Peter, If you can’t get out due to self-isolation, but need cheese, give me a call at the Fleetville Larder and I can deliver! Ed
NWR Panic buying - the saga continues...
- Thread starter Mike Holliday
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Peter, If you can’t get out due to self-isolation, but need cheese, give me a call at the Fleetville Larder and I can deliver! Ed
- Location
- London
that luxuriant beard you've been growing will be so shiny though TC
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- Northampton
I'm afraid that isn't a TLA I'm familiar with - Google's suggestion seems to be Accelerated Graphics Port, which I'm sure isn't it...
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- Lanark
It's a long walk in Jonathan, but doable. I guess the issue is that GP's and healthcare is spread thin up there, and I know that some of the flights to the islands are now only running for locals.
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- Rock, North Cornwall
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- England
Not sure why they’d refer to that as a desperate measure.
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- Guildford
With the money from my cancelled trip to Paris freshly on my Halifax credit card, which is only ever used for foreign purchases and therefore upsettingly in credit, I have happily restored equilibrium by buying 6 magnums of LRA 904 2007. That should see me through the first 2 weeks at least.
Tom Cannavan
Administrator
Ferries ARE still running for now, to the normal timetable on most routes (maybe not yours), but only on a turn up and go basis - new bookings are suspended until July 15th as they cannot guarantee to function if staff shortages continue to rise. That may change of course.
Tom Cannavan
Administrator
Having mostly joy in cancelling hotels and car hire for our abandoned Californian trip, even those booked on non-refundable, non-cancellable rates. Two independent hotels, and very pricy ones at that in Santa Barbara and Palm Springs, were my biggest concern, but they refunded and confirmed almost immediately. A couple of others booked via bookings.com are being more sticky. The big chains (Hilton, Marriot, Westin) already have flexibile policies in place. Only about £400 down at the moment, but those are ongoing cases.
Tom Cannavan
Administrator
£190 down
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- London
Some of the best smoked salmon and smoked haddock in the UK delivered safely this morning...
We may be running low on plenty of things, but at We have a little bit of luxury secured there.
We may be running low on plenty of things, but at We have a little bit of luxury secured there.
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- Richmond
Why did Izal exist? In the absence of a decent bit of bog roll, newspaper was far superior, for the posterior. Perhaps Izal slid though the sewers.
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- Aldeburgh
I visited Alfred Enderby 5 years ago when I first retired, when he still owned it. I had a personal tour. It’s opposite
Where the haddock is auctioned. I brought 6 boxes home for family and friends.
indeed I have two boxes arriving in Suffolk next week. It was taken over by a chap called Patrick Salmon two years ago.
It is without doubt amongst the finest available. Cannot be recommended enough.
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- London
A definite puritanical component, like 1970s school food.
I remember a college friend from Newcastle complaining that the soft stuff didn't give enough of a scratch.
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- London
When I was young, Izal was provided in the loo of my local Catholic church for we altar boys. It was only some time later that I realised the green cross was a commercial logo and not a papal imprimatur.
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- London
Surely Izal was designed as an anti-theft measure.
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- London
I remember vividly the very unluxurious paper every perforated sheet of which was inscribed 'Property Of The Inner London Education Authority'.
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- Oxfordshire
I'd forgotten - but the memory returns, with the whole Proustian unfolding of my primary school in its wake.
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- Lanark
I think "tracing paper" was vital to my education. Anyone who had to use the stuff, will also remember that with no interweb, the sum total of knowledge in the average primary school was an Encyclopedia Britannica and a few other reference books. Any written project work needed tracings of diagrams and pictures, the loo paper was vital for this. It also enabled me to copy plans for balsa aircraft 
It led to many happy hours with wood,tissue paper, dope and glue.
It led to many happy hours with wood,tissue paper, dope and glue.- Location
- London
Yes, I was introduced to it by my Aunt as she lives nearby. She had gone on a tour as she knew Patrick (I believe he used to work for her first Husband who ran a grain merchant). When she served it to me I was so impressed - It is truly excellent.
- Location
- UK
Never mind panic buying there seems to be a certain degree of effort being exercised by wine merchants to encourage sales in terms of offers etc in these uncertain times.
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- Dorset, England
I have two words to say: off-set copier.I think "tracing paper" was vital to my education. Anyone who had to use the stuff, will also remember that with no interweb, the sum total of knowledge in the average primary school was an Encyclopedia Britannica and a few other reference books. Any written project work needed tracings of diagrams and pictures, the loo paper was vital for this. It also enabled me to copy plans for balsa aircraft
- Location
- Nottingham, UK
- Location
- UK
I have managed not to panic buy anything except Tarquin's Cornish ‘The SeaDog' Navy Gin (57%) when Ocado had their 50%off sales bringing it down to £21 a bottle. Of course, now the Ocado website is suspended so you’re buggered.
'Buy as much as possible' - Taiwan sees boon to panic buying
That’s how you handle it, this guy is so clever.
That’s how you handle it, this guy is so clever.