In coming days ...

That phrase had dominated the final month of 2020. I have never heard it used with such frequency and especially in the context of the Brexit “deal” and the roll out of the Covid vaccines.
As we prepare for the arrival of 2021 at midnight on Thursday “coming days” takes on an added poignancy as we all try to second guess what the early weeks of the new year will ring in with them?
Meanwhile, a wintry landscape greeted us this morning with a frost reminiscent of the ones I remembered from my childhood. Windscreen scraping and driving carefully on untreated roads first thing. When we walked mid morning the black ice on the pavements was an added peril. We shuffled crab-like to avoid becoming unwelcome additions to the fracture clinic at our already very hard pressed A&E department.