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This insistence that you mustn't drive to somewhere to take your daily permitted exercise does seem rather OTT. If you go for a walk outside your house you may have to be crossing the road to avoid people; your local park may be busy. On the other hand, you could get into your car (with the...

In their cars (as in "a majority of oldies would drive"). We oldies don't give up our cars and driving licences until we have to, you know! Or car-sharing. Or driven by a friend/relative. If they were all coming on the bus the car park wouldn't be rammed, would it ......................

Didn't say the supermarkets wouldn't be crowded - a big majority of oldies would drive anyway. The buses won't be crowded.

Certainly not ideal - but there isn't really a win-win situation here. Giving oldies a chance to buy food, but with the downside of going on a bus? - lesser of two evils perhaps. Besides, the buses won't be crowded before 9 o'clock any more - commuters working from home and schoolkids not going...

It is to enable them to get to the supermarket early in the morning before everybody else is let in (vulnerable people only until 9.00 a.m. in many supermarkets). Not sure all day bus passes will be much use if we go into lock-down though - and apart from essential visits to supermarkets, we're...

More fool him then.

You can buy beer where you buy your toilet rolls you know, and drink it at home, while talking to your mate on the phone or Skype. It's not rocket science (although tbf my attempts to get on Skype so far suggest that it might be!).

Phoned my gym yesterday to cancel my subscription - they've suspended it - and the payments - until such time as I might want to resume.

Email from Asda today. Only vulnerable people allowed in before 9 a.m. - the fit and healthy asked to wait until 9 before removing all the toilet rolls. Nice idea, I think, but I'm not sure us over 70s are any less infectious than anybody else. Been retired a while now - and getting my shopping...

..... or if he himself was, say, in his 70s?

And therein lies a lot of the problem. As I understand it, if you're young and healthy you have little to fear, at worst two or three days of feeling a bit sh*t.

.........and people moan at over 70s for hoarding and panic buying when what they're very reasonably doing is trying to stock up for 12 weeks isolation. Common sense, wouldn't you agree? No point in dodging coronavirus if you starve to death.

Seriously, but within reason. Retired, do work not an issue. No pubs or gigs for a while, or going out for a meal or a coffee (not that I do either of those very much anyway). Have a car, so will avoid public transport - bit of a shame, that's some nice days out up the swanee. Shopping will be...