Vaccination Planes

 So, I've been for my shot yesterday, and today enjoyed all the news about how my Astro Zeneca shot might give me a blood clot if I'm horribly unlucky!

On balance however, I'm glad I've had the shot. 

It was quite a strange feeling. Most of the folk were older people there for their second shot of Pfizer, while us very few younger ones - I reckon I was the youngest - were ushered down the fast lane for AZ. 

I say fast lane, but there was an awful lot of paperwork that seemed to be needed to be done in triplicate as I'm sure many of you will know. There shiny clinical setting that the jabs were done in was also slightly offset by the fact that the reception area, and then the post jab area you had to sit in for 15 minutes afterwards in case you keeled over, were both essentially cowsheds used for the agricultural shows that the showground puts on. 

What was surprising was that the injection itself I never felt at all, unlike the flu shots which seem to need screwing into my bicep. Sadly, I didn't get a massive plaster over the jab to show off, although I did get a sticker.

Afterwards I treated myself by riding over to the air museum and getting a few closer up shots of the planes. And then having a bag of chips from the works canteen.

Because that's healthy, right?

Si

All text and images copyright CreamCrackeredNature 07.04.21

Journey to Vulcan

 A later start today but I still got out and walked for just over two hours. 

It was an odd sort of walk really, for it was hardly a scenic or pleasurable route. The main purpose was actually to see how long it would take me to walk from work to my vaccination appointment on Tuesday. Gee the glamour of the outdoor life. 

However, it wasn't all tarmac and traffic fumes, although it was mostly that. I saw a massive hare on the showground, a hare so big that I thought it was a deer when I first glimpsed its flashing white tail. Buzzards were circling in various places, and once the sun was out it was a reasonably pleasant day. 

I also saw the big Vulcan bomber at the air museum, although I couldn't get as close as I thought. It's a historic aircraft that arrived at the museum by actually landing on the runway next door, part of the old RAF Winthorpe site. 

I remember seeing a Vulcan Scramble at an air show at RAF Waddington. Those aircraft were BEASTS!

Si

All text and images copyright CreamCrackeredNature 03.04.21

Vulcan XH558 Drops By

She seemed like an ideal test subject for my DA-DA-DAAAAAA brand new Fuji S8650!

OK, it's the last one in the shop, a display model, but it works, and as soon as I'd rescued the SSD card from the compact camera I had dropped, I headed off for Newark Air Museum to take some thrilling shots of the mighty Vulcan V-Bomber on her last flight.

As she normally does, she honoured the museum with several circuits and a dramatic roll and climb, the engines roaring. And as I stood next to the main road, I found immediately how tricky it actually is to take photographs of a moving aircraft with a 36X bridge camera. The focus tends to struggle to keep up!

The extreme shakiness of the photographer doesn't help either!

(looking now at some online reviews, it appears that the focus is renowned for being a little slow on zoom shots, but the camera in general gets a good write up.)

Anyway, here are the best shots I could get of the Vulcan.

Si

All text and images copyright CreamCrackeredNature 11.10.15