just seen this (also put on another THread)

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Toilet-rolls/133364953278?_trkparms=aid%3D1110001%26algo%3DSPLICE.SIM%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D225113%26meid%3D0f820b1a42744f1780049b54e1b5ca89%26pid%3D100005%26rk%3D3%26rkt%3D12%26mehot%3Dpf%26sd%3D353011115379%26itm%3D133364953278%26pmt%3D0%26noa%3D1%26pg%3D2047675&_trksid=p2047675.c100005.m1851

18 loo roll for £500, but you do get free postage !!!!!!!!!

And what's more amazing is that it has 2 bids .

Well......

I followed Norm's wonderful example......I couldn't find what I'd consider a 'nice' box of choccys in Cardigan's Tesco's...(it's almost all Easter eggs).....Best I could do was big 'box' of Cadbury's 'Roses'....That's gone into the 'staff restroom'....I got a lovely smile for doing that.....Thanks for thinking of that, Norm !!

Sooooo......Before I did our second 'shop' of the week (We always do two small 'shops' per week)...I had a chat with one of the staff that was collecting the trolleys.
"What's it like in there ?"......."Fairly frantic."

Normally, when I get to the car park, there are probably only 12 (at the most !) cars belonging to folk who are having a 'shop'......Today when I drove in, at first I was thinking, "Blank me.....Are there any parking spaces ?"...........Yes....There were plenty...But there were a good 10 times the number of cars parked for the time I usually arrive.

The 'trolley collector' was having a dig at...."The number of the same folk that I see coming in EVERY DAY......And leaving with a overfilled trolley."

The shop itself was not quite as bad as near Christmas (customer wise).....But it was pretty chock-full..... They usually have one...or maybe two checkouts open at this time of the morning when I usually go in.

Today, there were about a dozen or more checkouts open...each with a good sized queue.

Got everything I wanted...near as dammit....(Poop...I forgot to get some coffee  )...There were loo-rolls...(Not a lot....and we don't need any......Bet they've all gone by now, though )

Shelves were again.....A bit sparse for a few certain items....but nothing to get into a tizz about.......Paracetamol (nil points)..and that was about it

Got to checkout..served by one of the staff who I've chatted to umpteen times...She got embarrassed 'cos I'd picked up four 'trays' of cheapo mince.....(This is the dogs' weekend treat, which we usually do as......buy two on Monday, two on Thursday..I was only allowed to buy three !!

Into Cardigan....For a nose around.

What got me was that all the pharmacies were on 'short time'...and not going to be open until 10:30...11:00 

Cheers - Phil.

Well NZ is now closed, except for returning citizens who have to go into isolation for two weeks. 28 cases so far, all returnees I believe.

Seems they are trying to catch it before it spreads, not sure if it will work. But at least it is taking action.

Take care all
Ian

Quote from: Sandinista on 19 March 2020, 11:39:30 AM
Well NZ is now closed

A bit like over Christmas then!

My brother is returning from Oz, and will have to spend 2 weeks on his tod. Luckily they have a downstairs flat he can stay in.

Quote from: Techno on 19 March 2020, 11:34:17 AM
Got to checkout..served by one of the staff who I've chatted to umpteen times...She got embarrassed 'cos I'd picked up four 'trays' of cheapo mince.....(This is the dogs' weekend treat, which we usually do as......buy two on Monday, two on Thursday..I was only allowed to buy three !!

Crazy stuff right. I always do one shop a week. I eat a particular brand of yoghurt wich come 2 in a pack. I eat one everyday, so i always buy 4 packs a week. I wonder if i'll get them, or if i will need to go in two times  

And just because some people want to decorate their house with loo roll  

In other news, feeling slightly better and never had fever. still a bit weezy when i do too much. Yesterday i mopped the floors and had to catch my breath afterwards. Crazy thing is, since they don't test when it's not serious enough, you don't know what you had.

Was just on with our travel agent regarding our honeymoon trip to Japan at the end of April. So far the flights are still on but likely to change. We can reschedule, though I'd prefer if they cancelled and refunded us so we had a chance to wait out the crisis before rebooking. Thankfully all the hotels are free cancellation at this point so the only thing we'll lose out on is the insurance which is likely not to be transferrable. It's a shame given we've spent so long saving for and planning it and looking forward to going, but it's small potatoes in the light of all that's going on!

I really have got to the point where i think......Let 'it' run its course. 

Then we can get on with life.....Please !!

If I'm destined to 'fail'.....So what ?

Every single atom in my body is umpteen billions of years old........As are yours.    

Phil

Quote from: Techno on 19 March 2020, 12:59:10 PM

Every single atom in my body is umpteen billions of years old........As are yours.  

Phil

But yours are in the origianal one

Quote from: ianrs54 on 19 March 2020, 04:04:50 PM
But yours are in the original one

Fair enough, Ian.

Just had a horse/dog/wild bird/chickens'  feed delivery.....Our ordinary weekly one.

'Stewart' does gas cylinders and oodles of other stuff. (Mostly pet food).
He's been basically telling some complete tw*ts......"No...you can't order 4 times what you need, because there' will be nothing left for those who actually need something now.

Gimme strength....I despair of these totally selfish ......erm.....idiots. ......Good for him !

Cheers - Phil

Good news from Ireland !  The land that gave you Guinness may well also serve up the Covid 19 jab.

Yes, Ireland used to be an economy of "beer and biscuits", but now leads in pharmaceutical and elements of IT. 

Regenron  (Limerick) have a SARS COV-2 developed which targets the spike protons on the virus (that's those like sucker arms like spikes on a naval mine)  The antidote blocks the interaction with the host cell.

Anyway the company shares are heading to Pluto and the jab should be mass produced by late May - tests pending 

Irish eyes are smiling .

That is good news, well done to all the scientists working around the clock for this sort of thing.

Will you be able to trade in large collections of loo rolls or Paracetamol to be first in the queue for the new jab?

Quote from: Norm on 19 March 2020, 05:20:26 PM
That is good news, well done to all the scientists working around the clock for this sort of thing.

Will you be able to trade in large collections of loo rolls or Paracetamol to be first in the queue for the new jab?

+ 1  !   

Quote from: Norm on 19 March 2020, 05:20:26 PM
That is good news, well done to all the scientists working around the clock for this sort of thing.

Will you be able to trade in large collections of loo rolls or Paracetamol to be first in the queue for the new jab?

No your position in the queue is found by  following equation. the number of loo rolls x Packets of pasta,xp ackets of rice x paracetamol tablets Squared. that you have purchased in the previous 2 weeks.  That way hopefully the idiots who panic bought will catch the virus and  remove themselves from the gene pool.

Our daughter has just found out that she (and all the others on the course) have automatically passed their second year at Uni. She's finding it quite surreal having studied hard for her assessments that were due in in less than 3 weeks.

Quote from: Orcs on 19 March 2020, 05:59:57 PM
No your position in the queue is found by  following equation. the number of loo rolls x Packets of pasta,xp ackets of rice x paracetamol tablets Squared. that you have purchased in the previous 2 weeks.  That way hopefully the idiots who panic bought will catch the virus and  remove themselves from the gene pool.

So that makes me the first one to receive it, good news