Can we do a lighthearted thread?

[MrsMaryBOOface]

I am as worried and terrified as the next person but wondered if a lighthearted thread would help to ease the stress?

On a lighter note, we have no chocolate or crisps at home, hoping to rectify this in the next few days but how does one refrain from eating the apocalypse supplies?!

I had a stress test of corona virus emergency procedure today at work.. It made me think do I need to stress test my stay at home the world has ended plan... Which is stay in pj's, drink gin, wash hands in gin, eat chocolate for breakfast.. Sort of like Christmas really... Anyway I think i need to do a 24 hr test to see how much gin and chocolate I need, then times that by 14 to get a two week quarentine total.
Better double it again... Just in case

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If we have to self isolate, at least I’ll be able to do some ironing.

I second reading through Mumsnet Classics. Also find a recipe for making Honeycomb not much ingredients and easy to make. Nice sweet treat.

Will Corona Virus T.V be as shit as Christmas T.V ?

I’m a child of the 70s, my dad used to stockpile tins of fruit cocktail and lychees (FFS) in the upstairs cupboard. And the occasional tin of black cherries in syrup.

Every time there was a power cut he’d run upstairs and come down triumphantly brandishing a rusty tin or two.

I was a child of the 60s/70s, DM had grown up and started married life under rationing (it didn't end till well after the war). We had one (smallish) upstairs cupboard full of loo rolls, and a shelf of a large cupboard piled with tins. Cling peaches in syrup, mandarins, evaporated milk, dried Marvel milk, corned beef, pilchards, tinned veg etc.

The tins weren't rusty because she operated a proper rotation system, I had to actually eat the bloody pilchards.

As an introvert with personal space issues, I'm very much in favour of enforced "social distancing." I also like the idea of having an excuse to not leave my house for 2 weeks. Unfortunately, DH will WFH & I'd actually have to increase my social efforts to keep the DC quiet while he's working.

I fear my DC will be telling stories of the time a few people got sick & I proudly produced random tins to feed everyone...

@ErrolTheDragon, god yes, Marvel! That stuff was weird.

I still have a penchant for evap and condensed milk, always keep tins of them in the larder! And tinned mandarins are way nicer for pudding than fresh. Bit of hot custard and you’re sorted. My kids think I’m insane of course.

I bought toilet paper yesterday as we were running low. I felt so guilty, like I was buying crack or something. Had to keep checking over my shoulder to make sure nobody I knew saw me with a pack of bog rolls in my trolley.

I’m having ‘camp corona’ T-shirts made incase we need to isolate. Have dug out the old guitar as well. Just need to stockpile some marshmallows

woke up to a sore throat, not had one for years, have to self isolate now. At least I have stockpiled wine, I'll just drink myself into oblivion

I’m shitting it in case I can’t get to my hair appointments and will need to face disaster with hideous roots...

@ErrolTheDragon that reminds me of the time my parents got a box of tins which were missing labels.. that was exciting 😂

'I bought toilet paper yesterday as we were running low. I felt so guilty, like I was buying crack or something. Had to keep checking over my shoulder to make sure nobody I knew saw me with a pack of bog rolls in my trolley'

Glad I am not the only one who does that. Everytime I am in the medicine or household cleaning aisle I feel strangely embarrassed that someone might think I am stockpiling. I think it might be an English thing.

I've just had an email from my local posh deli and due to CV they will now be offering home deliveries . Thank goodness we will be ok for micro leaves, aubergine dip and artisanal bread.

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I bought toilet paper yesterday as we were running low. I felt so guilty, like I was buying crack or something. Had to keep checking over my shoulder to make sure nobody I knew saw me with a pack of bog rolls in my trolley.

This!!! I feel embarrassed having to buy a tin of anything!

Ds (3) got hold of a loo roll earlier and was unravelling it down the landing like the Andrex puppy. Dh and I both launched ourselves at him shrieking "Nooooo! Don't waste the loo rooooooollllll"

Love this thread.

My sister (medical doctor) assured me with a totally straight face that gin is a requirement for adult sore throats.

The kids have to make do with ice cream.

@TheABC. Your sister is most wise. I can't get any alcohol hand gel so I figured if I apply gin from the inside it should work roughly the same.

Glad the advice has been updated from whisky, which used to be the standard home remedy.

Do you think that, if all the schools close and we have to self isolate, everyone could do a really thorough job on their kids with a bottle of conditioner and a nitty gritty comb? It would be so awesome if every child went back to school headlouse-free.

My old nanny said we had to drink red wine for sore throats.

I rang my elderly (very posh) neighbour today to ask if she needed anything due to this going on,

I got a list of - Buxton mineral water, Medjool dates, certain posh loo roll (!) malden sea salt...spent ages sourcing these things faffing around, bought myself an at home yoga mat also

Ah the essentials I thought!

Surely one of the most important things to consider.... metro.co.uk/2020/03/12/coronavirus-uk-can-still-order-takeaway-isolation-12387471/

My Dc have been playing a game where there have to drop to the floor and lie on their backs with their arms and legs in the air whenever they hear the word coronavirus!