Progress

We have taken another step out of lockdown, whilst other parts of the world are enduring the worst of it. Monday morning, and the sun shone in the market place, and there was a feeling of the way things used to be – almost. Key businesses such as The Golden Fleece remain shut at present, but the market was in full swing, and but for the number of masks worn in the street, either as a precaution or because it was easier than popping it on and off shop by shop, this could have been as it was a couple of years ago. I felt a little positive where in past months there has been a more subdued mood. There was that sense of a bit of bustle, business to be done. I was not rushing off to the big “non-essential” shops in Middlesbrough or York, well not yet anyway, but my watch had chosen this very moment to run out of battery and so I was able to get it seen to. It was so irritating that it was always 10 minutes and 4 seconds past 10 whenever I looked at my wrist….