Yes, I get very anxious so I’m finding it hard not to want to save food by eating less, even food that won’t keep (e.g. bread, I’ve no room to freeze it). It’s set off my frugal mindset in other ways too - I’m suddenly feeling more mindful of water/electricity usage even though it’s not impacted by the virus. All these people stockpiling make it seem like the war effort!Anybody else finding it’s making you rethink your food usage? Yesterday I did a joint of meat and there was a bit left not enough for a meal but normally I’d have shared it out but I took a bit off each plate and made another meal to freeze it. It’ll certainly make us rethink lots of things! I’m either going to end it super fat (no waste it all needs eating) or skinny because I’ve made my meals smaller
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I can categorically state that clothes shops are not open anymore.
Don't know anything about an update yet....normally its on BBC News, at least that's where I watch itMorning!
A friend's daughter is returning from New Zealand tomorrow, any idea if she needs to isolate on return. Her mum is a NHS key worker and we may have to find her a place to stay if daughter needs to isolate. Any thoughts gratefully received. Cant find any info online
A friend's daughter is returning from New Zealand tomorrow, any idea if she needs to isolate on return. Her mum is a NHS key worker and we may have to find her a place to stay if daughter needs to isolate. Any thoughts gratefully received. Cant find any info online
Not sure what the legal stance is maybe someone else can advise but if they won't agree could she say she or someone in the household has symptoms and needs to self isolate ? It is not right to lie I know but her work seem to be going against the government advice for your family x
Hopefully they won't have a choice in a day or two x
Thank you. I just assumed if you had a parents advised to do 12 weeks isolation the whole family has to do the same so assumed her boss would know and understand that.
Yes I agree and I think most reasonable bosses would obviously hers is not !
We've been advised by our local authority that we can only claim the 80% pay if we close the business down, let all staff go and take them back on after.
We are providing care for children of keyline workers. All staff have been offered hours, they've turned them down and are choosing to not work so they won't be paid. We were told again by the LA if they do this, they can claim universal credit as a stop gap or sick pay if they are isolating with symptoms but they can't take the 80% pay if they have been offered hours and are choosing not to take them.
Maybe it's different because we are providing a service essential and not a non essential business like a cafe?
Our Owner said if the 80% had been offered straight away, she would have kept us closed.
We've now got 20 children a day, all of whom have NHS front line working parents to take care of.
I'm now anxious about catching it through them and bringing it home but then I'm anxious about not having money to get by. My husbands the same as he works in hospitals all over the country but at least his work are providing ppe for him.
Ask them to put that in writing. Then she uses her holidays to self isolate, by which time fingers crossed, the place will have shut to everyone. If not, then she says you or another family member has symptoms, so she must isolate. At least if she has tried everything by the book, and they essentially force her to continue putting herself (and you) at risk, then I think she has to look out for her family. I'm not for lying in any form, but these are unique circumstances and putting profit before people is just wrong.
they are all salaried staff and we’re all going to be paid fully anyway, before the government said about the 80% pay.
We are in hospitality are we are officially closed.
They just thought it was a good idea to keep people working for their money as long as possible hence the painting.
I agreed to do it as I couldn’t afford to say no to work.
I'd wait for the details to be released, I would be very surprised if they're incentivising closing the whole business over keeping it open with skeleton staff.
Looking at my two local shopping centers on Facebook they both seem to be open but have closed the food courts. That seems madness !I can categorically state that clothes shops are not open anymore.
Yes if you're a single parent you can take children to the supermarketI don’t know... I’m trying to live in my head where it won’t get that bad
Yes. It has hit home to me just how lucky we are. War time rations were so much less and I wish I could go back in time and tell my grandparent’s how remarkable they were to have lived on rations for years. They also didn’t have the advantage of freezers that we have.Anybody else finding it’s making you rethink your food usage? Yesterday I did a joint of meat and there was a bit left not enough for a meal but normally I’d have shared it out but I took a bit off each plate and made another meal to freeze it. It’ll certainly make us rethink lots of things! I’m either going to end it super fat (no waste it all needs eating
Last night, as I was dishing up my family’s dinner, I realised I wasn’t particularly hungry. Usually I would have eaten it anyway. Instead I put mine in a freezer bag and, once it had cooled down, I popped it in the freezer.
A few hours later I had crackers and a little bit of cheese which was enough for me.
It’s also made me realise how much I do eat when I’m not really hungry. That in itself is a waste and I want to rectify that.
Also, yesterday I saw online that if you freeze milk in ice cube trays, each cube is enough for one cup of tea so I’ve frozen some just in case we can’t get milk next week. At least my husband will still be able to have his morning cuppa.
God Facebook in general is too much this week.
It's either share after share of info from the front line.
People being twats and saying it's nothing, going out or trying to say they had it at Christmas and are immune to it
Or sharing 50,000 home schooling ideas,workout videos, French lessons.
It's information overload ! I wish people could just post the government advice and bloody follow it !
Just on the topic to people "escaping to the country" to avoid the virus - PLEASE DON'T.
I live in a rural area with a lot of islands, and residents are having to petition our MSP to get the gov to step in with the number of people heading our way. We already struggle with infrastructure and access to medical aid and food in normal times, and extra numbers are just going to make this worse. Services are a supply and demand thing, so STAY AT HOME where your local infrastructure is based on the population rather than putting others in less populated areas (and yourself) at risk.
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I live in a rural area with a lot of islands, and residents are having to petition our MSP to get the gov to step in with the number of people heading our way. We already struggle with infrastructure and access to medical aid and food in normal times, and extra numbers are just going to make this worse. Services are a supply and demand thing, so STAY AT HOME where your local infrastructure is based on the population rather than putting others in less populated areas (and yourself) at risk.
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Another facebook thing:
Everyone acting like the government have given us a 12 month summer holiday for the laugh...
I saw a instagram story from the_onlycookiemonster (someone who lives in the Cotswolds) the number of people walking outside is nuts.
I liked greywolf's wankpuffin. Maybe coviwank ? xDD
For FODsake what a coviwank!
My local shopping centre has also closed the food court, reduced hours and several of the shops are now closed. I have a friend that works at a travel agents in the shopping centre and she’s said it was so quiet yesterday and there were also armed police. I’ve not seen armed police in a shopping centre since the Manchester bombing.
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