a new year?

New Year is usually a time to look back to the year just gone and to look forward to a new year and plan for everything that will be different.

But this year, this January, looking back, 2020 was dominated by the coronavirus pandemic and trying to look forward, to the coming months, it seems that it will be just more of the same … of lockdowns, restrictions.

If we can plan for the future at all, the gut reaction is to hope for a quick and easy return to how it was before but surely it would be wrong to not learn from all this … not take this as a time to take stock and see if things should be done in a different way. With a shot across the bows, it’s not enough to just duck.