Good Omens, literally

[nineveh_uk]

After going home sick at lunchtime*, my day has been greatly improved by the first photo of David Tennant and Michael Sheen as Crowley and Aziraphale in the forthcoming TV adaptation of Good Omens.



I definitely approve. Crowley's a bit different from the book, but the faint miasma of desperation exuding from the aging would-be rocker works for me. As for Aziraphale, for the people complaining that it looks exaggerated, that's mild compared to some of the horrors you get round Oxford**. The appalling cut of the trousers is a particularly fine touch, and I like the 'cherub gone to seed' of the fluffy blond hair.

*To the tune of Bohemian Rhapsody: Is this the real flu? Is it just virus-y? Crap immune system, no escape from things disease-y.

**The pale mustard broad wale corduroy suit remains a low point.

Comments

[antisoppist]

They are really pushing it. I had my asthma check-up two weeks ago and they ordered me* to book myself in on the official flu jab day, which was yesterday. After having it, I went into the pharmacy to pick up my asthma drugs and the woman on the till said "it's your lucky day, you qualify for a free flu jab at the pharmacy!" and I said "I've just had one".

*"You of all people really need to have a flu jab". Ah. OK. Well I will then. I didn't last year because no-one mentioned it. The previous year I got an invitation.

[nineveh_uk]

Who'd have thought that "Actually tell specific people they can and should have this thing for free" works as a health intervention...

[aunty_marion]

I had an email from the surgery about getting a flu jab on the 4th of September, and a letter about my asthma review dated the same (which arrived, obviously, a few days later). So I'm going for the asthma review tomorrow, and was told that the nurse will very likely give me my flu jab then as well.

I've never had flu (to my knowledge), and hope never to do so; I've had enough bronchitis, pneumonia and pleurisy to last me (even though I think my 'asthma exacerbations' would probably count as bronchitis in anyone else!), and if I got flu it would probably turn to pneumonia, so ... flu jab it is.

[nineveh_uk]

I have realised that the reason it was lingering wasn't that it was Real Flu, but that it was an ordinary virus that has turned into a sinus infection. So I shall still be getting a flu jab. I have had flu and it was unpleasant and I want to avoid it and something else pulling me down so I'm going to get the jab (I haven't before), but while I know it can be very serious*, I suspect some of the "Oh it's so awful, nothing like a cold" comes from people who don't get really awful colds. Though at least I don't have asthma so no pneumonia for me, and hopefully not for you!

*I shall not forget the academic in a previous department who was off work for a month and returned having clearly significant weight. He had been, and looked like, someone who had been very sick indeed.