Travelling On

rtandon27

Karmacat said:

**kissy smiley**

😘
Will this do? - it seems Cheery implicated me as a hoarder of smilies - so thought I'd oblige!

apple_muncher

But you must be 3m away...

Suffolk_lass

Even I (who hates housework) have taken to using the water and milton liquid mix (I use to clean the stains from my mugs) added to hot washing up water to clean the post box in my porch and the door handles. One of the Old school "girls" has quarantined her SM shopping for three days in the boot of her car to make sure any surface contamination has died. It would have frozen if it was here last night - a thick frost the last two nights ensures I am feeling smug about delaying my planting.

themadvix

Frost here too this morning - definitely too early for some planting! I washed the bar of chocolate I bought yesterday under the tap with warm water and soap - was worried the chic would melt if it was hot! (trip was essential, chocolate a necessary side purchase).

Karmacat

rtandon27 said:

Karmacat said:

**kissy smiley**

😘
Will this do? - it seems Cheery implicated me as a hoarder of smilies - so thought I'd oblige!

Yes it will, thank you 😘

apple_muncher said:

But you must be 3m away...

**airkisses** the one RT has found is great for that 😘

Karmacat

Suffolk_lass said:

Even I (who hates housework) have taken to using the water and milton liquid mix (I use to clean the stains from my mugs) added to hot washing up water to clean the post box in my porch and the door handles. One of the Old school "girls: has quarantined her SM shopping for three days in the boot of her car to make sure any surface contamination has died. It would have frozen if it was here last night - a thick frost the last two nights ensures I am feeling smug about delaying my planting.

Thats good!  Just been having a conversation about getting the floor virus-clean with a guy who has a toddler, who of course is rolling about the floor - we're talking a washing up bowl disinfecting the shoes as you enter the house.  Of course, I'd need to do something about every floor in the house first, yikes.  Very glad I finally have a proper vacuum cleaner.

themadvix said:

Frost here too this morning - definitely too early for some planting! I washed the bar of chocolate I bought yesterday under the tap with warm water and soap - was worried the chic would melt if it was hot! (trip was essential, chocolate a necessary side purchase).

Yep, frost here too - it looks very beautiful, but way too cold to go out first thing for a walk as I planned.  I can understand the chocolate completely, madvix I hope it was a brand you like!  What I'm doing is what I've done over winter for ages - buying as much as possible at one go to reduce the amount of time spent in shops.  Same with deliveries, thats why I've mostly had just one a month. 

Did you see Jamie Oliver last night?  Vegan chocolate cake, and a **really** simple recipe, eggless because eggs are kind of hard to get hold of right now - I ordered a pack of ten for delivery today, they told me unobtainable, replaced them with two packs of six (a normal order for me) and they've also been cancelled by the supermarket. 

Delivery today between 12 and 1: I ordered £90 worth in the end, again thats a normal monthly delivery for me.  £45 worth of stuff is being delivered!

themadvix

I did not see JO, but will check that recipe out. It's very odd that eggs are like gold dust right now - chickens are picking up their laying and none of the restaurants are needing them. How many do people eat (although I did get cross yesterday when I overheard the lad next door loudly proclaiming he'd had a five egg omelette )? I managed to get some from a nearby village shop which had had some sent up from London as surplus restaurant supply.

The chocolate was DM Fruit and Nut. Never normally buy plastic-wrapped chocolate but needs must (and I intended to get some Crunch, which isn't in plastic, but they didn't have any). It was delicious (just cos I don't buy it doesn't mean I don't love it! ). But I'm having similar problems with deliveries - doing a once-monthly shop is impossible at the moment as things are either unavailable or you're limited to 2 items - I'm not stockpiling, it's just how I buy things because when you buy things from lots of different places you don't spend the delivery minimums every week!

Karmacat

It's weird about the eggs, isn't it - as you say, none going to restaurants right now.  Ah well.  I have some, I have lots of dried beans and lentils, and included in my delivery was some tofu - I had fried tofu a couple of times on the holiday, and it was lovely.

Today has literally just been about cleaning - the porch, the shopping, and me Cleaning the shopping in the porch, which seemed logical, though the set up was a bit dodgy.  Curtains are ready to put back up again, but I want to clean the windows first.  Delivery guy was a TfL guy, who was thrilled to be going back to his normal job tomorrow.  He was a bit slow with the distancing, so I asked him to step back from my porch.

I can last for quite a while now - very glad to be able to just go out for a walk and nothing else.

themadvix

Yes, a walk is good, venturing where there are other people much less so... it’s weird how unclean it feels! Are we all going to be germophobes?!

I love tofu but tend to avoid it because it comes in plastic. However as I’m ordering online only, so my fish will have to come in plastic (no counters open), maybe I’ll get some tofu for a change too. 

Karmacat

Thats another good reason for not using it - I don't usually use it because after all, its just soya beans - I've *got* soya beans.  But the texture ... I reckoned with all the stuff going on at the moment, I wanted to stretch the rules enough to have a single block.  Thanks for the reminder on the plastic, that slipped by me.