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# Tessa's diary: Online shopping – but not until April
- URL: https://lichfieldlive.co.uk/tessas-diary-online-shopping-but-not-until-april/
- Published: 2020-03-22T09:09:20.000Z
- Updated: 2020-03-22T09:09:27.000Z
- Description: I’m on day 5 of full house arrest. An inventory of the kitchen cupboard reveals a jar of chutney – ‘best before February 2017’.
- Author: Tessa Calvert-Linnell
- Tags: Health, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-07-22 18:18, News

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### With large sections of society preparing to go into ‘social-isolation’, one Lichfield resident lifts the lid on her thoughts in the latest of a series of diary posts on the coronavirus outbreak.

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I’m on day 5 of full house arrest. An inventory of the kitchen cupboard reveals a jar of chutney – ‘best before February 2017’.

It’s time do a big online shop, including a lot of coffee and enough loo rolls to last the duration, I hope.

But there’s no delivery slot until April.

I do have a slight dryish cough – but it’s not a new one. I wash, dress and moisturise much as usual, but stop wearing make-up. That’s for the public, social self.

I’ve left the house only once, to post a letter. I see someone I know, but we have distances to keep. So only a smile and a wave from separate sides of the road.