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Honestly, after all the talk on the radio while I was getting lunch ready, about how there is plenty of food and people really don't need to panic buy, plus a concerned but sensible email from the chief of Sainsburys, it was somewhat irritating to see yards and yards of empty shelf when we got to the supermarket this afternoon. Not a potato or a carrot to be seen—no, I lie, Beast spotted a third of a carrot. No rice or pasta, not a surprise. The cereal aisle was quite funny, with lonely patches of posh granola and Special K and pretty well nothing else. Lots of booze still on the shelves, and frankly, I wouldn't have been surprised to find those denuded as well. I wonder what the chocolate aisle was like?

Can't exactly blame the supermarkets, as I dare say the supply chains are having trouble coping with this madness. I would have appreciated some hygienic wipes to apply to the self-scanner and the trolley, though.

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I made lentil and sweet potato curry for lunch today, but forgot, when serving, that I had put some onion bhajis in the oven. I only remembered them while I was in Sainsburys picking up another packet. Back home, after unpacking the meagre shopping, we had a cuppa and the bhajis. The following ensued:

Fluffy: *jumps onto desk, sticks nose into my onion bhajis*

Me: Stop that! Cats don't like onion bhajis.

Fluffy: Yes yes we do gimme.

Me: No! Get down!

Fluffy: Gimme! Want! *noses bhaji*

Me: *offers a sliver of onion* You don't like onion—

Fluffy: *noms enthusiastically* More!

Me: Seriously? (nb this is a cat who sneezes and leaps away when my hand has recently been used to prepare an onion)

Fluffy: We Cats like onion bhaji. Gimme.

Sable: Wassup?

Me: You may have some onion bhaji crumbs. You won't like them. *puts slightly bhaji-crumbed plate on floor*

*cats investigate*

Sable: Ew.

Fluffy: I eats all teh onion bhajis!

*plate is polished*


Cats.

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If you would like something to make you smile, see Stella leap into piles of leaves here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tu3HN-MmJc4

Also, Puppies in a Box Bucket, here. I suppose the sixth puppy would have to be called Lou, yes?

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There's an awesome post on Captain Awkward, sparked by a letter from an extrovert who is *dreading* the social distancing. Loads of really cool ideas in comments for ways to keep up both human contact and your spirits. Here (second question, though the first one is also a goody).