Please don't ask...

[sawyl]

Moderately successful lunchtime trip to the pub today, in an attempt to make our new colleague feel welcome. Everything went reasonably well, probably because I was discreetly positioned at the opposite end of the table so that the only people in contact with my scary intensity were those who'd had time to acclimatise, but our efforts at nonchallence were slightly undermined when our latest asked how often we came to the pub for lunch, only for W to say that he didn't think it had ever happened before. Oops.