Laughter is a Social Animal - The Corona Diaries

The Final Day of Working From Home by M I have really enjoyed working from home the last few weeks, but am worried about how hard David works. So much so, I have decided to take early retirement so we can be together more. Plus I can help with his workload I told David today and he looked utterly stunned and had to put an arm out to steady himself on the door frame. I could even see tears welling up in his eyes, he was that happy. When I left him in his office to give him time to take it all in, I am sure I heard him sobbing – I really didn’t expect him to be so emotional about us working together :-) ;-) THE END

Having not done much in the way of real panic buying I offered to go out and get some shopping late this evening. After reaching over to M and gently placing my hand under her chin and closing her mouth she said okaaaaay. She also gave me the look that meant she was highly suspicious. I hid behind my hero husband mask and said – no point in us both taking risks. I knew that didn’t really wash with her, but while she was stunned I grabbed all of the bags and headed for the door, only pausing long enough to grab our ever increasing shopping list consisting of things we couldn’t get last time. Rather than try the main supermarket I headed to the little Spar shop instead. As I suspected it was relatively quiet. Once inside I noticed there was plenty of fruit and veg, but still no toilet rolls.   I decided to go for priorities and began working my way down isles foraging for essentials like curlywurly’s, crisps and alcohol. My plan being to get these and then go back for stuff w...