Booked a hotel for 3 days in Devon and didn’t get the hotel money back dead dead dead. I am being forced back into a normal job if this continues.

GG it will continue to be up and down like it has for last year or 2. I don't see it ever going back to being more consistent for a longer period like it used to be. So yes a back up of something outside of this will be the way forward to have more a stable life.

GG it will continue to be up and down like it has for last year or 2. I don't see it ever going back to being more consistent for a longer period like it used to be. So yes a back up of something outside of this will be the way forward to have more a stable life.

I'm in Central London and I've noticed (since covid) people started working from home, my  clients who used to commute to London every day are now commuting here twice a week, so less opportunities to sneak for a couple hours. Clients I used to see 3 times a month I'm now seeing them once every couple of months. The "business travelling crowd" I had as solid regulars are now doing half of their meetings and conferences on teams/zoom and not coming to London anymore. Bloody digital age. All that money companies are saving on hiring venues and booking hotels for their executives. And yes, we're going through an actual recession on top. The economy has suffered a massive change since covid and depending on our business model it will affect more or less. At least the inflation is going down 

Would of been my best month if wasn't ill at the start.  Now towards end of month it's gone dead.  Done all the usual and still nothing.

I follow Bloomberg news, the Wall Street journal and Goldman Sachs and they keep talking about the UK going into recession (mental note to myself: stop reading the news). On the other hand it always tends to go silent in thanksgiving (my personal experience).

I follow Bloomberg news, the Wall Street journal and Goldman Sachs and they keep talking about the UK going into recession (mental note to myself: stop reading the news). On the other hand it always tends to go silent in thanksgiving (my personal experience).

Yeah, that's what I thought. Speculation about what might possibly happen but hasn't (and from sources not even in the same country) is not fact, and it's spectacularly unhelpful to post as if it is.

The UK is not in recession, 'actual' or otherwise. It's a narrow term with a very specific meaning, the last time it almost happened (but didn't) was about a year ago, and the Bank of England are the people to ask.

I'm ticking over fine here (City of London near Bank) but I find it very all-or-nothing so I'm either doing four-five bookings a day or one (or none). I'm happy enough with that, but I wish I had a crystal ball so I knew which would be which.

I totally  don't get it.im on day
4 with no bookings  whatsoever..September  was OK.but I'm starting  to worry. No calls just a few timewasters after11am.how are you ladies  doing ??

East Midlands is still pretty dead 

A couple of friends and I have noticed the phone dead since the weekend, we have had reservations but not as many as before, we suspect it is because of Black Friday, since the streets have been full of people and everyone was taking advantage The sales.

I suspect that by December everything will improve.