I have at least found some comfort connecting with people who share my condition online.
Sometimes you just need someone else who has the understanding of the little things you’re living through, to help you vent and readjust.
My wife is amazing. She’s so caring and helps me all the time. But she has her own things going on, so it’s still great to talk to others.
It’s interesting that so much of our recent history has been characterised by wanting to “go back to” something or another. Whether it’s elections, the EU and now even illness, we seem to have a national pastime with trying to push back time and return to when things were “better”.
Unfortunately, it’s the one thing we can never do and I can’t help feeling things would be much simpler if we stop looking over our collective shoulder, actually look where we’re going and work on moving forward in the best way possible.
I agree - and that is my personal approach. I do recognise however that some folk have a different attitude to, and perspective on, life which means we will react differently to change and uncertainty. These are scary times for some and to hanker after the perceived comfort of past times is understandable. R-
Got my booster last night. There’s a walk-in place near me, so thought I’d give it a go as although I was booked for Sunday, my girlfriend couldn’t get an appointment until the new year. So thought we’d give it a try.
So so easy! They have got this down to a fine art. 8 bays of people administering and I was probably only sat down for 60 seconds, having waited for less than 5 mins.
I was asked more questions yesterday when I picked up a parcel from Dunelm!
Yep, and I think it’s important we all remember how easy it is. Vaccines aren’t something for which you need to blank out a day in your diary - they’re quick and easy, and you can do them on the way to/from work, in a lunch break, on your way to the shops, etc.
Okay but as long as I still get an afternoon off work for it.
Booked mine for 2pm tomorrow. Another Friday afternoon jab, what a coincidence
I had a similar experience. Booster slot booked via GP, walked in on-time, no queue, few questions, jab & out. Best bit - I was ‘advised’ to sit in a waiting area for 15 minutes although it wasn’t enforced. I was home before that waiting time expired.
Totally different to the long-queue, multiple waiting areas of the first two stabs.
2 AZ’s and 1 Pfizer for me so far. No symptoms/aches from any of them, but Flu jab incoming soon too.
2021 is officially the Year of the Prick™ 
Feel like a pin cushion.
Who’s next?
What does make a mockery of this is that things can carry on as they are now for another 11 days.
How does this make sense? 
I’d be curious what data has come from nightclubs and whether they are as much of a hotbed as seemed to be.
Barely anyone I’ve heard of has caught it from a nightclub, and they didn’t really alter much when they were closed.
Just curious. Personally I’m not a clubber so I’m not invested either way. Just seems too easy of a target to be seen as doing something with possibly a market “politically” of people who are less likely to vote anyway.
Nothing like that around here. I think we’ve had a vaccine shortage. I’m in SW. R-
In order to keep businesses open we must:
What do the governments then do? Start closing them again. Nightclubs in France set to do the same. France has had edit vaccine passport admission, yet they are closing them.
Closing nightclubs is just the beginning. Coming to a bar/ restaurant near you 
Crowded, inside and close proximity. Like you, I’m not a clubber so not overly bothered.
Personally I don’t think it’s dramatically different from a busy Spoons but they can say “We’re trying” and the people it does affect, maybe aren’t as vocal? Or people like us because we aren’t bothered, don’t complain either.
I don’t club; but my local go to pub, so many seem to be catching covid and I’m still on the all clear, which baffles me considering it’s a close knit crowd.
Hopefully it because it peaks quick and we see the same here.
Tories? Yes.
All politicians? Also yes.
Yes.
It doesn’t matter who they get to lead it that enquiry, it’s just them going ‘we invesitgated ourselves and found no wrongdoing’.
You couldn’t make it up if you tried with minister investigating parties having been at one.
We’ve just started to re-watch Yes Prime Minister on BritBox. Difficult at times to distinguish between the show and a BBC comment. Also, I think Sir Humphrey should lead the investigation. It won’t have a different outcome but it would at least amuse. Feel sorry for whichever poor bugger picks up the poison chalice now. R-
I don’t agree, I think there are a lot of MPs who take ethics very seriously.
I never like the ‘all politicians are corrupt / liars thing because it excuses voting for those that are corrupt. This is a lot of what got Johnson in in the first place - ‘oh he’s a liar but they all are so what’s the difference’.
Yes, true. I meant it more flippantly than serious.
Same for Tories, for all the stick they (rightly) get, they aren’t all bad people.