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suzysunshine7 wrote: "Well?!! ... our GP Surgery has contacted us this morning to tell Mum that they have set up an Appointment at a nearby Sports Club for her to have her first of the two Covid-19 Jabs - as our local S..."Dress your dad up in mum's gear, put some lippy on him, get him to speak in a higher pitch and pass him off as yer mam then everyone's happy?
My Dad's had the first jab because he was already in hospital for an outpatient visit. As the jab would be administered at a DIFFERENT hospital in Sheffield necessitating a schlep my sis tried to get them to see how much simpler it would be if she bundled mum who's also over 80 in the car and do them both at the same time and then one of us would trek the 75-100 miles over there again in 3 weeks. Bet you can guess what the response was! God bless jobsworths and inflexible rulemakers everywhere.
Bless the NHS. I'm registered with a GP in the midlands where our house is. We've just sold it (we hope) but we've been in Cardiff since lockdown because we were here when it started (the DH works at the university). When I needed to see a specialist in early summer, I told everyone who needed to know to send correspondence to the Wales address but safer still, by email. I was given a virtual appointment with a specialist and was reassured so, very relieved, thought no more about it. Months later, got back to the house to find two duplicate letters and a reminder for a face-to- face appointment, with a second sheet consisting of a long diatribe about how much missed appointments cost the NHS. Appointment long gone, no suggestion that they'd tried to contact me by the means I'd asked them to use and clearly no grasp of the fact that I'd already been sorted by the specialist.
Is it me?
I'm just glad my Mum was up first for this Vaccine. I know that it is going to sound really terrible of me to say this but - while I could come to accept the very sad loss of my Dad to something like this as he has come close to dying so many times over the last 20 years so we've been SO lucky to still get to have him around - suddenly losing my Mum to something like Covid would just break my Heart far too much and completely rip my little World apart. I've been SO scared for her for SO long now ;o< She isn't convinced that it will help to make her feel any safer and neither am I either, as she still gets very ill after being exposed to any Colds that are going around and that's despite having had the Pneumonia and the Flu jabs. It doesn't take much at all to kick off a major Chest Infection over Christmas time that can easily then last all the way through to April.
I'm not someone who gets any pleasure at someone else's misfortune, and especially when it comes to having falls, but I've watched this particular Video Clip of some people in the Ukraine trying their best to walk across an icy Pavement five times today and I've just cried with laughter every single time - LOL!!! ;o> ...https://www.facebook.com/WorldNewsTon...
I feel such a close affinity with the lovely Lady in the Bobble Hat! ;o>
I'd love to have seen Laurel & Hardy doing that.
suzysunshine7 wrote: "I'm not someone who gets any pleasure at someone else's misfortune, and especially when it comes to having falls, but I've watched this particular Video Clip of some people in the Ukraine trying th..."Watched that then a live video of residents of NY having snowball fights in Times Square.....saw a little girl in pink, she's quite good at it! :)
What's weird though is on one of the many screens there is a public message warning people to take care as in social distancing..during the pandemic...and yet the young people saw the snow, and thought "yay...let's all have a fight!"
Americans.....!
Once again I fail to find something funny.
Gordon wrote: "I'd love to have seen Laurel & Hardy doing that."I was actually willing her on to just make it up that Pavement! - LOL!!! ;o>
And then, as daft as it sounds, by the third time of watching it I was shouting at my Laptop Screen ... "Forget it! - follow the Road round instead!" like I thought she might possibly hear me! ;o>
I wonder how long it took her to finally make it or whether she just gave up on it in the end?!!
Val wrote: "More silo art"WoW, Val?!! - they are just amazing!!! ;oO
thee are great Val Ladies Thankyou for your cards ,Val I loved the Australian card,Im going to try the pavlova recipe on the back.Suzy did you make your card?Very pretty.
No, Anita, I used to once upon a time - but sadly I can't do things like this anymore.I chose the style and the colours used and then commissioned a really lovely Lady on eBay to make them up for me after checking out the quality and attention to detail of the handful of different Cards that she had already got listed.
They were made up for me by 'handmadeclaire' who lives in Waltham Cross ;o>
HALLELUJAH! ... today was finally Brace Day!!! ;o>I'd been up all night panicking about it ... the getting ready, the going out, the being in the Car for so long (an hour's journey each way), suddenly seeing and hearing and being with other people again ... as sadly the longer that I tend to stay housebound now the more agoraphobic I find I get to become over time.
Yeah, I knew that I'd be absolutely fine but it's an awful lot of sensory overload to take in for someone who now never gets to go out anywhere anymore and so I often find myself getting quite panicky these days when I actually do.
I spent a pleasant enough night up and about though just pottering around and losing myself in doing a couple of batches of little hairy woofer Bedding Laundry and tending to our collection of Orchids ;o>
Well, I've been back and trying to doze off, now and then, since about 5pm - and I now have the swollen Face of a Hamster who has just been given a whole bunch of Grapes! - LOL!!! ... and my Teeth are SO sensitive and they ache SO much that I will be on a Liquid Diet for the next few days :o<Ohhh, have I NOT missed this part of having the Wires changed and tight Plastic and Elastic Chain Links forced over the top of several of my front Teeth AT ALL!
And, guess what? ... we had a discussion about whether to continue or not with this Treatment given the uncertainty of the situation over this year and into next year as well - and I decided to commit myself to seeing it through from Appointment to Appointment for the next few months and so she said I'll see you in January and February then ... and when I got to Reception I then discovered that she already doesn't have any more Appointment spaces now until the 4th of March?!! ;o<
Both of the Receptionists were also suddenly freaking out somewhat too because, in first trying their very best to fit me in somewhere, somehow, in January, they suddenly discovered that since the Orthodontist has recently changed her days and hours on her return to working after the first Lockdown they had already previously booked in 10 of her Patients on days in January and February that she no longer works anymore.
So the Computer Calendar System now says ... Do Not Book ... on those days but they were/are already booked in and no-one had noticed or realised this yet until they were looking ahead for an Appointment for me! ;oO
They are obviously going to have to cancel all of those Appointments and try to reschedule them in somehow into the two Afternoons a month that she now works ... so I'm actually rather glad that I got to find this out (while I was stood there and waiting for almost 10 minutes) because I realised that I might not get another Appointment after my March one until sometime in July or even August?!
I really need to get myself back on my 4 weekly fast track again after already having had a 10 month wait between my last two Appointments this year - and so I've now booked myself in for March and also booked in for the 1st of April and the 22nd of April ... and sometime in mid January I think I'll ring to see if I can try to book myself in even further ahead in May and June as well.
Ohhh, and did I mention? ... oww-owww-owwwwwww!!! ... it REALLY hurts!!! ;oO
acht, it's only pain! and surely not as painful as a severely fractured toe (which i had to pop back in place before the blinding searing pain set in!), for which i took too many painkillers for my first day back at work, eliciting a response of 'you're oot yir face!' from one trusted colleague, as i undertook my work in a comfortably numb fashion.
Ooooh? - do you want a powerful punch in the pie-hole so that we can get to compare our degree of Pain levels, tech?!! ... come here and just stand still a minute while I hit you in the Face with this Shovel then! ... HA HA HA HA HA!!! ;o>Right, I've been up all night long yet AGAIN so I'm off to Bed for a couple of hours to try and get some sleep ... x
Ouch Suzy,I hope the pain is a little better today and that you're back on solid food soon.Thanks again for the card.We made 40 with Thomas for the local care home,I did apologise that there was a lot of glitter.One of the twins has just had a brace fitted ,so we had to take her for four teeth out during lockdown and she has been back this week for a tightening up ,it is painful ,ouch.ive finished for two weeks with the little ones ,we had a DVD party with Ice Age and lots of popcorn yesterday.It was the first time they've seen it so was a big hit,they don't watch many DVDs .I have one more day on Tuesday with the big beastiesand then that's it until the 4th.
Tech I hope your toe injury is on the mend now?
J found this on FB earlier, thought it was pretty good...
My bad, reckon one might need to set up a facebook account to see it...
… and nowt's THAT good!
Right, found it on YouTube...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjG_V...
Looks like it's been out a couple of weeks so you've all no doubt already seen it. Well that wuz half hour of me life I won't get back eh? Duh!!!
nah, i don't got facebook, blastro (cold day in hell, etc), but i could watch it. too many ugly tories, mind!
thanks anita, absolute torture tho'. pretty certain it's far worse than childbirth!
Tech XXIII wrote: "nah, i don't got facebook, blastro (cold day in hell, etc), but i could watch it. too many ugly tories, mind!"I found it on youtube now anyways Tech. It was a fun little watch but not sure it was worth the extra messing about - especially as it turns out now that the first link worked, which I've now dispensed with. Nevermind.
Btw, are you getting any prompts trying to get ya to sign into Goodreads through the likes of Amazon and such? I seem to be having em thrown at me every five mins.
I enjoyed your clip Blastro. Not seen it before.And yes, I'm constantly being asked to sign in even when I've ticked the box that says Keep Me Signed In. Bloody annoying!
I enjoyed this Youtube clip. David Stratton and Margaret Pomeranz hosted a much loved TV show called At The Movies. It ran for nearly 30 years and is still missed by many of us. You were either a Margaret or a David fan in terms of your taste in films. I nearly always lined up beside David. I'll copy this post to the movies thread.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLxqH...
Val wrote: "I enjoyed your clip Blastro. Not seen it before.And yes, I'm constantly being asked to sign in even when I've ticked the box that says Keep Me Signed In. Bloody annoying!"
Cheers Val, it's not just this end then. We lost broadband connection a couple of days ago - this started at about 3-ish in the afternoon - and after a hell of a lot of messing around with BT's customer service (if that's what ya could call it) we were informed that it would be taken care of by midnight... the following day!!
Must say it was amusing watching all the Blast Juniors, including daughter from next door (it was an 'Area' rather than 'Internal' problem they told us, going back on their original analysis to the latter) milling around the place totally lost. Insane how much we all take it for granted. Was wondering if the sudden onset of 'Sign in with Amazon' or 'Sign in with Facebook' or whatever was summat to do with being cut off for a while. Apparently not. We're gonna be under siege with that stuff over Christmas then I guess. Indeed, very bloody annoying.
If anyone ever needs to get all persons under the roof to gather in one room immediately for whatever reason, simply pull the 'net plug. It takes about 5 secs. : )
We had a similar problem a few weeks ago when the National Broadband Network was out in our area - for us that means no TV, no landline and no internet. Hello DVDs and radio!I've also had Youtube being unavailable a couple of times in the last month. First time was a bit of a shock - just a black screen - but I now check with a website called downdetector which tells me what services are currently out of action for whatever reason.
Wales under Tier 4 lockdown from midnight :o( No time limit announced ... :o(
Yep......as i suspected. Our hospitals are full to capacity with covid patients..and now there's this new aggressive strain that's been detected now.I think this lock down could last until early spring, as was originally planned, to begin from the 28th....but now from today. But things do keep changing on an almost daily occurrence. I think it's right thing to do...the infection rate here has gone through the roof alas.
theDuke wrote: "Yep......as i suspected. Our hospitals are full to capacity with covid patients..and now there's this new aggressive strain that's been detected now.I think this lock down could last until early ..."
Yep , looking bad in the UK.
The rest of the world is pulling up the drawbridges, and looking on in horror.
Still, at least there's all that prospering to come for you in the new year. :0
Serial wrote: "theDuke wrote: "Yep......as i suspected. Our hospitals are full to capacity with covid patients..and now there's this new aggressive strain that's been detected now.I think this lock down could l..."
If it can produce a new, nastier strain here, it can anywhere. And how is pulling up the drawbridge going to stop the spread? There has been and will be travel.
Not reasons to do nothing, of course, but the reality is that the whole world is deluded in thinking we have control. We don't and never will have ...
Hasn't this 'new' strain been around since October or summat? They just didn't tell us till recently. Bit late to be pulling up any drawbridges I reckon.
It spreads far faster, as well.Reckon on December 31st they will be announcing bad news to take us up to Easter. That's the day they will be assessing the data on how the spread has gone over Christmas.
Is it actually possible for humans to slow their heart rate and respiration and go into hibernation?
Have a very Happy Christmas all.
Merry Christmas one and all..stay safe!
♫ ... "Merry Christmas to me ... from the DWPReapply now or lose your PIP ... Merry Christmas to me!" ... ♫
Such a lovely kind and thoughtful little Gift waiting for me on the Doormat on Christmas Eve ... a 24 page Review Form that MUST be filled in and sent off by January the 7th!
Some folk play Charades or do Jigsaws at Christmas ... I get to sit at the Dining Room Table and spend hours (with Mum doing all of the writing for me) declaring on paper just how even more disabled I am now or lose my PIP.
Hmmm? - and what's the betting that I'll also be ordered to break out of Shielding to attend a compulsory PIP Assessment next year before I even get offered the chance to get myself vaccinated as well? ... !
suzysunshine7 wrote: "♫ ... "Merry Christmas to me ... from the DWPReapply now or lose your PIP ... Merry Christmas to me!" ... ♫
Such a lovely kind and thoughtful little Gift waiting for me on the Doormat on Christma..."
Bastards.
Fks sake.
I just got a nice electric bill yesterday which I will ignore till after Christmas. They always without fail send one just before Christmas. I wouldn't mind but it's 145 euro, of which 98 euro is usage, the rest standing charges and government levies..VAT.....etc etc
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I really think that there should be a Law against these kinds of 'orrible things being sent out between, say, the 1st of December and the 1st of February? ;o>Ohhh, don't mind me ... I'm just a bit peed off today because I'm SO tired with staying up all day and all night in trying to get done everything that M&D always used to enjoy getting on with doing. And I've still got SO much more to try to get done before tomorrow.
At least I finally got the Christmas Tree up on Tuesday and then the Lights on it last night. We usually have two up, but M&D seem to have decided between them to only get the main one down from the Attic. They did this over 3 weeks ago now and then it was just left unpacked and still in it's Box on the Floor in their Bedroom until I realised they had got no further with any plans that they might have had to put it up.
It's like they still get the idea to do these things but that's often just about as far as it gets these days. Mum keeps on asking me if I know the best way to cook the Turkey Joint tomorrow and I've come to realise over the last couple of months that the real and utterly heart-breaking reason that she keeps on with asking me things like this is because she is struggling to remember these things now and getting herself all agitated and stressed out about it.
The very last thing that I needed right now was to have to set aside any spare hours of my time over Christmas and New Year in depressing the Hell out myself through filling out such a long and challenging Form. And what has really annoyed and upset me is that they sent me a Letter, only two months ago now, saying that, due to the current situation, they weren't going to be doing this until next Spring?! ;o<
Ahhh well, it's just been one of those years all year long for just about everyone, hasn't it?!!
suzysunshine7 wrote: "I really think that there should be a Law against these kinds of 'orrible things being sent out between, say, the 1st of December and the 1st of February? ;o>Ohhh, don't mind me ... I'm just a bi..."
I don't really understand, if you have a health condition, that isn't going to improve, then why do you have to jump through hoops all the while. And shouldn't it be your Doctors place to decide? Your own Doctor surely knows your health situation far more comprehensively than the Social Welfare.
To be honest with you, I rarely ever go to my Drs as there is nothing that they can do for me except to offer up different Medications to try and improve on my Pain Relief if I ask them to. If I fall and hurt myself then I just go straight into A&E instead ... get seen, get X-rayed, get strapped up or plastered(!), get back Home, and get on with it - LOL!!! ;o>
I have got so much Hospital Paperwork in my Patient Notes that it comes all tied together in three huge heavy Files now!!! ;o>
Going to be a late night tonight. 2 year still being kept awake by hyper older girls....I'm keeping myself going on Green & Blacks Chocolate and IPA.
You are lucky, you know? ... not everyone gets blessed with the gift of children.Enjoy every marvellous magical bloody annoying moment of it! - LOL!!! ;o>
suzysunshine7 wrote: "You are lucky, you know? ... not everyone gets blessed with the gift of children.Enjoy every marvellous magical bloody annoying moment of it! - LOL!!! ;o>"
I know, you're right :0
My sister just sent me a video of the really annoying singing dancing Christmas tree I got for her and her 2 boys......
Ha ha....
Working its annoying magic for them :0
She'll be sat there desperately trying to hold onto what's left of her sanity by plotting and planning on how to get her own back on you next Christmas!I think I'd be starting to feel really worried about that if I were you?!! - LOL!!! ;o>
suzysunshine7 wrote: "She'll be sat there desperately trying to hold onto what's left of her sanity by plotting and planning on how to get her own back on you next Christmas!I think I'd be starting to feel really worr..."
Oh no, this was payback for the repeating Hamster she got us.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_D_R...
Awww? ... that's sweet! - I want one!!! ;o>
It's already Lunch-time for Val in Melbourne and I still haven't got around to putting a Christmas Tree up on here yet! ;o> ...
dog's got the skitterscat's got the hypers
i'm working later
oh, merry ******* christmas! x
Swap you? ... Dad was so utterly unbearable to Mum and me all of yesterday that I finally gave up holding it all in and lost it with him and yelled back. Then I stayed up most of the night because I wanted to get the Table set up to save time and energy today and I discovered that all of the best Crockery and Cutlery and Glassware as well as the Tablecloth needed washing. And I still had to gift-wrap and ribbon up 4 boxes of Chocolates and 4 extremely beautiful large Begonia Borias Rosebud Plants so that my Mum could take them around to all of the Neighbours who have gone out of their way to still stay in contact from time to time and to be so kind to us this year ;o>
Dad is now refusing to speak to anyone (which is nothing new here) and seems to be planning to spend Christmas like he does pretty much every other day of the year now ... sat in his Armchair in front of the TV for about 14 hours straight while endlessly doing Crossword after Crossword after Crossword while Mum and me do our very best to try to make Christmas happen all around him ... so your day sounds like it could be a lot more fun to me right now! - LOL!!! ;o>
Awww, poor Lady Lux ... x ... has she indulged herself in far too many Kevins?!!
Is Bob climbing the Christmas Tree and launching Ninja attacks on the Turkey? ... Yep! - been there, done that! - because that was our little Sooty's idea of a Christmas Day well spent! - LOL!!! ;o>
I hope that today only gets better and brighter for you, tech ... x x x
Family at Christmas, always the most challenging part :0
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That certainly was SO much quicker than we ever expected it to be! ... Mum getting the Vaccine offered to her already!
Dad can't get to have it yet, because he is 79, and they are only vaccinating 80+ year olds in this first round of Jabs ... so he's currently stomped off in a sulk about it while my Mum is very agitated and freaking out about whether she really wants to have it right now as it all suddenly feels much too fast and far too soon for her after we have had no other choice but to stay shielding for almost a whole year now.
She is also now feeling quite scared about going into such a big place, with even just a handful of other people there, after being used to being in isolation with just Dad and Mitz and me for so long as well.