It has been a very mixed day (106/365)

[white_hart]

This morning started off grumpily, not so much about the continuing impossibility of booking a vaccine appointment nearer than Milton Keynes as about the fact that when I posted on Facebook asking if anyone else was getting the same error message I was getting saying that I had missed my first appointment lots of people commented to say I really should take the time to go to Milton Keynes rather than waiting for a nearer appointment.

I stayed grumpy all morning (despite ordering a new pen to distract myself), but a swim at lunchtime calmed me down (and thanks to the time tracking spreadsheet I've made myself, I knew I didn't have to feel guilty about taking the time, because I was still on track to clock in at about 44 hours this week. For my next trick, I should try working on not feeling that I need to be working 44 hours per week anyway).

I settled back to work after knitting, picked up my phone for a brief brain break after a meeting and discovered that a knitting friend of mine died very suddenly on Monday night. While we mostly knew each other online, through Ravelry and then Twitter, we'd met in person several times, at knitting shows and group meet-ups and when one of us happened to find herself in the same place as the other one. She was an incredibly generous person, and there are lots of cards on my pinboards that she sent me with various things - some fibre she'd carded when I first got my spinning wheel, a set of buttons that she thought might work when I mentioned that I'd bought a jacket which had horrible buttons and I wanted to change them - and I will really miss her presence on Twitter.

An hour later, an email of the kind that you would really rather never get, but definitely don't want to get at ten to five on a Friday afternoon, popped into my inbox, and I spent the next hour making calls to get more information and alert various people who needed to know what was going on.

And then, after I'd given up on attempting to get the business case I'd hoped to finish writing done and logged off for the day, I spotted a friend mentioning on Twitter that she'd just booked her vaccine in Oxford, tried the site for the nth time since Tuesday and discovered that I could get appointments any time next week, so I've booked my first jab for next Friday and my second for July, and am very glad I didn't just book Milton Keynes instead.

Comments

[mrs_redboots]

Left hands never seem to know what right hands are doing - I had a text from my GP surgery asking me to book, which I duly did and received the vaccine at the nearest health centre (3 minutes walk!); then I had a text from a local hospital, where I am nominally under a consultant's care, which I was told by a nurse friend to ignore if they hadn't given me a specific appointment (which they hadn't), and then a few days later the hospital telephoned me to ask if I wanted the jab, so I explained I'd already had it under the GP, so they said they'd take my name of the list.... reminds me of when I went to the chemist in December to pick up my medication, and the pharmacist asked whether I'd had my flu jab - which, again, I'd had via the practice!

Sorry about your friend; that sucks.

[white_hart]

Yes, I think they're just trying to make sure everyone gets covered one way or another. And possibly taking the view that it's easier to ask multiple times than get consent to share people's data between streams.