Tag Archives: Lockdown

Baking in lockdown?

Missing a vital ingredient?

Read on.

Roscrea [County Tipperary] based, Stapleton’s Bakery, has commenced selling flour to meet increased consumer demand for the product amid shortages.

The business is to introduce 1kg retail packs which will be on the shelves at Aldi from this week and available to buy direct from the bakery.

The Bakery’s pivot to selling flour came about after it was highlighted across the media that consumers were struggling to purchase flour from supermarkets in recent weeks.

Thanks Alan Bracken

This afternoon.

Out for stroll with strollers and a walking stabiliser.

From top: North Wall Quay, Dublin; Mountjoy Square, Dublin and Marian Redmond (left) employs social distancing protocols while helping daughter Karen Mahon (right) teach grandaughter Rose (age 1) to learn to walk in Stoneybatter, Dublin 7.

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The Beacon Quarter, Sandyford, Dublin 18 this morning

Fluffybiscuits writes:

I am writing this with a great degree of worry for those who are living under lockdown.

I have a big enough circle of friends and some of them are suffering from mental health issues due to them being alone or looking after elderly parents.

There are tears and frustration, loneliness and despair.

Some of them are longing to see their parents or their family and others are aching for physical contact.

These people are prepared to go through the social distancing but at what mounting cost?

There must be many like me at home concerned about loved ones catching the virus and those whose mental health is going downhill. Any advice?

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Our Insect overlords.

Are they multiplying?

Tipperary-based apple farmer and horticulturist Cornelius Traas writes:

I Had a van driver delivering to me yesterday. His van was covered in squashed insects (see above). He said he hasn’t seen the likes in 25 years. I was noticing the same a few days ago.

Our chat ensued about how this was mostly just because many less vehicles on the road at the moment. Then we went on to discuss how many more are probably now surviving due to less traffic. And then to how much of a factor traffic is in insect decline.

And conversation then went to possibly mathematically modelling the contribution of traffic to loss of insect life in Ireland. Always felt it was a major factor. This looks like evidence.

Anyone?

This afternoon.

Meath Street, Dublin 8.

Community organiser Fran Dempsey (top left) social distancing with his volunteers outside the Meath Street Youth Activities Company who have a food bank operating Monday to Friday every day offering homeless and people in need free food.

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