Early birthday present!!!

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Two, in fact:

Covid booster and flu shot.

Had text saying my GP was offering the first, but with really weird time slots when I logged in via the link, and then had texts and emails from NHS offering chance to book both at local pharmacies, so partner and I both booked for first day available, which was today, at the nearest chemists.

Have been and got them and come back.

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In other news, this morning I had a rather bizarre text purporting to come from Royal Mail, except Royal Mail texts usually say Royal Mail rather than [number]*, and claiming they had parcel for me which they could not deliver because of problem with the address, could I follow link and give right address?

While the link was quite a convincing mockup of a Royal Mail site, there was something just a bit off about the form, and the URL was royalpost rather than royalmail, so I am pretty sure this was some kind of scam, I am just not entirely sure what the point of getting my address is.

Do they then come back to me saying, alas and woe, insufficient postage, please to cough up difference?

A little further running and finding out suggests that the website and the number are in hinky territory, without any actual claims of malfeasance being stated.

*Amusingly, Malwarebytes have been given to mark actual Royal Mail texts as potentially dodgy, because they often contain the link to the tracking site presumably, but didn't pick up this one....