Vaccination Day

This is a little bit more of a diary entry than a blog post but we thought it would be good to mark the occasion!

Last Thursday (04th March 2021) Marion received her first dose of the Oxford Astra Zeneca Coronavirus Vaccine at the doctors surgery at the north end of Carlisle. Earlier this evening I received mine! The latter necessitated a drive down to Ulverston and a visit to the Glaxo Smith Kline vaccination centre, to all intent and purpose it was the first time we have left Carlisle since before Christmas so it was quite a road trip. We drove down via the coast and had fish and chips in Ulverston, I think its the first time either of us can recall having been there - its a pleasant town & we hope to go back. We drove home through the familiar roads of the Lake District, it was only around six thirty to seven o'clock in the evening - we've never seen the area so deserted!

Its hard to imagine that from its beginnings (for us) almost exactly a year ago, that a Covid-19 vaccine has been developed from scratch; tested; approved and successfully distributed to over 20 million UK citizens - quite a scientific & logistical feat!

We spoke of A Wind of Change in our last post, hopefully we have both taken a further step towards "new normal"

M&M