the railway was better all round but for me...raised a question... Its quite cosy in the smoking area and as a result those who smoke got comfy outside, the question is... are the non smokers happier with the meet split?
It's good to see that at least one Accywebber [derekgas] has considered how the non-smokers felt about the meet moving to the Railway.
I can remember a time when as a smoker I felt like a social outcast and it was wrong. But then that old feeling returned as a non-smoker at the meet. In a big space like the smoking area in the Railway, the smoke isn't too bad but it still hovers and the smell still clings to your clothes and travels home with you. Passive smoking is also every bit as bad for our health. If we wanted to feel we were part of the Accy webbers was it up to us non smokers to join the smokers, even though some of us went through hell to pack them in and did so because we had been diagnosed with a smoking related illness that took as much hell to beat?
I was so disappointed that the smoking issue caused a split in the group. As leader of the group, Mick, I really feel it was up to you to rally everyone together. Instead you arrived at the railway, which incidentally did resemble a bookies with barely a space on any wall not occupied with a Television screen, parked yourself in the smoking area and for the time I did stay you never came to enquire of the non smokers once! They were Accywebbers as well as those you held court with in the alpine log house!
For those of us on Bitter, the JS at the Arden was fine. Though I agree the venue wasn't ideal as regards space. I was concerned that the only message to say the meet had moved to the Railway was on Accy web. Yeh, like anyone gettin ready to go out is going to check Accyweb to see if there's been a venue change
Oh and BTW, Mick, HOW have you managed to upload photos to the gallery that no-one else is presently able to because there is a glitch that only Roy has the rights to access and correct?
It was good to meet and put faces to names. However, I'm sure y'all will think me a whingin git if I suggest that the next meet should be somewhere where there's a bit of music, room for dancin or even Kareoke. Sorry, but just sat around gettin slowly anihilated in a modern version of Yates wine lodge isn't my idea of fun. And yes, I will quite happily arrange the next meet if y'all will trust me and Mick isn't offended by my honesty, as no offence is intended. Just sayin it as it is and as someone who would like to feel they are as valued a member of the family as all the other Accy webbers
(nothing to do with the several beforehand though)
