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It must be extraordinary times if I am blogging about going to the supermarket. It’s not something that I would have even considered writing about before and if you don’t believe me put “supermarket” into the search facility. Only this entry has come up, right? My life is normally much too interesting to even think about writing about something so mundane.
But supermarket shopping has become suddenly interesting in these difficult days. We are trying to make our food last and it’s well over a week since our last visit, because every expedition into the real world risks bringing disease into our home. I was the one brave enough to risk my life (and then the lives of my family who would also be infected if I got it) and drove to Hitchin Waitrose. It was surprisingly quiet and although there was a queue keeping everyone two metres apart, there were only two people ahead of me and I was inside almost straight away.
The shelves were pretty well stocked - the only thing that had totally run out was flour. We really needed eggs (especially after wasting two for science the other day) but there were plenty of those. I forgot to say that last time I was here the only eggs available was one pack of quails’ eggs. How Waitrose and Hitchin can you get?
Good to see that everyone is baking away in these tricky times.
Snacks and cereal were in short supply but there was plenty of wine (and no restrictions on alcohol - I only got pulled up for foolishly thinking I could buy four 500ml bottles of Diet Coke, when only three were allowed).
Of course if this kind of rule had always existed then “Someone Likes Yoghurt” would never have been made. Restricting items is killing comedy, if saving lives. But which is more important?
It was slightly tricky to self-isolate and I don’t think I did a great job of watching out for the virus (I found myself touching my face straight after putting in my PIN number when paying and could feel the virus crawling into my nose) but I got nearly everything we needed and it seems that all the people hoarding food that they are now going to have to throw away because it has past its sell by date were worrying about nothing. There was even some toilet roll.
I felt very grateful to the staff who are risking much more than we fortnightly shoppers and to everyone who is getting the food to the shelves. Hopefully we will continue to appreciate each other once this nightmare is over.
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