Wednesday, 15 February 2012

Strange Times

Life at least this side of Town is getting busy again. We won't predict green shoots of recovery just yet. But deals are being done and properties are being bought and sold and maybe just maybe the worst is over in this fragile economy of ours.

I remember as a young raw Articled Clerk (as trainee solicitors were once called) the recession of 1974 working by candlelight in the midst of power strikes thinking Charles Dickens lives on.

I remember the recession of the 1990's when we closed our office up at Christmas cheerily wishing our neighbours a well earned rest only to find over half failed to reopen their offices in the New Year that followed because they had not been able to pay the rent.

And now the stop start helter skelter over the past few years.

The lessons are that life goes on. We all get through. Somehow. So Don't Worry!