View from the High Street: Positive position for the future

If you are struggling to grasp the fact that Christmas is only a couple of weeks away, and New Year just around the corner then welcome to the club. 2016 seems to have come and gone in a flash. When each rotation around the sun nears completion I enjoy taking some time to reflect on the previous 12 months, and look forward to what the next year will bring.

On a personal level I became an uncle for the first time. Then my wife (also an optometrist) and I became parents for the first time. We have joined the ranks of the sleep-deprived who manage to exist with miniscule levels of shut-eye previously thought likely to end in death, or at the very least an inability to perform even basic tasks. Thankfully, like everyone else we have managed to adapt, albeit some days I might resemble an extra from the Walking Dead. I’m told that the sleep thing gets better as time goes on. More worryingly, I’m also told that it doesn’t…