Jit's finished her studies at Leeds Met so next stop Central School of Speech and Drama in London. This last week has been a little mad: up in Leeds packing up her stuff, getting introduced to all her mates and her twin in a social whirl and kicking "disability access" ass! Yo! Right!

To explain, when one has only one good hand due to the Carpal Tunnel op, a manual wheelchair and you're going to leave this place, seldom to return... well one can kick up some real shit with no fear! Hahahahah!!!! (Revenge of the tiddlypeeps).

To summarise:

• Whitelocks pub, Turks Head Yard, Briggate, Leeds. Licensee Mr Darren "tit-head" Hancock, owned by the Spirit Group. A big "fuck you" for not being arsed to comply with the Disability Discrimination Act 1995, namely failing to make reasonable adjustments to allow disabled access and thus discriminating and causing a public safety hazard thereby providing a lower standard of service to disabled patrons in contravention of said Act of Parliament.
• Leeds Central Library: just mad, really mad. Have to join the library and deposit one's library card before one can use the toilets! What's that about?
• Yates's: for thinking that it's reasonable to have a rusty old wheelchair lift outside the pub... with no intercom or doorbell thus necessitating my beloved depositing her wheelchair, crawling up the stairs and across the pub's serving area in order to alert a member of staff to get the lift turned on. Oh how dignified!
• Jessops Leeds for being totally inept and ignorant of the value of customer service.
  

But!!!!!!....... In contrast, a roll of honour for the good places and people in Leeds!:

• F.A.B. (or Fab) bar. Cheap booze, pickled onion Space Invaders, cool tunes, disabled bog and really nice bar staff.
• Walkabout. Easy access, cheap beer (especially the vanilla Mudshakes at £1), top nosh, disabled bog, lovely staff (even leant me a stapler!) and plenty of room to arse about with the electric wheelchair! Rotflol!!
• Cockpit: an honorary mention for being a top venue with only about five steps and cool bouncers. Just a shame that the manager couldn't be arsed to answer either my e-mail or another disabled bod's phonecalls re: access.
• Room: absolutely top restaurant.
• Peacocks: for having funky clothes that actually fit me and Jit and having large fitting rooms that will (just) take me, Jit and the electric chair....
• Cool homeless guys who were much more caring and helpful than the twatty breadhead staff of certain licensed premises one could mention... oh, I did mention them, above!

Ok, I guess that's enough Leeds stuff for now.

The hand is healing up pretty well despite the abuse it's had this past week and stitches are coming out on Tuesday.

Loads more to blog including family shit but I really can't be arsed after getting up at 6.30am to clean/pack Jit's student accommodation ready for her departure followed by the hottest coach journey in history back home etc etc etc.

Huge snogs to Rita and her partner (hope you enjoy the cd), Carla and anyone else that's genuinely nice and considerate.

Ciao fer now....

2005 snogs

posted by Andy 03:32