Any reports yet of anyone having their second Covid vaccination this week since the government suggestion to delay it for up to twelve weeks ? We should be getting our one around the 9th but no word yet. I sent a text to the number that our initial appointment came from but no reply so far. The manufacturers are still sticking to their guns.
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My neighbours have had their 2nd one.
Still waiting for the first. Current projection mid February. Group 3.
For once age was to my advantage 
Hi was due my 2 nd one through work this week but have been told today it will be 10 weeks before 2nd can be given as they are trying to ensure everyone gets 1 dose .
Are you in one of the medical professions ?
Yes I am a public health nurse So am not sure if this is applying to nursing/ medical staff only at minute .
For some reason the text I sent asking about the second one was replied to my wives number:" Please DO NOT contact the surgery or the Vaccination Clinic regarding booking an appointment for your second COVID 19 Vaccination. The second dose will now be given on or around 12 weeks after the first dose. We will contact you when it is time to book your appointment. Kind Regards. Victoria Medical Centre. "
If they kept us informed we would not have to ask
I believe there are people here, or their family members who have had their second jab but it all sounds a bit hit ‘n miss at the moment....
Yes seems to be ,I am in Northern Ireland it seems a bit ad hoc here .
Just spoken to a friend almost 80 and he had his second jab today in Horsham, Sussex, close to Gatwick.....no problems with either which is good news. If I haven’t had my first by mid-Feb I shall be writing to Boris!! 😉
They only started here on Tuesday! Of course the percentage of elderly here in North Devon is much higher than most places (retirement heaven) so it will take a lot longer to filter down. My son's OH works at the Hospice in the lane here and they have heard nothing yet. There are benefits and disadvantages of where we live.
Bit difficult keeping the temperature down when it’s delivered on a horse ‘n cart.....😉
I'm old enough to remember horses pulling carts and horse through's for them to refresh themselves. Where we lived in Edinburgh we were on a route where they came uphill from Leith Docks. When they first put down Zebra crossings the horses would not go over them so the carters used to put a sack over it.
Well into the 1950's my wives uncle delivered milk by horse and cart. It knew the route so well that as he took the milk to the doorstep the horse walked on and stopped at his next customers door.
Yep, I used to help our milkman in the earlier 50’s and I was allowed to hold the reins but I had problems reaching the brake pedal which came up through the floor. It changed when they went battery driven with a long wiggly handle sticking out the front. They say what goes around, comes around.....won’t be too long before we’re all driving “milk floats”!
Where my Granny lived in Edinburgh was opposite the Co-op milk depot where Tommy (Sean ) Connery worked from as a milk man.
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The Edinburgh Conference centre is now where her flat used to be and the Co-op depot is also gone. Her previous flat on The Royal Mile is now where the City Chambers is.
Great City.....impressive castle, visited the city several times......off to my bed now, always good to take a trip down memory lane......take care.
I was born in 48 and I remember my children asking me about horse and carts. I told them to ask their Nan.
Well seasider...you’re just a kid. I remember the bricky laying his last brick on Hadrians Wall. You never see a zebra crossing Princes Street these days. ‼️😂
They have all retired to a place in Corstorphine with other creatures from the past where evidently the Pandas will be returning to China from.
Would be lion if I said I’d been to the zoo recently but haven’t been there for donkey’s years. 🦓
You must be an insomniac like me.Must be about 35 years since I've been to a British Zoo. When we took American friends to Madam Taussods (sp) and London Zoo. However we usually go to foreign ones when on holiday. We've been to zoos in Beijing, San Diego, Chicago, Central Park, Brooklyn, Paris, Moscow. We were always at Edinburgh zoo when I was a child. My favourite was Sally the young Elephant who I used to stand and feed and speak to for ages. She also took us on rides round the zoo.
Insomniac Me...no, been Church of England all my life. Sounds like you’ve had an interesting, well travelled life and are interested in animals. Do you still reside north of the border and do you think Sally, who would now be ‘old Sally’ , will still be alive❓
Sally came to the Zoo when she was very young about 4 I think. Sadly she died when she was in her 30's. There was an older one there with her at first. My daughter used to send me Birthday cards from her.We did see wild ones when we went to Zimbabwe and Botswana. We were once surrounded by about 60 of them. We loved travel and fortunately the company I worked was very generous with holidays. I left Edinburgh for London when I was 19 but we went back there for eight years after getting married as houses were so much cheaper there then. Back to London for 28 Years in 1966 and then 12 years in Edinburgh when I first retired and now 14 years in Eastbourne.
Good night this time I hope to sleep.
Our local farmer's plan was that either Clarrie, our milkman, or Charlie his horse would retire when the other one retired or died. They were both put out to pasture on the same day in about 1975(?).
Charlie also knew the round and could have done it himself if his hooves could've picked up a bottle, but when he was in the field us young lads would have rather messed with the bull (also Charlie...) than with Charlie the carthorse.
We also had outside toilets and victorian plumbing in the playground at school and every few weeks an old 'middin man' would come around and shovel all the stuff from the old ash midden into a special cart while we were playing next to it. Then his enormous white shire horse would trundle a cartload of very stinky stuff through our game of football. The local council also retired man and horse on the same day.
That was in the days before health and safety and human resource management messed it up.
There were some magnificent creatures. They were also such patient creatures. A near neighbour (Mrs White) had a coal business and her horse stood outside with it's nosebag when she came home for lunch.Used to see lovely Sire horses at the Royal Highland Show in Edinburgh and now to a lesser degree at Bexhill horse show.
The other local celebrity horse pulled a small merry-go-round. It came every now and again, and every kid on the estate would rush out squealing with excitement. For 2d (less than 1 pence) or a bag of rags you could get a ride. We were all sons and daughters of Yorkshire miners and lived an incredibly lovely childhood. Nobody had 2 ha'pennies to scratch their a.... but we didn't care.
The horse stood patiently while the old guy wound a crank handle. We knew what was coming and waited in anticipation for him to shout "We're going the Chinese way!" whereupon he'd wind the handle backwards and we'd all ride in reverse!
The merry-go-round is now in York museum.
This was in the days of feral children with low expectations and before paranoia around unintended racism.
We did not have much but in many ways had a happier time.I remember once staying with a aunt who gave me four farthings and told me to go to paper shop and buy two bars of toffee. We could get a penny ice cream and actually a smaller one for a halfpenny in one shop. Every weekday when we were out my mother used to buy me a halfpenny packet of Sun Maid Raisins. Then my father said I could buy my own and gave me 2 1/2 p. pocket money
A really old guy was telling me how he could get a bus, 8 pints, fish and chips and a bus home for half a crown. His mate piped up "It was getting your hands on a f...ing half a crown that was the problem"...
Our part of Eastbourne is know as God's waiting room.
That’s good he has had his 2 nd one , hopefully not too long until you get yours or Boris will know all about it x
Depends on who you are as to whether you will get an answer.From a friend names taken out..
"what a difference a title makes, C and I wrote an (excellent, we thought) letter to our MP about lockdown and closed schools, in September. We heard nothing back. M wrote a similar letter, signed Professor D and Doctor M and they were told their letter was being forwarded to the Dept of Health. Shortly afterwards they received a two page personal letter from Nadine Dorries!
We are not far from there in Eastbourne. Our medical practice has taken over an empty shop in the Beacon shopping centre to vaccinate 30,000 patients over the next three months.
👍hope it goes well
We will be writing to Boris too. My husband is 82 this year with a lung condition and has not even had his first vaccine yet.
We then are hoping for a hit
Medical term.....🤨
Sister in law who is 80 had her second vaccination yesterday. She’s in Hampshire
That was good.The World Health Organization has refused to give its blessing to Britain's plan to space the two doses of Pfizer's coronavirus vaccine by more than a month.
Officials in the UK have decided to use all available doses of the Pfizer/BioNTech jab, which was the first to be approved, to get a single dose to as many people as possible. In the process they will leave people waiting up to 12 weeks for their second jab.
Covid cases started to fall around 12 days after people got their first dose in studies but, because everyone got a second shot just 10 days later, scientists don't know how long immunity from the initial jab would last.
The WHO yesterday said governments should be giving people their second dose within 21 to 28 days of having the first, to make sure the vaccine works long-term.
But it did not attack Britain's decision not to do this, admitting the Government had been forced to make a difficult decision because of spiralling infections and deaths in recent weeks.
But it did not attack Britain's decision not to do this, admitting the Government had been forced to make a difficult decision because of spiralling infections and deaths in recent weeks.
One of the experts said they 'totally acknowledge that countries may see needs to be even more flexible in terms of the administration of the second dose'.
It comes after England's chief medical officer, Professor Chris Whitty, defended the controversial move again last night, saying the benefits of it outweigh the risks.
He admitted there was a chance it could increase the risk of the virus developing vaccine resistance in the future but that the need to vaccinate people now was overwhelming.
Yes, my husband had his 2nd Pfitzer jab on Tuesday. Our practice is continuing with original schedule until Friday this week, then going to 12 week interval. It was impossible to cancel & rearrange appointments at such short notice.
We did not get a date for the second just a card saying the second one would be before or on the 9th of January.
Yes my husband had his second Pfizer jab today as planned.
I'll live in hope for the next couple of days.
Last I heard I should have my first one in March unless things change. I’m 68. A friend of 93 living in a care home hasn’t had her first one yet. Apparently the home has only just been sent the paperwork. Doesn’t seem right somehow. We’re in West Yorkshire. xxx
The usual British lack of organisation . I'm not sure how smaller units get their vaccine and have the facilities to use it. It supposedly come in batches of 975 that has to be used within three days. Our unit had evidently planned on doing 325 a day but got it up to about 500.
I'm in the U.S. and have had the first shot and am scheduled for the second in two weeks.
Im a teacher & Id be grateful for the first vaccination jab as the government has given us NO protection so our rates of infection are 3-4 times higher than the local area. Am also supposedly in the first wave but given the 96 yr old lady over the road from me has not had her 1st jab yet I think things are very slow in my area. Usual government shambles. Australia has handled matters miles better.....
My daughter and my daughter in law are Paramedics and they haven't had their first vaccine yet despite they are highest priority. Don't know what's happening.
My husband had his yesterday and I am due to have mine on Sunday. He has been fine after his jabs but I have had continual trouble with my PAF since mine so not looking forward to the next one! My body dosent like anything interfering with it's blood and usually objects to the annual flu jab like this😡
I used to itch like mad after Flu injections and it was found to be caused by the Formaldehyde that was then used to kill the live virus in some makes. We are both itching since our jabs but I'm putting in down to a lack of humidity in our flat that is only 22%.
Yes, hubby had his yesterday, he was given the date when he had the first one in December so 3 weeks apart.
Yes I have had my second jab ..here in East Sussex. I felt achey and weary on the second day and had a headache,more than after the first one. I was fine the next day. I feel so fortunate to have had the second dose.
I also felt like that on the second day. My wife had her usual sore arm but it went after two days more quickly than after her Flu jabs.
My mother in law had her second one on Monday and a friend's mum gets hers today.
My son-in-law's father (Balcombe, West Sussex) had his second vaccination cancelled a couple of days ago, no word of when he will get it.
My neighbour, who is 88, told me yesterday she was due to have the 2nd jab this week but it has been cancelled. I’m in Lancaster. I am in group 4 so mine will be a while off yet.
Think yourself lucky to have had one. We have no sign of our first one yet in Wales and we are in our 80's etc.
It is unbelievable how badly this is being organised.
No word at all about even a first jab here in North of Scotland where covid is just now gaining a foothold in our small community.
Presumably you will have to travel to a bigger place to get it done.
We have a hospital with a big surgery beside it in the town but no hint of vaccines yet. NHS workers etc slightly further south in Inverness have started to get their first doses. Our area has had hardly any cases of covid until folks started coming north before Xmas to avoid the high numbers, unfortunately now that has translated into a surge of cases here. Wish people would stay at home in their own towns and not travel. 😒
That is the problem in Eastbourne with holiday makers and day rippers. My family connections are probably north of you.My great grandmother was from Dornoch and married a Cooper who also had a Croft in Helmsdale
Wow how strange I was walking on Dornoch beach 3 days ago, one of my most favourite places.
She was a Ross (Married a Maclean) and born at a house named The Poles In Poles Road that went out of the Family but was later bought back.All her children apart from one left Helmsdale for Edinburgh and the croft is now a ruin. Every time she had a child she used to walk over the hills to Dornoch to show it to her mother.
My mother lived there for at time with her granny who lived in Edinburgh in her later years.We all used to go up to Helmsdale for holidays. I scattered my mothers ashes at the Croft in West Helmsdale.
Do you know of the Liberator Bomber that crashed into the sea off Helmsdale ? I was 11 and on holiday out walking on my own that morning when I witnessed the plane going into the sea. It came low down over the hillside. I could see the pilot or navigators face as he looked in vain for somewhere to land.
I watched as boats went out from Helmsdale harbour to the area.
One time in the early 90’s when we were in Helmsdale I met an old lady who had also witnessed it. She told me that I had just missed the WAAF survivor by a week when she came on one of her visits to the area.
How Interesting and no I hadn't heard about the bomber. That was a long walk over the hills from Helmsdale to Dornoch, we take our cars for granted now for such a journey. I will give your regards to Dornoch next time I am up there, it's about a 25 min drive north from Invergordon where I live. 😀
We even stayed in Invergordon in our travels. Even been up to Orkney and Shetland and Bird Watching once on wonderful Fair Isle where we stayed at the obsersvatory for the only three decent days in the fortnight.
I have been to Orkney but not Shetland yet. Loved Skarra Brae.
It had been so rough sailing from Scrabster to Orkney that my wife insisted on flying to Shetland and back to Orkney. We had to take the ferry back to Scrabster as we were going on to Helmsdale by bus. That was the worst sea journey we have ever had. We seemed to be the only only two on the ship who were not sick and just sat staring fixedly ahead. It was so rough that they had difficulty in docking but the bus going to Inverness did not wait and left us all stranded.
Sounds about right for this part of the world 😅 I went by bus to John O Groats then the little ferry across to Orkney, my profile pic was taken that day.
The day we came back they cancelled the one to John o Groats so we had some extra passengers.
My cousin and two friends have all had their two vaccination injections. All were with pfeizer. All the best
Haven't heard about getting my 1st one yet and l am 84 with heart failure and chronic kidney disease. I live in West Wales.
Had my 2nd one today. Surgery said they didn’t have resources to rearrange 1000 appointments. All new vaccinations will have to wait 12 weeks for 2nd. I feel very lucky and grateful.
I had the first dose of the Pfizer vaccine at a hospital on 12 December, and was given an appointment for the second dose on this Saturday, the 9th. I was wondering whether to ring the hospital to ask what the situation was, but before I could do so I had a call from them on Tuesday confirming that I could have the vaccine as planned. I suspect that this may be due to the need to use the whole of a batch, because of its short life.
We have t heard a word about our first yet! We are in Matt Hancocks constituency and both over 80 and shielding since March. FED UP.
My parents have had theirs (Northamptonshire).
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