Lost The Spotted Dog? A shame - we'd had some good people from there in sessions, and I'd a mind to visit it some time.

The Public Entertainment Licence nonsense doesn't help in getting a new home for a session when you lose one. And even if you do, it's dodgy advertising it in case the enforcers get to hear.

A bluegrass monthly session in Stansted Mountfitchet (The Cock) nearly got chopped when the local council came on heavy recently about PELs. Fortunately the landlord decided he wanted to keep it, and went to the hassles and expense of applying for one. But most landlords aren't like that - and he wouldn't have been if he hadn't got to know and like the session for years before the council came down on him.