Treehugger

After the Lockdown comes the Let Out, but I suspect things will not be the same, either in the country as a whole or in the Watery Ransomesque micro-world of Broadland. Certainly our economy is never going to be same,and I don't just mean the plunge into recession as we try to pay the price for the long-term freezing of around eighty per cent of all industrial/commercial operations. Seeking a short term boom? Get into the Insolvency business. But it may not all be bad news. The way we conduct politics will also hopefully change, and whatsoever side of the current political boundaries you sit, real change can only be better than recent experience. Forcibly deprived of the great outdoors, we may even value the natural world all the more for being denied it .It's going to be (hopefully) a fresh perspective. High in his 5 storey lair overlooking the Waveney, a small bear sits; increasingly anxious for a return to the great outdoors. Meantime there are still tasks in hand, and for this bear it means tomorrow starting the first of two weekly eight hour shifts as duty co-ordinator of the local emergency support initiative.Together with our call-takers, and drivers we'll be trying to make sure that those who can't shop, get their shopping, and those in need of self medication, get their prescriptions.It's a fairly humble role compared to the heroic battle being played out by the clinicians, but its a job worth doing, and heck - it keeps you out of mischief, dunnit!.