So, dear readers, welcome back to the ‘new normal’ Bridge? Does this mean we’ve to the other side of the pandemic? No. Are we out of the woods? No. How long will this go on for? Who knows? What is Christmas going to be like this year? Bah Humbug What a lot of unanswered questions there still are.
On the Christmas theme you will see that for the first time in 30 years Santa will not be bringing his sleigh to Dunkeld - click here. Instead we will be ‘Keeping the Magic Alive’ within the local community with new creative activities being put on for all to see and experience. Look out for more info on these in the November edition of The Bridge. On a more prosaic level we also need to keep our local businesses alive. Please shop locally wherever you can and to try and make this as much of a ‘PH8 Christmas’ as possible.
One of my least favourite Bridge jobs is putting together the ‘Dates for your Diary.’ It is usually such a fiddly job and the risks of getting dates and times wrong alarming high. However, this month it has taken all of 10 minutes which is reflective of just how much our normal community calendar has stopped. Nowhere is that starker than on pages 3 & 4 which are usually choc-a-block with info of exciting and interesting events and exhibitions at Birnam Arts. Instead we are trying to ‘Save Birnam Arts.’ Please help if you can.
As you may have read in a couple of the ‘Bridge Coronavirus Specials’ things have also changed here at The Bridge. We are trialling a new way of working for the next three editions and continuing to ask people for feedback on what communications you think will suit our Community going forward and we will review all of this in January. I realise that asking the question in this column is a bit self-selecting – so I would encourage you to ask friends and family who live locally that question and to please report back to me what they are saying to you.

Take care and Stay Safe!
 
Sally Robertson