What are you all up to
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It's a very frustrating process, isn't it? This morning I booked our Covid jabs, at our local medical centre for Thursday, all booked and confirmed. Then about an hour later got a text to say they'd been cancelled, please rebook! So I went on the NHS website again only to find that our local centre had been removed from the list! But, no problem, could book a different place, almost as close, for Wednesday. Good, that's sorted then. And about 20 minutes later a text from our own surgery offering me (but not Mrs M) a Covid & flu jab for next week (when we are away!). So we're sticking with the Wednesday appointment. Had already booked flu jabs at our local Boots for Oct 9. In the end it's worked out ok as we both wanted a gap between the two jabs, but what a kerfuffle!
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Margaret was at our doctors surgery today the see the Physio (recent scan showed Osteoarthritis in both hips with the right one being worst) At least she was given some better painkillers today which hopefully will improve the pain relief. Whilst at the surgery I did ask about Flu jabs and they were hoping to have more news next week. So it looks as if we will get a gap between the two different jabs.
David
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Thanks for the link David. I have booked covid jabs for both of us but it took some perseverance! I booked mine with no problems but every time I tried to book for OH they said there was a 'technical problem' but I managed it at last. Our flu jabs are at our GP surgery next week but the nurse that OH saw a couple of weeks ago said she didn't think our surgery were doing the covid jabs this time so I booked for a pharmacy in town. We have a couple of weeks between the 2 jabs which suits me fine.
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Rufs, can recommend the lovely little Prison Museum in Princetown, very interesting and cheap to get in. Moretonhampstead is a very nice moorland village as well, has a great little Classic Car Museum, and the Church is interesting. Chagford is very nice, some good independent and interesting shops. Castle Drogo (NT) is superb.
We love Dartmoor, top of our list of places to live👍 There’s some nice wild swimming spots as well, but chillier than the sea……Spitchwick Common, and Bellever area, Dartmeet as well.
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Great photo Millie👍😁 We had a good if tiring weekend. Our little afternoon tea went well, we were all stuffed though, but plenty to take with us next day to Classic Car Show in York. I had a good couple of hours on bike, although wished I hadn’t gone into city centre as it was so busy. I ended up walking around rather than riding, too many folks around. Overseas tourists are back in droves. Great once I headed out onto Orbital Cycle route though, plenty of folks around, but all bike aware. Thankfully, we had a good easy drive there and back via M1 route.
Cake my sister made, and The Rose Window at York Minster..
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Millie
I was a bit concerned I would have to dig out NHS numbers but the webpage had a little dropdown menu with not only the NHS numbers but our dates of birth and email addresses and phone numbers which saved a lot of time. The vaccination centre we use is run by a local pharmacy in one of the Open University buildings so plenty of easily accessible parking.
David
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We were due to move site tomorrow, across North Norfolk but the weather forecast is for 45-50 mph gusts of wind so after a lovely walk from our CL in Blakeney this morning we had lunch, rang the next CL who said they could accommodate us and so we packed up and headed off across the A47.
It was lashing down when we passed through Kings Lynn, roads overflowing and a bit breezy across the Wash area but we arrived safely 2 hours later.
Sun shining since we arrived near Boston.
Hope those travelling over the next couple of days take care.
Good to see you had an enjoyable weekend Ttda.
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Lovely photos tda, that cake looks delicious - very naughty but nice! I love the Rose Window in York Minster. Our youngest son lived in York for many years doing various degrees so we visited often. You didn't have to pay in those days.
Glad to hear that you had a safe journey today WN. The weather forecast looks pretty dire for tomorrow so take care everyone who is out and about.
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So sorry to hear that you felt so ill with your new BP medication bakers2 . I hope your GP can sort it out for you soon.
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DavidKlyne thank you for the link. It was on my to do list and thus saved time! Booked ours for Friday at a pharmacy- be interesting to find 😉. Could have had Wednesday. Flu jabs 30th at the GP so decent gap.
Milliehull thanks, I took my previous ones in the evening but the label, not the information leaflet!, said take in the morning. Read up lots and BHF think evening maybe better. So rang pharmacist and she confirmed should be OK, they only suggest morning as it keeps bp low during the day. I'd hope it would work for 24 hours.... I took todays about lunchtime 🤞.
Wherenext it got very windy here, died down and is again now. Very heavy showers but glorious sun in-between. Noisy hour and heavy rain overnight. Lightening from late evening. Rain is needed, for my garden, lots of planting to do 😉, but I noticed the cracks reappearing in the fields 😱
Takethedogalong cake looks fabulous - any left?
OH has appointment at the memory clinic tomorrow.... Can't say I'm looking forward to it. However Thursday I have a coach trip to The National Arboretum somewhere I've wanted to go for years. Was going to be part of mitorhome tour, but never was. Then circumstances and Covid, now a dog, so jumped at the organised day trip. Booked a land train tour too.
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Not much cake left😁 Plenty of scones in freezer though👍
We seem to be getting very well looked after via our Doctors Surgery. Both OH and I are booked for both Flu and COVID boosters, neither of us 65 plus yet, but OH classed as vulnerable, and that qualifies me as someone who lives in same house. District Nurses are coming out to do Mum this week, and they might do my Sis as well as she is listed as primary carer. All been very easy for us. Only thing we don’t get offered, even Mum is Shingles jab🤔 Not sure why not, but hope we never get shingles.
Anyone in touch with Brue, please give her my regards, hope things are ok and it’s just the system holding things up.
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Early start, for us, today as OH had a blood test at our GP at 09.20. Was the same phlebotomist as last time she went there several years back, and pretty much the same result........3 goes to find any blood! OH does have very difficult veins, always a problem when blood is needed, but some people are useless at it and others get it first time.
Last time the phlebotomist gave up after 2 goes and called in someone else, this time she took 3 goes and did get a small amount. Not as much as requested, but hopefully enough.
After that we got some bandages at the pharmacy and went down to DD's. Poor Nathan has bad eczema and needs the sore bits covered to stop him scratching them, but the micropore tape holding the dressings in place was not helping, so DD had tried to get some decent bandages to use instead. Her local pharmacy had none, but ours had plenty, so we got 2 crepe bandages and took them down to her.
Dropped into Morrisons on the way home for a few things, then pottered around till lunchtime, some wood turning and other interesting stuff done.
Mainly sunny today, but a heavy shower mid afternoon. OH mended a second- hand school jacket DD got for Callum for £1 at a uniform sale, so another item scored off the "to do" list.
Next major job is to make curtains for Nathan's bedroom.
Number 1 grandson has just passed his driving theory test, rest of test booked for December. We have offered him OH's Smart once we get the new car, he is still thinking about it.
DD has booked a site near Inveraray for the school October week, so that is all sorted. That will be the last outing this year with the caravan. We will take it there for them and return a week later, they go home, we stay a night, pack everything up and go home the next day.
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Thanks for the information DavidK. We were told at our last Patients Participation Group Meeting that we would be contacted once it was 'our turn'. I guess things have moved on since the meeting. We were told we could book for a flu jab, which I have done, but it's not yet. I'll book for the Covid jab later this evening - if I can get the flu jab at the same time, I'll cancel the other one ..
David
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TTDA.....you need to be 70 to be offered the Shingles vaccination.
Your Mum probably missed out as she was older when it was first introduced. Up here they worked down from 80 and up from 70. i fell in the middle so had to wait till I was 75+.
I think I read somewhere that once you pass 80 they do not offer it.
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We went to Felbrigg yesterday and walked around the Estate before lunch and the still very colourful walled garden afterwards, giving the house a miss this time. I know it is one of your favourite places to visit millie. Love your photo, and well done with the tours.
Glad you had a pleasant, relaxing weekend away, Francis. I must see if I can find a copy of that DVD, as I thoroughly enjoyed the book.
Good to hear that you have had a good time in Devon, Rufs, and that the weather has been fine up to yesterday. Hope you did not get caught in the floods overnight.
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We had a thunderstorm overnight but it was fine and sunny this morning. We went to Sheringham Estate where we walked for a couple of hours before our picnic lunch out in the sunshine out of the wind. Spotted this rather grand tree on our way round. Hot back to the van, after calling in at Lidl just before a heavy shower of rain. Had a couple of other walks from the site in the afternoon and evening each time managing to avoid the thunderstorms.
We have booked our Flu jabs at Boots in N.Walsham for next Friday and will investigate if and when we can get our Covid ones.
Good to read that you are all set up on the next site, WN. Hopefully it will be dry and the winds won't be too strong when we move in the morning.
If Brue is reading these posts this photo is for you!
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We were listening to our former Scottish Clinical Director Jason Leitch on the radio here yesterday and they were discussing who would be vaccinated first.
Apparently the original plan was to prioritise the elderly, like me, who had had the Spring booster, but with this new Covid strain emerging, and the peak infection period apparently being December/January/ February, the advice now is to slightly delay another Vaccination for the over 75s and proceed with those slightly younger. Thus moving the best protection for the over 75s into the higher risk period.
I (81) was sent a mid October date, OH (74) was early November, but I have rebooked us both for earlier in October as OH did not have the Spring booster. We will get our Flu vaccinations at the same time.
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Did you see the Lancaster bomber fly over the 1940’s Sheringham railway festival? We always do the longer walk at Sheringham the brings you out just above Weybourne Station and continue to the gazebo before heading passed the Hall to the car park.
Have decided to extend this trip as I want to be in Portsmouth on Saturday to see the arrival of sailing yacht Florence at 1230 hrs. I’ve followed Matt and Amy for the whole of their 6 year round the world yachting adventure, so will be good to wave them home
Mod Edit this is the link for those interested in The Yacht Florence
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"Have decided to extend this trip as I want to be in Portsmouth on Saturday to see the arrival of sailing yacht Florence at 1230 hrs. I’ve followed Matt and Amy for the whole of their 6 year round the world yachting adventure, so will be good to wave them home "
Just watched part of the first video on You Tube, OP. Will watch the rest later because it brings back so many memories and similar emotions of when we left Hull Marina in "Harlequin III" (a 38' Westerly Oceanranger) to sail around the Med for two and a half years. Although not on the same scale by any means, it was still a massive challenge - especially when we experienced 100 knot winds and a lightning strike in Corsica and survived to tell the tale!
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You've reminded me why I never want to sail the world, however big the vessel.
We took ferry from Harwich to Esbjerg for son to play in an international football tournamentabout 25 years ago. It looked massive in the quayside, just a force 4 in the middle and it felt like a matchstick 😱
The IoW is more than enough for me 🤣 and that was when I was a child with my parents! Been over once as an adult, wasn't too bad - docks busier than I remember they used to be! Cruisers seemed enormous but......
I think it must be a marvellous travel experience to explore countries but I'd do it by land once over the Channel. Actually I've had a rough crossing there and a couple of very reasonable ones if I stayed inside 😉
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Well after 19 nights away at our caravan we are home to a very wet, soggy Devon. A lovely relaxing time, days out and days just sitting outside the van. A long planned friends birthday celebration and tickets booked for McBeth at the theatre, all arranged before our daughters op was arranged. Beautiful weather, a little hot at times but not moaning as that’s so much better than rain. Our Son and daughter in law stayed Saturday night on the way back from taking our granddaughter back to Liverpool uni. We had a lovely meal out with them in the evening.
A friend of our daughters offered to move in and look after her after her op for a month or so, so we took advantage of that to still get away. She is recovering very slowly, but according to plan. She is now allowed to come downstairs for an hour each day, to sit on the sofa, but still not really weight baring as has to rely on two crutches. Surgeon did say it would take some time. And she is being advised by the physio. Lovely to be able to have a proper conversation with her without her being doped up on morphine etc. We had our granddaughter to stay for 3 weeks before we went away, Nan suggested more resting time for her, but what 19 year old wants to nap in the afternoon. But it did seem to help. Anyway she has now returned to Uni, for her second year, we weren’t sure that would happen at one time but she is so determined not to give in to her condition. She is sharing a house this year with friends she has made there, so at least not on her own like last year. Fingers crossed.
I picked the biggest cooking apples from our tree before we went away, but some have still fallen in the storms, hoping to get the rest off if it stops raining. Off to check the larder and freezer now before I do a big shop. Will start to take some cooked meals over for daughter and family tomorrow.
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This morning I dropped Mrs One off at Petersfield station to return home. She caught the 10.15 train to London, all her connections were on time and she walked into the house at 1540hrs. Pretty good for the princely sum of £21.00
I’m now in Poole for a couple of days at a commercial site, not a favourite but convenient for where I need to be
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Yes nellie you are right - Felbrigg is one of our favourites. It is lovely to see your photos of the walled garden which still looks very colourful. Thank you for sharing them.
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Result!! We have had an email today telling us that OH's Blue Badge application has been approved and asking for payment. We have promptly paid up before they change their minds!! It is a pity that he still cannot drive at the moment as we are still waiting for the results of his cardiac tests so we will have to use it in my car for the time being.
So pleased that you have had such a successful time away in your caravan. Also pleased to hear that your daughter is recovering from her operation and that you grand-daughter has been able to go back to Uni. It sounds as though they both have lovely friends.
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Millie
I had no idea you had to pay for a Blue Badge! It will no doubt make life a lot easier for you both?
David
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It’s only a tenner and lasts 3 years 👍🏻
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From this Saturday, the NHS Shingles policy has changed.
Those reaching 65 on their next birthday ( as well as those who reach 70) will be able to have it then.
The way I understand it , those between 66 and 69 will still have to wait until they are 70.
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A Tenner? I last paid for my OH's blue badge it was twenty ! It does last for three years but they don't remind you when it is about to expire, I have seen folk turn up at hospital to use a disabled space and get turned away because it had expired ! so make a date in your diary to renew!
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Our Council sends out reminders, RS, and it was was definitely £10 here less than a year ago. That’s a Scotland / England difference maybe 🤷🏻♂️. Worth every penny at either price in my book👍🏻.
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I did see the Lancaster flying over, just as we were having our picnic, OP. As we had done a 6ml walk, then the following day the Felbrigg Estate circuit, the OH did not think that she could manage the longest of the Sheringham walks. Hope that the Florence gets into port as planned and you get to see it.
We are now on a new to us CL at Paston for 5 nights before move down to another at Rollesby.
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