“So, if you fancy a good pint, a tasty curry or meal out with the family, we hope that you enjoy the Wetherspoon experience.” [company web site]
Not any more, it seems  not unless you’re prepared to eat and drink up fairly quickly, anyway.
JD Wetherspoon, whose pubs are known as family-friendly places to visit for reasonably priced food and drink, has announced that adults with children will be limited to two alcoholic drinks, and may be refused soft drinks and coffee in order to shorten their stay.
Apparently, children are causing the cut-price pub chain discomfort because of a lack of play facilities.
Bizarrely, the pub chain are trying to comply with “child cruelty legislation”. Rather funny, given that, in the case study quoted by the BBC News website, one bar manager said that the parents could stay only if the child left. Huh? So who would look after the child then?
Given that the pub is trying to find new ways of attracting customers, with early morning opening to attract the coffee-supping crowd, and free Wi-Fi, you’d have thought that it would be happy for families to be in the premises during the day time. Evidently not.
Rather bizarre. Thanks JD  at such a point as I have children, I’ll be sure to avoid your establishments and go somewhere that gives a damn about the family.
(Via BBC News)
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I had a BBC Breakfast news TV window open on my desktop this morning, glanced across, and saw this caption appear on the screen:
I scrambled for the volume control and backtracked to hear the ‘news’ that Madeleine’s parents say that they believe she is safe, and will stay in Portugal until she is found.
I’m sorry, but important as that may be, that caption is misleading. The way it’s presented makes it look as if either the BBC, or some official authority, have evidence that leads them to believe that Madeleine McCann is safe.
That’s not the case.
Of course, we have hope that this little girl will be found safe and well, but I’m struggling to see how we’ve been told anything particularly new today. This is irritating reporting from the BBC.
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Interesting choice of words.
According to an undercover film made by the BBC Panorama programme, one (albeit stressed) midwife / nurse at Barnet Hospital in London, when told that a woman in labour who had been stuck in the corridor as there were no ante-natal beds had started crying, told another nurse that she should “Go tell her to get a life”, and then laughs.
She then tried to help – probably in usual NHS style.
Great wording. I think you’ll find the mother-to-be already has a life. And wants a bed.
A better attitude might help.
Oh well, she does then get on the phone and tries to find a bed, but the whole attitude stinks. The underinvestment is crap too.
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