The best and the worst so far

I might have known I’d get my come uppance after saying I’ve not had any problems. I ordered a weekly comic subscription over a week ago from WH Smith for two of the grandsons and just enquired as to how long it would be till they got the first issue.

8 to 10 weeks.

Oh, and I should allow a few extra days due to ongoing delays with their couriers.

Our local milkman (it's a woman, though) from Milk and More has reliably supplied basics throughout. They kept their existing customers and took on a limited number of new ones. Vegtoyourdoor (local) supplied lovely fresh fruit/veg boxes.

Sainsbury's have lost a lot of regular customers. They denied access to their regular online customers and concentrated on the shielded instead.

We, obviously, ordered elsewhere (Asda, Iceland, Waitrose and Tesco) and won't be returning when the shielded desert them.

The best? Almost all local shops, have gone out of their way to make deliveries, except for our local greengrocers, they made the first delivery a box of fruit and veg for £20, & it was fantastic. Unfortunately only the first box. From then it was a disgraceful waste of money. The only description for the contents of future boxes was rotten or bendy.

Not impressed by Morrison's on line delivery service, they would deliver anything but nothing in stock. Everything said out of stock. Sainsbury not much good as we don't get the famous letter. Tesco has been brilliant.

And the neighbours are best of all. Everyone is out to help one another!

An organisation doing wonderful things: Two Generations homeshare programme. They match young people with elderly people & after the various safety checks have been done (including COV-19 protocol!) the homeshare begins. The young person helps out by getting food shopping, picking up prescriptions & offering some vital company. It's incredible, so many young people have been coming forward in these difficult times Warms your cockles.

I wrote more about it here:

medium.com/@hayleycannoninfo/the-lives-of-isolated-elderly-people-can-be-transformed-through-homesharing-with-young-people-3c704bce7913

Hope some of you find this useful, or at the very least heart warming