We got The Call yesterday, to be 'done' on Saturday.
In sadder news, someone I know has lost both their parents to Covid in the last week. They live(d) in mainland Europe, so there's no way of getting to the funerals.
May they rest in peace, and may your friend be comforted.
As I don't know whether I'll have any side-effects from the jag, I decided to get supper from the chippy - scampi, chips and coleslaw - which I'm washing down with a rather nice but inexpensive glass of Chilean Sauv Blanc.
I can feel just the vaguest stiffness around the injection site, but so far nothing more than that. I'm a wee bit sleepy though, so I think I'll have what for me is a really early night and go to bed shortly.
Last week my husband decided he would like to have a go at cooking ‘sous vide’ and decided he would convert our slow cooker to do so (he’s an inventor, this is perfectly normal behaviour, really...). Any way, he looked online and found others (there must be site where they all hang out) who had already done so and he bought an adapter ready made instead.
Anyway, we now have a special temperature control plugged in and last night he cooked chicken and egg in the slow cooker/sous vide. The chicken was lovely, tender and flavoursome, and the poached egg the lightest I have eaten. So he can keep the new toy.
I need to go for a walk then mark a couple of essays before getting back to my assignment, which I’m hoping to finish the draft of today.
That couldn't be the wine? I hope you feel ok today. How are the commutes going?
It's exceptionally mild here but so windy! It being bin day I went out early expecting to see rubbish strewn across the road, but it wasn't as bad as I expected.
It's Weigh Day for Slimming World (we weigh at home and have a Zoom gathering this afternoon) and there was Chocolate Cake at the weekend so I'm a bit apprehensive and wonder whether I should pluck my eyebrows and shave my legs before getting on the scales.
It's Weigh Day for Slimming World (we weigh at home and have a Zoom gathering this afternoon) and there was Chocolate Cake at the weekend so I'm a bit apprehensive and wonder whether I should pluck my eyebrows and shave my legs before getting on the scales.
It's a shame the hairdressers are closed ...
My arm's still occasionally letting me know that it's there, but I think I'll just about have the energy when I get home to make the paella that I couldn't be bothered to make yesterday.
Assignment is written and tidied up, including references. Tomorrow I need to draw up an action plan, check and update the appendices and it is good to go.
I'm now killing some time before I go downstairs and contemplate what I will cook for dinner. What are you all having?
All this Drama has meant that the minced lamb I defrosted for Monday dinner is still sitting in the fridge. The extent of my ambition for this evening is a small rice pudding.
If I still can't face food tomorrow I'll have to turn it into something (moussaka? shepherd's pie?) and put it back in the freezer.
Hope you feel better soon @Firenze , this is turning into the week from hell for you and Mr F.
Evening meal was zaatar flatbread from our local Turkish shop with salad, humous and olives. It's something we have a couple of times a week, though the breads we use vary.
I made the paella, and rather than faff about with half a red pepper, and as I'd defrosted enough chicken thighs for the full recipe, I made the whole thing, and ate half of it, so I shan't have to cook tomorrow.
Let us know how you get on @Boogie. Are you having to travel far to a centre? Our nearest, from what I can see, would be about 15 miles.
Same here. Mine is 15 miles away, but far more accessible by public transport than the default one recommended. We do have a local large, gp led centre which is focussing on the CEV and EV group at present and everybody else has been asked to go out of town.
Sounds good. I'll be making enough bolognese sauce tomorrow (in the slow cooker) to have with jacket potatoes tomorrow and spaghetti on Friday. We have a bit of a full evening on Friday and need something quick and easy to fit in between Zoom meetings.
I am not very successful with paella - I always cook the prawns for too long and they end up chewy. I also feel it needs something like chorizo to spice up the taste, but that makes everything too greasy.
If I use chorizo I sweat it in the pan to release the fat, then use that fat to cook the onions and anything else, not adding any other fat. I use it in jambalaya when I have chicken stock around, our version of chicken soup.
Mmm, can't do chick frick because we had chicken last night
Mr RoS and I had chicken four times in the last week.
Started off with a traditional roast. Second meal was left over chicken with chorizo and cannellini beans, third was a sort of coronation chicken salad, and this evening I picked the carcass bare and cooked the remnants with peppers, onions, tomato, olives and a slosh of sherry.
It will be at least a month before I next roast a chicken.
We don't have anything left of a roast chicken except the carcass when all 4 of us are here (I have a 16 year old and a 20 year old son), and very little when there are just 3 of us. We do tend to make a soup with carcass and scraps though.
Let us know how you get on @Boogie. Are you having to travel far to a centre? Our nearest, from what I can see, would be about 15 miles.
Same here. Mine is 15 miles away, but far more accessible by public transport than the default one recommended. We do have a local large, gp led centre which is focussing on the CEV and EV group at present and everybody else has been asked to go out of town.
We're fortunate. Our local surgery rang us on Monday and booked us in for Saturday. It's just a few minutes' walk to get there. I'm just hoping for no side-effects as I'm leading worship the next day (our church re-opened last Sunday).
Let us know how you get on @Boogie. Are you having to travel far to a centre? Our nearest, from what I can see, would be about 15 miles.
Same here. Mine is 15 miles away, but far more accessible by public transport than the default one recommended. We do have a local large, gp led centre which is focussing on the CEV and EV group at present and everybody else has been asked to go out of town.
We're fortunate. Our local surgery rang us on Monday and booked us in for Saturday. It's just a few minutes' walk to get there. I'm just hoping for no side-effects as I'm leading worship the next day (our church re-opened last Sunday).
I would make contingency plans. Most people I know have had some reaction. My friend’s daughter, a nurse and only 30 years old, had a reaction bad enough to be sent home from work the next day. 🤔
We had the Oxford vaccine a fortnight ago this Friday. Darllenwr was fine, except for a very sore arm, but I was really ill on the Saturday, so much so that’s we rung 111.
Thankfully, I was much better on the Sunday.
We had the Oxford vaccine a fortnight ago this Friday. Darllenwr was fine, except for a very sore arm, but I was really ill on the Saturday, so much so that’s we rung 111.
Thankfully, I was much better on the Sunday.
Hope you’re properly recovered now, @Priscilla. I do hope I don’t have much reaction to mine. I was generally ok with the flu vacc last September. I’m always a bit ‘chesty,’ though; whether due to meds I’m on or as a legacy of the ‘Can’t Believe It’s Not Covid,’ that I had back in Lockdown 1, we don’t know, which worries me a bit. But forewarned is forearmed.
I've heard that the AZ vaccine seems to have more/worse side effects than the Pfizer one, and that reactions can be worse in younger people than older.
Re: roast chickens, David and I used to eat for a week on a ready-cooked chicken - cold with salad, in a casserole or curry, sandwiches or Coronation chicken and then soup from the stock.
If I had freezer space, I'd probably still do roast chicken and use the leftovers like that.
For the paella I did the same as CK - I used ready-chopped chorizo and cooked everything in its oil - it was lovely.
Yes, we’ve got a tiddly amount of freezer space. Not like our son, who has a proper, though smallish, chest freezer and regularly sends me pics of his huge batch -cooking sessions.
I had to rush out in my pyjamas with the rubbish sacks this morning. The normal process for months has been: 1) while preparing dinner, I empty the bins of recycling and waste bags, knot them and put them at the top of the stairs. Later, possibly while going out for a night walk, friend takes them down and puts them out by the kerb for the refuse van. Last night, he didn't. Nor did he go to bed. He was preparing to do so in the bathroom when he spotted the van through the frosted glass and told me. So I had to sprint down and chase the van up to the car park. Fortunately, the particular pair of pyjamas could pass for a fancy track suit - just about.
At the vaccination centre where I volunteer we get both, on different days. It looks quite random to me.
I don't think you get a choice, wherever you are. It depends on the vaccine that your practice/centre is given for that day or week, and some areas are only using one type (AFAIK). Just ask when you arrive which one they are using.
(Still in the 50-55 group without other conditions, so I have a little while to wait)
I don't think you get a choice, wherever you are....
Indeed.
Depending on how the centre you visit, your vaccinator may well let you know which you are getting, and you might even get an appointment card with details on (not all centres are issuing this card).
The one constant is that your medical record will hold the manufacturer and batch number of each dose.
Well, TPTB have released a video call with HM The Queen talking about her experience of being vaccinated and saying that people "should think about other people rather than themselves" so get vaccinated.
I don't think you get a choice, wherever you are....
Indeed.
Depending on how the centre you visit, your vaccinator may well let you know which you are getting, and you might even get an appointment card with details on (not all centres are issuing this card).
The one constant is that your medical record will hold the manufacturer and batch number of each dose.
I’m not bothered about which one I get, as long as I’m done.
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In sadder news, someone I know has lost both their parents to Covid in the last week. They live(d) in mainland Europe, so there's no way of getting to the funerals.
May they rest in peace, and may your friend be comforted.
As I don't know whether I'll have any side-effects from the jag, I decided to get supper from the chippy - scampi, chips and coleslaw - which I'm washing down with a rather nice but inexpensive glass of Chilean Sauv Blanc.
IANAD, but I feel sure that any untoward side-effects will be duly ameliorated by the said foodstuffs and WINE.
Good news for you @Piglet . I hope there are no side effects but you should continue with the yummy food and WINE to stave them off.
Anyway, we now have a special temperature control plugged in and last night he cooked chicken and egg in the slow cooker/sous vide. The chicken was lovely, tender and flavoursome, and the poached egg the lightest I have eaten. So he can keep the new toy.
I need to go for a walk then mark a couple of essays before getting back to my assignment, which I’m hoping to finish the draft of today.
It's exceptionally mild here but so windy!
It's Weigh Day for Slimming World (we weigh at home and have a Zoom gathering this afternoon) and there was Chocolate Cake at the weekend so I'm a bit apprehensive and wonder whether I should pluck my eyebrows and shave my legs before getting on the scales.
Just as well Mr F up and about.
🤣 Cut your nails as well?
My arm's still occasionally letting me know that it's there, but I think I'll just about have the energy when I get home to make the paella that I couldn't be bothered to make yesterday.
Assignment is written and tidied up, including references. Tomorrow I need to draw up an action plan, check and update the appendices and it is good to go.
I'm now killing some time before I go downstairs and contemplate what I will cook for dinner. What are you all having?
Aubergine stuffed with lentils onion and tomato for tea. Was yummy.
If I still can't face food tomorrow I'll have to turn it into something (moussaka? shepherd's pie?) and put it back in the freezer.
Evening meal was zaatar flatbread from our local Turkish shop with salad, humous and olives. It's something we have a couple of times a week, though the breads we use vary.
On this site - https://tinyurl.com/484uxvr9
We are going to the Etihad Stadium - about nine miles away. There was a huge choice of centres, we chose the one with the best parking.
I wouldn't let that stop me - we had chicken last night as well.
I'm looking forward to it - it was rather good.
Same here. Mine is 15 miles away, but far more accessible by public transport than the default one recommended. We do have a local large, gp led centre which is focussing on the CEV and EV group at present and everybody else has been asked to go out of town.
I am not very successful with paella - I always cook the prawns for too long and they end up chewy. I also feel it needs something like chorizo to spice up the taste, but that makes everything too greasy.
Started off with a traditional roast. Second meal was left over chicken with chorizo and cannellini beans, third was a sort of coronation chicken salad, and this evening I picked the carcass bare and cooked the remnants with peppers, onions, tomato, olives and a slosh of sherry.
It will be at least a month before I next roast a chicken.
I would make contingency plans. Most people I know have had some reaction. My friend’s daughter, a nurse and only 30 years old, had a reaction bad enough to be sent home from work the next day. 🤔
Thankfully, I was much better on the Sunday.
Hope you’re properly recovered now, @Priscilla. I do hope I don’t have much reaction to mine. I was generally ok with the flu vacc last September. I’m always a bit ‘chesty,’ though; whether due to meds I’m on or as a legacy of the ‘Can’t Believe It’s Not Covid,’ that I had back in Lockdown 1, we don’t know, which worries me a bit. But forewarned is forearmed.
Re: roast chickens, David and I used to eat for a week on a ready-cooked chicken - cold with salad, in a casserole or curry, sandwiches or Coronation chicken and then soup from the stock.
If I had freezer space, I'd probably still do roast chicken and use the leftovers like that.
For the paella I did the same as CK - I used ready-chopped chorizo and cooked everything in its oil - it was lovely.
Yes, we’ve got a tiddly amount of freezer space. Not like our son, who has a proper, though smallish, chest freezer and regularly sends me pics of his huge batch -cooking sessions.
And don't forget to have a wee.
I don't think you get a choice, wherever you are. It depends on the vaccine that your practice/centre is given for that day or week, and some areas are only using one type (AFAIK). Just ask when you arrive which one they are using.
(Still in the 50-55 group without other conditions, so I have a little while to wait)
Depending on how the centre you visit, your vaccinator may well let you know which you are getting, and you might even get an appointment card with details on (not all centres are issuing this card).
The one constant is that your medical record will hold the manufacturer and batch number of each dose.
Go Queen 👏
I’m not bothered about which one I get, as long as I’m done.