Will you go

I did read that Michael O'Leary  was saying that Ryanair would refuse to fly if they had to keep middle seats empty on flights. Nothing to do, presumably with the effect on his profits? Difficult to understand some folk's priorities. 

I also noticed that our food shopping bill has increased over the last month. A lot of offers have been removed and prices have gone up on some items. Don’t know if it’s the suppliers or the supermarket.  

Thanks to the poster for the idea of investing in Premium Bonds, I’ll move some cash over next week.

Not looking forward to that as you say, think the Lockdown will last until at least then to cover that. Have to say Devon Chief Police Officer (can't remember his name) is on the ball and installs confidence. He appears to have a very tight lockdown approach, never seen so many police cars about, and they do stop people. My daughter travelled into Woolacombe, half mile to her local shop, was stopped to check she wasn't going to the beach. She thanked the Police officer for stopping her. As I said installs confidence but we shall see.

Can’t understand why bank holidays should be any different from say, this sunny week TW. Most people are not working at the moment, why wait till it’s a bank holiday to flout the rules?

I noticed a new term being used this week in the Business Columns; 'Lived Inflation' is being used as a description of the damage to your food budget as distinct from the more traditional terms of RPI and CPI [Retail Price Index and Consumer Price Index].

Lived Inflation is on target to exceed 100% this year with weekly increases of 1.4% to 1.8% on a typical week's shopping basket [whatever that might contain in these rationed supply times!].

Steve

It's only just occurred to me but remember all that fuss over the changing of the date for the early May BH?  Totally irrelevant now of course! 

I may also be as some in this area have said , "being at home has increased our shopping bill as we now do not get our free/subsidised meals at work

Just realised the upside is we are saving a good few quid by not eating out.

The downside is having to eat the OHs cooking every day.

Or even worse mine.

it may have been mentioned before ,Dog rescue centres have re homed? many more since the virus struck,which is good in some ways but as the Dogs Trust car sticker may need amending to

A Dog is for life not just Covid19

to enable extra essential exercise to be undertaken

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Today's COVID 19 death figures are trickling in; but, even allowing for a 'data cleaning correction' for Wales,and without Northern Irleland's figures,the total has passed the 20,000 mark that Sir Patrick Vallance said, on 17th March, would be a good outcome.

Using Scotland's figures for Care Home and Community setting deaths [33%], that suggests that total deaths are now in excess of 27,000.

Grim figures that should give pause for thought.

Steve