What are your isolation plans ....

Most of the main supermarkets open one day's slots at midnight on the dot. With some you only have seconds to secure a slot before they are all gone. Typically the slots they open up are for a day approximately three weeks ahead, although it can vary between supermarkets.

1. Always book your slot first; you'll then get two or three hours to add items to your basket and 'complete' your shop.
2. Even better, you can go back and amend your shop up to a day or two before delivery. So that means you can delete items and others according to your needs.
3. People are finding lots of items are unavailable so, unless you are very particular, tick/untick the boxes to say you will accept substitutes (i.e. similar products, e.g. No Lurpak, so they send Anchor butter instead).

So, for me, it's case of a midnight attempt, across all the supermarkets, approximately once a week. If I fail on the first night, then try again the following night and so on.

Having said that, a lot of local shops and suppliers (e.g. butchers, bakers, but no candlestick makers) are setting up delivery services and these seem to be easier to access than the main supermarkets.

Ironically, it is proving a lot easier to get beer deliveries around by me and I'm currently expecting a beer delivery shortly.

All this online ordering is a bit time consuming but, then, time is something most of us have got plenty of at the moment.

 

Okay putting something back in. just signed up.

https://www.goodsamapp.org/NHS

 

Day 6
Stocktake:

• Fridge - Desperate
• Freezer - Good
• Cupboards - Good
• Beer - Good
• Wine - Good
• Whisky - Good

With the fridge depleted, meals are going to start getting a bit weird until, hopefully, I get my first delivery on 6 April (Day 17).

Signed up with the Open University today (short free courses) and have scheduled regular learning slots beginning next week.

Morale - still good.

 

Day 25 for me.

Got a surprise this morning, with the delivery of a government emergency food parcel. What??!!!??

 

All sorts of exciting things like instant coffee, long life milk, weetabix and enough potatoes to start a farm shop. The government even enclosed a letter threatening to send me more of these food parcels every week.

I've now advised them I don't want any more.

 

Nice. Just stick it on ebay!

 

The most worrying thing in the food parcel was the sliced loaf, which has a best before date of 2 April 2021.

 

Bloody hell! Is it real bread? That must be longer than the long life milk.

 

It's a white sliced loaf; by April 2021 I suspect it will be somewhere between green and black.