<a href="http://pigyard.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/empty-shelvesMar20.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-6141" src="http://pigyard.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/empty-shelvesMar20-225x300.jpg" alt="" width="163" height="218" /></a>This post should be called "Caronavirus or the peculiar workings of the human mind". I received this image from a friend in Northamptonshire where the local Sainsburys had sold out of toilet paper. Are people going to be using more toilet paper because of coronavirus? From the same source I also heard that there's a shortage of soap. This is a little more understandable because we're all being encouraged to wash our hands more thoroughly and more frequently but I think I've got enough soap to last me for the next six months.

<a href="http://pigyard.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/old-soapMar20-scaled-e1583598864259.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-6140" src="http://pigyard.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/old-soapMar20-263x300.jpg" alt="" width="199" height="227" /></a>Just to make sure, I started delving around in the back of the cupboard under the sink in the utility room and I came across this packet of household soap. I'm sure the perfume isn't to everyone's taste but it is soap. I should point out that the packet has a stick-on label which says 30p, it doesn't have a barcode and barcodes were first introduced in 1974. My guess is - this soap is over 20 years old and Jane bought several packets because it was a bargain. It has probably been moved from house to house at least three times. This soap is well travelled and has provenance so is it worth anything? Could I sell it on eBay at an inflated price or should I take it to the next Antiques Roadshow? All comments gratefully received...