Thank you each and everyone of you who had kindly taken time to reply.
Why I am concerned is that here is a very obvious clique in my place of work and us older staff members are not included.
It seems to be that those who socialise and play together stay together and look after each other.
I should maybe have said that I am 53 and have never , ever had a sick day off work in my entire life.
Many many thanks again to everyone, for their invaluable input
Take care all