You know it’s unusual times when toilet paper keeps popping up in unexpected places.

If you are a coffee drinker, the marrying of toilet paper with coffee will seem almost natural, with coffee often leading toward a need of the other.

So, the appearance yesterday of toilet paper for sale at local Lismore café, Dragonfly, was a welcome sight for customers picking up their take away coffees.

Katie O’Neill said her parents had recently taken over running the café, right at the beginning of the Covid-19 restrictions, but that they were still selling take-away coffee, food – and now – toilet paper.

“Customers told us that they were struggling to get toilet paper at the supermarket, especially our elderly customers who don’t want to keep going into crowds to see if they can get some,” Katie said.

“So, yesterday we started selling packs of toilet paper for $3 for customers. It’s a necessity.”

Note: This picture was taken at Dragonfly before the toilet paper price rise.

Katie said despite Covid-19 restrictions, take away sales were doing okay, as were dinner sales.

“Home delivery is doing well too,” she said. “We deliver free if the location is in the Lismore CBD and the amount spent is over $30. If it’s outside the CBD, there’s a $5 delivery fee.”

The Lismore App wants to remind you to support local businesses at this time. Your patronage keeps the doors open and protects the livelihoods of people in our community.

This is the time we need to really get behind local business.