Another pointless thread

Drink the beer so you only have to carry the empties

The supermarkets don't give a toss about their customers so long as they present their plastic cards. Any suggestion that they should take measures to limit their windfall fails at the first mention. You'll need a trolley yourself now - to help stock up on that beer !

Walking around the East End wearing a Rolex? Nothing compared to walking through the village with toilet rolls!

The sun is shining. The birds are singing. The flowers are flowering and the leaves are leaving. Must be spring .

We had the tyres changed on the car yesterday, put the summer tyres back on - so it was -4 last night of course .
Not that we are going anywhere, but we live in hope.

I ahd a drive in the new car/van/whatever this morning, very easy to drive and surprisingly pleasant.

|I drove a lot of vans when working so the size wasn't a problem, comfort, now that's something the works vans didn't have.

We went to a local(ish) farm shop. Wow what a diffrence!

Although busy it was calm and there was no sin of panic buying, apart from the meat shortage. Apparently the store was struggling to get fresh stock because the supermarkets are grabbing it before the smaller retailers get chance.

Now it's the supermarkets that are panic buying!

I’m in for the long haul, just dug up a flower bed and am planting salads and veg., and tomatoes in what is laughingly called the greenhouse. I reckon it will be quicker than waiting for Sainsbury’s to restock. All very photogenic of course!

Certainly quicker than waiting for them to deliver. I asked at the desk of my local supermarket some days ago, about online shopping and home deliveries. The lady grimaced and said that there was at least a two week delay in deliveries. At the time the shelves for facial tissues and loo rolls were 0%. Later in the day a batch came in and the stores staff and a manager were loading up the shelves, with a security guard standing by in case of a riot.

You mean you managed to buy seeds?? Apparently they, along with booze, are the new bog rolls.

Ventured into the back garden today. Overwhelmed by the amount of work needed I quickly retreated inside. Maybe tomorrow...

Check out Smiths - most of the gardening mags are giving away bundles of packets of grow-your-own-veg seeds.

Good idea, except the UK mags over here are stripped on any freebie goodies before we get the chance to buy them for twice the price, and Dutch mags never give anything away for free.

Why is the telly even more rubbish when everyone is stuck inside than normal??

I see what you mean - Match of the Day talking about matches that aren't of the day. Major channels showing repeats that have already been broadcast this week on the minor channels. Wife watching something cultural and literary on catch-up TV. I suppose live broadcasts and new recordings are now rather imited in what they can do.

Anyone see the The Last Leg this week? They managed to turn social-distancing on stage and no audience into something funny and worth seeing. But it won't be back until after the epidemic.

Steve

Yesterday all pubs, restaurants etc here were shut down and last night everything was quiet. Same this morning, early spring sunshine and flowers budding in the garden, and apart from the birds and insects there is complete silence. Bliss! A glimpse of what the world was like before the internal combustion engine and just maybe how it could be again.

As always the local shops are where you find stuff, the hardware store has plenty of seeds for sale as well as plant feeds and fertilisers.

I stocked up with potting compost, lawn fertiliser and bean seeds last week. Got 'em from the local branch of a chain of animal/farm/country shops. No shortage of seeds. Plenty of bread, cheese and good beer too (took me by surprise, so had to buy some:mrgreen. They'd run out of toilet rolls and sanitiser products for humans, though.

There was Jeyes Fluid on the shelves, but I'm not sure it would be a good idea to wipe the furniture with it. Although perhaps there's a hint of it's value for the current epidemic from a Victorian doctor who attributed a good survival rate from scarlet fever to "patients are given frequent warm baths, beginning at the end of the first week. Warm baths with some Jeyes' fluid in them are used, the latter preventing the spread of the infection.". DON'T TRY THAT AT HOME, FOLKS!!

Steve

We have a running bet in the family to find something they don't stock! No-one's won yet. If you want a screw you don't have to buy fifty, just show them what you want and it's "how many?"

What a great looking shop!
We have a hardware store round the corner which stocks all sorts, though not so much household things.
When we moved in here we (I) had put all the keys to the china cupboard and TV cupboard in a safe place, but to this day I have no idea where. His Nibs went along to the shop - they handed him six huge bunches of keys, each with about 30 keys on it, and said let us know which ones fit. Luckily for us it only took about five attempts to find the right ones. Went back told them the numbers and he produced them from a drawer. A life saver!