Friday night is cocktail night

Actually no,  it was Ladies/Cocktails Night at the Westford Inn and the men were exiled to the public bar. There are worse forms of exile although at this precise moment glasses were empty.... 
The bar was full of those who had clearly been royally entertained elsewhere earlier and were now finding it hard to string together too many words - or paces across the bar - without binding them together with various expletives. Maudlin matey rather than fighting drunk though!
Life on the edge.....