Sometimes I visit friends of ours who have recently had kids

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See, I find this odd. Increasingly, I find I go to the pub specifically in order to be alone. Taking someone with me who hasn't even the merit of being able to go to the bar for me seems to defeat the object of going to the pub in the first place.

I am talking about 1-2 pints here B, not double figures and dancing to Xmas songs like last Friday.