Have been to Aldi tonight. A far better experience as it was really quiet. The only thing on my list I couldn't get was lemons.
I went to Lidl tonight, in Roscrea, it is the nicest supermarket in the world, even in ordinary times, but especially so now
I got everything I went for, plus a few impulse items.
One of the items I treated myself to was an aerosol can of PTFE spray. I told the cashier I was going to rejuvenate an old frying pan with it...
I also did some shopping for some local oldies, as over-70s are under house arrest here.
We used to have to be able to quickly read the tapes (Wish I had have saved mine now and had a go at reading it again ). Thought we were so advanced when technology progressed onto writing our own programs onto floppy discs . Never would have thought at that time that you could have actually seen what you was typing on a screen, never mind all this sophisticated internet .
(I remember ringing in from the phonebox down the road to pull a sickie , thinking it's a good job phones weren't invented where you can actually see the person on the other end.... Never could have imagined all this skyping, face time etc)
I still have a few paper tapes, but most were used to ritually light a barbecue to celebrate the escape.
I remember a bloke at the Poly, in 1974, saying "There'e be a chip in everything one day, even your toaster" - we thought he was bonkers.
I never used the cards, but a friend did, and drove up to the NPL in Glasgow with a boxful in the boot, when he got there, after the whole trip had been in a torrential downpour, he found that the boot of the hire car had leaked and they were soaked, so he spent most of the night in the hotel drying and flattening them in the trouser press and with a travel iron, whilst trying to keep everything in sequence - he actually got away with it.
I do still have a Ferranti paper tape editor, though.