Jabbed

Flu unfortunately, not Covid.

But I have spoken to two separate people face to face in the same day (receptionist and nurse) for the first time since the 25th (and the time before that would be the pub quiz on the 3rd November.

I'm not normally old enough to get the flu jab free from the NHS, but this year they're doing everyone over 50, so I got a text inviting me to arrange an appointment last week. I was going to leave that until today, but they rang me on Saturday to arrange one, offering a choice of three different clinics on Monday, which I suspect means they didn't have many takers (a lot of people probably already paid to get one at their chemists). I picked 'mid-afternoon', on the assumption that was when the surgery would be least busy, and was promptly given the 1:05PM slot - which I wouldn't have called 'mid afternoon'. OTOH I appeared to be the only patient in the building and was called straight through by the nurse, and was back at my car by 1:06PM.

That was also the first time I've been out in the chair since the start of the first lockdown, so I had to pump the tires up last night - sooo soft. But it's as well I did plan for that as when I popped out at 12:30PM to put the chair in the car I found the front windscreen was still thick with ice as it's still in shadow. Fortunately that came off relatively easily, but it would have been a definite recipe for panic if I hadn't discovered it until 12:50PM, the time I planned to leave.

I think that's the first vaccination jab I've had since BCG at 14.

Totally unconnectedly, last night was either the first time I ever managed to lucid dream, or I was thinking about the scene I was plotting so close to sleep that it got misfiled as a dream. No variation on the plotting, so I suspect the latter, but still interesting.