Daydream thread... without the rose-tinted specs

Davesnave

I haven't ventured onto eBay as a seller yet, but I'll have to in the spring. I'll be honest and just hope for the best. :cool:

Some of my buys have been really good, but overall I'd say my experience as a buyer still lies in the 'neutral' area!

Not feeling great today. Last night, I joined all the oldies up at the Health Centre to have my flu jab. That was fine, but because I was a newbie, they gave me a pneumonia jab in the other arm. That's been getting more painful through the day, but it's a lack of energy that's bugging me. Still, at least I was able to use what was described by our local weather person as "the best day this week."

Has anyone else had a reaction to the pneumonia jab? It was the most dismal experience I've had in a long time, shuffling along in a huge crocodile of hushed folk like some bizarre parody of the school dinner queue. This is normally such a friendly place, but I haven't seen faces like that since the wind turbine meeting! :rotfl:

alfie_1

Davesnave wrote: »

I haven't ventured onto eBay as a seller yet, but I'll have to in the spring. I'll be honest and just hope for the best. :cool:

Some of my buys have been really good, but overall I'd say my experience as a buyer still lies in the 'neutral' area!

Not feeling great today. Last night, I joined all the oldies up at the Health Centre to have my flu jab. That was fine, but because I was a newbie, they gave me a pneumonia jab in the other arm. That's been getting more painful through the day, but it's a lack of energy that's bugging me. Still, at least I was able to use what was described by our local weather person as "the best day this week."

Has anyone else had a reaction to the pneumonia jab? It was the most dismal experience I've had in a long time, shuffling along in a huge crocodile of hushed folk like some bizarre parody of the school dinner queue. This is normally such a friendly place, but I haven't seen faces like that since the wind turbine meeting! :rotfl:

my mum has been really poorly after her flu jab.:eek: she's been nausius,listless and dizzy. she wont give herself time as she visits dad and will go by bus if i dont take her.... shes so stubborn !

i wont have one even tho they send me "invites" as im in the RISK ? catagory.
i rarely get a cold/flu.. i get a hint then it goes BUT when i do get one oh boy, it lays me out !:(

Davesnave

alfie_1 wrote: »

apart from that alls well on these ere forist roads :rotfl::rotfl:

I find people here are extremely polite, but almost invariably very optimistic, hence the fact that even quite new cars have scratches along the port side.

There is an assumption that whoever is supposed to cut the hedge probably hasn't, so there must be at least another 18" in there somewhere!

Also, it's very obvious who the city-dwelling holidaymakers are, and no one wants to be mistaken for one of those.

But apart from the tractors half the size of a house, the ones that really scare me are the little old men with flat caps, and the equally small, elderly ladies, who appear to be looking through the spokes on the steering wheel! :rotfl:

COOLTRIKERCHICK

Davesnave.. hope you get better soon, Cwtch up on the sofa, and just pamper yourself.. or see if you are aloud to be in charge of the remote for an hour or so:D Sorry I cant help you with the after effects of the jab, did they give you a leaflet, or tell you about any after effects of the jab???

rhiwfield

Haven't had a flu jab invite but I am eating two apples a day, Coxs atm

Still see lots of stereotypical drivers here, mothers in 4 x 4s doing the school run and Waitrose shopping, and aggressive, speeding BMW drivers.

DW should be back tomorrow, but off again on Sunday

Itismehonest

Davesnave wrote: »

I haven't ventured onto eBay as a seller yet, but I'll have to in the spring. I'll be honest and just hope for the best. :cool:

Some of my buys have been really good, but overall I'd say my experience as a buyer still lies in the 'neutral' area!

Not feeling great today. Last night, I joined all the oldies up at the Health Centre to have my flu jab. That was fine, but because I was a newbie, they gave me a pneumonia jab in the other arm. That's been getting more painful through the day, but it's a lack of energy that's bugging me. Still, at least I was able to use what was described by our local weather person as "the best day this week."

Has anyone else had a reaction to the pneumonia jab? It was the most dismal experience I've had in a long time, shuffling along in a huge crocodile of hushed folk like some bizarre parody of the school dinner queue. This is normally such a friendly place, but I haven't seen faces like that since the wind turbine meeting! :rotfl:

According to the BMJ

The pneumococcal vaccine is designed to protect against the most common type of pneumonia.The bacteria in the vaccine are dead and can't harm you.The pneumococcal vaccine can't give you pneumonia or any other illness.Your arm may be sore where you have the injection. As a side effect, a few people get a temperature and joint or muscle pains.

I happened on a flu jab clinic at our surgery when I went about my cough (bronchitis). That was quite jolly. A bit like a Darby & Joan Club with everyone sitting around in the waiting room chatting & laughing :rotfl: All 3 docs gave the jabs in their own rooms so no queueing up.
However, a friend from over on the South Coast had me in stitches (It's the way she tells 'em) describing her experience of the 'crocodile'. Everyone had to take off their coat, roll up one sleeve & all done whilst shuffling continuously forward.
It made life particularly 'interesting' for anyone who used a stick.

DH has had his flu jab but he was born in the wrong year to get the Shingles jab which was the other jab being done at the time. The first couple of years that he had the flu jab he swore blind it made him ill. I think he probably just caught a cold sitting in the waiting room - I work on the "If you haven't got something when you go in, you will have by the time you come out" theory of Doc's & hospitals. The last few years he's been fine.

The only queue of traffic around here, alfie. tends to be crawling along behind sheep which are ambling along the tarmac with all the time in the world

Rummer

Where is the feeling sorry for yourself icon?? Well I listened to the advice from you all, which was gratefully received, and I realised that you were all clearly right and that taking on the allotment would be a bad idea at the moment

I emailed them back explaining my reasons and have requested to be put back at the bottom of the list with a view to accepting a plot in the next few years. even though I know it is the right thing to do I feel quite disappointed. Off to tell my hubby who will be delighted at my newly discovered common sense :rotfl:

Rozee I am 25 weeks so only 13 weeks (or less :eek:) to go! Due to some potential complications this baby is going to be evicted a bit early.

lostinrates

Itismehonest wrote: »

According to the BMJ


I happened on a flu jab clinic at our surgery when I went about my cough (bronchitis). That was quite jolly. A bit like a Darby & Joan Club with everyone sitting around in the waiting room chatting & laughing :rotfl: All 3 docs gave the jabs in their own rooms so no queueing up.
However, a friend from over on the South Coast had me in stitches (It's the way she tells 'em) describing her experience of the 'crocodile'. Everyone had to take off their coat, roll up one sleeve & all done whilst shuffling continuously forward.
It made life particularly 'interesting' for anyone who used a stick.

DH has had his flu jab but he was born in the wrong year to get the Shingles jab which was the other jab being done at the time. The first couple of years that he had the flu jab he swore blind it made him ill. I think he probably just caught a cold sitting in the waiting room - I work on the "If you haven't got something when you go in, you will have by the time you come out" theory of Doc's & hospitals. The last few years he's been fine.

The only queue of traffic around here, alfie. tends to be crawling along behind sheep which are ambling along the tarmac with all the time in the world

Dh always gets a flu jab 'reaction'. He is a hypochondriac though. This year he missed the flu jab at work and is dodging HR who will be at him to have it at boots.

Davesnave

" ....As a side effect, a few people get a temperature and joint or muscle pains. "

It's nice to know I'm one of the select few!

I'm sure it'll soon pass. The irony is, like Alfie, I [STRIKE]never[/STRIKE] hardly ever get flu.

I think the queue experience points up an essential difference between the little town and our village. In the town people are certainly friendly and always say, 'Hello,' but it's born out of politeness.

In the village, everyone knows everyone else, and there's absolutely no standing on ceremony, so joking and relaxed conversation is the norm, no matter who you are.

It's probably why we have a Panto and they don't, despite having far greater numbers and superior facilities. :A

Davesnave

Rummer, :T You know it makes sense. :A

And it's not Paradise Lost, just Paradise Deferred.

Two apples a day for me too. I don't like them after storage, so I have to eat as many as I can, fresh from the tree.