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Week from Monday 17th June 2024 - After some amount of 'PROS v CONS' pondering, and chats with various doctors and nurses to determine whether it will 'clash' with all the other meds I'm taking, today I'm accepting the 'invitation' to have my annual COVID VACCINATION. I can get it done at the pharmacy just across the road. But remembering how sick it made me last year (when they switched from MODERNA to PFIZER), I'm timing it so that I'll have a couple of 'free' days in which to recover... ANY SIDE EFFECTS?!? - Dizzy headache, nausea (non-productive) - Extreme tiredness - Shivery and shaky - Feverish (up to 100.3°F) - Lower blood pressure - Injection spot a bit inflamed after a couple of days So not so bad this time around, the latest flavour being MODERNA 'SpikeVax®'. I mainly just zonked out for about a day-and-a-half, as the various reactions came and went... "UNKNOWN PLEASURES" was released exactly #Fort...

Week from Monday 27th May 2024 Week from Monday 3rd June 2024 - Currently lots of mad 'rushing' around (hence the high blood pressure, I shouldn't wonder) with two visits to the HORSE PICKLE in the last few days and a bus trip to Gosport to collect my new GLASSES. I'm taking in a couple of CHARITY SHOPS for some light therapeutic relief along the way! (I found a couple of nice CDs for fifty pee each - an EMMYLOU HARRIS and the "ROUGH GUIDE TO GYPSY SWING".) I am able to enjoy some decent CYCLING coverage this week (blissfully free of all that terrible Eurosport commentary), as this time it is ITV4 who are carrying the CriTéRiuM du DAuphiNé highlights. And with my new spectacles, I can once again read the on-screen numbers clearly from across the room! I'll be cheering on MADS PEDERSEN as our man for the 'bunch sprints'... and here's hoping that GIULIO CICCONE can once again pick up a few green or polkadot points... I've also been st...