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http://news.sky.com/story/emergency-talks-to-prevent-christmas-food-shortag...

Wonderful Christmas cheer to all .

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I've set up a teabag washing line in my kitchen already.   Just when you knew it could get much worse, the gift that keeps on giving.

Good luck with the sh1tshow and isolation everyone.

TWS

I'm imagining fights over the brussel sprouts! The evil veg which no one likes but feels the need to endure. Lol

I love sprouts. 

I seem to remember that we did without last year, and not only without them this year, but also without either turkey, or the venison that I was going to buy. (I bought a free range, corn-fed (or is that con fed) chicken last week and froze it after hearing someone on the radio say that such a chicken is more tasty than a large turkey, thinking that I may be on my own, but may decide to celebrate solo-style.)

My normal big eating day is usually Boxing day, and I may stick to the usual on Christmas day, of having a bowl of soup at lunch time, and then going out for a bike ride, though the roads may not be as quiet as usual this year. Anyway I have some tinned soup, even if the supermarkets are caught out by the Dover blockade.

I’ll tell you what though.

It looks like we’ve got ourselves a convoy.

Yeah, breaker one-nine
This here's the Rubber Duck
You got a copy on me Pig Pen, c'mon?
Uh, yeah, Ten-Four Pig Pen, fer sure, fer sure

You can have mine - merry Christmas 😉

You might regret that in a week or so when they're the only foodstuff left in the UK

The new bitcoin.   Vego-currency.

great. I expect the shelves to be stripped bare again whilst anyone working gets to wonder what random leftovers will still be on the shelves after people prepare to fill up the recycling bins.

This is serious. It looks like nowhere else is allowing travellers from the UK.  Who's faces can we now wave our proud blue passports at from the slow queue, if swarthy Jonny foreigner is not letting us in ?

Especially fried in butter with pancetta once their cooked 😋 

Wave it at them anyway and speak loudly and slowly to help them understand we are a strong independent nation and can do whatever the f*ck we want?

Money saving tip: find out which of your neighbours is a stockpiler and raid their bins in week

Psst... Wanna buy some toilet rolls?

So do I. Only good thing about Christmas.

On the plus side Aldi are selling 2.3kg crates of clementines for 2 quid, parsnips for a few pence and cabbages for 14p. Looks like there's a glut of food at present.

so do I . However, they're not the only good thing about Christmas. It's a happy time of the year when we get to celebrate the birth of .....................................

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My son, born 10 weeks early and on life support for a month or so, now rapidly approaching his 30th birthday

Can't you use Zoom for this sort of thing?

Agree sprouts are evil when boiled - but are very tasty when cut in half, lightly steamed, then stir fried in butter and a bit of salt until seared on the outside.

Our sprouts are still growing, and plenty of them!

Also, point out our virus is 70% more effective than anyone else's! Britain on top again! 

(Meanwhile, my Norwegian colleagues are queuing up to tell me I will never see home again!)

Where does Wintertree live, and does he have a 12 bore?

Yeah. Pick out the sprouts, and that sounds lovely...

I spent a fair bit of the weekend servicing my defence grid and checking out the backup services.  It took a while to find the 4,000 farad capacitors.  I’m not telling you if they’re part of the defence grid or for the backup power though.

Re: Kent - the refer lorries with food in are easy to spot - look for the big white heat exchangers on the front or roof of the trailer.

The way things are going you may not want to.

I hope those are hardened against an EMP?

Pah! I’ve seen the Walking Dead, those ones are full of walkers - you won’t get me so easy!