Jules Jones

Every so often I grumble on Mastodon about the noisier missionaries on Market Street as I walk to the bus station. Tonight's nuisances were a little more problematic. They weren't loud, but they had a lot of posters about different people who had supposedly been harmed or killed by the Covid vaccine, and asking frantically when the next mutation was planned for. More worryingly a few people were stopping to talk to them, and as far as I could see not for mockery purposes.

 Had a bivalent Moderna jab this morning for my autumn Covid booster. The jab itself was barely noticeable. They weren't telling people to sit down for observation afterwards, but I did anyway because I'd felt distinctly wobbly during the observation period the first time round and had to have an extended observation period lying down in a dim room - almost certainly migraine aura after nearly an hour under fluorescent lights, but they weren't taking any chances. This time I had a noticeable slight ache after a few minutes, but this is normal for me because the RSI magnifies any muscle ache. Arm's getting a bit sore now, with accompanying ache in the RSI damaged muscles and tendons down that arm, but not at a level that needs a pain killer. I might take some aspirin anyway as a preventative, because my damaged tendons are likely to hurt quite a bit once the inflammation gets going.

Also getting a lot of typos. Not sure how much of that is the RSI kicking in, and how much mild aura, but I'm glad I took today off work.

I stopped in the charity shop across the road when I got out, and have returned home with £19 worth of craft materials, including a folding work basket that had some wool in it, a boxful of bits and pieces for "take the lot for £10", and a rather nice necklace of big beads that I will probably take apart for beads on a twiddlemuff. I don't actually want all the bits and pieces, but as the person behind the till said, craft people usually have craft friends they can pass the unwanted bits to. They often can't sell individual items, but put a batch of them together in a basket and the job lot will go. He was also telling me that they'd been seeing a lot of younger people looking for craft things, mostly witchy things like embroidery with black cats. The other thing the young people are into is making rugs with cartoon characters, such as detailed reproductions of scenes from the Simpsons, some of which they sell. Knitting books and patterns are selling well. Interesting bit of gossip about some of the effects of lockdown.