Lovely photos @wintermom. That's cold! The coldest I've experienced here is -13 C. Good run today in lovely sparkly weather, temps around freezing. The beach was gorgeous, and I picked up speed a bit. Stretchy yoga this evening. I might try working on Flying Pigeon. Scrambled egg and salad. Mushroom and chickpea soup. Roast chicken, sprouts and courgette.

These are the vacination data by country https://ourworldindata.org/covid-vaccinations

For click and collect the system is similar: big plastic trays from which you pack your own bags. People in the UK mostly pack their own bags in supermarkets anyway.

When we get grocery deliveries without bags, big plastic baskets of goods are stacked on my doorstep. The delivery person steps back and I stand inside the house unloading the groceries into my own bags.

Risk of hospitalisation. Higher than I thought at my age https://covid.joinzoe.com/post/covid-hospitalisation-risk?utm_source=App

According to the Covid Zoe app survey, vaccine hesitancy in the UK is greatest amongst younger people, those in London and surrounding area, women, and ethnic minorities. Let's hope that confidence will build over the coming months.

I had a lump in my breast and a biopsy. The biopsy was inconclusive, so I had the lump removed. Benign. No further problems over the following decades. Tiny scar. FWIW I reduced my cholesterol with a whole food diet, limited animal products and lots of oats - oatmeal for breakfast and oatmilk in tea. I increased my exercise too.

Yes. I should have read your link.

We have a slow down in supply. They are having to make some alterations to the Pfizer plant that supplies the UK.

I'm really enjoying the running. It was a bit wet on the beach, but there wasn't much wind. I have my fingers very much crossed - it could be a few weeks before my knee objects. It's fun that I'm finding that - aerobically and in terms of muscle strength - the slow running is very easy. This week it's three sessions of five minutes each, with a walk between (shorter each time). I'm having to persuade myself not to do more/go faster. I also have less jiggle than last time I ran - not because of change in weight so much as due to better musculature, I think. Violet skies: I can't remember - are we further north than you at 56 degrees north? We do get really good sunrises and sunsets: maybe the sea, but if we are further north, then more density of atmosphere to scatter the light, maybe?

Planning on a training run at lunchtime. It will be pretty misty on the beach. Yoga later - probably stretchy and low-key.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jan/20/talking-can-spread-covid-as-much-as-coughing-says-research?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other Infectiousness in different circumstances.

I'm the other way around - I wear my pj top for a week but my bottoms for only half a week. I don't wear underwear.

A quiet day. I walked the dog and did a shortish yoga. The walking surface wasn't icy, so that was great. Luckily the roads around here are pretty quiet, so I can walk down the middle when I need to avoid other walkers on the pavement. Tomorrow I hope to run. Muesli plus yoghurt. Lentils, celeriac, egg, pear. Haddock in spicy tomato sauce, plus courgette and broccoli.

@Ausmumof3 The most reliable statistics come from death certificates, which include everyone: https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/details/deaths

This is also just a tricky virus. You could have it but be asymptomatic. And no one knows yet why some people with close contact don't catch it whilst others with the same contact do. Ventilation is good for sure though.

Sounds like a migraine to me too. I get them occasionally now, but my worst period was during puberty and again when pregnant with my first child. For what it's worth, I find that if I take 400g of Ibuprofen when I first start to see/feel the aura of a migraine (in my case, flashing lights on the periphery of my vision) then it usually stalls it. I feel a bit off-colour for a few days, but it never becomes debilitating.

I would do it, but I'd wait a year until the virus is more under control. On my list that would be important but not urgent.

I'm not allowed to leave my county.

Ran today and on Saturday. It wasn't hard - running very slowly - and I enjoyed it. The new running action - on the balls of my feet - is starting to feel natural. It remains to be seen how my knee holds up. I'm reminded of that episode of House when he has a miracle treatment and can run again. And then it fails. Completely rubbish yoga session. My legs must just have been tired I managed Half Moon okay but fell out of all the other balances.

Not right now. Not so much because of the property itself - if it was empty for a couple of days on either end, I wouldn't be worried. I don't want to be travelling though, having to deal with unfamiliar places and therefore having contact with more people. For now, I stay home, see my immediate family (those I live with). I don't even go for walks with friends. I only get deliveries/click and collect. The vaccine is coming and I don't want to screw up. I don't want to get ill and I don't want to have possibly life-long side effects. Nine more months without a holiday is fine.

Fun system for vaccination organisation: a local vaccination programme in Yeovil in the SW of the UK is naming cohorts by garden bird. The first cohort was over-eighties with underlying conditions - storks; old people in care homes - robins; other over-eighties - bluetits.... The cohorts are called up by phone (almost everyone in the country is registered with an NHS GP) and invited to come in. It's then very easy to know who needs to come in for their second dose: okay, this week it's the robins... They can chase up any robins who miss their second appointments very easily. Among that age group, they've had only about 1% refusing the vaccination.

The university where I work has had fewer cases proportionately than the rest of the county. Lectures were online but tutorials were in person, distanced and masked for most of last semester. There is a high proportion of overseas students though, which also meant considerable compulsory self-isolation at the beginning of the semester.

Discussion on vaccine efficacy after single dose. In case you have to Google, the programme is More or Less, latest episode. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000r4t9

Long term, something like that could happen here, with private patients paying out of pocket for particular vaccines. For the foreseeable future, however, the entire vaccine supply is government controlled - when you get the call to go for a vaccine, you take whichever one is offered or choose to refuse vaccination.