The link gives the number of cases by administrative area. Hertfordshire where I live now has 13 but I still cannot source any gel! ☹️
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Thanks for the link Michael. I think it shows that the infection rate is still very low in comparison with the population, even in those areas with the highest infection rate.
Bumped into a neighbour in the supermarket this morning, who peeped into my basket (really!! Who looks at what other people are buying!!) and said "I see you're stockpiling". What he saw was 4 small bottles of what seemed the same product. I explained that 2 bottles were hair shampoo & 2 were hair conditioner. My 2 sisters are coming to stay next week, they will be using my toiletries & with 3 women showering & hair washing on a daily basis, 2 bottles are not gonna last long. He said, why couldn't I buy a bottle this week and another next week!! I did point out that the only other things in my basket were a newspaper, 3 small pots of hummus and 3 carrots.
Yes, I ould have bought the products over 2 weeks, however, I don't live anywhere near a supermarket so 1) I would have to get the car out to go buy them, and 2) I'd rather be spending my time with my sisters who I don't see too often, today I has reason to go into town.
Sooo, is that stockpiling or just forward thinking 🤔
The empty shelves were astonishing, though loo roll has been marked down in price?? I resisted the urge to buy more!
Hummus hoarding - shame on you!
I like hummus. They were only the small pots that come in a stack of 3 & I was very restrained with the carrots 🥕 🥕 🥕 😂
I'm flabbergasted at the cheek of your nosy neighbour! Is he the local curtain twitcher-gossip monger as well?
No, that's the immediate neighbours either side, the disadvantage of living in a place where very little happens. I'm semi detached, the neighbour whose property is attached told me that when we were viewing the place she had a glass against the wall trying to listen!! It would never occur to me to do that, let alone tell someone I'd done it!!
Oh my!
Oh I could keep you entertained for hrs with my neighbours 😂 I recently learned that we were moving house!! 🤔 Think that one came from a throw away remark I'd made as builders had finally finished building a small extension that seemed to have taken forever! 😂
Hi, l bet l could beat you with tales of my horrendous neighbours, they are all loads older and havn't spoken to us for 20 years because we built an extension bigger that theirs. l call the place l live "crematorium village". We had a barbecue with friends and they hoisted a mirror tied on a stick their side of the six foot wall that divides us to see what was going on. l admired a lovely colourful bush which was hanging over my wall and they always listen, sneaking about in their garden like hideous gremlins, anyway the next day they chopped it right down. How sad is that!!! They also said we have no friends in the village, so who comes to our barbecues? Mannequins? or Ghosts? l could go on forever but l will stop now. Take care, Sue.
Strangely enough, I was aware that the neighbours around us were odd but they didn't actively do anything to bother us until we started the building work.
Although, we'd told them all exactly what we were doing (which was making the house & garden wheelchair friendly!) we were reported to the council twice plus the owner of the disused orchard behind us & they constantly moaned to the builder but not us!! One neighbour was concerned in case we pinched 6" of her garden, despite the fact she has over an acre & we'd told her we wish our garden was smaller!!
The saddest part is the neighbour across the road who parks his long wheel base work van straight across our driveway though on his side of the road. I mentioned that parking it across like that made it difficult for us to get on & off our drive, his reply was 'its stops the traffic'!! Maybe he was upset because we didn't use his company for some of the work!
Nowt so strange as folk! 😂
Glad its not just us but its not a nice atmosphere, still you get used to it. After all us hearties have been through l think we are entitled to a peaceful life! Must go now, one of my barbecue ghosts is having a row with two Mannequins, hee, hee. Sue.
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No gel around here either - now carry a very small freezer bag containing kitchen roll and a piece of soap.. All you have to do is find a tap and then dump the bag in the bin - particularly handy in the sports centre where there is no gel and often no soap in the ladies.... cheap bar of soap slices into an awful lot of pieces.... any one else found another solution?
I've carried loo roll and soap with me for years, nothing irritates me more than using a public loo that doesn't have them! Sport centres and coffee shops are the worse, although I've also been in pubs & restaurants where there's been no soap. I always make a point of telling a member of staff in a loudish voice, that usually pushes them to fill up!
A local independent has stopped leaving spare rolls in their toilet as scumbags keep nicking it!
If you use the search term: 70% isopropyl alcohol on Amazon you can purchase it for around £6 per 500ml. You can also put it on a Subscribe and Save purchase (3x500ml and my last order delivered yesterday was £10 for the three as I get a 15% discount owing to the other items I also have on the S&S).
Pour it into a spray bottle (I use old 118ml SpecSavers lens cleaner spray bottles) and carry it with you. My husband keeps his in his front trouser pocket, I keep mine in my day bag (aka tote, or Mary Poppins, lol!).
It is a little drying on the hands (so a nice lotion helps once you're home and have used the hand wash basin) but it does kill virus and bacteria on contact so I spray trolley grips, door handles, handrails, my hands...
Now £20
For one or the three pack in Subscribe and Save? Either way, wowsa that's a jump up!
Just got back from stage 4 cardio gym, seems that a few clients have elected to give the gym a miss.
Strange session to say the least, rather than a gym session appeared to be more like an episode of How Clean Is Your House - never seem so many people busy cleaning down equipment before and after using it. Encouraging to see that the message is getting through.
But isn't it gym etiquette to clean the equipment before & after use anyway? Our gym has always supplied paper towels & sanitisor for cleaning & there has aways been signs asking people to do this. Though they haven't always had soap or loo roll in the toilets!
Yes it is - and there are signs everywhere asking people to use the paper and sanitisor, but it's amazing how many people just walk away after using equipment. I went to use some weights and gave them a good wipe down before I started and the paper towel was black after I'd cleaned them!
Yuk! 🤮
Indeed! Perhaps the people who in the past couldn't be bothered to clean up might now adopt cleaning as a default.
I think that's unlikely if its not their normal behaviour!
Maybe, but doing something as a habit tends to enforce behaviour. If they're sufficiently bothered by Coronavirus to get into a habit of cleaning the kit, it could become second nature in future when all this has passed over.
You'd hope so
... wanna trade some loo rolls LOL.
Ha thats so funny. My sister has just messaged me to say she's tried 4 shops but no sanitisor, I told her to barter a roll of loo paper for some 😂
I'm safe then!!
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They go on more holidays. One in my area has about six long weekends in Europe and two longer holidays per year. He is currently taking his temperature twice a day! However, his last trip was to York!
You can make your own hand gel that is if you have anytime left after cleaning gym equipment, food prep, exercise etc businessinsider.com/pharmac...
I am on my last few days of a 3 am Spanish holiday but can't resist checking in on the lovely hearties. Not looking forward to UK weather after 3 wks of blue skies sunshine and daytime temps never below 18 and 23C today.
On doing some shopping in Mercadona (excellent supermarket chain) I noticed bottles of 90% alcohol on toiletrie section (they always stock it) maybe I should go Del Boy and fill my case with it and set up a business - taking orders now lol.
Sleep tight don,t have nightmare and keep calm & carry on all will be well. Interesting my despite far more covid cases in Spain no panic buying. People shop to live not live to shop here.
Do the Spanish newspapers hype it up like our comics, opps tabloids, do? Today my local supermarket had no hand gel or wipes. It was even stripped of anti- bacterial hand-wash. Soap is as good as it is a virus. There was plenty of garlic so the locals obviously haven't read the social media nonsense that it protects you!
I would say the Spanish Press and even the expat press seem more balanced and positive than reports I have read in UK. They give accounts of those who have overcome the illness without too many problems while still giving the facts. Having lived in Spain for a time 15 years back I would say that generally Spanish people worry less about things Que sera Sera. I think we tend to overuse anti bac products in the home. As you say soap and water is effective. The amount of garlic I have had should stand me in good stead. As we are in an apartment with fully equipped kitchen we have eaten in a lot. No ready meals in most Supermarkets but fruit veg and of course fish such good quality. Tonight was a one pot meal of diced turkey breast, carrots, garlic onions potatoes bay leaves stock splash of wine and cannellini beans. I thickened the sauce by squashing some potato and some of the beans. Washed down with a nice glass of verdecho my sin of the day.
I have some relatives in Germany and again more balanced reporting! For some reason the tabloids here are bottom feeders!
Mine was one plate meal. Slice of wholemeal toast topped with smoked salmon and two poached eggs accompanied by a simple salad of lettuce, tomato, cucumber and red onion.
The garlic will serve you well if you visit Whitby or Translavania! Vampire emoji 🙄!
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