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Anyone want anything ordering from Boots while I'm in the giant queue?

One of those darling low calorie cous cous salads with artisan rye croutons, unicorn eyeballs and pink Himalayan salt, a five hundred pound Dyson hairdryer and the medium sized 4711 cologne stick, please.
Failing that, the largest bottle of hydrogen peroxide you can carry so I can bleach my 'tache and scrub the front path.
 
prescriptions? all the drugs??
They do deliver prescriptions, but they have a separate online order and delivery site it seems which doesn't have a queue. There is a tab on the main site for prescriptions, but not sure how that works for home delivery. The only things I can are standard OTC drugs, but looking round the site lots of products are out of stock including things like electric razors. Who panic buys electric shavers?

Now the bloody site won't let me checkout...the button doesn't respond at all.
 
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they didn't want my custom the other day when they closed the pharmacy for 2 hours over lunch either :mad:
It's annoying when the pharamcists bugger off exactly when you want to pick up a prescription. Their site is annoying me now - I don't mind if they displayed a message saying they can only process x number of orders per minute or whatever, but the checkout function just doesn't work. :mad:

Going to leave the tab open to see if I can place the order later, but I bet they'll cancel the basket. I've opened a tab on the phone browser so will try later on today when hopefully it'll have quietened down a bit.
 
Just looked out the window - a car stopped at a junction apparently lost, and a couple walking their dog went and leaned in to the driver's open window to give directions. :facepalm:
 
Sun splitting the rocks here.
About half an hour ago a voice came over a loudspeaker,
"Please go home immediately after your walk".
The gardai were driving around telling people to make sure they went home.
There were roughly 10 people passed the window in the space of 10 minutes. Definitely not a crowd.

Sat in the back garden with a cup of tea and listened to the birds. It isn't often I can hear them. Usually their little songs are drowned out with traffic noise. But today it's like being in the countryside.
Just lovely. 🙂
 
I'm now on the site - 2 hours and 35 minutes later. They have hayfever tablets in stock but the little spinny thing is going round and round trying to add it to the basket. God this is painful - like doing online shopping with a 56k modem. :D

Had you considered using Amazon? I know a lot of people boycott them (with good reason), but I've never seen such queue system madness there. I'm pretty sure you can get hayfever tablets.
 
This about shopworkers from Grace Dent in the Guardian

I hope we remember the selfless hard work of the till workers and midnight shelf-stackers, the people on self-service checkouts who sort our unexplained item in the baggage area problems without maintaining a safe distance. Forever touching the screens we’ve just touched, keeping the queues moving and, by default, breathing in our germs. As shoppers ransacked the pasta and fought over UHT, they had no time to plan for their own families or to watch rolling news or to think too hard if their sweat was the mark of hard work or a fever. I would hug, if I could, the team at my Sainsbury’s Local, who open at dawn every day, always jolly, with the shelves restocked with small amounts of almost all vital items. I’m especially indebted to the drivers whom I’m trusting to get to my mother. They’re taking up the slack on what is now my biggest life problem. I’m trusting total strangers to feed her, not upset her, not frighten her, to keep their distance and to leave the boxes somewhere handy. And to explain to her why there are no rich teas. I wouldn’t call that job unskilled at all.

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Had you considered using Amazon? I know a lot of people boycott them (with good reason), but I've never seen such queue system madness there. I'm pretty sure you can get hayfever tablets.

I’ve just ordered 2 face masks but they don’t arrive until May😕 Amazon hand out disposable rubber gloves every morning but not masks.

Going to see if my dad has any painters masks I can use as I’m sure he said he had some.
 
Had you considered using Amazon? I know a lot of people boycott them (with good reason), but I've never seen such queue system madness there. I'm pretty sure you can get hayfever tablets.
Tried there - none of the ones that work for me even listed for sale, even though the drug name comes up as a search suggestion. Went back onto boots an hour ago (another queue so left the browser window open) and now they've sold out. So I'll have to go to see if I can find some in the shops today as I've now ran out.
 
Never thought placing a shopping order with Tesco would generate the same adrenaline rush as trying to get tickets for Glastonbury.. ho hum.. 😬

Quite - they seem to open the third-week-in-advance slots around midnight on Sunday. Well I say that - I have a slot for about a month away, whether they let me actually order things is a separate matter, and also whether what I order is available when it comes to delivery is another matter. I think you need to go in the day before and find out what they're not going to supply so you can give alternatives.
 
Yep - that's what i had to do with previous order at Asda - first thing is to secure the slot - then figure out what to buy later..
 
Blimey that was weird.
I did my first shop in nearly two weeks ... small Tesco had queues, Aldi was self-regulating until the checkout ... I still can't bring myself to wear a mask in public.
I accidentally grabbed 6 soy milks instead of 4. :oops:

This morning I had an embarrassment.
In addition to posters in my front window, I stuck a "thank you" on the wheelie bin and the guy looked like he assumed there would be a fiver in the plastic bag - made me feel a bit patronising. :oops:

I may brave the more compact Polish shop later ... then back to self-isolation so I can be sure I didn't catch anything...
 
Success - walked to superdrug and scored two packs. :thumbs:

Town was dead - as if most humans had been abducted by aliens. A bit weird - but at least I could walk straight across major roads without even bothering to look as there is barely any traffic at all.

Disappointed I didn't get stopped and asked to show my papers. :mad:
 
We’re on 12-week lockdown due to my immunosuppressant medication, although the OH still goes out if we need stuff and for the odd run.

My 75-year old mum just turned up at the gate with a big tin containing a chocolate cake she’d baked. Nice gesture, but she really shouldn’t be out, especially as my asthmatic dad gets floored by any chest infection doing the rounds. There’s no telling her though, she’s being careful but I’d rather she stayed in. Some people are hard to persuade!
 
I’m also feeling slightly guilty for ordering some artificial grass off eBay, but the tiny sunless back yard is the only safe outdoor space for the kids to play and it’s currently surfaced in coarse and dirty gravel, which the youngest would likely eat. Going to be our little twelve square metre oasis.
 
Success - walked to superdrug and scored two packs. :thumbs:

Town was dead - as if most humans had been abducted by aliens. A bit weird - but at least I could walk straight across major roads without even bothering to look as there is barely any traffic at all.

Disappointed I didn't get stopped and asked to show my papers. :mad:
Those aliens must have dropped your local humans (and their cars) around here. I cut short my designated exercise because of them - they're everywhere!
 
I’m also feeling slightly guilty for ordering some artificial grass off eBay, but the tiny sunless back yard is the only safe outdoor space for the kids to play and it’s currently surfaced in coarse and dirty gravel, which the youngest would likely eat. Going to be our little twelve square metre oasis.
I wouldn't feel guilty about that - that's a reasonable thing to do in the circumstances.
 
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