Have you?

 

Have you?

                                            Image courtesy Wikimedia Commons

What a sad, small life it has become when our time is taken up with booking appointments and attending them. Not really, because we have lots of interests and not enough time to pursue them all.

Howsomever, (which I had never realised was a ‘proper’ word, and have just discovered is archaic, a bit like me) a few weeks ago we were ‘invited’ to book appointments for annual jabs, or are they six-monthly now? Anyway, being obedient little citizens, we proceeded to thread our way through the booking system and nabbed a couple of spots in early October. Yes, the site informed us that all was in order, or alles in ordnung, as Barry says, proving he still remembers some German. Job done, sit back and relax!

At the end of last week, we received another invitation from the NHS to book appointments for annual jabs! Cue double-takes and murmurs of disbelief, as we didn’t wish to be doubly jabbed! On checking, we discovered that our appointments had not been registered or noted or whatever is supposed to happen to them. That’s not strictly true, for when the very pleasant and helpful lady Barry had contacted checked a little lot deeper, she discovered that mine had been recorded, but Barry’s hadn’t. Hey ho!

Barry and the lady had a most enjoyable conversation and gentle rant about the failings of the NHS administration and the inability of the left hand to even acknowledge the existence of the right hand.

We often experience a sense of déjà vu and I’m afraid it is rearing its head in my blog, for which, apologies.

So, have you, and if you haven’t, why haven’t you? My children (odd to call them that when they’re mature adults) pay for their jabs, though one son-in-law doesn’t pay because he’s asthmatic. I don’t think middle daughter will have the jabs – she responds very poorly to them, and they make her quite ill. It’s a toss-up – have the jab and feel lousy for a few days, or contract the illness and feel lousy for a few days.

There are currently two common strains of Covid, Nimbus and Stratus, the majority of reported cases being the latter. As ever, if you are suffering from any respiratory illness, be selfish and keep it to yourself.

Now, wasn’t that a cheerful read?