What are you all up to
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AD, we've been out and about with the van when allowed and have observed all the rules that we've been asked to.
I don't think either of us have felt to scared to get on with life or overwhelmed by it. However like you the nearer we get to having the jab the more cautious we are becoming.
Thankfully our area hasn't seen high numbers of infections or fatalities.
Just can't wait now to get back out on the road to somewhere. We took the MH out the other day to get the shopping, then took the long way home. Its sounds silly but it did give us both a buzz just to be in it even for such a short time. If the weather wasn't so cold and wet I'd be tempted to go and sit in it for awhile😀😀😀
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That open invite at Westpoint didn't last long Brue, it was on our local late evening news last night that all the appointments offered were filled within the hour. I think it has been very well organised - as long as we didn't have to rely on our surgery! As said before I had mine on Monday, by Tuesday they had updated it on the NHS site and I was able to book my second one. The letters seem to be taking a time between writing and receipt, I received mine today so must have been sent before Monday.
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OH and Son had their jabs in the car as they aren't too mobile, no lollipop or sticker! Mind you I wouldn't fancy doing the jabs in the weather that we had at the time! The practice nurses deserve the sticker if not something stronger to drink to keep the cold out!
KJ it may be a different system in Scotland.
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TG my god-daughter and her OH keep their motorhome at the bottom of their garden and they spent most evenings during the good weather in the first lockdown sitting outside it with a glass of wine pretending they were on holiday. 😎
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A visit to our co op just now for some fresh baked rolls ,there was a bit of a confrontation when a "customer?"was requested to wear a face mask , and flew into a rage saying no one is going to infringe his civil liberties,,the store staff said they have been instructed to not serve anyone not wearing one, but as they said ,why should we get any more abuse than we get already from some, the manager said he would send the cctv footage to their HO but what they do with it he did not know
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We are much the same we were away in the van many times once the restrictions lifted last summer and always felt safe. We had 3 weeks away in July in Yorkshire And had a great time we even ate out a few times in pubs we like and always felt fine just a different way of doing things. We are always very careful though hand washing and cleaning the shopping etc. We are very much looking forward to getting away in the caravan again have a few trips booked but who know if they will go ahead fingers crossed
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brue....as TG said, they are doing it differently up here, so we cannot book an appointment, we have to wait for a letter or phone call.
You are given a date and time, if it does not suit, you can ring a helpline and they will alter it for you. There is also supposed to be an on line system for altering it yourself coming soon, but I do not think it is for initially making a booking yourself.
The letter system is working well, but those of us who it has been decreed must go to our GP, are finding the contact very patchy, will be 3 weeks come Monday since I was texted to say they would be ringing me.
It is not just me, lots of others in my age group in this area also waiting.
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Coverage certainly seems a bit patchy Kj, it must be very frustrating for you. I’ve just booked my jab, for this coming Friday at my local health centre. I’m in the 65+ group, although I do suffer with high blood pressure, so maybe that was a factor, I don’t know.
I received the invite by text, and just followed the links, all very straightforward.
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Hopefully your appointment won’t be too long KjellNN. It seems things are moving now in Scotland. As I have previously mentioned my BIL, who is 78 and has diabetes, (they live near Dunfermline) has received his blue envelope today with an appointment for Monday morning. My sister has also received hers for the following Monday and she is 68! Yes, she was surprised too!!
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We too have to wait for a letter and/or phone call/text, Kj.
The incident Brue referred to was a one off when the Devon centre found it had hundreds of spare appointments over the weekend. It was announced on our local news around 6.30pm yesterday and the 10.30pm bulletin updated the situation to say all appointments were now taken.
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Sorry if I gave you the wrong impression CY -- I was just hoping that the properly inflated tyres would have marginally, fractionally greater diameter just keeping Dukky a micro~tad higher. No more than that, I've no intention of travelling where no Dukky has been for ages , not even into the village centre honest .
In fact the Met Warnings are now for Ultra Sogginess in south Cheshire, unlike places further East { Keep the snow over there puleese
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TG
"If the weather wasn't so cold and wet I'd be tempted to go and sit in it for awhile"
often sit in my caravan with the pooch to have morning coffee and read the paper, it is south facing on a hard standing, so lovely when the sun is up, have also had some interesting conversations with passing folk thru the open front window
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Cy
"I though received wisdom was to let a few psi out for snow"
not true, a lot of misconception re driving in snow, in fact hard tyres on a smallish wheel are sometimes better than the great big things they put on Disco's, when we lived in Scotland OH had a short wheelbase Suzuki Vitara, brilliant in the snow, only problem was if you wanted to drive 4x4 you had to get out and lock the front wheels manually.
Disco's coped because they had all the bells & whistles such as differential lock low ratio gear box, hill descent , traction control , why people buy them just to do the school run beats me.
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I have been known, in my pre-NOCO Booster days, to do the same 'cos I have to lay the mains lead across the footway. This means I too, had the window open to scare the daylights out of folk, well they could hear but not necessarily see the talker
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InaD I have been told that they have a list of people on a standby list that can be contacted at the last mimute if they have 'no shows' so have spare vaccine. A friend of mine was rung late afternoon on Sunday for hers.
Millie, I thought that was the case. Good that your friend had a call at short notice. Hope your son's 3rd appointment goes ahead without a problem.
I'm in the next group, 5, so hopefully not too long to wait.
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Oh sorry I forgot about all the different systems in use. Well that's good that you had a text, you are obviously on the system, hope you hear soon!
I had a very brief phone call, (before our letters arrived) I just accepted the first dates and times offered for both of us, the venue is near enough and I'm just hoping the weather doesn't play up next week.❄
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We are now done and dusted for the first jab. Left home about 3.00pm and got back about 4.30pm, journey about a 12 mile round trip so not too bad. Parking all organised as we arrived. Couldn't understand why so many were sitting in their cars but discovered they were the ones who had already had their vaccinations and we waiting the required 15 minutes before leaving, it's only a tiny vaccination centre. Somebody started waving at us and we realised it was one of our neighbours(glasses steamed up because of the mask) !!! All seemed well organised. Man taking details as you queued and he was able to combine both appointment despite the two and a half hour time gap. A few questions and then had to wait for our turn. Strangely although there were screens I felt we were very close to people! We went in together for our jabs done by a lovely pharmacist and we were issued with cards with date and vaccine type (Oxford AZ) Hardly noticed the needle but we will await to see what reaction we have.
Perhaps by the end of February we will feel a bit braver about going out and perhaps doing shopping which we have not done for months. When you know people close to you who have had COVID and others who have actually died it does tend to bring the seriousness of the situation home to you. I think both Margaret and I have both been more concerned about this latest peak. Cases in MK jumped from around 150 to nearly 900 in a month. Let's hope the vaccine is the passport out of this.
David
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Rtfs wrote "all the bells & whistles such as differential lock low ratio gear box, hill descent , traction control , why people buy them just to do the school run beats me. "
It's for the off-roading capability when they park on the grass verge outside the school.
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Yes, the sending out of letters with appointments is working well, in Glasgow they are starting on the 65-70 age group on Monday, our daughter's in-laws, age 67 and 69 got their letters on Thursday with appointments for Tuesday.
Our son's MIL who is in Ayrshire and is my age, got a letter last week with an appointment at a local centre, they are not using GP's surgeries for the 75-79 group, that is only being done in Glasgow and one other area.
brue......unfortunately the text was a general one sent out to all patients of our surgery, saying surgery is closed, ring this and that number, do not come to the surgery without an appointment, etc etc, and the bit about the vaccinations was just tacked on the end........we will ring over 75s when we have a supply of vaccine, do not ring us, OH got the same text.
No, I do not think our surgery have forgotten me, but it is very frustrating not to have heard anything after almost 3 weeks! All the wider family are very surprised, and worried, that our area, and several other areas, are about to start on the 65-70s, yet they apparently cannot organise a supply of vaccine to a GP surgery that is situated about 2 miles outside the Glasgow City boundary, to vaccinate my age group!
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Kj, can understand your concern. For the last few weeks everyone we knew, over 70, had had their 1st vaccination, yet OH at 71 hadn't heard anything. He's now had his yesterday, but it does make you wonder whether you've somehow slipped through the net. He hadn't, so I'm sure you haven't either, you will be on "the system", but it is worrying nevertheless.
Hope you hear something in the next few days.
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It does seem bizarre how its happening.
Tonight I got a message from an ex work friend, to tell me that another of our work friends had a call today, telling her to go for her jag on Monday. She is a year younger than me and 5 years younger than my friend who is over 70. They are both at the same GP practice. My friend has not heard a thing so far.
I'm sure we will all hear soon enough, the other factor it seems is some surgeries don't work at the weekends while others do. Ours doesn't so maybe we will hear next week.
I'm on a group about vaccinations and it would appear that the pfizer one has less side effects than the AZ , I will have to see how that works out with my sister and BIL as they had 1 of each.
Kj, I've sent you an email to your gmail account.
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I was speaking to an ex colleague of mine yesterday who I think is now about 80. (I phone her fairly regularly as she is on her own) I asked her whether she had had her vaccination and she said yes but she hadn't received a letter from the NHS. How she got her jab was a result of phone call to the surgery (the same one we use) on a different subject and just dropped the question of the vaccination into the conversation. The receptionist immediately said I can make you an appointment at XYZ can you get there. That was a different place to where we went and a lot nearer. Perhaps it's a tactic others could use?
David
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"'m on a group about vaccinations and it would appear that the pfizer one has less side effects than the AZ , I will have to see how that works out with my sister and BIL as they had 1 of each"
shouldnt worry too much re side effects TG, we had the AZ and apart from a little sore round the point of entry for 24 hrs we have been fine.
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