So here we are in a rather cold and wet part of Shropshire, the only evidence for our past over-indulgences being a slightly snug trouser band and a rather exciting credit card bill.

And so we start to look forward to 2021 and what it will bring. If this blog had been written last January, I doubt very much the words ‘pandemic’ and ‘lockdown’ would have appeared even though word was out from China about what they were facing. In hindsight the evidence was there but not many people had fitted the pieces together.

So, from Marches side we are continuing to work with our customers, progressing their engineering conundrums and attending to operational matters, as well as looking forwards to developing our international contracts in the US, Europe and further afield. But what we are really looking forward to is having face to face chats with our customers, when social distancing is no longer a health and safety necessity and not having to resort to online meeting rooms. Although Teams and Zoom have been vital at keeping communication lines open, they are just not as good as sitting down with someone and having a ‘brew’. So as 2021 develops and the hope of the vaccines become a reality, let’s hope that things can return to some semblance of normality and we can look forward to that pot of tea!