NotWorriedAtAll
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USEFUL INFORMATION.
Most local areas have a coronavirus support group on Facebook which helps share information and puts the right people into contact with each other.
If you search on Facebook for something along the lines of
Placename Coronavirus Covid19 community support group
you should find yours and then you will soon be connected to a network of reliable and reputable contacts.
For example there will be information about how to buy local food and basics and get it delivered from local Spars and other independent shops and who is doing fresh fruit and veg deliveries in your very local vicinity.
Most of these can be ordered and paid for on the phone and will be delivered that day.
So you don't have to go out shopping.
If you have someone living with you who helps you day to day (partner, spouse, sibling, offspring etc) they may not realise they are actually your unpaid carer - whether they get carer's allowance or not.
Registering with your local carer's group can unlock all sorts of useful help via local volunteer organisations so that your carer doesn't have to venture out shopping and can stay safe at home to help keep you safe.
Lots of other useful info can be found or asked for on these groups such as how to contact your local volunteer organisations to find someone DBS checked and vouched for who can collect medications and post important stuff or run errands so you can stay safe at home.
They also have all the updates to local authority information all in one place like what is going on with bin collections etc and which pharmacies are open and what the opening times are etc.
Makes a huge difference to your stress levels if you are plugged into this information by keeping you aware of how to make sure you can keep safely fed, supplied and supported during this time.
Using information found on my local group I now get:
1. cream and eggs delivered by a local milk lady
2. Fruit and veg delivered via the local pub
3. Just about everything else delivered by our local Spar shop.
4. Bits and bobs from Amazon.
I also got a letter from our local carer's association registering me and my husband as unpaid carers and therefore classed as local key workers so we can continue to drive down to visit my very elderly and vulnerable mum to take her food and make sure she is okay. We put the deliveries on her doorstep - phone her and she comes to collect the shopping and we wave to her from the car. Then talk to her on the phone while she puts the delivery away safely.
I am a member of her local group and my son's local group (he's in Glasgow) so I can make sure they can be looked after if anything happens to me and/or my husband.
Image shows part of a delivery I had yesterday from a local pub who has started doing veg boxes. The rest of it is washed and stored in the fridge - I'm 'quarantining' these for a day or so before using them.
I ordered in the morning and it was left on my doorstep - they knocked and were back in their car and waving to me by the time I answered - only a couple of hours after I had called them.
Most local areas have a coronavirus support group on Facebook which helps share information and puts the right people into contact with each other.
If you search on Facebook for something along the lines of
Placename Coronavirus Covid19 community support group
you should find yours and then you will soon be connected to a network of reliable and reputable contacts.
For example there will be information about how to buy local food and basics and get it delivered from local Spars and other independent shops and who is doing fresh fruit and veg deliveries in your very local vicinity.
Most of these can be ordered and paid for on the phone and will be delivered that day.
So you don't have to go out shopping.
If you have someone living with you who helps you day to day (partner, spouse, sibling, offspring etc) they may not realise they are actually your unpaid carer - whether they get carer's allowance or not.
Registering with your local carer's group can unlock all sorts of useful help via local volunteer organisations so that your carer doesn't have to venture out shopping and can stay safe at home to help keep you safe.
Lots of other useful info can be found or asked for on these groups such as how to contact your local volunteer organisations to find someone DBS checked and vouched for who can collect medications and post important stuff or run errands so you can stay safe at home.
They also have all the updates to local authority information all in one place like what is going on with bin collections etc and which pharmacies are open and what the opening times are etc.
Makes a huge difference to your stress levels if you are plugged into this information by keeping you aware of how to make sure you can keep safely fed, supplied and supported during this time.
Using information found on my local group I now get:
1. cream and eggs delivered by a local milk lady
2. Fruit and veg delivered via the local pub
3. Just about everything else delivered by our local Spar shop.
4. Bits and bobs from Amazon.
I also got a letter from our local carer's association registering me and my husband as unpaid carers and therefore classed as local key workers so we can continue to drive down to visit my very elderly and vulnerable mum to take her food and make sure she is okay. We put the deliveries on her doorstep - phone her and she comes to collect the shopping and we wave to her from the car. Then talk to her on the phone while she puts the delivery away safely.
I am a member of her local group and my son's local group (he's in Glasgow) so I can make sure they can be looked after if anything happens to me and/or my husband.
Image shows part of a delivery I had yesterday from a local pub who has started doing veg boxes. The rest of it is washed and stored in the fridge - I'm 'quarantining' these for a day or so before using them.
I ordered in the morning and it was left on my doorstep - they knocked and were back in their car and waving to me by the time I answered - only a couple of hours after I had called them.
