I rest my case. Traction alopecia is inevitable but relentless.
Haha - he would have receded come what may. My Dad was a receder too, no ponytail involved. Mr Boogs has lots of hair for 63 years old. I’ve told him he must shave it off before it can no longer be seen from the front - I don’t want a Bill Bailey in the house! But I think he’s got another five years before that happens. 🙂
*sigh* I suppose that's true. I'm doing radio interviews this week, but the Powers That Be have decided that Internet-land deserves to suffer through pictures of us next to the podcast version. Bleurghhh.
Know the feeling. I did manage to find some online try out colour apps yesterday and tried out some grey shades. I looked like a doleful elephant.🙁
Heh. We had to do the photo via Zoom, and just as I was thinking I'd never looked so old and wrinkly, the photographer said, "Oh, LC, that's just perfect!" and snapped it.
Keep hold of it! I generally have just one halfway decent profile photo of myself at any one time and it has to last me for years. When I decided I couldn’t in all truth continue to use my 2008 (for newspaper article) pic, I switched to one cropped from a family group photo (2013), and that lasted until 2019, when my DH, tired of my constant griping about my appearance, treated me to a photo shoot for my *ahem,” 60th birthday. The photographer tried their best; I can’t say I experienced a Cinderella-like transformation, but at least I have a couple of representations of self that don’t look too much like a pachyderm with stomachache.
My mother (87) attended a clinic for her first Covid vaccination this morning. She said the clinic was chaotic because "the queue was full of daft and/ or doddery old people."
There was an incident in the car park where one elderly person who had driven herself there said she needed to park lengthways across three parking spaces because she can only drive forwards, and parking correctly would involve either reversing in or out, neither of which she can do.
Another old man thought that "while he was there" he would raise other health issues, and was trying to show the clinic staff some unspecified part of his anatomy.
Mum was impressed with the patience and forbearance of the clinic staff coping with all these "old people."
*sigh* I suppose that's true. I'm doing radio interviews this week, but the Powers That Be have decided that Internet-land deserves to suffer through pictures of us next to the podcast version. Bleurghhh.
Know the feeling. I did manage to find some online try out colour apps yesterday and tried out some grey shades. I looked like a doleful elephant.🙁
Heh. We had to do the photo via Zoom, and just as I was thinking I'd never looked so old and wrinkly, the photographer said, "Oh, LC, that's just perfect!" and snapped it.
Keep hold of it! I generally have just one halfway decent profile photo of myself at any one time and it has to last me for years. When I decided I couldn’t in all truth continue to use my 2008 (for newspaper article) pic, I switched to one cropped from a family group photo (2013), and that lasted until 2019, when my DH, tired of my constant griping about my appearance, treated me to a photo shoot for my *ahem,” 60th birthday. The photographer tried their best; I can’t say I experienced a Cinderella-like transformation, but at least I have a couple of representations of self that don’t look too much like a pachyderm with stomachache.
Heh. I'm afraid that with "that's just perfect" she was referring to the lighting. The very harsh, unforgiving, show every bulge and wrinkle lighting. Meh.
Fortunately I DO have quite a good profile pic that was taken in 2016 when I was hired at my current job. I intend to use it as long as humanly possible.
Well, that gave me a chuckle! Thank you (and your Mum).
Indeed - well done North East Mum!
I'm reminded of my granny, who used to talk about the "old" lady who lived at the foot of our road, but who was probably about ten years younger than Granny.
My mother (87) attended a clinic for her first Covid vaccination this morning. She said the clinic was chaotic because "the queue was full of daft and/ or doddery old people."
There was an incident in the car park where one elderly person who had driven herself there said she needed to park lengthways across three parking spaces because she can only drive forwards, and parking correctly would involve either reversing in or out, neither of which she can do.
Another old man thought that "while he was there" he would raise other health issues, and was trying to show the clinic staff some unspecified part of his anatomy.
Mum was impressed with the patience and forbearance of the clinic staff coping with all these "old people."
I think many of us probably know, or have known, such feisty characters as North East Mum, who simply do not accept that, by others' standards, they are OLD.
I think I'd like to be a character like North East Mum - I really can't get my head around the fact that in not much more than a year, I'll qualify for a bus pass.
I still remember my Mum recounting how 80 something Grandad was doing a spot of gardening for the elderly folks down the road. “Poor old things, “ he said, “They can’t manage it for themselves!”
Well- he put it a wee bit more colloquially than that, (think Doric), as he really was a North East Grandad.
There was an incident in the car park where one elderly person who had driven herself there said she needed to park lengthways across three parking spaces because she can only drive forwards, and parking correctly would involve either reversing in or out, neither of which she can do.
When I was an eye nurse the doctors used to report some patients to DVLC. We had so many people who drove despite not having adequate vision and they would say it wasn’t a problem, they were only a danger to themselves. And we would say but what if you hit someone else, a child perhaps?
We are moving in two weeks, so I decided not to have first vaccine now and then have to arrange for the follow up in a new county. We are going to wait and get both after we move hopefully. I am of the hope that having a new address will not mess us up. Not sure how long change in ID will take. I will have mail by then with new address and real estate paperwork to show we are residents in the new county. I am also encouraged that new county is offering drive by shots, which is great for Mr Image who has difficulty walking and standing for any time at all. Where we are now it is walk in, and a bit of distance to the door. So fingers crossed we get on schedule soon. We have the crazy people around here who are posting all kinds of misinformation about the vaccine. ie, makes you sick for days, takes away your virility, fogs your mind. What ever happened to check your source and common sense?
I had a lovely chat to an older lady from church on the phone today, who is due her shot soon. I was asking her about vaccine hesitancy amongst some black people (I read something in the paper - and nearly all our church are from the Caribbean) and she agreed it was a thing amongst some people. She doesn't like needles but she's going for it as soon as she can, and wants to encourage everyone she can to do so - go Sylvia!
I had a phone call from a friend this afternoon - telling me that she and her husband had been given their Covid vaccinations today. She's not 70 yet. I'm over half a decade nearer to 80 and have no idea when Mr RoS and I will get an appointment, nor how far we will have to travel for it, as there is no vaccination centre in the town.
My friend lives in a retirement flat, in the same town, and the company that owns the complex had arranged for all the residents who wanted it to be vaccinated on the premises, however hale and hearty - or youthful they may be.
My friend lives in a retirement flat, in the same town, and the company that owns the complex had arranged for all the residents who wanted it to be vaccinated on the premises, however hale and hearty - or youthful they may be.
That sounds like an efficient way to do it - far more efficient than coming round once to do the oldest people, then coming round a couple more times to do the younger cohorts.
@Graven Image , we should be moving by the end of March. I too have the dilemma as to whether to go for the first vaccination (assuming they get round to the over sixty-fives by then) or wait till we move. It would be easy enough to return for the second dose, so I think I'm inclined to go for it. Added to the fact that the main clinic for the area is about two hundred yards down my road so very easy to get to.
My guess is they will have arranged it with the local gp - who may thought the safest bet was to to the whole group at once.
Local GPs not doing any.
I can see why the company did it that way, many of the residents are in their eighties, or above, and not very mobile. Getting them into the vaccination centre in the nearby city would be a nightmare.
Just lucky for the under seventies, like my friend, to be making up the numbers.
I spent a few minutes this afternoon making up a vaccine registration sheet for Mr Lamb to carry with him throughout the community. We have to sign up online for shots, and 80% or more of our people either have no computer access, or no English, or both. So this is going to be my job, oh joy.
Do not want to start the hair coping again, but I have this and it is genius.
Even Mr. Image is saying how good my hair looks. So for those struggling with new long hair, just want to say give this a try. You put your hair through the slit in the middle, pull it to the tip ends, and then roll it up toward the top of your head. and bend it over ( it has wires inside ) and it stays up and in place all day. It has a bit more style to it than the ponytail or headband route. https://www.amazon.com/uxcell-Twist-Styling-Ponytail-Holder/dp/B008LT5Z5W
I used to have one of those GI and they are brilliant. I haven't seen any in shops for at least 20 years, and I have been looking. They were over $20 here and the material covering the wire was velvet.
I may have to see if my nephew has an Amazon account as I haven't a clue what my password is.
I use those and usually pin it up as a roll instead of a bun. I also used to have a velvet one in the 80s but can’t find any recently, must look again. I use a more firm snap holder for buns - a search on Amazon or EBay for snap bun maker should find them.
My guess is they will have arranged it with the local gp - who may thought the safest bet was to to the whole group at once.
Local GPs not doing any.
I can see why the company did it that way, many of the residents are in their eighties, or above, and not very mobile. Getting them into the vaccination centre in the nearby city would be a nightmare.
Just lucky for the under seventies, like my friend, to be making up the numbers.
"Making up the numbers" could be the explanation. The mRNA vaccines need to be used in a short time after coming out of the freezer, and it could easily be that the doses exceeded the number of priority residents - much better to give doses to younger residents than waste the vaccine that would go unused if the priority list was strictly adhered to.
I spent a few minutes this afternoon making up a vaccine registration sheet for Mr Lamb to carry with him throughout the community. We have to sign up online for shots, and 80% or more of our people either have no computer access, or no English, or both. So this is going to be my job, oh joy.
Do not want to start the hair coping again, but I have this and it is genius.
Even Mr. Image is saying how good my hair looks. So for those struggling with new long hair, just want to say give this a try. You put your hair through the slit in the middle, pull it to the tip ends, and then roll it up toward the top of your head. and bend it over ( it has wires inside ) and it stays up and in place all day. It has a bit more style to it than the ponytail or headband route. https://www.amazon.com/uxcell-Twist-Styling-Ponytail-Holder/dp/B008LT5Z5W
Have you got video of that? I can't quite visualize what you mean by rolling it up and bending it over.
Our local park and ride is now a one stop Covid shop: the test centre is in a marquee on the road side of the car park to facilitate it's being a walk through one, and the vaccination centre has just been erected in a load of portacabins on the far side. It's still open for those wanting to use it for its normal purpose too, but obviously there are currently far fewer cars. Oh, and there is an asymptomatic lateral flow test site just 100 yards up the road on the other side! Can you tell we're in a high positive numbers area, and with a high BAME percentage of residents too?!
My GP surgery is a local hub as it is in a large new community centre. They are doing the vaccinations in the adjoining square in a series of marquees.
Well, guess it is alright that I delayed our vaccinations until after our move next week after all. Just found out all vaccinations in the county where we live have been halted due to a bad batch and will resume in two weeks. They never explained why the batch was bad, so I am guessing it was not kept cold. At least I would hope it was some local easy explanation like that.
Still, directly I get home, the sun will be over the yardarm (alcohol and vaccine mix ok don't they?)
Probably best not to go on a bender right after the vaccine, but general advice is that there's no particular reason to avoid moderate alcohol consumption.
I received my letter inviting me to book my appointment, but when I tried, the booking website said only over 80ies. I tried again next day and was able to pick my day and time, from those available. Next Monday at 11 am. Second dose on 2 April.
It is in a community hall about 8 miles away.
My mum (80+) has now had her first jag, at the hospital the other side of town. As she's no longer a driver it was good of a neighbour to drive her over rather than take a bus full of un-masked passengers (I don't know if that's extensive, but she has said several times that when walking to the local supermarket she sees the buses pass with passengers not wearing masks - and, seeing people on the bus without masks means she's not going to get on one. She's equally unhappy about people in the supermarket without masks, but she has the option to go down a different aisle to avoid them, even with staff on the door turning away people without masks people get in the door and take of their mask).
I think,given the rather inconvenient time and location, I'm going for a taxi and hang the expense, though bus passengers are largely compliant round our way.
My husband has got his appointment. On Sunday morning at the time of 10.23...ish.
I have no idea when I will be offered one, even though I am on a government-issued list of essential workers, being a religious leader. (He qualifies by virtue of working at our local Crem.)
Scotland and England are different countries, and there does appear to be a difference in how people comply with sensible precautions. My mum regularly sees people in her local supermarket who have taken off their mask, the worst I occasionally see in our supermarkets is someone with a mask that has slipped down so that it isn't fully covering the nose.
I've seen a couple of people who have their mask below their nose, but I'd say over 95% of those in shops are fully masked and those who aren't are wearing sunflower lanyards. I put on my mask before I get out of the car and take it off once I'm back in the car, and I'd say that's the norm, too. People are masked as they approach shops, and if there's a queue on the pavement, everyone in the queue is masked.
In 9 months I've only ever seen 1 person in our Cambridge waitrose without a mask and he was drunk and having a row with security. There is also 100% compliance in the post office/bun shop on the council estate where I live (no other shops currently open on the estate) and the corner shop on the new estate behind my house.
Round by us it seems to depend on where you shop. Small Tesco is not great for masks, and Coop largely is much better. So I’ll hold my breath when I go in to Tesco for a big thing of veggie oil, when it’s on special. And spend up my Coop points first, in case the expedition kills me.
Went to the post office today, a line had formed two people in front of me no masking, talking, and laughing. I left. Went to the hardware store, a sign said mask required, but some of our customers and clerks may not be wearing masks be respectful. Really? I left.
The shops here seen to be pretty well completely compliant too: the smaller shops have a two-customer limit (the DIY shop, which I refer to as Fork Handles, has red and green traffic lights to let you know when you can come in).
I was ranting just now in the British thread that Scot Rail have halved the number of carriages on the train I take to work. I can see that they don't want to run eight carriages with hardly anyone in them, but cutting it down to four is making proper social distancing a tad awkward. Six might have made sense.
I expect the train is usually formed of two four-coach sets which cannot be split up - hence reducing to one four-coach set. I agree that it must make social distancing even harder, though.
My weekly trip to Tesco's this morning was uneventful. There weren't many people around, and everyone (AFAICS) was wearing masks - I was in and out in 15 minutes!
Of our two closest friends, one is getting her shot on Friday and the other the same day/place as me (but earlier time). Mr F hasn't an appointment yet, but a promise of one by mid February.
It would be nice if there was some relaxation for all-vaccinated bubbling.
My sister, who lives in Virginia, had been on a waiting list to make an appointment for a shot. Things have gotten that desperate! Last night she said her name had finally come up, and she's eligible now to make an appointment . . . but there are no appointments to be had.
My brother, who lives in New York, has had no luck either in getting an appointment. Last night he said that some pharmacies are receiving vaccine and are allowing appointments to be made. Again, though, no appointments to be had. He said that people are going to the pharmacies anyway without an appointment, near closing time, and begging to be allowed to receive leftover vaccine that would just go to waste otherwise. I mean, talk about bread lines carried to a logical extreme.
Meanwhile, here in Arizona, it was on the news this morning that one local doctor has succeeded in begging the government to let him have some vaccine that he can give to patients of his clinic. They made it sound like this was the most clever innovation since bread slicing machines.
I mean, duh. How is flu vaccine given? Answer: Every doctor's office in the country can dispense it. Should be no different for covid vaccine. But no, the government has a monopoly on distribution, so of course things are much more complicated than they need to be.
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Haha - he would have receded come what may. My Dad was a receder too, no ponytail involved. Mr Boogs has lots of hair for 63 years old. I’ve told him he must shave it off before it can no longer be seen from the front - I don’t want a Bill Bailey in the house! But I think he’s got another five years before that happens. 🙂
Keep hold of it! I generally have just one halfway decent profile photo of myself at any one time and it has to last me for years. When I decided I couldn’t in all truth continue to use my 2008 (for newspaper article) pic, I switched to one cropped from a family group photo (2013), and that lasted until 2019, when my DH, tired of my constant griping about my appearance, treated me to a photo shoot for my *ahem,” 60th birthday. The photographer tried their best; I can’t say I experienced a Cinderella-like transformation, but at least I have a couple of representations of self that don’t look too much like a pachyderm with stomachache.
There was an incident in the car park where one elderly person who had driven herself there said she needed to park lengthways across three parking spaces because she can only drive forwards, and parking correctly would involve either reversing in or out, neither of which she can do.
Another old man thought that "while he was there" he would raise other health issues, and was trying to show the clinic staff some unspecified part of his anatomy.
Mum was impressed with the patience and forbearance of the clinic staff coping with all these "old people."
Heh. I'm afraid that with "that's just perfect" she was referring to the lighting. The very harsh, unforgiving, show every bulge and wrinkle lighting. Meh.
Fortunately I DO have quite a good profile pic that was taken in 2016 when I was hired at my current job. I intend to use it as long as humanly possible.
Indeed - well done North East Mum!
I'm reminded of my granny, who used to talk about the "old" lady who lived at the foot of our road, but who was probably about ten years younger than Granny.
I think many of us probably know, or have known, such feisty characters as North East Mum, who simply do not accept that, by others' standards, they are OLD.
Good for them!
Well- he put it a wee bit more colloquially than that, (think Doric), as he really was a North East Grandad.
My friend lives in a retirement flat, in the same town, and the company that owns the complex had arranged for all the residents who wanted it to be vaccinated on the premises, however hale and hearty - or youthful they may be.
That sounds like an efficient way to do it - far more efficient than coming round once to do the oldest people, then coming round a couple more times to do the younger cohorts.
I can see why the company did it that way, many of the residents are in their eighties, or above, and not very mobile. Getting them into the vaccination centre in the nearby city would be a nightmare.
Just lucky for the under seventies, like my friend, to be making up the numbers.
Even Mr. Image is saying how good my hair looks. So for those struggling with new long hair, just want to say give this a try. You put your hair through the slit in the middle, pull it to the tip ends, and then roll it up toward the top of your head. and bend it over ( it has wires inside ) and it stays up and in place all day. It has a bit more style to it than the ponytail or headband route. https://www.amazon.com/uxcell-Twist-Styling-Ponytail-Holder/dp/B008LT5Z5W
I may have to see if my nephew has an Amazon account as I haven't a clue what my password is.
You are doing good, much needed work. 🕯
Have you got video of that? I can't quite visualize what you mean by rolling it up and bending it over.
My appointment is at the highly convenient time of half five on a Saturday evening, at a conference centre in the downtown.
Still, directly I get home, the sun will be over the yardarm (alcohol and vaccine mix ok don't they?)
Probably best not to go on a bender right after the vaccine, but general advice is that there's no particular reason to avoid moderate alcohol consumption.
It is in a community hall about 8 miles away.
I have no idea when I will be offered one, even though I am on a government-issued list of essential workers, being a religious leader. (He qualifies by virtue of working at our local Crem.)
I was ranting just now in the British thread that Scot Rail have halved the number of carriages on the train I take to work. I can see that they don't want to run eight carriages with hardly anyone in them, but cutting it down to four is making proper social distancing a tad awkward. Six might have made sense.
My weekly trip to Tesco's this morning was uneventful. There weren't many people around, and everyone (AFAICS) was wearing masks - I was in and out in 15 minutes!
It would be nice if there was some relaxation for all-vaccinated bubbling.
My brother, who lives in New York, has had no luck either in getting an appointment. Last night he said that some pharmacies are receiving vaccine and are allowing appointments to be made. Again, though, no appointments to be had. He said that people are going to the pharmacies anyway without an appointment, near closing time, and begging to be allowed to receive leftover vaccine that would just go to waste otherwise. I mean, talk about bread lines carried to a logical extreme.
Meanwhile, here in Arizona, it was on the news this morning that one local doctor has succeeded in begging the government to let him have some vaccine that he can give to patients of his clinic. They made it sound like this was the most clever innovation since bread slicing machines.
I mean, duh. How is flu vaccine given? Answer: Every doctor's office in the country can dispense it. Should be no different for covid vaccine. But no, the government has a monopoly on distribution, so of course things are much more complicated than they need to be.
More power to his elbow, as they say...