Wetherspoons

Ok, it's not my favourite pub chain, but JD Wetherspoon has announced that they are going to be making all their pubs none smoking by the spring of 2006. Some 60 of them are going to be non-smoking by spring this year. Fantastic news!

I was in the one in Horsham this Christmas, and it was awful, the small non-smoking area was packed out, and there was a fug right across the main open plan bar area, it just wasn’t healthy. I complained to the manager about him not having the ventilation system working and he said it was going full blast and he’d had lots of complaints about it not just mine.

So kudos to the Mr. Martin. Maybe they will lose a few smokers, but people I know will frequent them more often, people who have been known to walk out of smoky pubs and get a few beers in to drink at home rather than put up with not being able to breath all night

The first day

as in the rest of my life.

A quick update first, I was made redundant just over a year a go, and have applied for hundreds upon hundreds of jobs since then. I've almost now given up on getting a full time job now and am going after setting up my own business.

I do voluntary work for a couple of local charities, which I’d like to continue, and see this as a niche market not targeted by any of the bigger consultancies.

Unfortunatly I'm about to be made homeless, and with no car, no income, loads of stuff, and nowhere to go things could start to get more interesting.