Happy Christmas 2020

 Well it's been a funny old year 2020 hasn't it! I mean "funny" as in  "strange" of course, not humorous, which it hasn't been for the most part.

Things all started off well enough, other than this virus that was affecting people in China. Then, before we knew it, the thole world had been caught up in Covid-19 and it was panic stations as countries either tried to get hold of PPE equipment, or just tried to fob it off as a hoax or deny it.

Sadly, 9 months later, some people still think Covid-19 is a myth. I think there are far more though, who would admit it's not, having lost someone they love or at least someone they know to it.

Of course with Covid-19 came the lockdowns, limiting where people could travel, who they could meet up with etc and along with that the panic buying as people feared that the stores woudl run out of essential items, like toilet paper. Naturally they did, but not because of supply problems, instead just because of greedy people loading up their shopping carts and clearing the shelves.

Then, many of us didn't even try to go abroad for our summer break. Many didn't go anywhere hardly, but another group couldn't miss their holidays by the beach and complained when another wave of lockdowns hit while they were away. Like many others, I think we file that in the "selfish" category.

Right now, in the last few days before Christmas, it's time to panic but again, at least in the UK, as between scares over Brexit causing shortages, there are now fears over a new strain of the virus. As a result, Great Britain has very much become an island again, with flights and ferries cancelled.

Hopefully this will be a good thing in the long run, prompting us to try and be more self sufficient in some ways, but like everything this year, we don't know what lies ahead of us. The one saying that does keep coming to mind is "Hindsight is the only perfect science" and that has proved to be true over and over again in 2020.

Well, if you are reading this, and I hope someone does, I wish you a safe and happy Christmas holiday and as always for the New Year, a Happy, Healthy and Prosperous one. I don't think we can wish anyone more than that, other than to add that hopefully this time next year, things will have mostly returned to normal. A better kind of normal as well.