JohnL

This thread is heading towards the bin I think :)

Huggers Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I have masses in my garden, it?s overwhelmed > everything else and grows spring summer autumn Back in the woods in Gower - we had masses of Bluebells and Wild Garlic and eventually some hybrid emerged that was blue garlic. My mother swore this was true and it showed nature was going crazy. Nobody believed her :)

Boring article on Erasmus and Horizon future :). https://www.universityworldnews.com/post.php?story=20200219101446923

Actually maybe the deliveries will need to temporarily go back to plastic bags - I invite the guy in normally and we unpack from the box together - but not if I'm in isolation.

sally buying Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > This morning teabags and pasta empty. > > Plenty of toilet rolls The Sun has told it's readers not to stockpile and then added a list, helpfully called "Food Stockpile Checklist"

Penguin68 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Quickly, buy toilet roll!!!!!! > > Well, if you're using it to blow your nose into, > or dry your hands having thoroughly washed them, > well, I suppose, yes! Prefer kitchen roll for that - it's a better size and slightly thicker (or seems to be) edit: but maybe a bit more expensive (unsure) ?

Penguin68 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Nice to see a comment of mine from March 2012 > getting another airing - if surprising. Oops :)

I've been reading too much about 1918 now and have convinced myself (against apparent logic) of a possible second wave. Anyway nothing wrong with being cautious - although not panicking.

I suspect hand sanitizer (the dry type not the washing type) is being brought by chancers to sell on ebay etc.

intexasatthe moment Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > super spreaders are people who shed more of the > virus than others ,they're not people who have > more contact than others . Sounds like dandruff, yuck.

sending King Edwards bones back home (Edward I died before Bannockburn and Edward II wasn't really up for it but the English carried his bones around with them)

Birdynamnam Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > This is a really informative website, which put > the situation and the attendant disproportionate > panic into perspective for me. Obviously, there > will be many more cases but as of today, the UK > has 3.1 cases per 1 million people. I hope anyone > feeling particularly anxious might find it > helpful. > https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/ Someone like me who goes on buses, tube, and many different pubs in my usual week would be a super spreader if infected and I didn't change my ways. Working from home changes everything as I found last and this week - instead of finishing work and popping in the pub then bus, tube another pub etc. you feel like staying in.

Penguin68 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > The price of daffs this time of year is > practically free! It's like stealing penny > sweets. > > I had thought the point being made here was that > the objects being stolen were of little monetary > value - and therefore that there would be no need > to steal what could be so easily legitimately > purchased - not that the little value meant that > it was OK to steal them. Theft is wrong, theft of > something of no value is wrong and pointless. But > maybe other posters are reading it right. I thought it was more that flowers are there for everyone not for a few to take home - so legal or not it's bad manners living so close to many others. If we lived in the middle of the country it might be different

Do we pick it anywhere around here - I thought not as a few years ago the woodlands were stripped. You need a forest.

Morrisons fully stocked - and rather quiet this morning. Hand wash still there but no proper sanitiser (someone asked and the manager said sold out in 10 minutes) I think people are buying to resell on ebay at a profit.

Trinnydad Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Investing in a bidet makes more sense. My parents had one (pale green as was the fad) in the 70s Not enough room in most flat bathrooms although considering switching from bath to shower.

Angelina Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > We spend about ?40 on food for the family a week > and eat really well. I do cook/ bake a lot, but at > least it's all healthy. > That includes loo rolls and hand soap. I'm spending too much then .. wine adds a bit but still too much. It's probably as I never make a list.

and last week I moaned because the hipsters took all the ice for a party .

Lombardy is being Quarantined.

AWJ has apparently complained so he did go to far. Could be trouble for Mr Marler.

5 extra points for everybody for Marlers grab of Alun Wyn's junk (this could go one of two ways as Marler is liked in Wales these days) https://www.walesonline.co.uk/sport/rugby/rugby-news/joe-marler-alun-wyn-jones-17883045

yorksgirl Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > The French are not panic buying loo roll. But > sales of Camus' > La Peste are way up. And the French government has > shut down profiteering (aka 'repugnant > materialism' by slapping a max price on hand > sanitizer. > > Truly, the rest of Europe is better off without > us. Camus' La Peste - is that pasta sauce ?

You need the herd to be healthy to protect - it's no good having all the stuff if one or two can't protect themselves so spread it everywhere. Imagine if this was a 50% killer - our selfish attitude would put everyone at risk.

If this happens people deserve what they get - if you take all the stuff and leave some of the population without - the virus will have a field day and those with the stuff won't be protected from it.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-51737030 "Denys Skirtach, 18, from Norfolk told the BBC his family spent ?80 on Wednesday stockpiling eggs, pasta, rice, toilet paper and canned goods." Have I got what I spend as a single person completely wrong :)