The Hub
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We trotted off on Saturday afternoon to receive our jabs.
We had booked our appointments at The Hub, a community hall on a growing estate, not far from where we live. Buckers Park is full of forbidding, unfriendly-looking houses.
We had each received further encouragement from the NHS to book our appointments – I had one, Barry had three! - alongside reminders to turn up for the ones we had booked.
The Hub Opened in Spring 2025, but the location has still not been picked up by TomTom. Although it is only around three minutes from our house by car, we drove round and round in circles ignoring TomTom as it tried to persuade us to travel to a village several miles away.
We asked a passerby if he knew where The Hub was, and he said, ‘You’re the third people who’ve asked me for directions this afternoon.’ It transpired that we were close to it. We had expected it to be quite quiet and therefore easy to find a parking space. We were wrong! It was packed.
The clinic, if such it could be called, was very efficiently organised. We were checked in at the door and then again at the jab station, of which there were several. My name was missing from the list despite the palaver we had gone through a couple of weeks previously and the assurance that everything was in order. The lady checking off names on her list added my details in pencil, alongside others whose names had been omitted.
Anyway, all is done, a stab in each arm and no ill effects.
I wonder how many reminders we will receive this week?
congratulations - well done- Flu is traveling around here like wild fire- going out into the land of viruses keeps me in even though I have been sufficiently jabbed. People make me nervous.
ReplyDeleteIt's good that that job is over with. But mix ups are frustrating.
ReplyDeleteYay! I'm glad you've got it done. We're holding off until next month hoping that the shots will be even more potent for some huge get-togethers in line for January and then an overseas trip in February. I love your term "jab." "Shot" does seem almost more painful, I think.
ReplyDeleteGood on you for getting those vaccines.
ReplyDeleteThank goodness the NHS is taking their responsibilities seriously, and yours as well.
ReplyDeleteI got my jabs early last week at our local hospital (Alberta, Canada). Forgive me but what is Tom Tom? It sounds like a GPS system?
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