Mary 370, bearing in mind much of the garden looks like a building site at the moment, because of concrete/base/stuff moved, I was indeed beaming so much I could be seen from the space station!
A little warning to fellow curmudgeons. If you're getting the flu jab, try to make sure that you're not doing much the next day. This year's one seems to have worse side effects than last year. Nothing awful but better than getting the flu.
Does anyone know about vaccinations against shingles? I have just experienced (actually make that present tense, not past) the little blighter and it’s a condition I don’t want again, and certainly not where this incidence flared up! Jabs are available on the NHS only when you’re 70 or 78 but going privately, from what I could see, costs around £250 for the old treatment and closer to £500 for the much more efficacious newer vaccine. Are these prices correct?
Consider life without tomatoes. No: Spag bol ; the fry up without a splash of red -the only truly healthy thing on the plate ; rogon josh; tomato soup; ketchup; cheese and tomato sandwiches.
Why do you never/rarely see tomatoes in Chinese recipes?
Because they are genetically programmed to remember their ancestors processing 30Kgs of tomatoes in a previous life? Bit like the instinct to be wary of snakes?
I used to love tomatoes and I will again but not for a wee while yet
"The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it." Sir Terry Pratchett
I had a friend who had shingles in her 30s. Every lunchtime I would drive from the office to her home to paint ointment on the outbreak on her back to ease the symptoms. decided then that shingles were not for me.
Moved to France 2 years ago and received info that the vaccine is free once you reach 70 and talked about with my new GP. OH and I ended up paying for them as I wished to avoid Sod's law in the intervening period. Cost about 250€ for the pair of us.
We have received our invitations to have the annual flu jab and I shall be sure to get it done with a quiet day in view tho I have also been told it helps to take a soluble paracetamol just before you go to the surgery for the jab so that's what we do.
Still loving our tomatoes.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
Are you an under 65 spring chicken, Dove? Apparently under 65s have a different jab from the oldies, who are made of sterner stuff and can cope with a day of slightlyundertheweatheredness.
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If you're getting the flu jab, try to make sure that you're not doing much the next day. This year's one seems to have worse side effects than last year.
Nothing awful but better than getting the flu.
Does anyone know about vaccinations against shingles? I have just experienced (actually make that present tense, not past) the little blighter and it’s a condition I don’t want again, and certainly not where this incidence flared up! Jabs are available on the NHS only when you’re 70 or 78 but going privately, from what I could see, costs around £250 for the old treatment and closer to £500 for the much more efficacious newer vaccine. Are these prices correct?
No: Spag bol ; the fry up without a splash of red -the only truly healthy thing on the plate ; rogon josh; tomato soup; ketchup; cheese and tomato sandwiches.
Why do you never/rarely see tomatoes in Chinese recipes?
I used to love tomatoes and I will again but not for a wee while yet
Moved to France 2 years ago and received info that the vaccine is free once you reach 70 and talked about with my new GP. OH and I ended up paying for them as I wished to avoid Sod's law in the intervening period. Cost about 250€ for the pair of us.
We have received our invitations to have the annual flu jab and I shall be sure to get it done with a quiet day in view tho I have also been told it helps to take a soluble paracetamol just before you go to the surgery for the jab so that's what we do.
Still loving our tomatoes.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Apparently under 65s have a different jab from the oldies, who are made of sterner stuff and can cope with a day of slightlyundertheweatheredness.