In this week s column Mark Hix is beginning to feel the lockdown bite
28 January 2021 • 11:00am
Mark Hix: There is something very English about finding someone whose situation is worse than yours when you are in trouble.
Credit: Nicholas J R White
One consolation in lockdown for those in the hospitality industry is that we haven’t been short of public sympathy. Customers who come to my fish truck, parked up on the A35, are generally full of commiserations about my pub at Corscombe and my restaurant at Lyme Regis both being closed.
Sometimes, on the bleak days, it can feel like being back to square one, when my London restaurants went into administration at the start of the first lockdown. After getting on for a year of starting over, my staff are on furlough and it’s just me left working the fish truck three mornings a week. But the solidarity of customers, who range from passing builders to local gentry, keeps me going.