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Except that a dry month in the summer seems to be harder than a dry February or a dry October...… Not for me, you understand, but for my friends, some of whom were giving me a bit of stick that I really hadn't quite expected.
* "Haha, so you're on the homeopathic mineral water again then?"
* "Okay, you can tell me, what's the doctor been saying to you on the quiet?"
* "That'll be a cheap round for you then, won't it?"
* "Oh come on, it's no fun if you don't."
* "Got to wait till the antibiotics have finished, have we, eh, nudge nudge, eh?"
Eyebrows raised in the pub (where I'm hardly a regular anyway, maybe once a month). Near neighbour who was really quite offended that I wouldn't touch the liquor at his wedding anniversary do. (I eventually slipped a soft drink into my Pimms glass and hoped he wouldn't notice.)
Flipping heck, I don't mix in boorish beer-swilling circles, and I don't watch the rugby in the pub, and I thought I knew these people better than that. Am I, perhaps, frightening them? And why?
BJ