Field Guide
A Field Guide to Social Drinkers Torquil Arbuthnot provides a handy guide to the different types of social drinker one may encounter now the pubs are open again
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s the tedium of lockdown ends and a Chap is able to saunter forth once more, his thoughts swiftly turn to the delights of social drinking. Whatever the type and location of watering-hole (the Soho drinking den, the park bench, the Lamb & Flag) one will encounter in each establishment a wide selection of social drinkers. The following field guide will help the discerning Chap identify (and in some cases avoid) some of the more common types of toper.
“After lunch a siesta is in order, followed by a further drinking session (industrial-strength cider, a dry sherry) on a park bench, where he will exchange badinage with passers-by and pigeons” 16
