Quote from: Steve J on 19 March 2020, 07:08:51 PM
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.

Good news Steve - one thing less on the worry list :-)

I have just contacted the BBC proposing a new game show based on the Running Man where contestants can win loo rolls

Quote from: Steve J on 19 March 2020, 07:08:51 PM
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.

Sounds like a very sensible approach as having the assessments would have been extremely challenging

Congratulations to your daughter, she is not allowed out to celebrate unfortunately

The scale on our thermometer has become detached inside the glass meaning you have no idea of your actual temperature

For some reason there appear to be none in stock in at least two of our local Chemists

No one seems to be running a temperature so its not urgent

Quote from: Steve J on 19 March 2020, 07:08:51 PM
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.

We've got similar with our eldest who was about to do his GCSE's.  They've cancelled all of the exams and his grades will now be decided on a combination of the coursework already done, mock exams sat last month and teacher assessments of their ability.  He's a little put out by it, as he'd put a lot of work into fixing areas that had been highlighted in his mocks, so he might not get the reward for the work he's put in. 

We're hoping that it works out OK as he's really focussed on his schoolwork over the past couple of years and was expecting good grades.

Well, my sanguineness has returned some schadenfreude for the hoarders and panic buyers I've been sneering at; turns out the vast amounts of size 1 newborn nappies we had have just run out. And as the big supermarkets have shut at 10pm and the smaller shops have only size 2/3+ we're buggered.

Annoyingly we have a load of reusable nappies but wee Alice is so wee even their smallest size will dwarf her.

Skating on thin ice till 6am when I have to hope I beat the profiteering bastards to a hopefully recently refilled nappy aisle...

Self Isolation
Day 2
I am now out of gin.
May need to open the Scotch tomorrow.

A near by Gin Distillery is converting to making Hand Sanitizer

https://www.reidandreid.co.nz/products

One of the owners didn't sound too happy about on the radio this morning

Just got a email from my mum's care provider basically saying don't bother coming to visit as the village she is in up in Auckland is going into complete lockdown for a yet to be determined period.....hope she has a spare bottle of her favourite gin tucked away 

IF you can get there now seems like Florida is the place to be if you want to party like its 2019.....https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-us-canada-51955362/us-students-party-on-spring-break-despite-coronavirus 

Went to do our normal weekly shop last night, a lot of people around the supermarket, managed to get all we needed thankfully, but shelves are pretty bare of the same basic items mentioned in other peoples eariler emails. You could really feel the "edge of uncertainly" in the air while we waited at the checkout though (they only had 2 lanes open.....).

Take care wherever you are.


         

Actually quote from school the other day:
"All the eggs are completely sold out, even the quail's eggs!"

St Albans, still posh...

Have recovered the nappie situation, hurrah! 6am doors open visit to the 24hr Asda, easy in, easy out. No bloody social distancing going on there I tell thee, tho not helped by putting the nappies and loo roll down the same aisle. In other news, wtf are people eating that they need so much still?!

Yep, I did the weekly shop early today and just saw so many people leaving with toilet rolls and nappies. Fair play to ASDA that are limiting purchases to one pack of toilet roll per person, ditto pasta rice etc. They also has 3 tills dedicated to the elderly and vulnerable with assistance if required until 9.00am. Plenty of stock but looking at how quickly if was flying off the shelves, they would be bare in an hour or two. As to what people are going to do with all of this stuff, God only knows.

Quote from: Steve J on 20 March 2020, 07:23:30 AM
As to what people are going to do with all of this stuff, God only knows.

I've heard (says he, lying through his teeth) that folk are using loo rolls as an alternative form of loft insulation.

But as Steve says.....What are folk doing with all this extra stuff ?
I keep thinking/hoping that the hoarders must have enough stuff by now, and things will get back to some level of normality.....(at least as far as shopping is concerned.)...But....

Very strange times.

Cheers - Phil

I think  the panic buyers have bought Kitchen roll as they could not get Loo rol.  Let hope they use the Kitchen roll as loo roll.  It will block their toilets  very quickly   

We had panic buying in the floods a few years ago. This time it's much more restrained; people may be remembering how much superfluous stuff they had left over last time, when the disruption was worse.