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It's been a while...Lockdown2

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No excuse really.  Yes, it has been a few weeks since I last sat down at my laptop and wrote a post. So what have we been doing? Coming off the flexi-furlough scheme at the end of September meant the start of catch-up for the Museum team. Plenty to do whilst still meeting and greeting visitors and welcoming them to the Museum. It took a few days to slip back into some sort of normality, whatever that is nowadays. But we cracked on and kept everything moving until... THE BIG ANNOUNCEMENT! Just as we seem to be making some sort of headway, the PM addressed the nation on a Saturday evening at 4pm/5pm/6.30pm (delete as appropriate). After a day in the Museum with plenty of speculation, a ten mile cycle ride home, I tuned into the news we were to shut from November 5th.  We probably all saw it coming but there was still that flurry of activity to ensure we could initally work from home. We opened as normal on the Sunday but by Monday morning it was evident people had other things on their m