The last couple of years have been a bit of a nightmare for most of us and Scilly is not an exception. As life is opening up again the islands are looking forward to the coming year that will be the first full season for 3 years.
Visitors with find our normal cheery welcome together with some minor changes. The Pilots Gig, on St Mary's, has reopened for 2022 and there are new owners in the Scilly Cart Company. Also Millers Ice Cream is now called Ned & Fin's and is running as a Cafe. Sadly later this year we will see the closing of Lloyd's Bank which is quite a blow for the islands but seems to be the up and coming trend in so many towns around the country. The Co oP has purchased the old Barclay's Bank building and will be expanding into it at some point in the not too distant future. All in all most things will be staying the same and offering the same services you have come to know and love.
'Wally the Walrus' is not here now but you can never tell if it is going to return to brighten our lives once more, he certainly did make a very big impact on those you who saw him later in the year. We did also have Hump Backed whales off Samson at the beginning part of lockdown which were another added bonus for the islands.
All in all the lockdown was an interesting time for Scilly which we hope won't happen again for a few more years yet.
