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A bit on the dim side, but still a total belter

The Sunday Times

The owners of a restaurant near where I live in the countryside have obviously decided that many of the rural customers may be so ugly, they wouldn’t want to look at one another while eating. So they’ve fitted extremely low-level lighting.

It works well. You can make out the vague shape of your dining companion — enough to know it’s a person rather than a dolphin or some kind of dog — but you can’t see any of their warts or skin diseases. However, there are drawbacks. It’s so dim in there, the only reason you don’t crash into all the tables while you’re searching for the lavatory is that most customers are using the torches on their iPhones to read the menu.

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