Coronavirus outbreak

[Johnno260]

Anybody got any suggestions for a Calpol substitute?

Try and find some supermarket own brand kids paracetamol, it's the same as calpol, finding it could be an issue, I have had some luck getting things from the smaller pharmacy away from the supermarkets.

Best of luck it's nuts out there, people have lost all sense of reason.

Edit: failing that call a pharmacy and ask for alternatives they are usually helpful, other suggestion could be a hospital with an in house pharmacy.

 

[Pale Rider]

Thanks, PR!! That's really insightful. There was clearly a lot going on that wasn't reported.

Absolutely.

I can understand why occasional visitors to courts find them boring.

But when you get under the skin of a court they are fascinating places because of all the different characters and various running stories running behind the scenes.

As I say to people who ask about the job, I've no need to watch Coronation Street because I spend eight hours a day involved in a real life soap opera.

I expect Mrs BB would say the same about hospitals.

 

[Rusty Nails]

Anybody got any suggestions for a Calpol substitute?

Calpol is paracetamol with syrup, sweetener and preservatives. There are generic brand alternatives.

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2019/jun/04/why-parents-are-addicted-to-calpol

 

[ozboz]

Try and find some supermarket own brand kids paracetamol, it's the same as calpol, finding it could be an issue, I have had some luck getting things from the smaller pharmacy away from the supermarkets.

Best of luck it's nuts out there, people have lost all sense of reason.

Edit: failing that call a pharmacy and ask for alternatives they are usually helpful, other suggestion could be a hospital with an in house pharmacy.

I was in Sainsbury’s earlier , paracetamol is out of stock , I went to an independent chemist on the high st , they had plenty , you may find better pickings at the local shops

 

[Joey Shabadoo]

My wife found a pharmacy that have reserved some for him - he's in a very long queue with 3 fractious children now.

 

[tom73]

Been in Morrisons no improvement but I did get the last tin of corn beef
One women of younger pension age with a trolly full was replying to an equally aged woman and her husband. "I will need to self isolate it getting silly". She then went on to take the last two trays of tin potatoes. Just leave the odd one I was thinking. By the look of it she's already emptied a few other sheaves

 

[Pale Rider]

My supermarket shopping experience at lunchtime seems out of step with the rest of you.

Everything I needed in Morrisons, although I did have to compromise on my usual brand and size choices for some items.

Pasta looked very low, and I saw one selfish peanut with several big bags of dried.

I think I was lucky after speaking in the cafe to the man who was servicing the coffee machine.

He'd just come from the other Morrisons in town which he said was more or less cleaned out with long queues for what was left.

 

[Johnno260]

The entire panic buying is beyond a joke, I bet the food waste from idiots taking what they can't consume will be horrific.

If they need to use police resources to control sub human trash from doing this it will be crazy, I would say mobilize the army to make sure people behave, obviously some need to be treated like kids.

 

[Blue Hills]

. She then went on to take the last two trays of tin potatoes.

Did you try suggesting to her that potatoes might be available without the tin?

Were there any "fresh" potatoes?

 

[Proto]

I’m in the middle of buying a house, should exchange contract

We have kept ourselves debt free for over 20 years .... reasonable salaries, no HP, no flash company cars ( i have a Ford Transit Custom mini bus ... 4 kids ) all taxes paid on time .... ... it's been a struggle a few times but were still here ....

Well done, and how it should be done.

When I ran a small machining business I liked to keep two months turnover cash in the bank for a rainy day. We would not have survived 2008 without this.

I bought all our plant and equipment with cash, and a decent lathe being into 6 figures, I had to save my pennies.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Brewdog diversifying from their usual brewing by producing high-alcohol hand sanitiser. Like Leith Gin, although they're having trouble sourcing bottles.

Whats it taste like?

 

[nickyboy]

I walked past a small "mini market" that serves a small town today and they had so much toilet roll on display you couldn't see inside through the windows

I am willing to sell the location of this to the highest bidder

 

[Johnno260]

Education secretary is making a statement after 5pm, school closures imminent I think.

 

[Blue Hills]

I walked past a small "mini market" that serves a small town today and they had so much toilet roll on display you couldn't see inside through the windows

I am willing to sell the location of this to the highest bidder

no need - we'll flush it out of you sooner or later.

 

[tom73]

Did you try suggesting to her that potatoes might be available without the tin?

Were there any "fresh" potatoes?

Yes they had them fresh and no I did not she shot off like lightning down the next aisle.