Today is The Missus’s birthday. This time last year this was overshadowed by us re-opening our premises after our incident and trying to run the place without mains electricity, relying on good ol’ fashioned car batteries. This year, things are a little more civilised and time can be taken to celebrate and reflect. With weird synchronicity, the building insurance claim is finally been signed off today and our outstanding creditors can be paid off. The thing I’ve learnt about insurance is that these companies and loss assessors work using a different concept of time compared to the rest of us. So something that should take a week takes a month…

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