Treacle I thought for a moment that you were going to say you had cried over the Dulux room visualiser app!
It is definitely soooo much easier to make friends with a baby, and I say that as someone who's borderline antisocial and scared of ever making first move with potential friends!! What I have found is I tend to make baby friends quite randomly. I might go to a group for months and not particularly meet anyone and then make a new friend from soft play or a playground! There are just so many more opportunities to meet people.
Definitely having baths here. I probably have them a teensy bit warmer than is strictly recommended at first (just looove getting into a hot bath) but tend to then cool it down after a minute or so with more cold water (I know, I'm weird!!). It is really prolonged hot water that would pose a danger and baths generally cool down pretty fast so just don't have a scalding hot one and don't keep topping up with hot water!