What are you all up to
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They're always playing catch-up with any new strain as they have to take into account the current ones months in advance. There are so many variants out there of flu that I'm amazed that they can get them right most of the time.
It would seem that the Australian flu strain was a new one after vaccines had been ordered for this years jabs, so a lot of people have been attacked by it. An elderly neighbour is in hospital with it.
Getting the flu jab will only protect you against a small number of flus, probably why people who come down with flu just after having the jab think that it's the jabs' fault.
I'm obsessive about washing hands in winter more so than summer.
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Another busy day trying to avoid anyone with flu!
Took Mrs WN into Chester for Root Canal Treatment, poor woman. They gave her maximum anaesthetic but it wasn't enough. Outcome looks like tooth might have to come out but there may be complications.
Cooked her some Belly Pork with crackling as a treat
No I didn't! Booked some time away for 5 nights as we have to be back for next Wednesday as new radiator being fitted.
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Hocus Pocus I'm a Diplodocus.
We had a good time seeing Dippy at Dorchester today and a nice wander round the rest of the museum, everything from fossils to Thomas Hardy and the Romans. In fact Dippy is standing on some Roman mosaic floors and this is quite rare for the public to be allowed to walk on them. The photos from my phone might work or not...
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Feeling a bit better than I did earlier managed to eat tea tonight. Headache seems to have gone as well so bonus there, off to bed shortly so hope to get a good nights sleep.
OH had his flu jab end of October but as yet I've not had mine, doesn't seem to be many folk still getting it up here but will look to see if they are still giving jab (i have to pay for mine) I'm hoping my problems today are short lived and it was just because I had done too much and not slept well for a few nights.
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It went quiet at work by 8 p.m. so they let me go home early. So I left work at 8.30 p.m. and was back at the site by 9.10 p.m. It was an easy journey home as there was much less traffic at that time.
The journey to work from Gatwick was a different story. It took one hour and ten minutes in rush hour traffic!
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Lovely photo's Brue.
Looks like it going to be another cold but sunny day.
Need to do some gardening work, but I think I'll leave it until it warms up.
The birds are busy nesting, nice to watch them collecting twigs, and to help them I put the fluff collected in the tumble drier out for them.
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Thanks for the photo comments, since the changeover with photos on here my phone photos only seem to work well in portrait mode (android phone with Sony camera.)
Moulesy, (I think Helen mentioned a possible visit too.) You can book a free time slot on line. We arrived early intending to pay for for a museum visit first but they let us in to see Dippy. The only hold ups were near his head where there is a glass screen and everyone wanted photos with him! It worked well, nice atmosphere, lots of volunteers helping and much better than being in the big London museum crowds. Also we booked at 3pm, after school visits. We parked by the shops via Church St and had a snack lunch in "Dorch" but there is a good café at the museum.
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Great photos Brue,
Managed to get the outside of the caravan cleaned yesterday in the end, it's now back to being white
probably not for long though.Bright day today but chilly, heard from youngest son, him and his girlfriend are coming at the weekend, something to look forward to.
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Thanks for the info on Dippy Brue , have checked online, just got to work out if we will have time to fit in a visit only in the area for a couple of days. Would love to see Dippy again it's been years since we took the boys to the NH museum. Glad you had a good day.
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Lovely sunny day here in Gatwick. Plenty of planes to watch landing and taking off every couple of minutes. Working again tonight but day off tomorrow.
We'll be moving back to Brighton on Monday, so we're hoping the weather will stay fine for our move or is that wishful thinking at this time of year?
I have another day off on Sunday, the day before our move, so plenty of time then to get ready for the next day! I won't know next weeks rota until the weekend but I could be lucky enough to have a day off on Monday! If not, at least it will be a shorter distance to commute!
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Just spent some time setting up the wifi security camera I bought. It can be free standing or wall / ceiling mounted and can pan and tilt. I did have an old primitive one that we used to set up looking at the front door when we went away, so we could check on mail build up, but it packed up. If I set this up in the hall I can not only monitor the letter box but stairs, part of kitchen and burglar alarm display. Pictures are amazingly sharp, not sure how much mobile data it will gobble though, as can't see it working on CC WiFi.
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Lovely day today sun shining and getting warmer, very cold first thing with a frost overnight.
Feeling better today so managed to get up to sons house to do a bit in the garden, OH was up in the attic sorting out a problem with the cold water tank over flow. Didn't have enough time to strip tank out as other commitments but he has drained both hot and cold tanks and turned off the mains stop cock, so no more drip. Tomorrow he's going to take out the tank to clean it and sort the problem with the ballcock. I will more than likely do a bit more in the garden if its dry.
Currently sat on couch with the sun coming through the lounge window and its very warm, not wanting to go back outside but need to crack on with my garden now for an hour or so while OH out at the lunch club.
Love it when its nice and sunny like this even if its chilly out.
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Can you share the make/ model/cost please. I have been thinking about something like this for a while.
Thanks
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Day of pottering both inside and outside. Had to pick up medication, think I must have more in the house than the chemist, instead of renewing every 56 days it seems every 30 days which is fine if we are away but a bit of a liberty with NHS money
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Oneputt, is it 30 days or 28? Reason being that our doctors won't give out 56 days now, as people have the insensitivity of dying whilst they still have over 1 months supply and therefore a waste of money,hence the "1 month" supply but actually 4 weeks.
As we are often away for over the 28 days I usually put down that I'll be away and they then condesend to allow me 56 day supplies.(Sometimes they don't notice on the repeat so I just carry on. I hope I don't go and die before at least starting the second months supply.
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The make is Swann. One of my sons has one of the muti camera HDR systems and is very pleased with it, hence my decision to go for the make. Not the cheapest at £99 but well made and picture quality is first class. Also easy to set up, it talks you through it. I bought it from Maplin, which we have locally. The link below is to the product on their website. It was slightly cheaper on Amazon but I would have to have paid delivery.
One thing to consider is the speed of your broadband. As the camera is HD and you don't seem to be able to reduce the quality significantly. I recently upgraded to BT infinity, so no problems. However, with my previous camera and standard broadband, I could only use it in low resolution as my uplink speed was so poor, and it just could not handle the HD feed.
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Thanks, very helpful
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My prescription is renewable on line, so I'm getting 28 days worth of NHS Goodies but I'm working on the basis of twenty six ( 26 ) days in my 'Medication Month ' so to speak.
This way I'll not run short should I take an unplanned break away from home. I'll start behaving better when I reckon I've got enough back-up to be safe. I don't consider it to be profligate wih NHS Resources -- ABM in a Diabetic pickle will use much, much more !
The one thing that does annoy me is the fact that dropping the scrip request in and then collecting & taking to pharmacy by hand permits me to get medication in 48 - 72 hours but using this 'up to date 'electronic paperless system' Takes 7 ( SEVEN ) days minimum.
AND They put a paper request form in the bag with the pills.P.S. / Edit Don't forget OP the forecast is down to -5ish at night next week so no tender plants in the cold cold earth yet
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We get three months at a time, in fact you can reorder after two months. I agree there can be a downside as there is sometimes waste. Margaret has just had to go onto a third insulin injection a day but they knocked on the head one of her long term diabetes medications. Because she had previously taken about four a day she has quite a reserve which was justified by how much she took. However she now has quite a bit of this medication which is surplus to requirements. It can be taken to the chemist for disposal but it can't be used by anyone else. As its a generic medication I expect its as cheap as chips but still waste.
David
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David, the chemist gave me the wrong type of insulin a while back -- same stuff but not in a pen such as I use. I thought it was wrong due to package size, but having opened the parcel to check whilst still in the shop, they said sorry, gave me the correct item & then put the 'wrong' one straight into the shops Controlled Waste Bin.
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A lovely day in East Kent ,,,except !!! Very cold North Easterly wind.More red face/windburn from all day at the B/yd !!.Worked on the "Case" digger today ,getting it ready for road repairs etc ,and towing boats and trailers about .0
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Good move AD, we did the same a month ago.
We don't use RP these days but was interested in the winter rallies and THS's so going to give it a year trial to see how we get on. So far not had any complaints, ferries can be booked at similar rates and their house insurance covers 180 days for members.
Their pricing band for sites is good too, none of this silly up for 2 days down for 3 days then back up again nonsense. We booked 2 nights on a C&CC site and 2 nights cl for the price of 2 nights on a C&MC site in the same area.
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We get 2 months prescription at a time but can order again after 1 month if going away.
Provided we check our prescriptions in the chemist, if anything wrong they can go back into stock but once left the chemist they get binned. Managing to get a bit of a stock pile for our longer trips.
Lovely sunny day all day but its going to be a cold night tonight. Brrrr
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