VACCINATION DAY

I'll save how a young airman on one of the squadrons I was on got the nickname "windsock"

Love it, didn't need much guessing!

Other leg pulls included sweeping the glidepath, doing turn round or after flight checks on bloodhound missiles, and servicing the gate guard (static aircraft at entrance to station)

I suppose you were always going to win because the newbies would be frightened to argue. Got to toughen them up though ? After flight checks on the missiles , very droll.

Hi PEGGY & EVERYONE,   I had my vaccine (Pfizer) yesterday (Wed) and thankfully they had managed to clear the main roads. When we got there, more than half the people in our village were also there. The over 80's were done at the GP Surgery. I have had quite a bad headache since about 10pm and some joint pain but nothing I can't handle so far, so good, let's hope that continues!

Tvman our garden looks amazing at the moment, as it is covered in 18+ inches of pure white snow, there is not a weed in sight!!! We have minus 9 tonight/this morning but the wind chill factor (the weather man says) makes it feel like minus 13. My husband went out earlier to defrost the birdbath with hot water, then filled it with tepid water. The birds had a ball for about 90 minutes and then it was again a block of ice!

It looks so picturesque if you are inside looking out!

Hi Annette anndanv

Yes, exactly, it looks lovely when you're inside looking out. For us though who need a wheelchair or other type of walking aid, that's all we can do. We haven't a drop of snow in my area but we can see the Mourns Mountains and they're pretty well covered with snow although that's a common site in winter.

As I read the start of your post Annette, and you say that your garden is amazing I was thinking "well she and Vince must have been working their backsides off and have done something incredible, I want to know more because amazing is not a word I would use to describe mine!" I then read that you have 18+ inches of snow and the penny dropped.

Mrs Tvman and I have been putting in a shift of 2 hours most days, cutting each of our 5 main areas of garden and some parts have been cut down to bare stalks so I hope that nature replenishes them or we are going to have to buy a lot more plants than we plan to. Unfortunately due to this downright crazy "border down the middle of the Irish Sea" and Northern Ireland being still part of the European Single Market I can't buy any bulbs or plants from GB because there is a mountain of paperwork for firms to fill in and 1 mistake and the whole container has to turn back. Currently it is illegal to send bulbs, plants etc to us since Brexit. One day we could buy from plant nurseries in GB the next day we couldn't. Aaaargh! Something has to be done quickly as one of the largest garden centres in Belfast said the other day that they are on the verge of going under because they are waiting for Mr Magic to wave his wand or..... I was going to say something that would sound violent and just remembered in time that I can't!

Take care and stay safe everyone

A very frustrated (angry) Tvman.xx

The snow sounds beautiful. But very cold. It is cold here and I take our dog out every morning. I wrap up warm but the cold wind is not pleasant. It is dry here at the moment so no muddy dog.

I am pleased you have had your vaccine. We had the AZ one on Monday and it was fine I was a bit tired the following day and a headache. They seem to have vaccinated everyone we know in group 4 now. Wher we live. There are 2 friends who are booked in for Monday. I hope things open up slowly after Match 8th.

we can’t stay prisoners all year 

love x

Hard frozen ground does give the benefit of clean dogs , our garden looks lovely under fresh snow, then the dogs go out and run around and dig and it looks its usual mess again. 

I received my vaccination yesterday.  The process was extremely smooth and I was in and out in literally five minutes.  I turned up at the appointment time and was covid screened outside the surgery.  Just inside the surgery door my name was checked against the appointments and I was given an appointment card and a verification code to give the doctor.  Another person took me directly to the room of one of the many people who were giving the jabs who was free.  I had the jab and left by another exit clutching my appointment card and leaflet detailing the side effects.

The Doctor did not give me my next appointment as he said the number of vaccine shots they were receiving was very erratic.  Most days this week they received about three hundred shots but yesterday for some reason they received 1200.

Yesterday I saw a report on the difficulty of getting a vaccination in France and it showed you their storage fridge where they had one small box of vaccines which looked to contain about 36 doses.  That was at a central vaccination centre in a city and they said that they could only give up to 200 vaccinations a day as that was the most vaccine doses they ever received for one day.

I'm extremely grateful to have received my jab.

Gragon xx

In a similar vein when I was at school one of the older boys asked a first year to go to the corner shop and ask the shopkeeper for a quarter pound of condoms and gave him 50p to pay for them.  50p was quite a lot to us then but the joke backfired as the shopkeeper did not bat an eyelid but gave the first year 50 pence worth of her worst selling line of sweets.  The first year handed over the sweets and left none the wiser that someone had tried to play a joke on him.