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Seasons Greetings from here on the East coast of the UK. I hope you've all had a good year & stayed healthy. We've got covid going through the house at the moment so Christmas Day is currently postponed by 2 days lol! 

I've had a steady year, Bike repairs continue to grow, now about 80%/90% of my business & this year I've had a bit of a resurgence in shoe repairs which has been nice to see, as I'm a cobbler at heart & watches have been very buoyant throughout the year. My Son started his own media business & due to lock down struggled for work for a bit, he came to me early in the year & asked if I wanted to do a 4 week run of videos for YouTube doing a bike service in each one, that was February and in November we became monetised on our Channel (Bikespeeds if anyones interested). its been a hard old graft, doing just one video a week takes a day or two of filming & so there have been many 7 day weeks over that time to fit it all in with the every day work & he's working 3 days a week on it now with editing. there's a great saying in YouTube land "Expedential growth" which we are beginning to see with it steam rolling along.

if your so inclined to take in a bit of YouTube also check out Tring shoe repair & key shop he's on 175k subscribers proving even our shoe repairs can be interesting! 

So have a great Christmas & new year people.

Lee

 

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On a personal level this has been a bad year, losing my wife and busness partner in October,  but I look forward to a better year next year. This Xmas i will see my grandchildren for the first time in 2 years The youngest I have never seen other than through facetime. The support I have recieved not only from my family but also many customers has been heart warming and made carrying on with the busness worthwhile. 

On a Happier note I would like to wish you all a Happy Xmas and best wishes for the new year.

Bob

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6 hours ago, kirkybob said:

On a personal level this has been a bad year, losing my wife and busness partner in October,  but I look forward to a better year next year. This Xmas i will see my grandchildren for the first time in 2 years The youngest I have never seen other than through facetime. The support I have recieved not only from my family but also many customers has been heart warming and made carrying on with the busness worthwhile. 

On a Happier note I would like to wish you all a Happy Xmas and best wishes for the new year.

Bob

So sorry for your loss, I can only say things do get better but it does take some time. Try to have the best Christmas you can, and a merry Christmas to one and all.

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On 12/24/2021 at 10:40 AM, kirkybob said:

On a personal level this has been a bad year, losing my wife and busness partner in October,  but I look forward to a better year next year. This Xmas i will see my grandchildren for the first time in 2 years The youngest I have never seen other than through facetime. The support I have recieved not only from my family but also many customers has been heart warming and made carrying on with the busness worthwhile. 

On a Happier note I would like to wish you all a Happy Xmas and best wishes for the new year.

Bob

Oh my, that's an awful lot to deal with in such a very short space of time. I'm so sorry to read this. Wishing you much strength and brighter days ahead. 

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