Ingrams of Eye and Oldie fame:
Typical was the story last week of B&B owners being told by health officers that new EU regulations ban animals from "food preparation areas" (by which they mean kitchens). The people in Brussels have apparently decided that a dog or a cat in the kitchen is a serious threat to health. They are supported, among others, by the principal environmental officer of West Dorset District Council, a Mr Will John, who described the typical farmhouse kitchen as "a high-risk area" and claimed that "most people" would agree with him on that point.
What most people would agree on is that Mr Will John is an idiot. But most people would also agree there is nothing much they can do about it or him. And it is that sense of powerlessness which, if they were given a chance to vote, would influence large numbers of them to vote "no", even it they knew it wouldn't make a blind bit of difference.
1 comments:
I can't stand dogs or cats, and would prefer to be warned in advance if they had them roaming around any hotel that I was thinking of visiting, because it'd give me the opportunity to go somewhere else. preferably somewhere that allowed smoking.
Oh.
But if other people aren't bothered by it, then good luck to them. I suppose it's no different to having a pet in the kitchen at home.
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