Corona Virus Concerns
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Don't know if any of you read the articles on the Oxford University study published today using aggregated mobile phone data (tracking peoples location through mobile phones) which shows movement of people has dropped by 98% since the start of the lockdown. hospital visiting for whatever reason by 80% and that on Easter Monday 55% of people never left their own home.
You may or may not believe this but from my own visual evidence crossing over the M6 bridge on our daily walk I have never in over 30 years seen it so quiet especially over the last Bank Holiday. Last night at 7.00 PM there were so few vehicles one lane was more than enough.
Only busy place I've seen in last three weeks is the queue at ASDA and Aldi. According to the study the best time to visit the supermarket is 9.00 am on Tuesday so you've missed it this week.
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It really is another World around us, and despite the awful situation, I keep noticing little things, like all the bird song, and how much more nice scent is around from flowers etc....
Our newly trimmed beech trees are starting to get their canopy back now as well. Things are greening up.......
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I’ve only seen 1 young ‘class of 2020’ bunny squished so far, so there are a few positives amongst all the negatives👍🏻
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Sounds like the Quick Check in Waitrose. We always use the system when we are in the shop. Really good at Christmas when you sail by all the queues at the normal tills!!! I can't remember how long they have been using them but it seems years. Originally you could only use them in the shop you were registered in but now you can visit any branch. At Waitrose you have to have a My Waitrose Card to release the scanner to start shopping so how do Sainsburys and Tesco allow you to use a scanner?
David
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Booths are often quoted in the press as the Waitrose of the North. (perhaps in the north they refer to Waitrose as the Booths of the south
) In 2008 both companies entered into a buying alliance so that both could be more competitive on branded goods. I don't know if that is still in existence. There have been rumours in the past that Waitrose might buy Booths especially when a few years Booths were making losses. However both companies denied that at the time. Since then the food retail business has changed and had Waitrose actually taken over Booths I expect they would now be closing branches if they were not profitable so probably a good thing they didn't buy them! I have been in a couple of Booths stores and they are very nice. I can see why TDA referred to them as Super Deli. David
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There are rarely tinned beans in our trolley, but we do make our own toast, so plenty of flour.
Having consulted my shopping expert, who fell about laughing at the idea we spend only £35 per week, and accused me of living in the past, I have received an estimate of an average of £7.50 per day for meals.
This however does not include wine, or any other household items such as toiletries and cleaning stuff. Household items are usually from Aldi or Lidl, so maybe an average of £5 per week (?) which brings us close to £60 on average. Wine etc could of course bump it up massively If consumed regularly.
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Can I ask ForestR whether or not you actually miss the traffic noise?
I know some people who, when taken outside their normal area, either living in peace and quiet or having a dual carriageway run past your door, can be affected by the change in noise levels that they are used to.
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Hi Wherenext
Not really a question of missing the traffic noise but a different sound that we usually only hear at Christmas. Normally even during the night the noise is a constant drone which we hardly notice after so many years unless you listen for it. Now the drone has gone but you can hear every individual lorry passing during the day over the two fences at the bottom of our garden. During the night the noise inside has become almost insignificant.
When we go away in the caravan we often notice the silence on the first night.
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'Sing us an udder one ,just like the other one, sing us an udder one, do ...'
'Moove over Darling', as another song has it ...
Steve
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I've been trying to get frugals everywhere since the lockdown began ... There's nothing better to start the day than a breakfast of 2 lightly boiled frugals and a piece of toast [courtesy of the late, great, Ken Dodd]
Steve
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Ah, that’s a nice quick substitute for a tagliatelle sauce, with some tomato purée in as well. Another once in a blue moon.....😁
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Funny you should mention that. I saw a dead hedgehog last week. It really upset me, poor little thing.😥
DK, Tesco is similar to Waitrose, you just flash your Points card, and then pick up a flashing scanner. Point and shoot at till in bagging area. I think I recall seeing scanners for first time at Waitrose in Okehampton, many years ago. Certainly before Tesco got them.
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Certainly see, regularly, Safeway Lorries delivering to McColls our local 'corner shop'
Thinking of FOOD I suppose after reading this thread for a while some posters might consider that Triky Auto's "Parsleybox" meals might not be quite as expensive as they first thought
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We have certainly been using them since Waitrose introduced them. Re Kj's point about Safeway I also remember them there but when Morrisons took the shop over they didn't continue with them. I have even seen them in France. They are of course open to abuse and to that end they used to trigger a lot of rescans but they don't seem to do that as much now.
David
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Shopping day today so went down to have a look at big Asda and M & S Food. Queue at Asda so long again might be waiting hours and probably because of this the queue at M & S longest since lockdown.
All the talk of Booths made me think of the one at Chorley which is not far away and also has a new M & S Food across the car park. What a difference no queues at either full selection of food and even free parking for duration of emergency.
Even able to buy large hand sanitizer at Superdrug something I have not seen anywhere for a month or more.
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I'm informed that I'm having hunters chicken tonight. Probably means I have to catch and pluck it myself.
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Happened to us David or nearly did.
We were 3 kids of very young age who were living in Singapore as my father had been posted there. We had a local domestic helper who was lovely. She wanted to take us to see where she lived, which was on a small farm quite near where we lived. So there we were, presented to her father. I was the eldest at 5 and he wanted to give us a chicken as we were good to his daughter, who just had time to stop the axe descending on the poor creatures head. She understood the trauma we would have suffered but he was perplexed
We went home with some eggs instead. Phew.
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ill wager Hunter wont be very happy about that!
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I often wake up after 4 hours sleep, or thereabouts. I quite often have trouble getting back to sleep and at these restless times have various topics that sometimes are able to coax me back into the land of Nod.
However just lately with news outlets seemingly oblivious to most other topics and the lack of such my mind gets firmly stuck on Virus issues. Planning breaks on CLs? Nope. Campsites abroad? Nope. Bit of birdwatching or Hill climbing? Nope. I'm telling you, I am getting a bit miffed at this virus. I'm often struck by how awful it must be for quite a lot of people and tell myself I'm lucky. I am! But I want to get back to sleep!!
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Sainsburys introduced them twenty plus years ago. I used them from the early days. Could never see the sense in handling the items in the basket, out the basket, into a bag, into the boot, out of the boot, remove from bag. Cut out several middlemen- pick up, scan, into bag, bag in boot, out of boot, unpack. Except on the very rare ocassion of a rescan 😱. I find rescans occur if the amount increases or decreases dramatically or I've not shopped for a while. Usually after the first bag and a bit with no snags they get a message to say it's all good. Must look very honest and trustworthy 😉😂
Much nicer than those HORRIBLE self scanners who constantly shout at you, and embarrass you by yelling 'unexpected item in the nagging area' or throwing up an error requiring an assistant.
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