Yorkshire. Not Death Valley. Yes Yorkshire.
There was a time when Yorkshire wasn’t so dry 😂😂😂😂😂
There was also a time when shopping was easy. No social distancing, no masks and no empty shelves…..
A number of people at work have been talking about the supermarkets here having far too many empty shelves. Many out of stock items.
For a few weeks after the pandemic first started our shops did suffer from panic buying. Shelves stripped in the madness. Remember the toilet paper mayhem. But then it calmed down. Until now.
This time can I mention that dreaded word here – Brexit. Mountains of crazy new regulations, logistic lines intentionally broken and shortages of key workers now not welcome here by our Government. A number of supermarkets are struggling to get supplies in. Suppliers are struggling so they are having to focus just on a few item lines and drop others. Hence empty shop shelves.
So how did my shopping order go today.
No fresh veg apart from potatoes – out of stock
Apart from apples no fresh fruit – out of stock
No ready meals – out of stock
No soft drinks – out of stock
No fresh fish – out of stock
No fresh pasta – out of stock
No gluten free items – out of stock
Even the tinned and frozen items were frequently substituted with ‘similar’ items. Don’t get me wrong we won’t struggle to eat. Just need to go more processed. I will have to have a very unvaried gluten free diet for the week. Hawklad will live off sausages – no hardship there 😂.
But really is this what the 26.5% of the population who voted to leave the EU really hoped for. If it wasn’t then I’m afraid you we’re conned.
A Dad trying to cope with the loss of his Partner and becoming a single parent. 
It’s astounding, isn’t it? How could anyone have thought it would have been otherwise? So sad, so unnecessary. 😥
LikeLiked by 4 people
Yes it is.
LikeLiked by 3 people
Surely people are protesting? Unbelievable!
LikeLiked by 3 people
They seem uninterested
LikeLiked by 1 person
It saddens my heart to read this. We have so “much” in this world, yet through bureaucracy and the need to be “right,” we create lack.
LikeLiked by 3 people
It is sad
LikeLiked by 2 people
Hmm…. You should perhaps try to get Swiss nationality?
LikeLiked by 2 people
I would love to. I really would ❤️
LikeLiked by 2 people
Maybe you can when these covid related restrictions are over.
LikeLiked by 1 person
This bothers me on many levels.
LikeLiked by 3 people
It does me
LikeLiked by 2 people
Sounds like your area has been hit particularly hard. Incredible that there is no fresh produce! What are these dystopian times we’re living in.
LikeLiked by 3 people
Our numbers are rocketing
LikeLiked by 1 person
I know. It’s maddening how our government could have let this happen. Again. Are you double jabbed yet? My second is in 3 weeks.
LikeLiked by 1 person
I just…I have no idea what’s going on in the UK right now. Even when you don’t think about the transphobia, that I prattle on about. There are so many issues right now. Brexit, COVID. Even when they make a deal with another country, like mine, Australia. It’s not at the UK’s benefit. And yet, the UK Government want to keep acting like somehow the UK was cut off before? My brain cannot wrap around it, lol.
LikeLiked by 3 people
I’ve spent the last 5 years living in disbelief. Brexit, Trump, Covid… how can this possibly be reality. We have to wake up at some point, surely, and see the damage? Not to mention the climate disaster. I do worry for our kids.
LikeLiked by 1 person
And have you seen that song? The song they want kids to sing in school, and from the organisation they keep pushing the song from? It’s almost like they’re trying to turn British Youth into a new Hitler’s Youth or something!
LikeLiked by 1 person
It beggars belief
LikeLiked by 2 people
It does feel real.
LikeLiked by 1 person
What song? We in Canada are not getting it.
LikeLiked by 2 people
It’s a “We are one Britain, We are one Nation” song.
LikeLiked by 1 person
Sounds like the American Pledge of Allegiance. In Canada we just live here if we want, or leave if we don’t.
LikeLiked by 2 people
It’s like something from the xfiles. Where a shadowy group takes over.
LikeLiked by 2 people
Yeah, its happening everywhere.
Your work is outstanding.
LikeLiked by 2 people
Thanks
LikeLiked by 1 person
😊
LikeLiked by 1 person
I suspect a north/south divide here. We don’t have these supply problems
LikeLiked by 2 people
I’m pleased your doing ok.
LikeLiked by 2 people
That stinks. We have not had that issue here since the pandemic first started. I hope the details in distribution work themselves out so you can get the products soon!
LikeLiked by 2 people
I’m hoping it’s just a short term thing
LikeLiked by 2 people
One would not believe that you are talking about the UK. It is shocking.
LikeLiked by 2 people
The country has gone barking mad
LikeLiked by 2 people
It seems, and to tell from the comments it is so different depending on which part of the country you live. A big mess!
LikeLiked by 1 person
That sounds pathetic. They should have anticipated it!
LikeLiked by 2 people
They don’t think
LikeLiked by 1 person
Oh my what did they have in the store. 🙄
LikeLiked by 2 people
It is all so exhausting. That awful Andrea Leadsom (Loathsome we call her) was on the radio boasting about the Australia deal, saying that now uk citizens can go and live and work in Australia for three years. Oh whoopy doo! Before Brexit, uk citizens had complete free movement in 27 European countries. What a con. We have been robbed.
LikeLiked by 2 people
Wait… you mean the UK is an island, cut off from everyone?? You have to import things? 🤦🏼♀️🙄🤦🏼♀️🙄🤦🏼♀️
I still don’t understand Brexit, but I don’t understand the Cult Of Trump either.
Alternate reality stuff. Very scary actually!
💌💌💌
LikeLiked by 2 people
If only 26.5% of the people voted to leave the EU, does that mean almost half of the people didn’t vote at all?
LikeLike
Don’t know why brits voted to leave the EU! Stupid! Makes life much more difficult!
LikeLike