Holiday?

Half term week – great – decent weather forecast, I’m under pressure to take my leave allocation – lets go for it. Take it easy, do some jobs in the garden, catch up on the email backlog ….

Nice idea! The Citi 7 issues really knocked that all for six – a couple of meetings, several trips to the Parish Office, 136 mails sent, 365 received (OK, not quite all of them community issues), articles for the Courier – where did the time go?

Yes, one bag of “Denise’s delight” from Madingley Mulch duly transferred to the raised beds in the back garden (and a few other odd jobs done there). A very pleasant meal with family at the Crown, Girton to celebrate my birthday – but where did the rest of it go? Email backlog – there’s more of it!

Next week – back to work, and a meeting every evening, and the annual service at the War Memorial on Sunday – I need a holiday!

Flu

We’re all focused on swine flu – and its real, of course. Numbers of reported cases are rising, and there have been a very small number of deaths. For most people, though, its still a mild illness.

Have we taken our eyes off the ball though? Swine flu is this year’s special – but there’s still ordinary flu – and there are some deaths from that each year. So, have you been vaccinated?

For the last few years I have – and I’ve been fine. Of course, I might have been fine without – but since this year’s jab cost me a mere £8 at Asda I’ll go with that. Asda aren’t the only people doing it – and will only be doing it on Saturday’s in October – but get the jab – don’t get ordinary (or swine) flu.