Businesses are reviving lifeline delivery services
In Highland Perthshire local businesses are reviving the lifeline delivery services they established during the spring and summer lockdown.
Kenmore-basedTaymouth Courtyard Shop will continue to offer the essential produce it did back in the spring.
Fresh fruit and vegetable deliveries arrive at the shop on a Wednesday and a Friday and owner Henry Murdock promises that if customers let him know their order by each Tuesday or Thursday, staff will do all they can to have what people need.
“Butcher meat arrives on a Tuesday and Friday,”he said. “We already do a Friday afternoon run round Loch Tay so for us, the more the merrier.
“The best thing to do is email to info@taymouthcourtyard.com or call us on 01887830756.
“There is the possibility of click and collect or to ask to have items delivered out if travel is difficult.”
Kenmore Bakery are also doing a Friday delivery service with many essential items including meat from a crieff butcher, around Loch Tay on a weekly basis.
On seeing how Aberfeldy’s Feldy-Roo had restarted and other mothballed volunteer services like The Tay Timebank had expanded again to meet the new restricted times, Aberfeldy Community Council chair Victor Clements said: “There is no doubt that for the next few months we are back to where we were last March, just without the good weather. This is mentally very difficult for people the longer it goes on, and we need those groups, individuals and businesses who can support people more than ever before.
“Aberfeldy is well provided for, and we are thankful for that. The speed of spread of the virus elsewhere is alarming. Balancing anxiety and hope is difficult for everyone just now.”