Another month has gone by and plenty to talk about this month.
Notice I didn’t say grumble! I am still grumpy gran but don’t think it is right to grumble a lot, as we have so much to be thankful for, when you look at how the poorer countries are having to deal with this virus on top of everything else they have to contend with.
It somehow makes some people’s main concerns of going away on holiday, or going down the pub, seem very insignificant.
What has really puzzled me though has been that since lockdown in March, thousands of people have been flying in and out of the country daily without any proper checks. All they have to say is that their journey is important. Surely, it would have been better to ban it completely, apart from freight planes. Travelling by plane is how the virus spread so quickly throughout the world.
We know shops will struggle, and some will go under, and that is sad, but being an old crumbly, I can remember when shopping centres only had one of every different kind of shop. In a city like Salisbury, the shopping centre is not big, so why do you need so many of the same shops?
Restaurants, pubs, coffee shops, phone shops, hairdresser, barbers, gyms, the list goes on of these multiple shops. For instance why does Salisbury need five nail bars and what happened to the nation’s nails before they started springing up everywhere?
Year upon year, many more shops of the same genre keep opening. While I know we live in a free country and you can open any sort of shop if you want to, surely doesn’t the council have a say in what type of shop will open?
It really does help the town’s economy if you have a good variety of shops, and not become just the city that is renowned for its cathedral and – dare I mention it, Novichok!
By Slightlygrumpgran