Tuesday 13 October 2009

The NIA




Why is there always a fly in the ointment? My wife and daughter are going to the NIA on Saturday, which is nice. The tickets arrived today and we were surprised to see the warning "People around you may stand!" Notice it doesn't say that my wife and daughter may stand, but I guess that's the implication. The problem is that my daughter is 5 and won't be able to see much if an adult stands up in front of her, and my wife is unable to stand for prolonged periods.

So I rang the NIA, who immediately and rather brusquely transferred me to the ticket agent. The young lady told me that in her experience people don't stand so there shouldn't be a problem.

My questions are, if someone does stand in front of my wife and daughter, what can they do about it? And why is the NIA allowing standing on the upper tier?

Saturday 10 October 2009

Plonk

Sorry for being such a cheapskate, but having got use to paying £1 a bottle for wine when I lived in Hungary, I don't like paying more than £4 a bottle in England. Good news, then, that Tesco have a not-bad Chilean cab sav on offer at under a threer. Shame I'm not a middle-class pisshead.