The year of the rat has been a series of deadly storms that rocked our pastry ship. Circuit breaker 1 on 26 Feb forced social distancing in restaurants halfing our revenue. Circuit Breaker 2 meant that we can offer only takeaways reducing whatever meager takings there were. Circuit Breaker 3 totally reduced customers coming to our shop. The only wind to our sail in the tough climate was diligence. We produced many delicious pastry and bread that garnered new followers. We had new customers that we've not seen before for our sourdough, cinnamon buns, baguette, ciabatta bread, boule bread, flat bread. When we exited from Circuit Breaker 3, our landlord visited us with an ultimatum. We had to pay the Pig a higher rent or move out. This scum bag milked us for years. The Sleaze-of-Humanity has systematically increased our rent every two years when there was no reason other than unadulterated greed. We were already paying the highest rent in the neighborhood. This bully thought that in
