It was cold this afternoon. Early closing in Clay Cross is a Wednesday, and I wanted to see what was going on in the town. Surprisingly, most of the shops were open - the butcher's, supermarket, post office, chemist and of course the pubs. One day I'll count how many pubs there are. Interestingly, looking at some of the shop opening hours, a lot of them close around 3 pm on a Saturday.
So life was going on pretty much as a normal day. A brewer's dray drew up at the top of Market Street, and stopped all the traffic. People were getting on and off buses. The car parks were about half full. So there we are.
Round the corner on the development, there was a lot of activity. I counted five large tracked excavators shifting earth. Heras fencing had gone up at the roadside on the A61. And Sorrells had finally been vacated.
I met a woman who said she was from the Derbyshire Times. She was shooting some "before" video for the paper's website, I think. Nothing at all on the website about the development as I write.
Then it started to snow.