Guide dog

I’ve long clung hold of one small crumb of comfort from my encroaching blindness. Namely that if and when my deteriorating vision (I have albinism and nystagmus) packs up completely, I can become one of those blokes who takes his guide dog to the pub and teaches it to drink beer from an ashtray.   But I won’t be doing that at any branches of J.D. Wetherspoon as things stand. As of this week, flyers alighting at Alicante airport can get a morning pint at the first branch of the chain to open on Spanish soil. Back at home, however, the issue facing the pub concerns hounds, not holidaymakers. The equality watchdog has taken the mega-chain to task for its policy of refusing to serve customers with disabilities whose assistance dogs do not have their own