completely benign and don't cause any issues. But if you do have them it's worth keeping an eye on them.

Linda...get a blood test done, ask for things like full thyroid function. I can't comment on menopause cos still waiting....but seeing as we are talking plumbing and some of our newbies might still have monthlies...when I quit mine went screwy...it was all over the place, cycle wise, took about 8months to settle back to normal... And my hot flushes were my thyroid.. which the nicotine had been masking, probably for years. My cycles was so all over the place and the mood swings and hot flushes I was sure it was menopause...but my GP suspected not hence the blood test....there are a few endocrine conditions that are masked by nicotine... Things with me were odd from the get go but when I stopped the nrt they went really wacky.

3... @Tammy.....woohoo you had us all worried...lots of people missed you.....

I'll be fine....Dave might be in for some rough weather.

Yeah well I though thought that women in Australia were meant to "blow" not "glow".....

I thought sailors got a rum ration?

That's near as bad as the cruise ship sailing from Melbourne to Singapore that ran out of beer between WA and Indonesia .... how was there not a mutiny???

Ok...here is one @Lilly will like...veggie count..1 (0nion)....it's loaded rice....special fried rice with bacon, beef, pork balls, chicken, lamb and fried egg omlette.... A carnivores dream....