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Post by givingitsomethought on Sept 29, 2020 10:36:18 GMT
Wow! That is definitely a time when you need to make sure you remember to bring your shopping list! My word, I'd be doomed! Lol Its normal there and you combine everything into trip like building garden animal feed supplies, fuel and anything else you can cram in.What you forget you do without for a month. You get used to doing without anyway as in bad weather ferries are stopped and theres no fresh produce or milk. But everyone knows the crac and you live with it. Situations like that make me realise how used I am to just being able to pop to the shop; just having to order once a week and not go out for anything else in between at the start of the lockdown did my head in a bit. Not least because my at home baking attempts were so bad that we both wished I'd gone to the shop lol
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Post by lonewolf on Sept 29, 2020 10:40:51 GMT
lots of people are like that, relative lives in a place where he has 4 supermarkets in all directions within a 5 minute drive of home, when he comes down here on holiday he even asks "where is the nearest supermarket that sells petrol?" and is told its 25 miles each way he is struck dumb!!!!LOL.
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Post by NomadCris on Sept 29, 2020 10:47:15 GMT
do a monthly shop and buy 4 times the amount. I do a shopping list so I dont forget anything. Thats normally what i do anyway but supermarkets have either run out or limiting items to 1 or 2 if you try getting more youre accused of hoarding justvbuying your normal amount.Shopping online is more difficult because you order stuff then emailed days later to say its out of stock and too late to change your order. Right through lockdown and no transport i had to rely on the local pub selling fresh food (at a premium) and friends. Farm shops closed here.Hime delivery services id used years collapsed and no stock available. Fortunately my time in Hebrides taught me things about stocking up for emergencies and making do or using alternatives. Lots of elderly and disabled were hung out to dry by the the Government with enforced shielding and the inept system of food supply.The govt food box system was a complete joke and waste of tax payers money. Just when its got back to relative normality we seeing hoarding and long queues outside stores because theyre limiting numbers going in. The farce returns despite them all saying theres plenty to go round,no supply issues and nothing is changing. Pictures on some gutter tabloids of empty shelves has fuelled panic among the unintelligent. Looks like being a long winter.
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Post by VanWoman84 on Sept 29, 2020 11:18:55 GMT
I went to Morrison's yesterday. The barriers are back, but nobody on the door (afternoon). I didn't get as far as Tesco.
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Post by lonewolf on Sept 29, 2020 11:40:47 GMT
we have a larder and I keep that stocked, when lockdown came we lived on what was in the larder and in our freezer plus buying small amounts at our local small co-op, mostly Bread and a bit of fruit. we were in lockdown like that for 3 months and it didnt make much of a dent in our supplies. we couldnt get onto the supermarket delivery schedule but after about 6 weeks started buying meat from our farm shop which they deliver to this area on Tuesdays.
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Post by lonewolf on Sept 30, 2020 10:32:18 GMT
Coventry uni students ignoring rule of 6, hundreds cramming into hall for illegal rave and I bet their not the only ones. thats why we have 7,000 new cases within 24 hours.
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Post by lika on Sept 30, 2020 13:03:30 GMT
Nothing to do with the increased amount of testing ?
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Post by NomadCris on Sept 30, 2020 14:24:08 GMT
All this sinister mask wearing
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Post by lonewolf on Oct 1, 2020 9:29:28 GMT
Nothing to do with the increased amount of testing ? you've got to be joking, people down here cant get a test. when they get through on the phone they are told to go to Cardiff or Edinburgh, the whole system is a non sense. 111 dosent work down here at the best of times never mind during covid.
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Post by VanWoman84 on Oct 1, 2020 13:30:47 GMT
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Post by lika on Oct 1, 2020 13:35:57 GMT
That might be your scenario Lonewolf but it's been widely reported and is generally acknowledged that the test are being carried out far more than they were at the height of the virus a few months ago. Must be a reflection on demand for test which are up from 70,000 at the start of May to approx 250,000 now with a capacity of 296,812 . Figures from Gov.UK - Sept. 30th.
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Post by givingitsomethought on Oct 2, 2020 7:24:10 GMT
I'm confused about the more testing argument (and I don't mean this in an argumentative way, I genuinely don't understand) but does it not mean that an awful lot of people had it before and didn't know? So therefore weren't staying home and staying away from people? It seems to me the more people that know they've got it the better, if it means they stay indoors and don't pass it on to anyone else? Or is that not how it works and I've misunderstood it?
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Post by lonewolf on Oct 2, 2020 7:52:37 GMT
That might be your scenario Lonewolf but it's been widely reported and is generally acknowledged that the test are being carried out far more than they were at the height of the virus a few months ago. Must be a reflection on demand for test which are up from 70,000 at the start of May to approx 250,000 now with a capacity of 296,812 . Figures from Gov.UK - Sept. 30th. its not a scenario, its fact, well it is down here, may be different in the big cities but down here its a joke.
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Post by VanWoman84 on Oct 2, 2020 9:03:35 GMT
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Post by lonewolf on Oct 2, 2020 9:32:29 GMT
2 weeks? more like a life sentence.
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