Just Like I’d Imagine The War Years To Be

[Bobbisox1]

Such friendly neighbourly gestures, after the alcohol being left for Mr Bobbs , my friend rang and asked if I had any SR flour, I did , in fact I had 3x 3ib bags ! No, not panic bought, I just had 3 bags anyway,she came to mine to pick it up doing the 2 metre thing of course , for the flour she brought us a lovely hot corned beef and potato pie.( home made )
This is the nice bit of lockdown , the camaraderie here is second to none

[retrocop]

Same down her Bobbs. Last Thursday during the front door clap my wife happened to mention to our enquiring neighbour that we were OK but she noticed a shortage of fresh eggs on the supermarket shelfs.
We had a box of six in the larder.
Next day there was a knock on the front door and left on our low dividing wall was a box of a dozen eggs. Just caught our neighbour going back into his house and thanked him and offered to pay for them. Forget it mate was the answer. Same neighbour had a skip ordered (just like your joke) at the start of lockdown. He noticed I was clearing out my workshop and garage and told my wife we could use his skip and save us going up the recycling tip when it re-opens. :-)

[Bobbisox1]

It becomes bearable and the good outweighs the bad doesn’t it ?

[retrocop]

Always Bobbs. Good always triumphs over evil. You take the Sh'ite with the Sugar and hope for the best. Eventually. :-)

[Bobbisox1]

Yes it does, evil and nastiness won’t ever win

[pastafreak]

Would they have been giving away their corned beef in the war?

;)...;)...;)

[Bobbisox1]

We just had a portion of pie each ;0))

[rowanwitch]

I tried a new local service today, basically a garden centre in a large truck, you book a slot he comes to your door choose your plants and pay while keeping a safe distance. No charge for delivery no minimum spend.... But things that were getting a bit tired he threw in for free, bought one extra for my garden mad friend who is shielding, put them on her bin storesaw her take them I was happy, she had a hollyhock and I saw she was ok...all is well

[Denton]

We were so poor if you were constipated my Dad used to sit us on the Toilet and tell us Ghost Stories.

[Bobbisox1]

Gosh, I wish there was something like that here Rowan, I can’t imagine my garden without colour this Summer

[TheDevil]

when i imagine the war i think of hundreds of thousands dead

[rowanwitch]

Plenty of online nurseries, but this was great I could pick the plants in person.

[Denton]

Thanks again for B.A.Bobbs.

[Bobbisox1]

TD ,there’s more dead now through C19 than all the conflicts we’ve been involved in since 1945 !

Thanks a Rowan, I’ll check that out

[EdmundD]

Eggs being rationed in WW2 I doubt anyone would have been donating them to their neighbours.

This is not like the war years at all - we don't have rationing, we do one stop shopping in supermarkets rather than all day queuing at a butchers, then a baker, then a greengrocers etc. And rationing carried on for 9 years after the war ended.

[TheDevil]

"we" ?

[TheDevil]

"we've"** ?

[Bobbisox1]

I guess I’m meaning the Camaraderie Edmond, kindness need not be shown in ‘goods’ all the time

[marval]

it is so nice when you can be there for others, and they are there for you.

[Bobbisox1]

Yes it is Marval , we are very lucky

[bookbinder]

Our next-door neighbour asked if he could borrow our tree lopper. Whilst he was busy, my wife happened to mention the shortage of flour at Tesco. The lopper was duly returned at the end of the job. That evening, neighbour went to Tesco to do their shopping. He rang us on his mobile, said he had a bag of flour in his hand, and would Mrs. bb like to have it? The flour was duly delivered by said neighbour, who would not accept payment, because we had lent him our tree lopper! Very good of him! But then, we probably saved him paying a tree surgeon £40 or so, by lending him the lopper. Tit for tat, you could say, but a nice gesture, nonetheless!