The Random Thread

[Osc]

We got our flu jabs in the local chemist - they phoned to make the appointments (20 minutes apart) and asked us to collect forms which we would fill out and bring along. It all went like clockwork. The pharmacist went through the form, explained about the vaccine, explained it would not cover COVID, disinfected arm, gave jab, popped on a plaster and it was done.

I was talking to my brother yesterday and he was telling me that he had called to his daughter’s house yesterday, the one who had the premature baby. Tadgh is home now but not out of the woods by any means - on oxygen and having feeding issues, being fed by tube at the moment. When my brother arrived, S’s in-laws were there, her husband’s aunt and her son and her husband’s brother. Under our regulations, you are only supposed to have visitors from one other household. My brother just dropped off what he was delivering and didn’t go into the house so he doesn’t know what his daughter thought, but he was furious at all those people putting Tadgh at risk.

[Kaz]

Oh Osc, how stupid!

[JanB]

I'm really gobsmacked how people think they're okay to do what they want.

We all know how nasty this thing is, and to have so many people there, with such a small baby, just beggers belief.

[JanB]

Just been told one of the old bokes in our little area has died. So sad. But he was 82, his family are around and the funeral will be tomorrow.

Known locally, by the foreigners as "Captain Slow" as he drove about 10 kms an hour - in the middle and then both sides of the road.

A lovely man, he'll be sadly missed. He always asked me if I'd been in the pool, even in the dead of winter He was of the old school, wrapped himself in goose fat and newspaper in the autumn and took it off in the spring - boy, did he pong

RIP Jose x

[meriad]

Ria, that seems pretty normal timing for a flu jab appointment. Our surgery is just a minute or two walk from home and I remember one year walking around and going straight in to see the nurse and being back home just 5 minutes after I’d left. In normal times the nurse asks if there are any allergies and gives the injection whilst someone else inputs the details onto your records.

Think that was Nadine's issue Jo - is that she was required to input details and do all the admin as well as giving the injection; and do a wipe down when possible because of Covid19 - and 3 minutes for all that with (from what I gather) no catch up break just isn't feasible or safe

[TheOstrich]

Yes, definitely two people at each of the flu clinic work stations here when we had ours done. One computer operator and one with a large needle . There were 7-8 work stations in a line and cordoned pathways to each one, think Heathrow Terminal 5 (not that I've ever been there because you wouldn't get me up in one o' they things anyway ) , and it was all pretty seamless. Three minutes sounds about right in those conditions.

[JoM]

I’m not optimistic that Royal Mail are going to deliver this parcel today. The tracker says between 9.01 and 13.01, it’s now 14.22. The normal post came before 11 and they usually follow around with parcels a very short while later in the van that they drive up here in as they move around the village.

[Workingman]

Does anybody still get the phone book?

One just dropped through the door and went straight to the recycle bin. It was long and thin and about as thick as a Mills and Boon paperback. I remember the days when we got two thick volumes plus the Yellow Pages.

[TheOstrich]

Yes, we had one recently. We do keep the latest one as a local trader reference book, but you can search just as easily through BT's online phone book site.

I had thought they had discontinued them, but I may be getting confused with the big Yellow Pages book.

[saundra]

My phone book goes straight in the blue bin as Well