Stormy Weather

[mangerton]

Vints, I think my admirers (broken down by age and sex) have gone off the boil!

How can you say that? Enjoy your dinner!

[Anna]

How can you say that? Enjoy your dinner!

You are as sweet as a Tunnocks dark chocolate covered tea cake!! Totally toothsome!
Now, I am off to entertain my guests. Have a lovely evening.

[BBMmk2]

Certainly quite autmnal feel to the weather today. ?Autumn has arrived, especially when Radio 3 this morning has a themed programme today oin RC's programme!

[amateur51]

I mean, you wouldn't want me to tar all the English with the brush of (insert name of your least favourite English person here).

As a Welshman to a Scotsman, I give you carte blanche, mangerton

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

(broken down by age and sex)

Yup; sums me up!

Lovely, fresh (= "bloomin' chilly") yesterday in the Pennines - and a gorgeous full moonlit night sky. It's supposed to be moderate rain all day today, and it started that way - stopped now and the sun is out again. Time for another bracing (= "bloomin' chilly") walk.

[salymap]

Everyone I know is coughing and sneezing with dreadful bugs that seem to be going around. I hope to have my flu jab next Saturday - hope it will be in time to help me what I laughingly call 'fit'.Very chilly here today. Brr.......

[amateur51]

Everyone I know is coughing and sneezing with dreadful bugs that seem to be going around. I hope to have my flu jab next Saturday - hope it will be in time to help me what I laughingly call 'fit'.Very chilly here today. Brr.......

I'm having mine on Wenesday which is why I'm doing some serious store-cupboard shopping tomorrow as the chances of next weekend's being a man-flu episode are pretty high

[Anna]

There's an epidemic of whooping cough at the moment, in adults as well as children. Someone was telling me yesterday his wife has been very ill with it (I had assumed with vaccination it had more or less been wiped out) Dull, dark, dreary, but dry here today. My sister has phoned to tell me all about her trip to St. Petersburg, sounds absolutely wonderful <sigh and envy emoticon> Do flu jabs give you mini-flu? Never knew that, best wishes for speedy recovery in advance Ams!

[amateur51]

There's an epidemic of whooping cough at the moment, in adults as well as children. Someone was telling me yesterday his wife has been very ill with it (I had assumed with vaccination it had more or less been wiped out) Dull, dark, dreary, but dry here today. My sister has phoned to tell me all about her trip to St. Petersburg, sounds absolutely wonderful <sigh and envy emoticon> Do flu jabs give you mini-flu? Never knew that, best wishes for speedy recovery in advance Ams!

Cheers, Anna - I s'pose I've had two two-day bouts of sweaty tiredness immediately post-jab in 5 years so it's not inevitable.

I heard a whooping cough specialist explaining about this whooping cough vaccine they want to start using on babes - apparently it does not confer a lifetime's immunity

[Anna]

I heard a whooping cough specialist explaining about this whooping cough vaccine they want to start using on babes - apparently it does not confer a lifetime's immunity

That's interesting because I heard another specialist saying the reason for the current outbreak of whooping cough in adults is the vaccination programme not permitting mild infections of it and therefore not boosting natural immunity!

[Flay]

Pertussis isn't wiped out. No vaccine works in everyone, but if enough are covered then the illness is kept at bay. Smallpox has been eradicated, it is being tried with polio, but whooping cough will be here for a long time. Because there was a poor uptake some years ago, more adults have not been protected, so it is spreading (even some who have been jabbed will inevitably be unprotected if they failed to respond to it). You cannot immunise newborns because their immune systems aren't mature eough. The idea is to boost the pregnant mother's imunity so newborns have "passive" immunity from antibodies which go through the placenta.

This is important. Pertussis is a very nasty debilitating and potentially fatal disease. Please encourage everyone to have the jab.

[Anna]

Oh, thanks Flay. I have no idea if I've been vaccinated, should we ask our GPs whether we should have the jab?

[Pianorak]

Just as well I'm not a hypochondriac - but almost wish I hadn't read this about pertussis, as I have been having coughing fits and sore throat (but no temperature) for the past 10 days, now slowly improving. Surgery phoneline engaged, engaged, engaged - so gave up in the end. To add insult to injury: got a flu jab appointment for 27 Oct. Should I bother?

[mangerton]

As a Welshman to a Scotsman, I give you carte blanche, mangerton

Well! I'm not sure I'd know where to start, but I think members of the current UK cabinet would be high on the list.

[vinteuil]

I think members of the current UK cabinet would be high on the list.

... hmmm. "Cameron". - Now, where does that name come from?