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[pmeswani]

I wonder if Hookers are feeling the downturn like the rest of us?

They have their ups and downs.

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[AlfredJPruffock]

I wonder if Hookers are feeling the downturn like the rest of us?

Seems not - I met a hooker from Glasgow the other day , she tells me business is so good - if she had another pair of legs she would open uip in Edinburgh.

PS for the seasonsed veterans like myself who have seen a few recessions come and go - you will find that businesses such as Alcohol, cigareetes, druges, entertainment do well as people turn more to escapism.

[bobspud]

Seems not - I met a hooker from Glasgow the other day , she tells me business is so good - if she had another pair of legs she would open uip in Edinburgh.

PS for the seasonsed veterans like myself who have seen a few recessions come and go - you will find that businesses such as Alcohol, cigareetes, druges, entertainment do well as people turn more to escapism.

So why is punch taverns share price down 80%? Maybe they are doing so well that they want to sell their best sites for fun rather than an emergency cash injection...

My favourite pub is down on last years figures by a fair margin, and another very good pub in a local village went tits up before Christmas. I was talking to a chap in the pub game and he was saying that Green king are starting to make offers like a year free of rent and no beer tie ins. I have been looking at going into the trade for a few years now. The pub view is that brewers will be extending lines of credit to existing landlords over the next few months despite dipping turnover, hoping that a warm summer brings in more summer punters. In short a wet summer will see many more pubs go to the wall...

[NickNick]

A drive across Somerset last weekend took me past village after village with closed pubs.

[wurzel]

A drive across Somerset last weekend took me past village after village with closed pubs.

Quite a few village pubs around Frome have gone in the last year including my own village local, the Sun Inn at Whatley. The pub co sold it on with a covenant stipulating that it could never be used as a pub again. Very sad, part of village life gone.

[zara_backdog]

A drive across Somerset last weekend took me past village after village with closed pubs.

Pubs in Minehead were really busy a couple of weeks ago - put our local to shame.

[wurzel]

Pubs in Minehead were really busy a couple of weeks ago - put our local to shame.

Probably the locals making the most of them while they can before the Brummie invasion