Perhaps it's just me, but I need long periods uninterrupted to work. It's not just the regular status meetings, but other meetings which break up the day to an extent that I can no longer get that.

Yeah, but that's not a scrum thing. Most days, I have the daily stand up (which occurs right after I get to work), and that's it. The one day where we do all the grooming and retro and demo every two weeks is more or less lost, but that's not much of a problem.

What about code reviews?

Code reviews are very important, so I don't complain about time spent doing them.