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The wren- a tiny bird with attitude.

I know I’ve got to stop anthropomorphising plants, but... It has teeth!

Bad hair day?

From a personal point of view (maybe this belongs in a different thread) I find these overtly public acts acutely uncomfortable, and while I do not think for a moment that my discomfort (almost certainly trauma related) or that of others should influence anyone’s decision to take part, I do feel...

I kept seeing an article where people were campaigning get others to light sky-lanterns instead of clapping. Needless to say, firefighters were not impressed.

From one of my walks (I love where I live)

My yoga teacher’s coworkers keep photobombing her video classes and showing everyone their backsides.

I value all the support you give to me in my diary and the support I see you give others on this site. I wish I was as capable of interacting with others as I see you are here. And I think your new name is awesome!

An afternoon in the garden

One of the best things about this situation is all of the creativity that’s happening because of it- Museum Asks People To Recreate Paintings With Stuff They Can Find at Home, Here Are The Results

Interesting article on toilet paper. I agree that supply has been all thrown out of sync and that stocks would have diminished and so struggled to maintain anyway, however, from what I personally witnessed in my store in my back-end-of-nowhere town, the original issue was definitely triggered by...

Hungry caterpillars!

I’m loving all the parodies. This guy’s amazing (it might have been shared already)-

I’ve a feeling the longer this goes on the more people are going to stop bothering with the social-distancing. A week into lockdown here and they are already giving up following the guidelines in the stores and are complaining about the fact that they're supposed to. Some are getting sh*tty...

My coworkers are kinda wild. They sit on the roof and yell down the chimney.

Just sent my first weekly check in e-mail to my T. Can’t do phone therapy or Skype/Face-time etc because I freeze up. She pretty much ordered me to stay in touch. This situation sucks, but we’re making do the best we can. I’m getting pretty fed up at the people who think 2 scratch cards and a...

I’d love to know how they calculate sheets per visit! I saw my first TV ad cashing in on the panic last night. It was for household cleaner. I was wondering how long it would take,

My store’s closing overnight in order to get the stock on the shelves. I had to open it yesterday morning. People had been waiting outside, some for 2 hours, and by the time of opening there were a couple of hundred gathered out there, all crammed up against each other. I was half afraid I was...

Anyone able to recommend a good vegan milk to make a roux-based sauce? I want to make a white sauce that I can use as a base for other flavours. I’ve tried soya milk but it turns to the consistency of water when it reaches boiling point.

We’ve now got all the idiots deciding social distancing means taking their kids on holiday. I live in a tourist hotspot with high poverty rates and one hospital with just a handful of critical care beds. So far we’ve kept infected rates low, but based on the influx of people seen coming to the...

The chickpea water is known as aquafaba I think. Apparently it makes good meringues, though I’ve never tried it.

That’s great @Justmehere thanks!

@Justmehere any links/recommendations for those calming mantras? I’m prone to OCD-type behaviours and am trying to avoid the 20 second thing becoming a compulsive counting habit. Currently I’ve been working alphabetically in reverse through male and female names, but that’s getting a bit tired.

That sounds awful @Justmehere. I never thought my little experiments in soap making a few years ago might become so handy. I still have half a tub of lye in the garage, if things ever get that desperate. Getting the fat might be a struggle though. No cooking oil on the shelves today. A...

Lots of fake news popping up on Facebook now. I managed to shut down one little branch this morning, gently pointing it out to a friend who shared it. One of the ‘My doctor friend says...’ posts about ibuprofen and these mythical 4 kids in hospital, who change countries depending on which post...