***CoronaBonus***

[Jasmine]

I am reliably informed that our local supermarket has a superabundance of Easter eggs, going cheep.

Sainsbury's seems to be flogging Lindt Gold Bunnies...

Aren't they always?

They re-package them as reindeer in August.

They go through an intermediate pumpkin stage.

I think Jaded's point is that the reindeer & bunnies are literally the same product, with a slightly different foil wrap.

[Jaded]

 

[Cudzoziemiec]

I didn't know that! TBH I don't recall having seen chocolate reindeer so wasn't quite treating them as a literal product. Still, you don't get to be as big as Lindt without taking advantage of economies of scale.

[Kim]

Aldi definitely do suspiciously bunny-shaped chocolate reindeer.

[Cudzoziemiec]

Just googled it. They are not quite identical. Or at least, not the year this photo was taken.
Reindeer and Bunnies aren't the same thing by Neil Crosby, on Flickr

Also, they're not copyrighted: http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2011/01/more-on-lindt-bunny-reindeer-ribbon-and.html

[Asterix, the former Gaul.]

That's the mega-shop over.  Or at least as much as a smallish bike trailer and saddle bag can carry. 

Tesco had stacks of Easter eggs so I got a couple after all.  Lindt ones.  Didn't see any Easter bunnies..  Or reindeer, which should be for Christmas, anyway. 

[Ham]

More of a "random corona thingy" than anything else, on Stratford School twitter feed, a year 8 student's work

https://twitter.com/StratfordSch/status/1247798571983765506

[Hot Flatus]

https://twitter.com/EmmetSeanKelly/status/1248914214439264256?s=20

[Asterix, the former Gaul.]

 

[Nuncio]

Our language is blooming in the time of Miley Cyrus.

https://language-and-innovation.com/2020/04/15/coronaspeak-part-2-the-language-of-covid-19-goes-viral/

[ElyDave]

I've delivered an HSE Management System Audit this week wearing shorts (and a t-shaped shirt bfore you ask).  I've also seen the inside of several of the client folk's kitchens, spare rooms, garden hidey holes etc

[Mrs Pingu]

Have you been missold PPE?
https://twitter.com/Scotpol1314/status/1250721473435766785?s=19

[Mrs Pingu]

These Andrew Cotter videos are funny
https://twitter.com/MrAndrewCotter/status/1259931151403290624?s=19

[Giraffe]

The Bonus is fading. Garden Centre next to Waitrose has re-opened, lots more cretin cans around so had to wait to cross the road.
Pantechnicon parked on a bend in the village, boxes being loaded - that was quick!

[vorsprung]

It's gin o'clock

[ian]

I confess that in a paean to middling middle-class alcoholism, we've been self-medicating with a daily G&T since this began. Only posh gin though. If the crisis lasts until late summer, we'll be on the Thunderbird and MD20-20 cocktails.

[FifeingEejit]

I am reliably informed that our local supermarket has a superabundance of Easter eggs, going cheep.

Sainsbury's seems to be flogging Lindt Gold Bunnies...

Aren't they always?

They re-package them as reindeer in August.

They go through an intermediate pumpkin stage.

I think Jaded's point is that the reindeer & bunnies are literally the same product, with a slightly different foil wrap.

Chocolate santas from Christmas also seem to gain different foil at easter.
In both cases the chocolate seems to have a bishop carved into it.

I confess that in a paean to middling middle-class alcoholism, we've been self-medicating with a daily G&T since this began. Only posh gin though. If the crisis lasts until late summer, we'll be on the Thunderbird and MD20-20 cocktails.

Roads are still near deserted in the evening round here.
Does make me wonder what people used to do after work:
Tesco currently shuts at 10, usually 24hrs
Forest gates shut at 8pm
Pubs open at... ah!!!!!

[Morat]

My speed awareness course (80 in a 70, I'm a real felon) has been turned into an online course/zoom meeting.

That saves two hours of needless driving. Hurrah!

[rafletcher]

My speed awareness course (80 in a 70, I'm a real felon) has been turned into an online course/zoom meeting.

That saves two hours of needless driving. Hurrah!

Plus you avoid the opening question "What's the speed limit on the road outside?" 

[mattc]

ON LEAVING THE HOUSE AND ENCOUNTERING ANOTHER HUMAN BEING

I’m sorry I dived into the bushes.
It’s not personal, you understand.
You happened to walk in my direction
and my nerves got the upper hand.

I’m sorry I screamed when you came near me.
Don’t take my angry shrieks to heart.
Idiomatically, let’s stay in touch –
and physically, six feet apart.

Apologies if it seems like you repulse me,
that I recoil when you come near.
In other times, we might have spoken,
shared a joke or had a beer,

or waltzed together down the footpath,
perhaps we may yet still one day.
But just for now, embrace the margins
and wave to me from far away.

https://brianbilston.com/2020/04/12/on-leaving-the-house-and-encountering-another-human-being/

[Cudzoziemiec]

Ha! Recently I've met a guy called Martin, who is atoning for a lifetime of IT by writing poetry. He read me a set of six (short) lockdown poems, none of which was anything like that! I'd write one out for you here but as he told me he doesn't want to be published, and/although he's put a copyright notice on them, so I won't. Or maybe I'll ask him next time I see him. 

[barakta]

What few video events/things I am attending are BSL interpreted (and some have captions). My BSL reception skills are improving hugely through practice of watching the terps which are often more interesting than captions.

[robgul]

The Thursday night clapping has enabled us to meet our neighbours . . . we moved house on 24 Feb, went on holiday on 29 Feb for what should have been 6 weeks but turned out to be 4 weeks with a sharp exit from New Zealand - first Thursday back was , I think, the second week of clapping . . . we got out there and hey, aren't the neighbours great. 

Clapping on Thursdays since then and socially distanced drinks in the street on VE day and Weds this week when the hot weather was the excuse.  AND I 've now joined the beer delivery syndicate.   So a sort of Covid benefit.

... not sure what the neighbours will say next week when we have men here with a BIG machine digging out the driveway to pave it??

Rob

[Kim]

"Ohdear, that's where they buried the bodies..."

[Morat]

My speed awareness course (80 in a 70, I'm a real felon) has been turned into an online course/zoom meeting.

That saves two hours of needless driving. Hurrah!

Plus you avoid the opening question "What's the speed limit on the road outside?" 

150 miles per hour - on my driveway!
(They don't need to know it's 3m long)