Don't panic - Be Prepared!!

I never actually ran out of anything but I was into my last bag of bread flour before I found some more. My sister, who lives in a town about 10 miles away, was telling me one day that there was no jam sugar (with pectin) to be had. The same day I was walking around Sainsburys and I rang her to ask how many she wanted. Obviously not as many jam makers here. My sister-in-law (in her 80's) has rung me with a few weird requests though. The one thing I really struggled to find was narrow elastic to make some masks. I needed to make some that fastened behind the head as the ones that go around the ears were pushing her hearing aids off. (Trying to get them mended in lockdown was a nightmare). I did find elastic in the end in a pound shop.