Have you done your panic-buying yet? I do most of mine online, and spread it out over a few weeks.

Some shops have asked people not to panic buy. That was probably the worst thing they could do.

As soon as you hear that you think, “Does that mean other people are panic buying? I don’t want to be left behind; I’d better pop to the shops for a quick panic buy”.

When the original lockdown came in we bought more than we needed. The most highly sought-after product in March was the humble loo roll.

We all saw the news reports of some corner shops charging exorbitant prices for a roll.

With the price of toilet roll going up and the pound going down, put it this way, it’s a good job they got rid of the one-pound note.

Given that we have recently been through a panic-buying pandemic I expected better from us. The fact that we still have items from the first surge tells us we don’t need to do it.

We saw images of people working long shifts for the NHS, saving people’s lives, going to the shops on the way home and not being able to buy the bare essentials.

No-one wants to see that again and we can surely remember that we don’t have to be selfish in the shops.

It doesn’t stop some. I saw a picture of a woman leaving a supermarket with bags of pasta and around 128 rolls.

That looks like the picture of someone who doesn’t know they’re gluten intolerant.

If I can’t say not to panic buy without causing it, and I can’t tell you to panic buy, all I can say is this. I have loads of loo roll left if you need to buy some.