Retirement planning
With the easing of lockdown 3.0 rapidly appearing the other side of the weekend, several recent conversations have centred on planning a celebration. This morning, I found myself answering that my first haircut since early December would be very welcome and useful and whilst the first pub pint since August 2020 would be even better, I wasn't rushing into anything. Not least because just from a walk-by assessment, I'm not sure which of my local pubs will have survived to open next week. My favourite and, based on it always being busy, the one likely to be in the best position to have weathered the lockdown closure, only has a tiny garden. With a cruel piece of timing they had only re-opened from a month long closure for refurbishment 2 weeks before the start of lockdown - or Lockdown 1.0 as we would now refer to it. Over the past 12 months we have all been forced into and then developed new daily routines and weekly habits. Some may not return with the easing of lockdow...