As the smoking Ban has just arrived in England and the fact it has been in Wales since the 2nd on April I thought I would update you with regards to France?
Well as of the 1st April 2007 smoking is banned in Public places within government buildings only and not until April 2008 will it effect other establishments such as Bars & Restaurants.
When it does come into force it will have devastating effects on this laid back community, although it will not be a total exclusion it is more a separate controlled facility (They must isolate smokers) from the none smokers and provide suitable ventilation for smokers.
But I can see this working in the City's but the out of the way little Bar in the cuds (Country) well I am not so confident of as em they cant afford too and with nearly 70-80% of all punters in the cuds been smokers, well we none smokers will be outside?
What it will manage to do is initiate Social exclusion, so in future if you meet someone and they smoke don't become friends/ what happens if your partner is a smoker though?
Why France:cool:
An Average Summers Saturday in France
We rise around 8am to the sound of next doors cockerel and with Sun shining through our bedroom window The wife makes a cuppa while I collect the bread from the front gate, On return to the house I feed the Chickens & Geese then its my run and back in time for my breakfast.
Around 9.30am my son rises and then at 1130 my stepdaughter rises, We generally shoot off to a car boot sale or the garden center or something like that then return for Lunch in the Garden between 1 – 2pm.
Collect the chicken eggs with my boy around 3pm
We then spent the afternoon in the garden, a little gardening and a lot of swimming pool & Hammock?
Later around 6pm we will have aperitif (Snackies & Alcohol Refreshment) then 7pm its dinner could be in garden) then if we are not out for the evening around friends or neighbors then it’s a walk down the old disused railway track (now a Cycle Path) then water the garden TV and Bonne Nuit.
Murder is it not
Although this will change slightly in September?
