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There’s a new bar/restaurant in Ayr that I’ve been going to since it opened. Arches just passed the train station towards Ayr Central shopping center is a little bit differant. For a start they have great coffee (in small cups, hint, hint), Staropramen on tap and a differant looking menu. The look of the bar is trendy west end style with a Spanish touch which is reflected on the Tapas menu, I’ve never had the Tapas but I did get the breakfast which was coffee and a bacon roll for less than £3, and it was cripsy and good.

But for those of us that spend our lives in front of a laptop and sometimes working from home Arches offer free WiFi when you buy a coffee or a beer. Last night I had a document to finish and Kim was wanting to go shopping, two in one, parked the car at the shopping center, Kim went off to spend and I went round to Arches to type. I also got talking to the barman Michael and the owner Graeme, nice guys.

It offers the ideal place for Ayrshire internet home workers to go and offers another option to sitting in the spare  bedroom or into front of the TV. Before Arches had opened I used to go to Beanscene, the coffee and the nachos are good but they charge for WiFi. I’ll need to convince the guys at Arches to include nachos to the menu, serve coffee in mugs and it’ll be the better than an office.

Try it out!

With the current postal strikes damaging small businnesses everyone is looking for a resonablily priced alternative.

Could Tesco provide it?

This isn’t as pie in the sky as you may think.

Tesco have a store close to everyone that could be used as a collection point, they already have transportation between stores and hubs and the key to the operations, there home delivery service could double as a post delivery service.

It’s not as crazy as you may think, I’m sure Tesco would love to have a service where they could advertise directly into every home, maybe they could make people use Tesco envelopes, blue and white strips of course.

Any other thought are welcome.

As you will see in my previous post there is no alternative to the Royal Mail, although it’s not looking fit for a queen at the moment.