COVID-19 Coronavirus

I popped out again - i know i said I wasn't going to but I dropped some milk at a friends door who was struggling to get some...... I printed all the opening hours for the supermarkets and wrote my name and number on them and popped them through the neighbours doors who are elderly..... One on them called me not long ago to thank me - it was such a nice conversation!

I popped in to Morrisons for some Gluten Free crackers - they had some recently that they were reduced to 60p from £2 and they are sooooooooo nice - all gone today :yikes: but the shop was a lot calmer, not much stock but plenty of bread and milk...

Hopefully the panic buying has ended.. (apart from booze today!)
 
Well the chippy is open tonight! I sent piggy daddy to investigate and it is open! We have lots of food in but lately I've been thinking why not save the food at home for now and get takeaway while we can in case all the takeaways have to shut soon, supports local businesses and saves cooking... chip butty with curry sauce coming up! :)
 
The vultures seem to have moved upmarket. I was out doing errands today, and as my local butcher had a huge queue, I went to Waitrose in Solihull. The fruit and veg was almost non existent, ditto meat (I wanted a chicken for family roast tomorrow, had to make do with a small beef joint), bread, pasta etc gone. The guy on the meat counter said the fresh stuff all went soon after opening. :(
Heard on the news at 4pm, that John Lewis shops will be closing on Monday. The one in Solihull was virtually empty when I was in there :eek:
 
The US is in a really bad situation now. Several states are under complete lockdown.
Can’t imagine this getting any worse. Everyone is pretty scared.
 
Just seen my nephew on video call. Not seen him for two weeks & will be few weeks til get to see him now. Upset mum more, she just wants to give him a squeeze ☹
 
Am I supposed to be isolating? My wife is off work for 12 weeks because of asthma, but if I go out, I'm risking bringing the virus back home to her. Everyone around me is high risk or at risk bar me.( obviously I'm at a risk but not a listed one with underlying health problems)

She almost couldn't breath when she had a cold a few months ago, so if she gets the virus I know she will most likely need to be in hospital
 
piggles 7000 said:
Had a stressful evening this evening.I went to PaH to get some hay which was meant to be put by for me from a delivery as I bought 2 mouldy bags yesterday which I had to return-no hay:no: I then went next door to Lidl to get some veg for my piggie and bunny crew-no veg:no: I then went to my local Tesco to try there for some veg-temporarily closed!
I eventually found some veg elsewhere,went home,fed my lovelies and braced myself for tomorrows hunt! I can only buy for one day at a time as I have a few piggies and bunnies and I get "evils" and "tuts" if I get too much in one go.

Its getting harder to find what we need for ourselves and our piggies.
Rant over! Just needed to vent but I know we are all in the same boat.:eek:
Good luck sourcing what you need everyone
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Following this fiasco yesterday I started picking grass/stickyweed etc from a field down my road. Grass is lovely and there are plenty of piggie friendly spring plants. Plus its free-I spend a fortune on veg! It will help if hay supplies dwindle much more. Its worth having a forage to save the pennies during these difficult times-while possible
 
SkyPipDotBernie said:
Am I supposed to be isolating? My wife is off work for 12 weeks because of asthma, but if I go out, I'm risking bringing the virus back home to her. Everyone around me is high risk or at risk bar me.( obviously I'm at a risk but not a listed one with underlying health problems)

She almost couldn't breath when she had a cold a few months ago, so if she gets the virus I know she will most likely need to be in hospital
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I would restrict going out for as much as you can, and if you do social distance.
Supermarkets are a bloody nightmare as they are packed with people.
online deliveries are non existent now, we are shopping for my mom, Rach mom and offered a few Neighbours also...
Can’t believe Boris banned pubs on a Friday, what did he think was going to happen, if he’d done it on a Tuesday there’d have been no big blow out.
 
sport_billy said:
I would restrict going out for as much as you can, and if you do social distance.
Supermarkets are a bloody nightmare as they are packed with people.
online deliveries are non existent now, we are shopping for my mom, Rach mom and offered a few Neighbours also...
Can’t believe Boris banned pubs on a Friday, what did he think was going to happen, if he’d done it on a Tuesday there’d have been no big blow out.
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:) I will concede that CCHQ's messaging from before the election hasn't aged well, hundreds of billions of pounds from the magic money tree, queing for bread like in the Soviet Union, nationalising everything - it's quite funny really.
 
It's not just packing pubs on Friday for a final fling. Several pubs were open this lunchtime when OH went to deliver his Dad's shopping, he said he's not seen thems o packed when there's no football. People know these bans can't be policed so they are ignoring them - shame the virus doesn't just target stupid people, the world could do with a few less of those.
 
piggieminder said:
It's not just packing pubs on Friday for a final fling. Several pubs were open this lunchtime when OH went to deliver his Dad's shopping, he said he's not seen thems o packed when there's no football. People know these bans can't be policed so they are ignoring them - shame the virus doesn't just target stupid people, the world could do with a few less of those.
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Agree, will just lead to more drastic action, licences will be revoked at a minimum.
 
piggieminder said:
It's not just packing pubs on Friday for a final fling. Several pubs were open this lunchtime when OH went to deliver his Dad's shopping, he said he's not seen thems o packed when there's no football. People know these bans can't be policed so they are ignoring them - shame the virus doesn't just target stupid people, the world could do with a few less of those.
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I'm guessing these pubs are full of typical Jack the lads who just think itl all blow over.. Until they start drowning in their own lungs in Intensive care, or worse at home because there are no beds available.

From today I'm not going out unless I absolutely need something desperately, but then I'm thinking, what's so desperate that I want to pass a virus on that I probably don't know I could have right now.

I'm debating on what to do about work. I'm thinking thatl plan out vey soon with the bosses. My close work colleague, who I work only with ( team of 2) has messaged me tonight saying he has the dry cough and sore throat 😣
 
SkyPipDotBernie said:
I'm guessing these pubs are full of typical Jack the lads who just think itl all blow over.. Until they start drowning in their own lungs in Intensive care, or worse at home because there are no beds available.

From today I'm not going out unless I absolutely need something desperately, but then I'm thinking, what's so desperate that I want to pass a virus on that I probably don't know I could have right now.

I'm debating on what to do about work. I'm thinking thatl plan out vey soon with the bosses. My close work colleague, who I work only with ( team of 2) has messaged me tonight saying he has the dry cough and sore throat 😣
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But they won't, these will be the ones that get the mild symptoms. It will be all the other people they know that will suffer. Their parents/grandparents when they visit them for mother's Day after spending a day in the pub for example.

One of my colleagues is young (22) and she's angry because lots of her friends are deciding to hold or attend house parties seeing as the pubs and clubs are shut. She put a massive rant on Facebook yesterday. I just can't believe that this country has gone quite so self centred
 
I went up town about half 3 yesterday after work. Haven't been up for ages but needed to get flowers and mothers day cards. It was like a ghost town round the town centre and I braved also to get the flowers. The queue wasn't so bad luckily. I did see there was hardly any bread or pasta. I didn't check the other aisles.
 
The figures are in, the country has managed to buy £1Bn worth of excess food in a fortnight XD.
 
@SkyPipDotBernie I have been thinking the same, should I be isolating with mum? We have been taking precautions for weeks now - definitely sitting two metres apart (I measured), I always stand opposite side of kitchen to her, we have always washed hands etc. Work have had to already cut staff as can now only open to key workers. Hours will change in April anyway due to less children. I don't want to quit, let anyone down or cause problems but mum is top priority. This has kept me up all night 😭☹
 
Our Village shop is better stocked than the large Supermarkets! yes we may have paid a bit more but we have everything we need.

After this has all gone away me and Hubby have decided to still get most of our shopping in the Village, they have been a Godsend so far and we will continue to support them afterwards.
 
Falken said:
The figures are in, the country has managed to buy £1Bn worth of excess food in a fortnight XD.
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Though I've just read that the 1 billion extra was over 3 weeks which apparently amounts to about 10% more than normal. (And can be accounted for by people buying e.g. a fortnightly shop so that they don't have to go out so often, more home working which means needing more food as they won't be buying from sandwich shops at lunchtime etc and not necessarily hoarding, though of course there are always some.) And that the empty shelves are because supermarkets operate on a 'just in time' model, stocking only what their normal forecasts for the period suggest they will sell to avoid financial waste or needing costly storage facilities, so a 10% rise can clear them out as they weren't planning for it.
 
Not a good day here today. Boots pharmacy are refusing to deliver my mothers critical medication, I'm classed as at risk, so I can't get it, my dad is 70 and in ill health, my husband is the only one of us earning at the moment, so we need him upright, had no choice but to ask the local support group for help. I feel awful doing it. I will never shop in boots again after this.
 
My OH's Dad wanted him to take him some fruit yesterday - good luck I said as he set off on a 24 mile round trip on his bike, thinking he won't find any fruit. He came home with oranges and bananas from a small fruit ad veg shop, very pleased with himself, seems I've been going to the wrong shops!
 
Gem789 said:
I went up town about half 3 yesterday after work. Haven't been up for ages but needed to get flowers and mothers day cards. It was like a ghost town round the town centre and I braved also to get the flowers. The queue wasn't so bad luckily. I did see there was hardly any bread or pasta. I didn't check the other aisles.
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I just re read this, I meant I braved aldi, not also.
 
We found The Sunday Times, baked beans, broccoli, pasta, tagliatelle, ground coffee, sugar and plenty of local farm milk today in our small village shop, plus sugar snap peas and baby sweet corn to share with the piggies too. We have given up on supermarkets now, dangerous places to be amongst all those queuing people, rather support the local shop, pasty shop and bakers. I think this may change my shopping habits for life to a certain extent.
 
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