Got my teeny tiny Certificate of Vaccination yesterday - via text and link on my phone and I was hten able to print it off from my Health Fund website.
In a rare example of the left hand knowing what the right hand is doing ... it is the same size as our national ID card (which comes with a little plastic wallet thingy). So I printed it off and glued it to a piece of light card and put them in together! So snug and cute. I love the way they spelt my name wrong too!
Then I went to A Supermarket and bought a pottle of fancy ice cream (Brownie macchiato!!). Gosh it was such fun! Then I bought a bottle of fancy GIN (distilled in Herefordshire!!)
I am floating on air!!!
I had an email offering me a vaccination on Sunday. I was a bit surprised as I'm not yet seventy or have any underlying health problems. Of course I said yes, specially as it is only a fifteen minute walk away. My brother, younger than me but very frail, had his vaccination yesterday.
Actually I bought a pot of fancy ice cream (brownie~macchiato) to celebrate the end of the 7 days after jab #2 and the receiving of My Special Certificate! I even went into the supermarket and chose it myself!
(With QR code and my name spelt wrong. But - in a rare example of the left hand knowing what the right hand is doing - it was exactly the size of the national ID card and so it fits perfectly into the little plastic wallet thingy you get for that!)
Good Lord, Miss Amanda - are you saying you don't like GIN???
If given the choice between a gin and tonic with a slice of lime, and a glass of mother's milk, Miss Amanda would unhesitatingly choose the former. But she wouldn't substitute brownie macchiato ice cream for the lime.
Miss S and her family are living in Reduced Circumstances while they get their kitchen/dining room/utility/loo/boot room redone, including having the floor dug up and relaid (I think they are currently cooking in the bootroom). In Normal Times they could have come here to eat, or eaten out, but because of the lurgy that's out, and takeaway round here is limited to fish and chips. So, on a Saturday night I do a takeaway curry for them and last night's was a zinger. I have finally arrived at a definitive chicken Chettinad, a modification on a Madhur Jaffrey recipe (yes, heresy I know) and with two vegetable dishes and homemade naans it was the best thing about the whole week!
It comes in a note in her diary about the tickets etc. for a red-herring holiday in Mentone which are sent by Miss Climpson to an accountant and his wife in reduced circumstances.
I was slightly surprised to get a text message from my surgery on Friday inviting me to book a covid vaccination as I'm not in the groups being targeted at the moment. However the link worked, I booked a slot and I had my first vaccination on Sunday.
Today I got a message saying that that slot had been cancelled and I'd be called in due course for my vaccination. Guess there was a bit of a glitch somewhere.
Mr F got a phone call from the Health Centre where we're registered to say they'd had an unexpected delivery of vaccine and would he like to come in at 2.30? Which of course he did.
Mr F got a phone call from the Health Centre where we're registered to say they'd had an unexpected delivery of vaccine and would he like to come in at 2.30? Which of course he did.
Mr F got a phone call from the Health Centre where we're registered to say they'd had an unexpected delivery of vaccine and would he like to come in at 2.30? Which of course he did.
My friend the same - she’s 64.
Mr Cats, who is 67, got his call today for next week. I will have to wait a while yet. In church Zoom calls now those who have not been vaccinated wear their relative youth with pride!
So encouraging to hear that several of my neighbours have already had their vaccinations, with no lasting ill effects - Mr. C is due his next week, so great progress is being made.
I’m enjoying my short hair - far less faff. I’ve taken to cutting my own fringe after I apologised to my hairdresser and she said I’d done a good job.
I had it cut very short (for me) just before lockdown in January so it should last a while. I still dye it. I love grey hair but mine isn’t grey, it’s a sort of concrete colour streaked with the colour of a rat - truly horrible! I dye it ash blonde.
@Boogie, sounds like my mop, or at least, my mop as it looks on the dreaded Zoom calls! I’m wondering if it might look better with a real silver shade, rather than its current ‘Shade de Badger.’ Perhaps one of those spray in brush out ones. (I stopped using permanent and semi-permanents years ago because of skin sensitivities).
A while ago I asked my hairdresser to dye it grey but she said it wouldn’t suit me. 🤔🧐
I know this is late, but it sounds as if you would benefit from toning shampoo and conditioner aimed at removing dull and brassy tones from blonde and grey hair. I think brightening it would help bring out the actual silver - you could even get some purple hair dye drops to add to your normal conditioner to use as a toning mask. If you leave it on for a short time, it doesn't turn your hair purple but just a nicer, more silvery grey.
I live in accommodation for people with mental health issues, run by a charity. It is a large house turned into 8 flats. There is one wifi router between all 8 flats, so the internet exists but is very weak - not strong enough for livestreams or Zoom. Obviously in the current circumstances this isn't helpful, but the service manager is saying that as our service charges don't explicitly cover the internet, they don't have any obligation to improve the internet. But of course, everything else relies on having decent internet - therapy, university virtual open days, GP appointments etc. Some of those are available by phone but not all are. It feels like I've been cut off from the world and forgotten about, and churches don't seem to be taking digital poverty into account. I will be moving in September but that's still 8 months of isolation without even things like Zoom that others are able to use.
I sympathise, having had unreliable BT Broadband for some time.
Fortunately, I am able to afford a Vodafone mobile broadband alternative (yes - a Dongle!), which often works better than BT, even when BT is behaving itself IYSWIM.
What can churches do about digital poverty, though?
This is a serious question, because this is a field (somewhat strange to me personally) in which churches could perhaps be more proactive.
I have a smartphone with a data package, it's just that I've had to increase the data package by quite a bit to cope with just a weekly Slimming World Zoom meeting, and it's not cheap. Zoom uses quite a lot of bandwidth. The most appropriate mobile wifi would cost about £40 a month on top of my existing phone bill, though I would be able to reduce the data package. I guess the issue for churches is that they only seem to be using video-based programmes, which use up the most data. Facebook groups, Discord servers etc use up a lot less data and can still support video formats in addition to text. Text is also easier to use for people using screen readers, or for providing easy-read resources.
I've contacted my support worker about the issue but the difficulty is that the property is run by two different groups - the charity that runs the project in terms of support etc, and the property management company who are the ones who maintain the building including the internet provision.
Intertube reckons that 1GB data gives about 4hrs of video calls - https://www.o2.co.uk/help/pay-as-you-go/big-bundles so a £10 bundle could give you 40hrs of video calls a month if that helps. But these facilities should be treating wifi as an essential utility.
At one point companies were instructed to remove data limits as a pandemic accommodation, but I dont know if that has stopped now.
Removing data limits only applied to children accessing educational websites, and access to the NHS and government websites for the general population. It wasn't a general removal of data limits.
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In a rare example of the left hand knowing what the right hand is doing ... it is the same size as our national ID card (which comes with a little plastic wallet thingy). So I printed it off and glued it to a piece of light card and put them in together! So snug and cute. I love the way they spelt my name wrong too!
Then I went to A Supermarket and bought a pottle of fancy ice cream (Brownie macchiato!!). Gosh it was such fun! Then I bought a bottle of fancy GIN (distilled in Herefordshire!!)
I am floating on air!!!
Personally I'd use milk to make an ice cream shake. But if gin turns you on, then who am I to question?
Are you sure you're an Anglican?
(With QR code and my name spelt wrong. But - in a rare example of the left hand knowing what the right hand is doing - it was exactly the size of the national ID card and so it fits perfectly into the little plastic wallet thingy you get for that!)
Miss Amanda, I don't think ice cream would go very well with GIN ...
Nicole, wonderful news. May your brother continue to heal.
Thanks, Miss Amanda.
Actually, that does sound rather good.
Joining in the Good Thoughts for Nicole's brother.
Yum...
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Question - how does one reduce a circumstance?
that's a quote but I cannot remember where from!
Today I got a message saying that that slot had been cancelled and I'd be called in due course for my vaccination. Guess there was a bit of a glitch somewhere.
My friend the same - she’s 64.
Mr Cats, who is 67, got his call today for next week. I will have to wait a while yet. In church Zoom calls now those who have not been vaccinated wear their relative youth with pride!
I know this is late, but it sounds as if you would benefit from toning shampoo and conditioner aimed at removing dull and brassy tones from blonde and grey hair. I think brightening it would help bring out the actual silver - you could even get some purple hair dye drops to add to your normal conditioner to use as a toning mask. If you leave it on for a short time, it doesn't turn your hair purple but just a nicer, more silvery grey.
Darling, I am growing old,
Silver threads among the gold,
Shine upon my brow today;
Life is fading fast away.
(With acknowledgements to E E Rexford and H P Danks).
There! That should cheer you all up...
I sympathise, having had unreliable BT Broadband for some time.
Fortunately, I am able to afford a Vodafone mobile broadband alternative (yes - a Dongle!), which often works better than BT, even when BT is behaving itself IYSWIM.
What can churches do about digital poverty, though?
This is a serious question, because this is a field (somewhat strange to me personally) in which churches could perhaps be more proactive.
I've contacted my support worker about the issue but the difficulty is that the property is run by two different groups - the charity that runs the project in terms of support etc, and the property management company who are the ones who maintain the building including the internet provision.
Removing data limits only applied to children accessing educational websites, and access to the NHS and government websites for the general population. It wasn't a general removal of data limits.
Thanks Helix. I was feeling a bit down due the increased pain from an injury and they certainly brightened my day.
I enjoyed it too - thanks, Helix.