To think that our local pub should understand that the smoking ban applies to them as well?

[MrsSchadenfreude]

OK, so it wouldn't look out of place in Royston Vasey as it is clearly a "a local pub for local people." (The landlady dries her knickers and bras on the radiators in the bar, which is a bit offputting. Fortunately she doesn't serve food.)

But it is the only pub in our village. Went in the other night with DH and the landlady and all her regulars (about six of them) were all sitting there puffing away. Fair enough, they all put their fags out when we came in, but there was still an unpleasant fug. She greeted us in her usual cheery way by saying "Did you want something?" Followed swiftly by "I've got no beer!"

I'd quite like to report her, but if I did, I think she'd have a good idea who it was, and it is a very small village, and we do still have to live here...

Sounds like a great pub I will now be singing that dreadful Rolf Harris song about the pub with no beer all evening.

Can you add a line about the knickers drying, or wouldn't it scan?!

The next nearest pub is three miles away - one across fields and one along the canal towpath. Hic! Splash!

It's supposed to be illegal in all workplaces and public places such as bars, pubs, shops shopping cntres etc.

She surely has a flat upstairs that is her home, unless she sleeps in the bar, and going by what you say about the place it wouldn't surprise me if you said she does

can i just tell you that my mum has a pub and is a smoker......she does not smoke in the bar only upstairs where she lives....and if she is working on the bar she will go outside like the regulars have too.it is not one rule for the landlady.

Saltire, she has a comfy chair in the bar where she does her knitting!

Also us childminders have now apparently tp put up No-Smoking signs all over our houses as it is classed as a workplace.

I've no idea why fio, this is just OFSTED and their policies which are fine whne applied to nursery and playgroup but are ridiculous when applied to childminders who work at home
They seem to forget it is our houses where we live with our partners and children