I’ve just had a long conversation with my American cousin who lives in Upstate New York. We are both in our ‘eighties’ and spent much of our childhoods living in London during World War II.
Obviously, we discussed the effects that the Coronavirus is having on the populations of both our countries and the efforts being made by our respective governments and the politicians’ often useless ‘kneejerk reactions’ when trying to control the situation.
However, our conversation wasn’t all ‘doom and gloom’. In fact, we had a good laugh when we discussed the recent panic buying in the supermarkets and the rapid disappearance of all those millions of toilet rolls, for we recalled the days of wartime rationing, when there was no toilet tissue and the ink from the newsprint …
… came off on your bum !
bigjohn 
