it's rather the reverse in my case since my long-drawn out plans for a fuller retirement, including replacing me with another regular teacher and door duty personnel, have been implemented (albeit very briefly thus far before everyone got locked down anyway).

well that sounds like good news at least, sounded like you’re ‘duties’ were becoming a tad overwhelming.

as well as getting old and decrepit, living further out of town in the village has proven to be a big problem for getting to things.

which plans of yours have fallen by the wayside? The moving house one had been taking years already.

no comment on the relocation, trust me we are as frustrated as anyone on that.
Late November/early December we start applications etc for following years events. Was trying for some new ones this year but was having to arrange over David being out in Austria for a couple of weeks and daughter wanting to meet up as was down in Plymouth for a friends wedding.

Had managed to get it all planned out with dates, minimal costs and effort and then this.

To be honest we’re now assuming none of the shows will occur in 2020 and even those that were cancelled and had attempted to reschedule in the last quarter will now have to give up.

It’ll be interesting to see who comes out the other side of this on the arts and craft circuit. Small matters compared to the enormity of the current situation but I doubt that the already faltering industry will recover.

it's quite the reverse and the small home-grown arts and crafts people have fewer overheads than normal industry and retail and might be better able to simply start up again.

Hmm, think you might be thinking of a slightly different business model to the people who use these events as outlets. We can expand on online sales but for a lot of the makers we know they depend on their exposure to the right clients at large scale events. With the falling away of trade fairs and galleries closing they have very limited possibilities.

Oh and the latter was true even before lockdown. This has just finished many of them off.