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A next-door neighbour is starting chemotherapy any day soon. I suspect that could be a more important issue for him. And it was meant more to pass on that our system is not contacting to say "Make an appointment" which some others seem to have done.

Perhaps the stink is in the factory as well as in how the contract was awarded? Matt Hancock's ex-neighbour under investigation by UK's medical regulator Exclusive: MHRA investigating former publican Alex Bourne who won £30m of work producing Covid test vials...

Partner got a phone call on Friday - vaccine appointment will be at 16:44 on a day this week. No choice. No discussion. Apparently two minutely intervals throughout the day. This is not meant to complain - I don't know what would have happened if she had in any way indicated she could not...

Can they increase the gap sufficiently that, at least for AZ, the coming "update" could widely be used as the second dose? That could, likely would, result in AZ recipients getting one original dose plus one update dose. Rather than two original doses plus one update dose. Potentially a big...

First, anything that reduces the vast quantities of plastic used for water bottles would (at least in the sense of reducing plastic waste) be a positive. Second, the government has made murmurs that it is considering mandating fluoride being added to water supplies. If so, a number of people...

No - that could delay the start for years. I suggest a start be made with the creation of a Royal Commission (or whatever is the appropriate form) and ensure it has access to and collects relevant information now.

Far from saying they are wrong, I simply tried to address my difficulty in following the logic as presented in that document.

Only if there are remaining high-risk people who need some protection. On the basis most countries appear to recognise risk level as a factor in assigning vaccine (though with much argument about what constitutes that risk), the argument you are doing high-risk people out of vaccination by...

Shame no-one developed an anti-wet wipe, nappy (etc.) WC which refused to flush if there was one in the bowl. This is because of yet another gigantic "fat berg" story. The water companies want praise for their effort in removing these things. But I argue they should enhance monitoring so they...

Having bought those ultra- cold refrigerators... The Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine does not need to be kept ultracold as was previously thought when the vaccine was approved for use. The companies say it is stable at between -25ºC and -15ºC, and have asked regulators to change the terms on which it...

Somewhat ironic being able to calculate pounds/shillings/pence when there were so many issues about even being able to print a UK currency pound sign! I never used the facility but I think the ICL 1900 range had special data formats to support National Coal Board payroll. Something bizarre like...

Some Pfizer experiences: I had the worst headache and I physically could not keep my eyes open. I went to bed, got up could hardly see out my eyes they were that swollen. I had fluid retention the whole way round both eyes, my face also puffed out bit not with fluid, only my eyes were effected...

So they are guilty... UK government broke the law by failing to disclose PPE contracts, court rules 2 hrs ago LONDON, Feb 19 (Reuters) - The British...

I've seen a poll of reactions. It is a confusing picture. AZ, Pfizer, Sinopharm, Moderna - though mostly AZ. Reactions vary from almost nothing, through a couple of days or so of more or less expected side effects, to feeling really ill to the point of calling doctors, etc. On the basis that...

And the odd multipliers sometimes used - an ell being 3 and a twelfth feet. (In Edinburgh. 45 inches in England.) But, even now, we continue with awkwardnesses. Like plasterboard being 2400 long - to finish walls of, more or less, standard height. Whereas timber sheeting is often 2440 long...

I remember the old mechanical calculators from school. Multiply by 24 = shift, add twice, shift back, add four times.

Apparently they was a Welsh mile as well - though a long time ago. Around 1470 yards.

Our use of units was spectacularly complicated. How many pounds in a stone? Well, umm, that depends. 14 for standard human weight. 15 for some purposes related to wool. Just checked because I know there are other multiples - Wiki claims 4 to 26 - which is slightly wider range than I remember...

Why do they have the gold? Why do they have the power? Why, why, why, why, why? Do they have the friends at the top? Why do they have the jobs at the top? We've got nothing, always had nothing Nothing but holes and millions of them Living in holes, dying in holes Holes in our bellies and holes...

"Père", dear boy, isn't he French now? (While accepting a UK vaccination.)