This month has been an absolute scorcher across our region until the social distancing restrictions were lifted… then we got overnight frost, snow, and rain. Typical! Most of our members have been enjoying the weather, either basking in the warmth or getting a bit of gardening done. I had some trees pruned in my garden, they were well overdue the pruning, to be honest, then for a bit of fun and frivolity, I bought a garden shredder and slowly over about a fortnight I shredded all the branches and twigs to be used as mulch on my garden. A job well done I think.

My two rescue terriers have discovered the garden and the joys of sunbathing. This is the first summer that I have had them both and just like two wee children they get up to mischief. I am spending a lot of my time putting up barricades to protect my low-maintenance plants, which are becoming higher maintenance by the day. Of course, the dogs look like butter wouldn’t melt…

I’ll start with the Committee’s many thanks to John Bell for all his work and his interesting, informative and entertaining blogs on our behalf. He has needed to step down, so Eileen and Annie will take over the Blog and bring their extra flavour to it along with our usual Facebook page news and article links from the past month. We are always pleased to have contributions from members, as from Steve this month, and for any feedback about the content of the Blog. 

Wishing you all an uplifting month with the onset of Spring. Take care and stay safe     Paul 

John is taking a break this month so the March blog won’t have his usual flair……….

………but here are some of the issues discussed and links posted on our Facebook pages this last month.

Hopefully John will be back soon. Take care and stay safe  Paul

Local Group News:

Much of the discussion this month has been around the Covid-19 vaccination – symptoms experienced (or not) after getting vaccinated; confusion over some wrongly dated appointment letters; petitions to be included in Group 6 of the vaccination roll-out…..and then confirmation towards the end of the month that ME/CFS patients will be included in the Group 6 cohort in D&G.