MPs call for Sunday trading laws to be scrapped to ease supermarket queues during coronavirus outbreak. MPs describe the six-hour opening limit as “absurd” when the elderly and hard-working NHS staff...
//A national salute is set to take place to honour the hardworking NHS staff who are trying to battle coronavirus. In a gesture of thanks to the frontline healthcare heroes, everyone across the nation...
Assuming that in normal circumstances you follow a routine of carrying out your morning ablutions and making yourself presentable to the world, in these times of isolation do you continue with that or...
A plane with five passengers on board, Donald Trump, Boris Johnson, Angela Merkel, the Pope, and a ten year old schoolgirl is about to crash and there are only four parachutes. Trump says, ‘I need...
I have, so here’s hoping. // The coronavirus could have infected as much as half of the the UK’s population, according to researchers at the University of Oxford. If accurate, the results would mean...
//The raid at Gosfield School in Essex happened overnight on Friday. It said it would no longer be able to feed the children of key workers, or its staff, because of the theft. Among the items taken...
... doubtless we're in for more repeats to fill the gaps and to help to keep us entertained through this awful time. That being so, which programmes from the past would you like to see again?
On a lighter note, I was just about to call my hairdresser to cancel my next appointment when she phoned me to say she’d decided not to work until this is all over. Very wise in my opinion. It...
A friend, a City worker, who is now working from home - as are his staff - celebrated his birthday the other day. Unable to take the traditional cakes to the office he emailed everyone a picture of a...
//Food retailers create thousands of jobs in bid to keep shelves full amid panic buying // https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/19/british-supermarkets-draft-in-army-of-temps-to-feed-the-nation...
... But for the life of me I can't remember what it's called. Just a one word title I think. I may have it mixed up .... but I was so sure. Can anyone throw a light on it?
Whether you fall into the group classified as ‘at risk’, or are over 70 and advised to remain at home, or younger and fit but requested to abandon your social life, will you comply - and if not why...
I was rather hoping the manic shelf-clearing was now at an end … the culprits must have enough by now, surely? Apparently not. My friend has just told me that shelves in our local supermarket are...
I just heard from a friend who flew out to the US to join a cruise ship that she's stuck there - on the boat. The ship can't depart because none of the planned ports of call will allow it to dock....
