Happy spring! The theme of this issue of Penarth View is Bold Beginnings, and whatever that may mean to you individually, I think it will hold a certain resonance with everyone. As we’ve seen snowdrops and daffodils already take their tentative first moments in the sunlight this year, so too do we, as social creatures, leave behind our isolation hibernation. At the time of writing, travel within Wales is now possible, barbers and hairdressers are (thankfully) open again, and soon after Easter the high street will start its great defrost. For hospitality, the picture is less certain, but we all hope that as we spring into summer, we will all have a small sense of normality. We know the high street is looking forward to opening up again, but the town’s resilient businesses have been busy throughout this last lockdown launching ShopAppy Penarth, a new online marketplace for the town, where you can shop with all your favourite independent businesses, pay once, and have all your products delivered to you...
