2013 Here we come

Well Christmas is over and here we are hurtling towards 2013 - only a few days to go and I really have never been one for celebrating the New Year - everyone banging on about a fresh start and all - but why can't every day be a fresh start, every day is a new chance, a chance to make a change, do something good. But we only celebrate 'a fresh start' at the beginning of a new year I wonder why.

Any way just thought I'd pop in and say what ho! and hopefully the new year will mean I post a bit more often.

On the camera front I now have a replacement for the compact camera which died a while back - and it's okay and at least I will be able to take photos from this blog a little more easily (as the camera phone is really not good and the DSLR can be a bit conspicuous at times)

Any way night all is 10:42 pm here in Wales and some of us have to go to work in the morning x

Nightclub Cover Charges - rip off or justified

Just got back from a night out in Cardiff - it was the works Christmas do. And after a lovely meal at a Mexican restaurant in the Brewery Quarter we popped in to the club next door for a few drinks and to be honest although the cover charge wasn't to bad it was irritating - these clubs get you to pay to enter and then pay through the nose for the drinks (a bottle of wine that cost £7.09 in a pub cost £17 in there) they also expect you to pay to use the hairspray in the toilets - now the cover charge I understand and having worked in the pub trade for many years I do get how the prices have been worked out and why they are high - but and here's the thing - you go to the loo and want to use a hairspray or deodorant and they charge you for that - I mean really - come on the can of hairspray would only cost £2 in Superdrug - so in  my opinion they are having a fucking laugh - I could use the restrooms in the Savoy Hotel London and have a spritz of decent perfume for less.

So how can they get away with this?

I will tell you - because we let them - we are idiots - if we all refused to go into these places and went somewhere that didn't charge the earth they would have to change.
It's why I will always prefer my local pub to a club - they may not be open as late - but at least you get a decent drink and although the prices are still high they are not ripping you off - they are just staying afloat. So I say boycott the rip of clubs with the crappy X Factor style formula music and support your friendly local - where the drinks are fair and the staff friendly and the music real - especially if you go to a pub that has live music on.

So do us all a favour before we lose the local pub forever - get out there and support it instead of wasting your money in the City Centre Clubs who only care about the bottom line- because one day you may want a pint in your local and it won't be there, it will be a Indian Restaurant or Charity Shop and you know what - You will only have yourselves to blame!!!