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Curmudgeon' s Corner. I blame it on the heat. (2)

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  • Nanny BeachNanny Beach Posts: 8,719
    Last year, never even felt it, sometimes just get slightly sore arm, 2 years ago I had the pheunmovax, I was so ill, worrying, the symptoms were pretty much the same as sepsis.It was like having flu and then some. Different papers giving different messages about this years flu jab, one says its a booster??? the other its a quadruple vac, anyone any the wiser?
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    edited October 2018
    @B3  nope I had the combination jab for Tough Old Birds  :)

    Not even a sore arm, not a sniffle ... nothing.  :D

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • hogweedhogweed Posts: 4,053
    I got mine at the chemist on Friday - no question if I was over or under 65 so reckon there is no difference in the jabs. Bit of a sore arm but all well otherwise. Best £9 ever. 

    On a more curmudgeonly note - just about to write a very stiff letter to my bank complaining about their new internet banking system - it is pants!! I have spent hours this week on the phone to their help desk, trying to transfer money. And they have the cheek to say on their blurb ' we have listened to our customers and made some exciting changes and improvements' - no, no , no. That will take up the next few hours while I ponder my rhetoric. 
    'Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement' - Helen Keller
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    You could model it in this one - probably a spoof but eloquent nonetheless - http://www.dearcustomerrelations.com/best-ever-complaint-letters/funny-bank-letter/

    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)."
    Plato
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    I am feeling murderously curmudgeonly.
    Why do I have to shut my windows because some selfish p**ts think an open fire makes their house look cosy?
    Smokeless fuel is not stinkless!  Nor is it without harmful chemicals. :#
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    Everyone here has wood burning fires, usually log burners or fireplaces with glass doors.  We also burn oil for the central heating as, frankly, the fire gives off too much heat but just in one room.

    Our problem is people lighting bonfires without first checking wind direction when it's still warm enough to have windows and/or doors open all day.
    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)."
    Plato
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    hogweed said:
    I got mine at the chemist on Friday - no question if I was over or under 65 so reckon there is no difference in the jabs. Bit of a sore arm but all well otherwise. Best £9 ever. 


    The chemist contacted me to offer me a flu jab 'cos they manage my repeat prescriptions and know my age etc.  and I got it for free 'cos I'm over 60 and therefore get free presciptions ... if you paid presumably you're not old enough to get a free one and therefore you had the ordinary one not the combination one.

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • hogweedhogweed Posts: 4,053
    edited October 2018
    That's strange because I did have a chat to the chemist about the contents of the jab and he never mentioned that there were different ones available. I will ask him when I go in this week to pick up my prescriptions. Can't see why we would be different because we are in Scotland???
    Ahh!!>:) 

    In England, all over 65s will be eligible for the three-strain jabs – listed as costing the NHS £9.79 per dose.

    But in Scotland, Fluad – which also boosts the body’s immune response to the vaccine – will only be available to people age 75 and over.

    It means about 560,000 Scots aged 65 to 74 be eligible for a standard three-strain jag – deemed less effective by NHS experts.

    And if you are under 65 you get the 4 strain jab!!


    'Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement' - Helen Keller
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    There are differences between NHS Scotland and NHS England.   England is finally giving out a more effective vaccine to cut down on infections, doctors' appointments, hospital bed occupation and deaths and thus save money and lives and strain on the system.  https://www.theguardian.com/society/2018/sep/12/over-65s-to-be-given-more-effective-flu-vaccine 

    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)."
    Plato
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Feeling very curmudgeonly about the way Cher just murders the Abba songs ... awful! twisted
    OH has Radio 2 on this morning in the studio and they keep playing her new album Grrrrrrr!!!

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





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