Gone to ground

Adam Lee-Potter is ready to self-isolate and broaden his mind and waistline

- Adam Lee-Potter

A crisis may bring out the worst in some but – thankfully – the best in most. For every ad hoc coronavirus party thrown outside an off-license or mindless beach shindig, there is a host of ordinary folk just trying to do the right thing.

The humbling kindness of the Arne Residents' Association has me wanting to weep: stoics selflessly delivering newspapers, medicine and provisions to the elderly and isolated.

But these Samaritans are not alone. Britain has always been stiff-upper-lipped and at its best with its back to the wall. And people are – mostly – decent.

I refuse to understand panic buying. My local supermarket has now not only sold out of Andrex, but eggs, soap and even tin foil.