Hi
@PenguinMum
I needed to take my repeat prescription in, system here is telephone or take ticked prescription to chemist/docs, and they issue another. I can’t telephone with being deaf, and they refuse to issue it if I write a letter. My internet friend has been telephoning for me, but no one answers, so it was go in personally and put it in the green box outside the chemists because no one is allowed in the chemists at all. They don’t deliver unless you had already had deliveries, and I did long ago, but they could bring it to your house at any random day or time and I missed them because I was in the garden or whatever and it went back to chemist. So, I am keeping this simple. And I will go in a week to collect it because they have to order in some stuff each time. (And then I can go in the European shop next door one more time, and then go into true social isolation for a long period of time at home.)
Which suits me this time because I wanted some more salad leafy seeds(whatever they were), and I understand you can grow them from dried lentils and pulses etc. Absolutely nothing left on Amazon on pulses and lentils.
At back of chemist is a European shop which is always fully incredibly stocked. Problem is most stuff is written in Polish, Russian etc. However I have downloaded several of those languages to the translate on my phone (for some reason phone internet reception is nil in the shop).
So with the aid of the translator I am going through this very large European supermarket with a fine tooth comb. It translates everything I want including ingredients and carbs etc And I found the hugest selection of dried peas and beans and pulses. And the price was unbelievably cheap.
And I got some Goji berries and other stuff. I shall try and grow them. If they don’t grow, the rest of all this stuff goes into storage in my Kilmer jars, and all can be used/reconstituted when I need/want them.
So a very productive morning. I was there at 8 am so I wouldn’t upset customers by spending time at each item. But then no one observed social distancing anyway there! They just go past in the aisle as they normally do.
And you are right...i do now have a stock of weird and wondrous foods!
Edit: forgot to mention. All the eggs you can possibly want to buy. Only thing they are white, and come in cardboard trays of 30 from Europe. They are large. I bought two trays. I love my eggs.