Hi,
best wishes to all of you for 2023. Hopefully it will be a better year than the last one.
Having said that, we really just had one bad DAY last year! February 28th. The rest of the year demonstrated the resilience of our town, and showed a positive spirit (by lots of folk) to re-build, re-invent, and renew. Walk around the city block today and there are more businesses re-opened than not, and even more than a few new ones!
A lot more residential properties seem to be occupied as well. I suspect that most of those are owner-occupied rather than rentals. Just like the businesses - if you have true personal connections to a place (whether financial, emotional, or both) you simply have to defend it. And re-invest.
2022 was so broken and disrupted that it's only really been in the last month or so that I've had a fully operational workspace and been able to get back into top gear.
I have quite a big backlog of major repairs to catch up on, as well as a few dozen minor ones, so I will have to close my shop for a few weeks to catch up.
The nature of my gig means that I usually have to pull the shutters down for one or two weeks each year (to catch up!), but the chaos that was 2022 means that this time I have to do it for a few weeks.
My shop will re-open late January and hopefully things will be back to "normal" after that.
Best wishes to everyone, and I look forward to seeing you in 2023.
Andrew
