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[Muddy Cyclist]

Hi all,
Relief to get a call this am, better half to be jabbed at 1810 tomorrow. (late 70's reached here.)
D.

Good news indeed.

 

[mojo37]

A pasta induced 8.9 this am ...will I ever learn

 

[True Blue]

Thank you @Krystyna23040
I will see what excuse they come up with tomorrow.

I also wonder about the Covid jab. Who notifies me? Where does the notification come from?

They have obviously started the Covid jabs in Wales, because each time I drive past the Rainbow hospital (it is now a Covid jab centre), there are queues of people going in there with their cars. The notice outside says by appointment only.


I am glad Archie is doing amazingly.

hello @gennepher Your statement that you attend a "doctorless" medical practice has set me thinking. Some questions you might ask. a) Who receives your NHS GP capitation payment? b) Who signs your prescriptions for serious items like opiate painkillers? I don't need the answers, but perhaps you would feel reassured if you knew the identity and contact details of the doctor taking responsibility for your welfare.

I hope that a kind person will help you to get the vaccine and satisfy any other pressing matters.

 

[lindisfel]

There appears to have been praise for those authorities who got on with getting their vaccines done by Boris a few days ago but in the N.E. area it appears they got on too quick and are to have a lot of their vaccine diverted elsewhere, according to reports on local TV News tonight.
I think they must be trying to cover up a PPE shortage, oh sorry, I mean cover up a vaccine shortage.
D.

 

[lindisfel]

Since the daily poems were well received and today's theme seems to be hope here is today's poem early (not Jubal, the polar opposite) . There is hope in the young

Sorry Ian I could not play it said it was private!

 

[alf_Josiah]

Here's another example of how the covid pandemic is affecting our life's.

The tradition of tossing knobs on a Dorset field has been cancelled due to fears that lives would be put at risk.

The Dorset Knob Throwing and Frome Valley Food Festival features a competition to hurl the county's traditional biscuits as far as possible.

Ian Gregory, chair of the Dorset Knob Throwing Committee, said it had been affected by Covid-19 restrictions.

The event is scheduled to return to Cattistock in May 2022.

It incorporates a food festival, live music and knob-based games such as knob-and-spoon racing, splat the knob, knob darts, and pin the knob on the Cerne Abbas giant.

Players also battle to eat as many knobs as possible in record time.

The one-day festival attracted 8,000 revellers in 2019, and knob-throwing has taken place there since 2008.

Experienced and hardened contestants are seen tossing their knobs underarm while keeping one foot on the ground during each bash.

 

[jjraak]

Had to check date AND Google

Seems legit.

Yep Covid restrictions hitting lots of events, sadly.

 

[gennepher]

hello @gennepher Your statement that you attend a "doctorless" medical practice has set me thinking. Some questions you might ask. a) Who receives your NHS GP capitation payment? b) Who signs your prescriptions for serious items like opiate painkillers? I don't need the answers, but perhaps you would feel reassured if you knew the identity and contact details of the doctor taking responsibility for your welfare.

I hope that a kind person will help you to get the vaccine and satisfy any other pressing matters.

I wanted to give you friendly and informative emoji.
I settled on friendly emoji for you responding to my concerns over my doctorless practice.
I have been up since 3 am (cat always wakes me at 3 am!) and photocopying what I need to take in and writing one sheet of A4 with my questions and concerns. Then I will print it out.
I have been googling NHS GP capitation fee for Wales, and there is a whole pile of interesting stuff there.
I do know my prescription says 'Pooled Doctors', but it doesn't specifically say a doctor. There is no doctor actually in attendance at the surgery.

My eye specialist at the Royal, Liverpool was confused when I said I was at a doctorless surgery, because my eye specialist wanted a specific name to address my results of my eye hospital appointment to. My eye specialist had never heard of a doctorless surgery. That concept was alien to him. So, presumably that is why I got the patient's copy in one envelope sent to me. And the GP Surgery's letter in a separate envelope which was addressed to me on a cover note, because he had no idea who (what person) to address it to.

Thank you for your timely response @True Blue
Because this now ties in with the way I will present and ask this now.

The receptionist will get one sheet. I need to concise it as much as possible so she can respond to it. Then when I come home I will have the same sheet again, maybe with a little more on it, depending on what answers I get direct from the receptionist, and this second sheet will be addressed to the Practice Manager (I am assuming we still have one of those...yes we do, I have just googled his name), asking for further clarification. Obviously I will have my copies of these.

There is no provision on their website to actually email a letter or a concern. So this leaves me with two options
1 - taking something in personally
2 - or snail mail.

Thank you again

 

[True Blue]

Morning all.
FBG 6.9 mmo/lt at 0615 hrs.
Looked out of the window, to the sound of ......silence. Christoph has left us for Scandinavia.
Will be checking my fences and garden furniture. It all looks to be still in place.

 

[gennepher]

There is something that appears weird to me.

I am the queen of screenshots, as I research or look through things, as in the MyHealthOnline site by my GP surgery, and this was where I found that so called appointment for this morning that I had to attend or else my prescription was at risk and could be cancelled, as well as my account at my GP Surgery.

So I took screenshots of every part of the site I could access, which wasn't much, just 3 separate sections.

This morning, as I am writing the stuff I said I was writing nearly a couple of hours ago. (Post #38608), I thought I would check the MyHealthOnline site again. And guess what? There is no appointment listed for me this morning now! It has gone, been wiped out. And the top of the page now says "You currently have no appointments".

I have taken screenshots again.


Now, later yesterday, in response to the restricted message I managed to send via the e-consult NHS site, I got this from my GP surgery. It is a NO reply email.

"Thank you for your recent eConsult request.
Hi (MY NAME), it is nothing for you to worry about. It is to re-authorise a prescription item and is on our pharmacist list to do so. It is not an appointment for you to worry about. Sorry for your inconvenience."

But it is a bit obtuse, it didn't say I didn't have to go in. And I was still going to go in this morning, just to be on the safe side, and I did have other matters with them.

So after that, they must have taken down that (so called important that I must not miss) appointment down off the MyHealthOnline site. Nothing exists of it now. Wiped out completely. No trace of it. Except for the screenshots I have of it, which I shall now put in a PDF together with this morning's screenshots which say "You currently have no appointments". And I will save it in a couple of safe places.

I won't be going in the GP Surgery personally now. No point in risking any Covid surroundings I do not urgently need to do. But my letter that I was writing earlier, which has various other concerns etc, so the receptionist could read this morning will be completed, printed, and sent to the Practice Manager. I will post that this morning when I collect my prescription.

I have some printing to do now...

 

[Muddy Cyclist]

Sorry Ian I could not play it said it was private!

Just tried and the same thing happened. Yesterday it worked fine for me, how odd.

 

[dunelm]

There is something that appears weird to me.

I am the queen of screenshots, as I research or look through things, as in the MyHealthOnline site by my GP surgery, and this was where I found that so called appointment for this morning that I had to attend or else my prescription was at risk and could be cancelled, as well as my account at my GP Surgery.

So I took screenshots of every part of the site I could access, which wasn't much, just 3 separate sections.

This morning, as I am writing the stuff I said I was writing nearly a couple of hours ago. (Post #38608), I thought I would check the MyHealthOnline site again. And guess what? There is no appointment listed for me this morning now! It has gone, been wiped out. And the top of the page now says "You currently have no appointments".

I have taken screenshots again.


Now, later yesterday, in response to the restricted message I managed to send via the e-consult NHS site, I got this from my GP surgery. It is a NO reply email.

"Thank you for your recent eConsult request.
Hi (MY NAME), it is nothing for you to worry about. It is to re-authorise a prescription item and is on our pharmacist list to do so. It is not an appointment for you to worry about. Sorry for your inconvenience."

But it is a bit obtuse, it didn't say I didn't have to go in. And I was still going to go in this morning, just to be on the safe side, and I did have other matters with them.

So after that, they must have taken down that (so called important that I must not miss) appointment down off the MyHealthOnline site. Nothing exists of it now. Wiped out completely. No trace of it. Except for the screenshots I have of it, which I shall now put in a PDF together with this morning's screenshots which say "You currently have no appointments". And I will save it in a couple of safe places.

I won't be going in the GP Surgery personally now. No point in risking any Covid surroundings I do not urgently need to do. But my letter that I was writing earlier, which has various other concerns etc, so the receptionist could read this morning will be completed, printed, and sent to the Practice Manager. I will post that this morning when I collect my prescription.

I have some printing to do now...

What an absolute cluster-duck (wrong word due to standard usage restrictions) - A huge picture of the word incompetence sprang to mind - I think a letter to the practice manager may be in order.

 

[Muddy Cyclist]

Here's another example of how the covid pandemic is affecting our life's.

The tradition of tossing knobs on a Dorset field has been cancelled due to fears that lives would be put at risk.

The Dorset Knob Throwing and Frome Valley Food Festival features a competition to hurl the county's traditional biscuits as far as possible.

Ian Gregory, chair of the Dorset Knob Throwing Committee, said it had been affected by Covid-19 restrictions.

The event is scheduled to return to Cattistock in May 2022.

It incorporates a food festival, live music and knob-based games such as knob-and-spoon racing, splat the knob, knob darts, and pin the knob on the Cerne Abbas giant.

Players also battle to eat as many knobs as possible in record time.

The one-day festival attracted 8,000 revellers in 2019, and knob-throwing has taken place there since 2008.

Experienced and hardened contestants are seen tossing their knobs underarm while keeping one foot on the ground during each bash.

All our music gigs for 2021 gone as we expected and the folk festivals we would usually attend. More worrying I don't see how the Vaccine which I have had will help bring them back, still will need social distancing and masks for some time.

 

[Muddy Cyclist]

Good Morning and 5.5 for me today.

Cold and frosty but the winds taken flight so I might sneak in a Muddy Cycle ride.

Keep safe and make the best of your day.

 

[dunelm]

good morning everyone from a silent and hopeful start to the day here in the dark and dangerous north
The wonder wheel of spiced chicken in tomato sauce with some braised masala greens came in at 5.1 this am

Our park was closed yesterday. We were already in, having a walk, assessing the flood damage, avoiding paths under water and bits of lake spills when we were approached by mr orange clad council bloke and told that the park had to be closed - the water birds where not impressed - neither were the squirrels who had taken to their upstairs bedrooms. Oh well, will have to see this morning if they have managed to do enough to re-open otherwise its down to the beech with a bucket and spade. The roads are open again though and abandoned vehicles all recovered. 4x4 on your car does not mean that you can drive into flood water you ninny.

Art today, like @Muddy Cyclist - a bit rushed - was playing with pushing a very dry brush - will have a go with a different brush today, but for now. Hope everyone has a fabulous Friday - remember the bar opens early on a Friday but for now, koffy.

 

[dunelm]

All our music gigs for 2021 gone as we expected and the folk festivals we would usually attend. More worrying I don't see how the Vaccine which I have had will help bring them back, still will need social distancing and masks for some time.

There is a whole stripping away of culture going on and so hope that it will quickly come back.
Meantime, here is a shanty

 

[karen8967]

5.9 for me

 

[ianpspurs]

Greetings everyone. It is jolly well Salmon avo salad and @karen8967 meme day - huzzah. Swipey greeted me with a 4.7 this morning which I feel is sub-optimal for the carbs and exercise yesterday and the device offering that snapshot. However, this is all N=1 and a timely rebuke came via 1 Corithians 8 this morning. Hugs for the GPless issues @gennepher, the loss of gigs and fetivals @Muddy Cyclist and potential loss of access to the park @dunelm. @lindisfel Suffolk appears to have the lowest vaccination rate anywhere in England. TTFN

 

[Krystyna23040]

5.5 this morning. Relaxing with a coffee while I wait for Mr K to come back with Aldi shopping.

Archie is definitely back to normal. He has his own ideas about how long his walks should be and will refuse to go back if he thinks we haven't walked far enough.

We are gradually increasing the distance of his walks each day. Yesterday he decided this just wasn't good enough and absolutely refused to go back home. He is so stubborn - but actually it was lovely to see another sign of him getting back to normal for Archie.

 

[alf_Josiah]

Good Morening Ladies and Gentlemen and all who exist in these strange times.

A cheese driven 6.7 on that wayward meter of misbehaving and naughtiness this morning.

A little fresh on my amble this morning, worrying when the frost says " hello darling " with a leery grin to me and me's. Time to change my route.

Well fellow posters, painters and gamers have a great day, avoid the media and don't bark at the postman.