[Spridgets] News from England (no LBC)

[Michael MacLean]

 Not too different on this side of the pond.Mike MacLean

    On Thursday, March 19, 2020, 11:42:56 AM PDT, Weslake1330 via Spridgets <spridgets at autox.team.net> wrote:  
 
 Hi List,
Some (no LBC) news from England.
As I told my kids (22 and 17) earlier I am 56 years old and I have never seen supermarket shelves empty like I did earlier this evening.  Thursday is one of my normal shopping days, the other is Monday.  Call me a snob but I shop in Sainsburys and the other shoppers looked like Asda shoppers!
Ever since 9/11 I have kept a diverse supply of canned and dried food along with some water and a few cartons of UHT milk - it would keep the family going for about 3 weeks.  I have a note of the use by dates and routinely an old tin comes out of the cupboard to be used and a new tin goes in the cupboard to replace it. Of course we do always have other food in the 'regular' cupboard and we have a small freezer.  So, I'm constantly able to remind the rest of my family about this in case they need reassurance.  We have few elderly neighbours and we can share or shop for them if they need us to
We call it toilet paper and I think you might mostly call it toilet tissue and not to put too fine a point on it it's what you wipe your arse with.  In normal times we have occasionally had a martial row when the person who was supposed to buy some let stocks expire.  Kitchen roll makes a poor substitute and can block your household plumbing/outside drain and sewer.  We have a reasonable stock at present but I'm old enough to know that know is a good time to hang onto a few more old newspapers than we do normally.  Of course I'm not sure we have any 'bulldog clips' but I think we could manage without if necessary.  I guess other folk must have softer backsides than I do or worry about seeing a reflection that includes newspaper print when they look in the mirror.
The train I take to and from work each day is now almost empty.  Most of my office is working from home but I want to stay at work for as long as possible.  IT hasn't been great for everyone and here at home while I have broadband it runs on copper wire to the telephone pole outside my house and most likely to the green 'GPO' box at the end of my straight and maybe still copper to the exchange in the town centre.
I don't have money worries but things can change fast and there are many workers over hear in the wrong kind of job which now amounts to no job.
The virus doesn't actually seem to kill that many people and I expect to live but if I don't I'm insured.  I'm also 'saved' (from my sins) so don't have to worry about where I'm going to end up - Heaven, or no-where if I'm mistaken in my beliefs.
So apart from what you can read at the BBC news site (which I think has some bias) things are unusual here. I almost forgot - motor racing has been cancelled and the churches have closed.
So maybe by a little extra now and again before panic buying takes off in your part of the world and if 'Bird Flu Pandemic' (practically the same book as 'Corona Virus' isn't your sort of thing maybe give a helpful vote to the positive reviews or read 'Rich Girl' - more of a gear head story.  'Course even if I sell vast amounts of books and can actually afford to cross the pond for a meet or an o-shit - there might not be many planes flying.  And the winner in all this is - The Environment and the toilet paper manufacturers - mostly likely short term for both.
Regards
Daniel1312



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