Is this Britain’s saddest hobby? We meet the man who’s travelled the UK photographing Wetherspoon’s CARPETS

HAVE you ever taken notice of what the carpet is like in your local pub? No, neither have we.

But Kit Caless self confessed carpet connoisseur and author of Spoon’s Carpets definitely has.

Back in March 2015 when he was in Canterbury, Kent, waiting for a train back to London he had time to kill and popped into the Wetherspoon’s near the station for a pint where he spent a little too much time staring at the floor. When he was in another Wetherspoon’s a week later he noticed that the carpet was different and an idea was born.

Kit, 34, invited friends and followers on Twitter to send pictures of their local Wetherspoon’s carpet, he created a blog which quickly went viral.

Then the freelance interior design and architecture writer from Hackney left his long-suffering girlfriend at home and spent weeks travelling the length and breadth of the country to take pictures of...carpets.