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Post by The Doctor on Jan 6, 2024 23:38:53 GMT
YES.
-Ralph
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Post by Shockprowl on Jan 6, 2024 23:54:43 GMT
Ralph needs four Grand Galvatrons so he can make a combiner that has only Ghost Starscreams for limbs. I understood that!
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Post by Shockprowl on Jan 6, 2024 23:55:01 GMT
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Post by The Doctor on Jan 6, 2024 23:55:48 GMT
GOOD DOCTOR.
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jan 13, 2024 22:19:05 GMT
Ooops
Fall on the call walking to the door to brew up & put bath on.
Ended up in a pile on the floor, completely overwhelmed, having difficulty talking, in a draft. Not good.
Couldn't make myself heard to the call, let alone shout for Liz. Was just fortunate she came up the stairs.
Got L to apologise to call and log off. That took the call noise out the equation and gave my brain enough to work out how to move
Had hoped to get back on but but Game Over :-(
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Jan 14, 2024 5:09:54 GMT
Oh no, sorry to hear this. Have a slow, careful and incident-free Sunday. Martin
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jan 14, 2024 13:14:22 GMT
A fall is a fall, it happens.
I think the thing that's bothering me was quite how overwhelmed I was on the floor and unable to draw attention to myself to get help. Nobody else's fault just couldn't call out
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Jan 14, 2024 13:20:32 GMT
Have you considered a technological solution to that particular problem?
Martin
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Post by Fortmax2020 on Jan 14, 2024 13:31:25 GMT
An emergency button could be good?
And preferably not a direct neurolink to the Borg Collective.
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Post by legios on Jan 14, 2024 18:22:57 GMT
An emergency button could be good? I had a similar thought. Even if it was just a thing that set off a light and a buzzer on a device Liz could have so that you could summon assistance. Karl
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Post by Philip Ayres on Mar 1, 2024 12:09:50 GMT
Incident at Dentist this morning.
The entrance way to my dentist has an "Airlock" of sorts, with a door opening out to the street, a door opening from the waiting room into the airlock and a step down. The space inside the airlock is smaller than an old phone box,just about large enough for one of the doors to swing into
There's a wheelchair ramp for the step, but you need to get the staff to put it down for you.
Not an ideal situation to start with.
There is a sign outside saying ring bell for assistance. Unfortunately someone half inched the bell years ago and they've not bothered replacing it.
So I have to park the chair in front of the door, pull two doors open, and go down a step to ask them to lay the ramp down.
Today the receptionist, who I've not met before, misunderstood what I was saying and attempted to push the chair down the step. I clarified my request and she went to get the ramp. I'm in the airlock bit between the two doors attempting to return to my chair, cos I'm already a bit wobbly thanks to weather, when a little old lady appears trying to pass by the side of my chair. "Hold on" I said, let me get back in the chair first. "But I'm getting wet she says" and attempts to come past me. She brushes against me, I loose my balance and collapse to the floor of a space no bigger than a door square, blocking the door out from the surgery from opening.
Somehow, after a short wait, I managed to get back to my feet and back to the chair and down inside but by that stage the damage was done.
Not at all good now.
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Mar 1, 2024 18:18:06 GMT
Argh. Martin
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Post by Pinwig on Mar 1, 2024 20:40:32 GMT
Bloody hell Phil. I hope she at least apologised.
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Dezzeh
Thunderjet
Wait, what?
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Post by Dezzeh on Apr 7, 2024 18:49:24 GMT
So today was one of those milestones that marks the start of something. Ideally I could do with living on one level. My in laws have a Bungalow but we couldn't afford it and my Father In Law wasn't moving anyway My father in law died start last September, the probate is through so the house is now all in my Mother in Law's name and she wants to go to sheltered accommodation. My mother died end of September, her probate is being done by one of my brothers but once the house in London is sold we should have some cash Today we took our surveyor friend into my Mother In Laws to look it over and assess if what we want to do to it could be done, with a broadpark cost estimate. Short story: modifications are all doable, and within potential budget. The plan is we find my 85yo MiL the Sheltered Accommodation she wants, move her in, do the work, move us in, sell here, and pay her. As a priority we'd get the garage made safe and watertight and move the contents of the loft of joy down there for a major purge. I think it's going to have to be very major as I think I'm going to need most of the existing garage space for my books. Ah Phil, quite the undertaking but hopefully getting in to the bungalow will work nicely for you!
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Post by Philip Ayres on Apr 24, 2024 20:16:25 GMT
Guess who just broke the stairlift?
Moved about a foot, something in the mechanism audibly shattered and the alarm went off. Reached for the release cord to move it back and it snapped so it's now obstructing the entrance to the stairs from the hall. Managed to turn it off so we're spared the alarm.
This may not be cheap :-(
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Post by The Doctor on Apr 24, 2024 20:40:46 GMT
Have you...have you tried running a Level III Diagnostic?
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Apr 24, 2024 20:54:15 GMT
The engineer will need to get inside it first. I've managed to turn it's power off - push in the release mechanism, which fortunately does not need the cord attached.
There looks like there's an amount of fine plastic shrapnel in the hall.....
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Post by The Doctor on Apr 24, 2024 21:03:20 GMT
Geordi just needs enough room to roll under the door.
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Apr 24, 2024 21:07:14 GMT
We're having to limbo under the chair arm!
Liz may have serious difficulty getting upstairs tonight
Will get a picture in the morning
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Post by that_bluestreak on Apr 24, 2024 21:55:22 GMT
blooming heck mate, that sounds like a mare. i hope they get it fixed asap.
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Apr 25, 2024 4:16:03 GMT
Oh no. Martin
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Post by Fortmax2020 on Apr 25, 2024 6:53:44 GMT
Can Liz sleep in the chair?
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Post by Shockprowl on Apr 25, 2024 21:00:48 GMT
Just be careful you don't end up like that lady in Gremlins.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Apr 25, 2024 21:21:24 GMT
On the one hand the stairlift is sorted.
On the other my bank account is lighter by getting on for one Unicron
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Post by Shockprowl on Apr 25, 2024 21:32:11 GMT
Yikes
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Post by Fortmax2020 on Apr 26, 2024 6:54:20 GMT
How many Unicrons does Phil want??
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