I'm sure I speak for all of us - best wishes, there, Steve.

Yes indeed Steve - good luck.

My wife is currently packing - she's opting to go into 12 weeks semi-isolation with my 89 year old mum-in-law who's got dementia, from tomorrow afternoon.
Her sister will drop off food & medicines in the garage for them, as they will be in a no-visitors lock-down.

I will be left to fend for myself at home - bothered by 2 demented cats and 10,000 unpainted lead soldiers - all needing painting!

If I start gibbering more than usual on this forum, please send me fresh fruit 

PS: at least I appear to be able to still order more paint on-line/mail-order.

Quote from: Leon on 22 March 2020, 04:43:58 PM
Our local parks and coastline were packed yesterday as well, and the Tescos had a 300 yard queue circling around the inside of the shop ready for the tills to open.  We also heard that the local Farm Foods delivery truck was descended upon in their car park, with people jumping into the back of the truck and opening the delivery before it could even get taken into the store. 

Is there a version of Covid that can purely target morons?  Something to force them into a locked room for a couple of weeks would be nice for the rest of us.

How's about a 1800mm scale PIAT 

Quote from: Techno on 22 March 2020, 06:04:45 PM
I hope that's not true about the delivery van, and it's just a rumour....But I wouldn't be so surprised if.....................

I heard it from the chap over the compound from us who builds wardrobes, he was popping to the shop in question to pick up some stuff.  It's not a surprise round here, although he said that people were taking their ransacked products into the shop to pay, whch doesn't sound right at all...

Quote from: steve_holmes_11 on 22 March 2020, 10:00:17 PM
How's about a 1800mm scale PIAT 

That'd do it!  I wouldn't be surprised at all on Mon/Tues for the government to put a full lockdown in place.  We've seen pubs full of people, the local play park was crammed with families yesterday and I saw on the news that Snowdon had the busiest day in its history.  The irony is that when the government take it our of our hands, it'll be these dipsticks who complain the loudest...

Quote from: Leon on 22 March 2020, 10:05:08 PM
The irony is that when the government take it our of our hands, it'll be these dipsticks who complain the loudest...

Yeah it's mad how little regard people have for it. The police here had to break up "end of school parties" at the weekend, obviously the kids and parents oblivious to why the schools are closed. Then people on the news "Nah we're not taking this seriously, how could you take it seriously? Ha ha ha." and continuing to congregate.

Will be serious enough when the police and army are on the streets enforcing it because people can't use their common sense and have a bit of consideration for their communities and others.

Quote from: Big Insect on 22 March 2020, 09:55:47 PM
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I will be left to fend for myself at home - bothered by 2 demented cats and 10,000 unpainted lead soldiers - all needing painting!

If I start gibbering more than usual on this forum, please send me fresh fruit 

PS: at least I appear to be able to still order more paint on-line/mail-order.

You can gibber as much as you like as long as you work on a new edition of FWC 

Well things are getting serious here - NZ is going into lockdown for a month from 11.59pm Wednesday.

this is going to be a real challenge for everyone, but one that we will get through.....

I am going to be working from home during the shutdown so its not a licence to watch netflix for a month, but at least I (should) still have a job at the other side when at least some normality resumes. 

Got the essentials that we need and my last minute gaming reinforcement thankfully arrived in time today....COMSUBPAC can commence operations (but only from 5pm to 9am ).

Stay well, take care and don't despair wherever you are......Kia Kaha!

So pleased that we have a PM that is decisive, 102 cases confirmed and decides on full lock down for at least four weeks. Compare that to the UK where dopey Dom was happy to let people die to protect the financial markets.

Cheers
Ian

Quote from: Sandinista on 23 March 2020, 04:59:43 AM
So pleased that we have a PM that is decisive, 102 cases confirmed and decides on full lock down for at least four weeks. Compare that to the UK where dopey Dom was happy to let people die to protect the financial markets.

Cheers
Ian

https://twitter.com/i/status/1237127349356953600
https://skwawkbox.org/2020/03/12/johnsons-herd-immunity-plan-would-mean-letting-90-of-uk-catch-covid-19-and-a-million-or-more-die/

Went into our relatively small Tescos, they had most things except Hand gel and Rice.

Only allowing you two of anything, apart from loo roll  which was more than sufficient for what I wanted. they did have a strange way of implementing this though. I bought some soup and you were allowed two tins of every flavour, so I could have bout nearly 20 tin of soup.  Surely it should be two of a type of product, ie Two tins of any type of soup, two tins of any type of tinned fish etc.  You were only allowed one pack of Loo Roll regardless of size they had packs of 4, 9, 8 18,24. 

Some things seem to be getting cheaper - 24 non branded loo rolls £4 (Might have been like sandpaper though and I have a delicate bottom  )   4 tin pack of tuna £2.33

Confused but satisfied I could get what I wanted

Quote from: Orcs on 23 March 2020, 10:20:55 AM
Went into our relatively small Tescos, they had most things except Hand gel and Rice.

Only allowing you two of anything, apart from loo roll  which was more than sufficient for what I wanted. they did have a strange way of implementing this though. I bought some soup and you were allowed two tins of every flavour, so I could have bout nearly 20 tin of soup.  Surely it should be two of a type of product, ie Two tins of any type of soup, two tins of any type of tinned fish etc.  You were only allowed one pack of Loo Roll regardless of size they had packs of 4, 9, 8 18,24. 

Some things seem to be getting cheaper - 24 non branded loo rolls £4 (Might have been like sandpaper though and I have a delicate bottom  )   4 tin pack of tuna £2.33

Confused but satisfied I could get what I wanted

When I went into the local Sainsburys I found every can of soup had gone with the exception of the type I habitually eat (drink!)-

Quote from: flamingpig0 on 23 March 2020, 10:34:51 AM
When I went into the local Sainsburys I found every can of soup had gone with the exception of the type I habitually eat (drink!)-

This trend  is emerging across the retail sector.  The small corner shop and the isolated rural store are have a boom.   Up until now their niche has been what we call "run outs" -things people have run out off .  Now to (a) avoid crowds and (b) get supplies, people are abandoning the big supermarkets where they did their bulk shopping.

If the small retailers get their supplies  - usually once a week from the wholesaler they will have a low volume stock and ....will favour regular customers with priority.  Hard to get items will be "under the counter"

Its time to cultivate good "first name" relations with your local grocer.  Give him a list of what you will be ordering. Buy small like your granny used to do -  I remember walking home with my mum with a little shopping bag on wheels- and shop often.   

Who knows,  Arkwright in his corner shop  and Grenville on his bike may make a return to our culture - and be open all hours .

Popped into Lidl around 9.00am and not too bad at all. Quite busy but no where near as bad as last week and plenty of stock to be had. I only needed a few things but some people were either still stocking up by the look of it.

Quote from: flamingpig0 on 22 March 2020, 11:54:27 PM
You can gibber as much as you like as long as you work on a new edition of FWC 

It's on the list flamingpig  do not hesitate to drop me suggestions on a direct message basis.
I will check with Leon about releasing the current 'rules production plan' ... but I can safely disclose that we are well advanced on the Spanish Civil War (BKCIV Supplement) and also CWCII.
But there are a couple of other projects on the way as well.

FWC is close to my heart - it is how I originally got into the whole Commander series of rules ... so fear not it will not be forgotten.

Quote from: Sunray on 23 March 2020, 11:42:13 AM
This trend  is emerging across the retail sector.  The small corner shop and the isolated rural store are have a boom.   Up until now their niche has been what we call "run outs" -things people have run out off .  Now to (a) avoid crowds and (b) get supplies, people are abandoning the big supermarkets where they did their bulk shopping.

If the small retailers get their supplies  - usually once a week from the wholesaler they will have a low volume stock and ....will favour regular customers with priority.  Hard to get items will be "under the counter"

Its time to cultivate good "first name" relations with your local grocer.  Give him a list of what you will be ordering. Buy small like your granny used to do -  I remember walking home with my mum with a little shopping bag on wheels- and shop often.   

Who knows,  Arkwright in his corner shop  and Grenville on his bike may make a return to our culture - and be open all hours .

We get a lot of our meat, fish and veg through delivery services from local suppliers and distributers (farm shops and the like). So far they're still going so ended up with a decent amount of stuff, e.g. a crate if seasonal veg every other week. Always good to support local produce and business when you can. Alas not many "corner shops" left around me these days, not sure Spar and Lidl count!