So I got my Covid vaccination.  

I had the Oxford Astrazeneca vaccination. It did affect me. I had it in the morning around 10.45 and felt fine. But last night I started shivering, had a high temperature being soaked in sweat and a banging headache so I had very little sleep. I was not expecting that I have to say.  Fortunately after two days I feel more or less human again though surprisingly tired I must admit.  Hopefully I will be able to get on with stuff again now. I did come up with a theme for a new tune  to work on though. So March has been a bit crap to start with. Hopefully it will improve.   Many of my contemporaries seem to have had an uncomfortable reaction post vaccination so far.  We are only a couple of weeks of the anniversary of the first lockdown  in the UK at the time of writing.  If anyone had told me it would last this long when it started last year I think I would have got pretty disapondant. But last year was not too bad until a good friend died unexpectedly in November. That did knock me flat I must admit.  I am feeling pretty flat about everything  at present. Its hoped that by mid June this year many normal social interactions will be able to take place again to some degree but it seems a very long way off from now.  I feel as if I have lost most of the normal social skills I used to have.  Its going to be rather an uphill struggle I feel. The only way forward is for me to push myself forward in a way I have never managed to do previously in my life. I have usually had someone onside with me giving me confidence. Without a personalty transplant I dont think its  a happening thing.  

So here is a tune.

So what have I been up to since you last heard from me. Music mostly and exercising and that’s really about it.  I just put a new tune up on Soundcloud and the usual places. A violin string broke right in the middle of a take, but hardly surprising as it was on my not much used electric fiddle.  The strings have not been changed much on that one. 

So here is the tune.Its an east mediterranean modal vibe type of thing. 
 

So there it is. In other news its a bit warmer.  

Week 6 of my extended exercises regime and I am having a bad day. My back has really been playing up big time. I hope its a temporary hick up, but I need be be a little bit careful for a day or so I think.  We have brilliant sunshine locally at the moment which is  great and gives the spirits a bit of a lift at least.  I won’t be offered a vaccination for a few weeks yet by the look of things. That’s not a huge problem as I am still pretty much in a bubble in practical terms.   

I have been beavering away creatively as much as possible I am a bit worried about repeating myself though. My mood is actually quite good considering. As I normally have an ongoing issue with depression I do wonder if my extra enforced physical activity is actually helping with it.   Perhaps?  Finances though mean I shall be on thin gruel for a while yet. I can’t see any money making opportunities before the end of this year.  Some people are rather better at coping with this lockdown lark  than I am.  Certainly talking to my friends and acquaintances many seem to be keeping quite bullish about things.  I do need to hear that of course. Remotely winning friends and influencing people is not yet part of my skill set. Also the gap left by people that are no longer around is hard to fill.  There is no off switch for that feeling and with very little in the way of distractions otherwise its harder still.  They say that you dont miss what you never had but I really dont think thats true or at least you miss perhaps what you nearly had?