Enough is enough

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Opened the blinds in the morning then had a fit of anger. Apparently weather will only get better when the last of the blossoms on the fruit trees have frozen off. I do not even want to imagine how much we will have to pay for saisonal fruit this year, especially if you consider that imported fruit is not imported in such large quantities as it has been the years before, because, you know, corona and we have to support local farmers by buying local products... Trouble is that none has a cash cow at home, well, at least most of us don´t. And since the price of ordinary apple varieties was far over three Euros per kilo I do not even want to know how high prices will climb in autumn! The only cheap fruits we can buy at the moment is strawberries from Spain. Only that I am allergic to strawberries...
Breakfast, the highlight of my day, was nice as always, at least until I got up to get me another cup of coffee. Only then I felt a cool but quite sticky wetness on my thighs. One of the cats had puked on the dining chair, and me, wearing no glasses, had sat amidst the mess. Oh those cats! There´s 40 square metres of tiled floor to puke on, but no, it has to be my chair!
Hubby is on his way to get his first covid vaccination. They have phoned him half an hour ago, to come quickly. That´s what you get when those with a regular vaccination appointment do not show up because, you know, Vaxzevria aka AstraZeneca.
We just have another sleet shower of epic proportions going down. It is quite dark outside, so I have to type with the studio´s lamps on. I am so fed up with this weather!

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[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

It has been mildly but steadily raining all day over here — including the one hour when I had to go to the grocer's because we'd run out of milk, bread and other basic foodstuffs. But since we've been spared the wind going with the rain so far (*fingers crossed that it'll stay that way), the balcony hasn't started leaking yet, so I'm willing to gladly tolerate the rain while lugging home the groceries. *sigh* Such are the joys of our lives in these days.

I'm definitely with you re: food prices. I already dread what will come in this area. We won't starve, or at least I hope we won't, despite the small fortune Mum's accident has cost us already, but I'm not happy about the thought of paying twice as much for the same product than last year. And last year's prices were mildly outrageous already!

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How true! And it is not the foodstuff alone, where prices went through the roof. In the apothecary I bought saline nose drops as a supplement to the regular ones. Same brand, same size as the one I bought four weeks ago. Now seven Euro instead of five. That´s price gouging!

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

I find it particularly mean that they raise the prices of things you just can't... errr... wie sagt man "verzichten auf etwas" in Englisch? We're often joking that it's a worldwide conspiracy to get rid of elderly people, so that the government won't have to pay their old-age pensions. You either can't afford the food or can't afford the medicine; in either case, you die and the politicians can save more money to waste on themselves or on their insane projects.

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

Or you get pneumonia because if you eat you can't afford to heat the house.

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

I'm fine that I had AZ vaccine ; I get my second shot on May 22nd — 10 weeks after the first, which seems to be about the best timespan. It should mean that I will be about 80% immune to the current version of the virus in Britain, and if I do get infected I shouldn't feel very ill, just a few days. So I'm good with that.

The blood clot thing doesn't worry me, really — 4 out of the 1139 people on our island who have tested positive for covid this year have died, so a 1 in 285 chance of dying if you get it. These odds look a lot worse than the ones for the clotting post vaccination :)

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I do not have a problem with AZ. It´s only that at the moment the vaccination schedule gets turned upside down. My turn might be next week or in June, you never know!

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

Yes — I realised you were, as your husband was happy to go and get it — I sort of phrased my answer a bit awkwardly.

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I think this will make you understand why I am so baffled about our ways of vaccination: My friend got a call at 2 PM that she had signed in for vaccination, and that she was to show up the same afternoon. Only that my friend was in hospital, having had a metal plate removed from her ankle. The caller threatened she now would have to wait for at least another month to get a new date. Isn´t this fun?

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

Oh dear...