Frump to Fab 2021

helensbiggestfan

yes I read that side effects could be worse if you have had covid.....,I'm pretty convinced I did get it last year.  And I have to say given the way I feel I am a bit nervous about the second vaccine.  Hey ho.  I still think it's worth it.  Just need to look forward to the future long term advantages.  

maman

helensbiggestfan said:

yes I read that side effects could be worse if you have had covid.....,I'm pretty convinced I did get it last year.  And I have to say given the way I feel I am a bit nervous about the second vaccine.  Hey ho.  I still think it's worth it.  Just need to look forward to the future long term advantages.  

I thought you might like his which was in my paper yesterday. Just imagine! 🤣

Playtime for the over-70s
Now that most people over 70 have been jabbed, can’t we open the world up to them? Pubs, bars, clubs, restaurants, gyms, shops. They would be given the run of it while everyone else would stay away, and it would be marvellous, even if only for a few weeks until the rest of the population catches up.

They could come out to play. They would no longer be marginalised, shoved to one side, the least developed characters in every screenplay. They would be on top. They will be carousing. They will inspire envy.

“I wish I were over 70,” teenagers will complain, while ordering their fake IDs. I don’t know what they’d say if their fake ID was challenged by, for example, some publican. Perhaps if they’ve done their homework, it will be: “I remember The Pallisers. And also The Forsyte Saga with Eric Porter. And I remember when all this was fields. Fill my glass, publican. I’m parched.”

Think of it. It would be joyous and fun, like It’s a Sin, but without the spectre of Aids. Just like-minded people encountering like-minded people.

Staff at any of the places would have to be over 70 too, but that’s OK. Especially since more staff should be older anyway. They’d certainly organise TK Maxx in a jiffy. They’d pick up all the clothes that always seem to be randomly strewn everywhere, which isn’t much of a task, but seems to be beyond the young people who work there. And they’d soon have Pret arranged in order of how much money you’d have saved if only you’d thought ahead and opted for a packed lunch.

Wednesday2000

Hope you feel better soon LL. My brother got his first Covid jab yesterday. He is younger than me but he got it because of his job. He said he felt tired and woozy afterwards and he said he just got into bed early yesterday afternoon to rest. 

I got a text that the DWP had received my PIP form yesterday so I will just have to wait for them to contact me.

I'm reading so much at the moment. I just got some new books to borrow from Amazon Prime for free as well today. I have been staying up until about 1-1.30 reading in bed. We started watching another Netflix show over the past two days too before my husband went to work.

I just had mashed potatoes with lots of veg and onion gravy. It's not really that cold anymore but I just fancied something comforting like that for lunch.

I like stir fries too. I might make one tomorrow.

helensbiggestfan

playtime for the over 70s gets my vote.  

Actually Not as daft as it sounds either.  It certainly makes economic sense to open some venues and jump start the hospitality industry.  

One thing is for sure.  Living on your own and getting sick is no fun.  No one to make me a cup of tea or give me a comforting cuddle.    

I need a 🐈   

maman

I agree it's not daft at all LL . There must be so many 'grey pounds' out there which could really help to boost the economy. There's probably even more spare cash out there now than before Covid as, not only have there been fewer opportunities to spend but, interest rates on savings are so low that I'd be surprised if they keep up with inflation.  But I can't see it happening. There'd be uproar. Imagine the under 50s outside restaurants pressing their noses to the window like the Bisto kids. 🤣

MrsPorridge

My friend told me about Tottenham cake - I had never heard of it, nor had DH who is London born and bred.  I found a recipe for it on Sainsburys website and it gave this information:  It was created in the 1800s by a Quaker baker called Henry Chalkley in Tottenham, North London, as a cheap treat for local children. The vivid pink icing was traditionally made using mulberries from trees in the Quaker burial ground.

I used raspberry jam instead of raspberries and it was lovely.  We had a proper afternoon tea type affair for lunch with teapot and bone china, we had tea, tuna mayo open sandwiches on wheaten bread and the Tottenham cake.  It was nice to do something different for a change.

This morning, before the rain really set in DH plated a magnolia tree which we got at the garden centre the other day.  I know it will be a couple of years before we get the full benefit of it.  

thepurplepixie

sugarbaby125 said:

,Chanie I found out last week that Card Factory is online  It was only because I was reading about the latest financial quarter for Card Factory that I realised that Card Factory was also online. I was so used to shopping in the stores, that I had never stopped to consider if they also did online sales. 

What was even more of a revelation is that there is an abundance of choice online and you can also personalise cards and have them sent direct to the recipient which in Lockdown made life so much simpler for me when I wanted to send a birth congratulations card to my grandson and his partner and a sympathy card to my Aunt. 

Thank you for that, I've had great fun choosing some cards and personalising them.  I'm having them sent to me as the birthdays/anniversaries are all between early March and May so I don't want them sent yet.  I've done a bit of a cheeky one for DH, hope he sees the funnyside or I might be in a bit of trouble.

thepurplepixie

Funny stories about covid vaccination:
Son expected a reaction as he was only 4 weeks from having a positive test.  He was absolutely fine, not the slightest reaction.
DH been sheltering for most of the last 12 months, few outings in the summer so highly unlikely he's had it, and he was complaining about reaction.  Pain in his arm was terrible, it was hot and uncomfortable.  Now the funny thing is the nurse asked him which arm he wanted for the injection, he said he didn't know then plumped for the right arm.  She asked if he is righthanded, he is, and she said it was better to have it in the left so he did.  He's had pain in his arm since the only problem is it is in the right arm - that's right the arm he didn't have the injection in.  He knows it can't be the jab but he swears he can feel it and it feels exactly like reaction he's had in his arm from previous jabs.  Not quite worked out how that has happened.

helensbiggestfan

Apparently quite a few people are complaining of neck pain and other arm pain after the jab.So who knows.  🤷‍♀️ My DIL the nurse had aching joints, similar to a bout of flu and extreme fatigue.   My sister who is asthmatic has had nothing, just a bit of tenderness in her arm.  There doesn't seem to be a clearly defined pattern. 

Did I mention that, as well as a great litany of symptoms, I have also lost my voice.  My son rang me, funny phone call with me barely able to whisper.  He suggested I should maybe have a covid test.  I was beginning to wonder because I had googled the latest symptoms and wouldn't you just know I can tick all the boxes.  Now wouldn't that be ironic, especially as the only two places I have visited have been the vaccination centre and one quick trip to Aldi's.  

 All this while and the minute I get the vaccine I end up in this state.  Mind it's always been an unpredictable and erratic virus and people seem to have all sorts of weird and wonderful symptoms, maybe it's even more unstable now there are all these new variants.  

The new symptoms listed this week include, severe headaches, diarrhoea, tight chest, dizzy spells, runny nose, sore throat as well as the original high temperature, cough or change in taste and sense of smell.  I have had them all except the cough.  I am coughing  but not what I would call a continuous covid cough, although my lungs do feel congested.  I am coughing up a lot of gunge.  (Sorry probably tmi)   

Anyway rather than face the testing centre I have ordered a home kit.   Still not taken any anti biotics yet.  I'll wait and see.  

Maybe If I ignore it, it will go away.   🤣

As for fabbing....I cannot tell  a lie. I didn't even get dressed today.  Just feel too wiped out.  That's so unlike me.  I didn't  even do that after my husband died....I got up and washed and dressed every day, without fail. Hey ho. It's only one day I'm not going to torture myself.  

sheilavw

poor you LL. Hope you are well soon. Miserable here, very windy, raining now. Finished watching both firefly lane and hotel cecil on netflix, time to start something new