Tuesday, 9 February 2021

More progress

The chaps haven’t been able to progress with the garden, which is now under a blanket of snow.  The prospect of travelling to Hastings on Friday for Jab N°1 was beginning to weigh on me a little, so a phone call from the local practice this morning was more than welcome.  It’ll be done tomorrow here in town, and Jab N°2 at the same place in late April, a week earlier than my original appointment.  So that’s a couple of slots freed up for the good people of ‘astings.  It does seem a little inefficient that two booking systems are running in parallel, but at least that’ll get me jabbed sooner than expected, and after all there’s a finite amount of vaccine.  (The German for which, you’ll be glad to know, is Impfstoff.  Five consonants in a row.)  I’ll still have to drive, including a slither down the hill to get to treated roads, but at least I’m spared ordeal by A21.

Quite a good gate at today’s German conversation Zoom, which majored on the decision of the Ghent toon cooncil to cease all its twinning arrangements save for one city in Japan.  Its twin town Wiesbaden (also ours) is pretty upset, so there was some good German to work on from press releases and newspapers.  Our twinning arrangement doesn’t seem to have done much of late (far less with any input from me), which is a shame.  The Dundee twinnings with Orléans and Würzburg were well supported when I was at school.  But as we discussed today, modern languages are not fashionable at schools these days.  Shame, at several levels, eh?

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