Anything goes for Uni

[achookwoman]

CC, glad your new house is keeping you warm.  That is very cold for Scotland.
Today 19 max here.  We certainly having a weird summer.
We are in 5 day lockdown.  Level 4 but not complaining. I can’t believe this but local IGA ran out of toilet paper.

[Cuilidh]

I can't help but wonder how the average family could require (and use) so much toilet paper over five days?  It really is the craziest craze!

Talk of crazy .. we were fairly busy at work yesterday, just the normal amount of crazy - but as soon as the lockdown was announced we had crazy on steroids ... had to stay open two hours extra to take care of everything!  I am just waiting for the phones to start ringing today to ask if we are open ... I wish we were, but we are not termed an essential business (except to musicians), so we are back to just DH and I for five days.

[judydawn]

It never surprises me when there’s rumblings of another imminent lockdown, there’s one way to stop it but I doubt the Government would go down that track.  Who would book a holiday these days with all these opening and closing borders hanging over our heads. My Adelaide SIL was in Melbourne during the week and managed to fly home before the midnight deadline a day before he was due home.  He’s was banished to the movie room until his tests came back clear.

Brilliant move building that new house Denise, it sounds very comfortable.

[cookie1]

I'm glad that you are warm and cosy Denise. You deserve to be.

When we had the 5 day lockdown people also went out ab bought up on toilet paper, as well as milk and other essentials. I read this morning that a man went to buy 5 tins of tuna , he was refused, he could only have 2!!!!!

[achookwoman]

I think the panic buying is because people think that the lockdown might be extended.  I can remember my Grandmother‘s cupboard with tins of pineapple.   She had come through the depression and 2 world wars.  But why pineapple?
25 max today.  Love this weather.
Neighbour welded our broken security gate.  Wouldn’t accept payment so made him a home cooked package. SD crumpets, jam, sauce and plum sauce. A dozen just laid eggs. He seemed very happy.

[K Atie]

Chookie your neighbour will dine beautifully today . Wasn’t pineapple eaten to prevent scurvy? Great weather just needs to be a tad warmer so we can finish harvest .

[cookie1]

MIL had so much stashed away that we found. Things like cartons of eggs that had gone past the rotten stage and dried out. Tins and tins of food. I guess when she was young, and taken away from her home in the Ukraine, to Germany she had very little. Then coming out here with near enough to nothing. I can sort of understand it.

[Cuilidh]

The thing I can't understand is, with a 5 day lock down, why was there another 'run' on toilet paper ... I mean, just how much toilet paper can the average household use in 5 days?

I went to buy a pack of pasta yesterday and the pasta shelves were at least 50% empty.  I noted that baking products were still fully stocked - and probably many others as well, so the full panic obviously didn't reach further than the toilet paper.

[judydawn]

My MIL lived during the depression and for that reason she hoarded toilet rolls and cakes of soap, personally I’d rather have food.  My Mum was also around at that time but she lived on a farm and said she didn’t even know there was a depression.  When we emptied MIL’s place so that she could come and live with us after a stroke, apart from in the kitchen, every cupboard we opened out fell toilet paper and soap LOL.

[cookie1]

The poor old dears! MIL didn't hoard much toilet paper and soap. It was mainly food. She loved to put things in the freezer-we found a , Red Rooster ;chicken she had bought for her husband's funeral, 15 years earlier. She just couldn't help herself. I remember going over there one day and DH pointed out an old lady going through someone's rubbish bin. It was MIL. It is a diagnosed illness when it reaches the big mess stage, Diogenes syndrome I think.

[judydawn]

Let’s hope it doesn’t happen to us cookie.

[cookie1]

Most definitely Judy. But I guess we don’t know what the future holds.

[achookwoman]

29 max today. Quite nice. 
Still in lockdown. Not at all confident that it will finish tomorrow. Too many different exposure sites. Really feel for school kids and shops that can’t open.  GD was supposed to shift into her room at Uni College last Saturday, but couldn’t because of lockdown.
We are OK.

[K Atie]

Very warm today mid 30s . DD is meant to go to college on this Sunday for O week , who knows what will happen now . We just keep on doing harvest with this hot weather and hopefully finish , as long as DH does not bog the harvester again .

[cookie1]

What an unusual thing to happen KAtie. At least over here, where I grew up. I’ve never heard of a harvester getting bogged. Tell DH to keep at it.