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Conundrum

 We are in lockdown and on Thursday the UK will probably follow, but there is a difference.  Any shops selling non-essential items had to close here but in true French fashion they rebelled.  Why could supermarkets continue to sell all the things that the small shops normally sell?  Outrage!  Small shops have rights too! So also in true French fashion, the government decided that supermarkets cannot sell non-essential items either.  That's fair.  Except every time we leave the house we must carry a signed form and it has to be a fresh form every time.  This means that one either photocopies the form or writes out its contents laboriously by hand.  There is the possibility of having it on your phone but, of course, this only works if there is service, which there isn't here.

Here is the problem.  I have run out of photocopy paper, my phone doesn't work in this area and I can't go and buy any paper, anywhere, because it is deemed to be a non-essential item.  So what is one to do? Well here is the suggestion from one member of my family - write the whole thing out on toilet paper.  Surely you will be able to replace that.  After all it must be an essential item, mustn't it?

My biggest wish this week is that Trump gets overwhelmingly voted out of office.  If he does I believe he will do as much mischief as he can before 20 January and I predict that he will quit the White House before that date.  I just don't see him doing a nice, friendly, traditional handover to Joe Biden.

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