Oakwood After The Jab

I must admit I was a bit nervous about getting my first jab today - I'm not the biggest fan of needles. Luckily this was probably only my third experience of any kind of jab in the last 40 years! One was my BCG injection when I was still at school and the other was a blood test a couple of years ago and on each occasion the needles seemed on the large side (most likely this was my overactive imagination).
Today's vaccination could not have been any easier or more straightforward - it was all over in less than ten minutes. I arrived, joined a very small queue, gave my name and phone number, was asked a few medical questions and then had the jab (which you could hardly even feel) and that was it. I was even given a badge (see extra). I was just told not to drive for 15 minutes and then I could go home. 
My brother had had his jab just a few minutes earlier so he waited for me and we then had a lovely walk in the spring sunshine until it was time to go home. All in all actually quite a nice little trip out!
Today's main image is of Oakwood Hospital which is just along the road from the medical centre where we had our jabs and was actually designated as the sight for Kent's first lunatic asylum in 1828. It was designed by John Whichford Sr (Kent's county surveyor since 1825), opened it's doors to patients in 1st January 1833 and was known as the Kent County Asylum, Barming Heath Asylum, Barming Mental Hospital and finally Oakwood Hospital until it finally closed over 160 years later in 1994. By then it had fallen into significant disrepair but was subsequently redeveloped for residential use and you are now able to take a stroll through the tree lined grounds.