Thread 14? Corona Cohort Yr 12 2021 - 'Vaccinations and Eliminations'

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Just place marking for the New Thread!

In East Anglia they call many people Good Old Boy , regardless of age or sometimes even sex.

DS is having a rest this week so not planning on doing much work. He’s sent off for some hard copy prospectuses (under my prompting). He’s another who hasn’t decided what he wants to do although he’s now looking at Computer Science courses. Fortunately, we can give him a personal lowdown on quite a few of the cities since we have grown up/studied/lived in quite a few - Bristol, Birmingham, Exeter, Loughborough, Manchester, Nottingham. We have quite a few academics in our family so have the lowdown for Warwick & Leeds too.

I remember having zero input from my parents with regard to open days - I went under my own steam. DS is seemingly less motivated about virtual open days so I’m just nudging him along. He is nowhere near a shortlist of places, let alone favoured courses.

Who was it that was making protein pancakes? Looking for a recipe recommendation for tonight.

It was ds1 @Monkey.
I asked him what recipe he used and he says the recipes are all pretty similar. Its the type of protein powder that makes them taste nice. Apparently his best flavour was Chocolate Brownie. Also he fries them in coconut oil and has them with coconut yoghurt & berries.

DS's laptop is back. We could get Office back : it took an hour of swearing followed by a 2 hour phone call to a lovely young woman in a Microsoft call centre but we are sorted.

Meanwhile, I have discovered I overlooked a route to Leeds via Peterborough (no idea why as I looked at Pboro for York and Durham) which has brought it back into the fold!

DS just had 5 pancakes...

Piggy I was catching up and just about to say the London to Edinburgh service sometimes catches us out by going to Leeds! It’s not very frequent but I think there’s a couple a day. Bizarrely I have lived near 4 different main stations on the East Coast line and Dd uses it now so know all the permutations well. A good tip if doing a long journey is to buy a cheap second class ticket then top up by £15 to go first class and eat/drink your way to your destination for free. That worked out well for a couple of train journeys to visit universities.

I have just slipped in dog drool. She’s been following me and the pancake saucepan round the kitchen. I have been a good tosser this year and she’s not happy .

@Piggywaspushed I live in east anglia. But I'm from Surrey. The Norfolk accent is funny. Some of DH's farming friends are so hard to understand. They say things like "he's a rum 'un" never heard it until I moved here. I can tell when my husband is on the phone to a Norfolk person as he says things like "Peter do" and I'll shout "does!" Or "yes it go that way" I'll shout "goes" I get irritated when he joins in their way of speaking. Dh is from Essex, he doesn't have the famous Essex accent. The Norfolk and Suffolk accent is disappearing though. Not many of the youngsters have it even when their parents do. Too many of us foreigners around.

Yes, it is sadly disappearing. I still hear old boys say 'goos' insetad of 'goes'. And 'oi' in light and noo for no.

DS does say 'pahk' instead of RP type 'paaahk' though. If you see what I mean...

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I've just seen they have found this new South African variant in our area today. People with our postcode being asked to do covid tests. Our postcode covers a quite a few villages and a town in Norfolk and Suffolk. I just want dh to get his vaccine now. Though not sure how effective it is against this new variant.

@icanbewhatiwant the vaccine may not stop him from getting the new variant, but makes it much milder, so will still protect him from getting seriously ill.

@teta we did not do well with DS's protein pancakes, the recipe we tried was egg whites, protein powder and water. We were lazy and put whole eggs in and realised we had made vanilla omelette, not a success but the dog did well out of it!

@Monkey2001 yes I know. Thanks. I don't think he will be getting the vaccine for a while yet anyway. He's had the flu jab for at least 20 years. But he's had to phone and ask the last few years, so I think he's probably not on the vulnerable list now. He's also had a pneumonia vaccine. I was hoping he'd be group 6. But probably group 7.

I don't think they are testing the villages in the postcode, just the main town. So not us.

My DH had the same of having to chase up the flu jab this year ican . They seemed to bump quite a few people off flue list.

Had it confirmed yesterday, though, that he is definitely gp 6 for covid vaccine so it is worth phoning GP.

DH, group 6, called his GP yesterday and was told that our GP practice does not offer the vaccine so he will be contacted in due course by another practice. I just hope he does not fall through the cracks. Race to get him the vaccine before school opens.

In news more relevant to the thread, DS Springpod work experience seems more familiarization rather than work ex. So far he has attended a talk by an investment banker and an accountant.

Does anyone know if it's important for a particular degree to have an Accrediting Professional or Statutory Body?
Looking into Biology for DD, and was reading more in depth for Sheffield Uni degree, which is 11th on the Complete University Guide league Table (I know, but I've got to start somewhere) :-) so assume it's a well respected course etc, but it isnt Accrediting Professional or Statutory Body?

Does this matter at all?

I completely spoke too soon. DH has just got a vaccine appointment for Friday! So happy .

@Frequentflier that's good he had the call. Mine won't phone the gp to ask. He says he will wait. He's not got anything medically wrong to make him vulnerable, he just gets a bad chest easily. He usually gets a cold around December every year, then ends up with several months of chest infection, antibiotics, steroids etc. He's avoided a cold this year, so no chest infection this winter. He's also had pneumonia 3 times. His dd bought him a whittling set for Christmas. He kept complaining his chest was tight and hurting, then he realised it was sanding the little bird he was making upsetting his chest.

Excellent news Frequentflier, such a relief isn’t it.

Heifer I don’t think there is one for biology, very happy to be corrected on this. Friend’s DC doing biomedical science and think there is one for that but not aware of one for biology.

@Heifer I don’t know about Biology but architecture does and I imagine most degrees leading to professional qualifications do?

For people waiting for calls from GPS re jabs, haven’t they said that you don’t have to wait for a call, you can just book online if you’re in that group?

Heifer I think it’s supposed to be accredited by the Royal Society of Biology or Biologists??

@Heifer: I'll try and ask dh if he knows - he has an applied zoology degree, and is involved in recruiting bio/bio-chem grads for, albeit in a reasonably niche space. Does she know where she wants the degree to take her?

PS Great news on your dh @Frequentflier - and fingers crossed your dh gets an appt soon too @icanbewhatiwant. I'm not sure which groups are opened up to self-book, but as @JustHereWithMyPopcorn says, it might be worth logging onto the booking site, as I know older family members who were waiting for letters were able to book themselves in by doing that...

@Heifer I think the new universities may focus more on accreditation than the old. DS1's GF was going to do Biomed and wanted to go to Sheffield but only got an offer from Sheffield Hallam, not University of Sheffield. We then discovered that the Hallam one was accredited and meant there was a more straight-forward path to work in hospital labs, but the "Uni of" one was not. Probably to do with expected pathways from various degrees.

My DH is also having the jab on Friday and I have a place on the mixed vaccine trial, getting it on Sunday.

A GP friend said they are still overwhelmed by patients calling to tell them they should be in the vulnerable group, and some of them are right, but most are not. I am sure people discussed here really should be in the next group, but if you get an unsympathetic response from the GP, that is why.