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Having discovered I needed to buy some half decent wood filler for the front door step I thought a quick trip to b&q would sort it out.... Wrong!
A queue going back around the back end of the car park was in place and I passed one couple driving off in a convertible very happy with their "essential" 5ft plants sticking out of the back of the car....
I don't hold much hope for this nation.....
Sorry now editedGinger???
I agree. Maybe the facepalm emoji is the most appropriate at the moment.I don't hold much hope for this nation.....
I agree. Maybe the facepalm emoji is the most appropriate at the moment.
I think, as a nation, we're playing at this at the moment. We sort-of think, in a couple of months, we'll be all back to normal. Supermarkets should be redesigning themselves to promote social distancing rather than just tweaking things as they are at the moment. There should be more self checkout and minimal intervention by staff (if you want to buy booze, there's a separate section of the store where, if necessary, they check your age on the way in).
I always liked that in the Australian supermarkets...(if you want to buy booze, there's a separate section of the store where, if necessary, they check your age on the way in).
.........and I passed one couple driving off in a convertible very happy with their "essential" 5ft plants sticking out of the back of the car....
I don't hold much hope for this nation.....
I saw that car or a car on a similar activity when I had to take Bee to the vets by the Hough this afternoon and I thought exactly the same. How is that in any way buying "essential" shopping?
I feel that if you had told us from the beginning that you were an epidemiologist, a more significant weight could have been given to your contributions.but we only locked down because of earlier mistakes. for me, the 12th march was when the crucial error was made in the UK. that was when they withdrew the contain measures and moved in to delay. if they had kept and ramped up the contain measures (track test trace isolate.) whilst implementing the delay phase many transmission chains could have been broken.
Just playing devil's advocate for a minute here but...Having discovered I needed to buy some half decent wood filler for the front door step I thought a quick trip to b&q would sort it out.... Wrong!
A queue going back around the back end of the car park was in place and I passed one couple driving off in a convertible very happy with their "essential" 5ft plants sticking out of the back of the car....
I don't hold much hope for this nation.....
You're right, but in some cases it's blatantly not essential travel. I was on the motorway 2 weeks taking the wife to Birmingham for an operation and we passed a chap in a range rover towing a brand new hot tub on a trailer.Totally agree. So many people making comments on social media etc about more on roads and the like, which odd as the posters are out themselves to notice.
We don't know people are out and they are entitled to be out within reason.
: buying my food shopping at Aldi and whilst I'm at it, I shall go into B&M and (hopefully) buy some canes. Now they may not seem essential items to anybody else, but it is to the peas and beans I'm currently growing in my garden so I can be more self sufficient and not have to leave the house so often for food shopping.
Totally agree. So many people making comments on social media etc about more on roads and the like, which odd as the posters are out themselves to notice.
We don't know people are out and they are entitled to be out within reason.
We go most days for our hour's daily walk around the estate, usually alongside the Cannock or Lichfield roads, and have noticed the increase in traffic over the last 6 weeks. And often with two people in the car rather than one. (TBF We've been guilty of the latter, though one of us has always been along for the ride while the other does the shopping.)Totally agree. So many people making comments on social media etc about more on roads and the like, which odd as the posters are out themselves to notice.
We don't know people are out and they are entitled to be out within reason.
It's an interesting project to ask a hundred random people when VJ Day is.A lot of people celebrating yesterday will think they were celebrating the end of WW2 when it actually wasn’t.
I can't speak for how others behaved but we were extremely careful.It struck me that some of the people celebrating VE75 might have had more concern about reducing the spread of a disease with a high propensity to kill the remaining WW2 survivors.
having home deliveries, not leaving the house, not going to shops, wiping all their shopping down with anti bacterial wipes before putting it away