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At this point of the summer we would normally be in the busy point of our season but as we all know, this is anything but normal. We are hopeful that some sort of Cricket will take place in Fleckney in 2020. We await guidance from the Leicestershire and Rutland League along with updates from the ECB as to what that looks like.

It seems very odd to say that I’m much busier now than before the lockdown, but it’s very definitely the case.

Districts across the country, like HDC, have been given funding to help businesses open on 15 June. Changes are being made in Market Harborough, Lutterworth, Kibworth Beauchamp and Fleckney. Here in Kibworth Beauchamp, temporary changes are being implemented from Monday 15 June. On High Street, the parking bay will be used to ensure 2m social distancing from other shoppers when walking along between Smeeton Road and the disabled space, which will remain.

People fortunate enough to have gardens or even views over open space, have found some relief from lockdown in nature. Whether entirely at home or on daily exercise people have:

A quorate council of 4 parish councillors last met in person, with social distancing, in late March, just as lockdown commenced, in order to delegate full authority to the clerk while the council was unable to meet in person, as advised by the National Association of Local Councils.

The parish council has held virtual Zoom meetings at 7pm on the first Thursdays in April, May and June. All were quorate despite members having to use the new technology. The agendas were published online and in the parish notice boards, together with details of how the public could participate.

Well - who could have known, mid-March 2020, what was immediately in front of us all? Weeks of lockdown, shielding, self-isolation and all the following implications?

Stephen and Barbara are a delightful couple who have lived in Kibworth for over 30 years although neither of them was born here.

To help keep us safe, the government has announced that councils should be creating new cycle ways and wider pavements for physical distancing. We need your help to identify where these are most needed.

After we closed our doors on 18 March you may think we haven’t been doing anything at all in the library, but we have been so busy!