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[pensnest]

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?

Comments

[frausorge]

I have never met a cat who was fond of onions. Wow!

[pensnest]

I am baffled, truly. Perhaps she was just being "The Hoomans be eatin' this", and pretending to enjoy it... but she doesn't really care about our approval, so that doesn't work either!

Cats be odd.

[turps]

I'm amazed that all those puppies got into the bucket. Also, the leaf jumping was fabulous.

[turlough]

People here seem to be taking things quite calmly so far. There was a bit of a rush on toilet paper over the weekend but when I was doing some serious grocery shopping on Tuesday the only empty shelf I saw was the one for cornflakes. Very strange since all the other cereals were still there.

The ways of cats are mysterious!!

Puppies!!

[pensnest]

We nipped into Aldi today after going to the butcher and the pharmacy (my prescription needs renewing), and obtained the potatoes and carrots that were unavailable at the big supermarket on Wednesday. Their shelves were mostly fine, the one annoying absence being soya milk. We theorise that after all the long life dairy milk had been purchased, desperate folk decided to grab the soya milk. Irritating.

Perhaps when everybody has enough stockpiled to battle a siege army, the supermarkets will be able to keep their shelves replenished. Unless everyone who couldn't buy potatoes this week decides to buy All The Things at that stage, sigh.

My cats are a constant source of wonder, joy and mystification.

[iconis]

FLUFFY NO ONIONS BAD THEY CAN GIVE YOU AWFUL ANAEMIA (and gas)

[brandywine28]

ONION CAT.

That sixth puppy has stolen my heart, and I wouldn't foist Lou-ness upon him for a million dollars!