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Gwylan
Veteran
- Location
- All at sea⛵
Had an offer of a free hearing test from a well known high street chemist yesterday. answered the 'qualifying questions' and yes, I qualify - !
Oddly one of said questions was in German, more of that in a mo.
Phone rang a few minutes later from a lass to book my test in. She was from Dublin, but working in Berlin for a Swiss company - !
Thus the question in German, a techno slip, but the coy. who make the hearing aids that are being offered, are Swiss.
So it all makes sense eh - ? !
The swiss made a strategic decision to leverage their fine engineering skills. Like clock making into other areas. That is making small, compact, technically sophisticated, quite valuable items.
Those included hearing aids and other sophisticated medical items. Great idea except the Chinese do not respect patents and silly ideas like intellectual property.
oldwheels
Legendary Member
- Location
- Isle of Mull
A day of bright sunshine with a lot of heavy but short hail showers as well to catch the unwary. Got caught out on a dump run with a pile of surplus towels and bedding. Road was about an inch deep but it melted in minutes.
A lot of time spent trying to sort medical appointments with no luck so far to get a time and date to suit.
Trouble is that the hospital changed my appointment date in Glasgow, probably because somebody forgot to check for things like easter breaks. This means that my new appointment is one day after my son flies back to work in Taiwan so he cannot drive me down.
In the past I used to go down there easily when I had confidence I could bluff or bully my way out of any little difficulty in navigation.
I downloaded a current map of the area and the road system looks as tho' somebody has spilled a plate of spaghetti.
One other dislike of that area is that I was advised once that when parking a car to leave nothing, absolutely nothing, visible inside a vehicle.
A lot of time spent trying to sort medical appointments with no luck so far to get a time and date to suit.
Trouble is that the hospital changed my appointment date in Glasgow, probably because somebody forgot to check for things like easter breaks. This means that my new appointment is one day after my son flies back to work in Taiwan so he cannot drive me down.
In the past I used to go down there easily when I had confidence I could bluff or bully my way out of any little difficulty in navigation.
I downloaded a current map of the area and the road system looks as tho' somebody has spilled a plate of spaghetti.
One other dislike of that area is that I was advised once that when parking a car to leave nothing, absolutely nothing, visible inside a vehicle.
classic33
Leg End Member
Hope you'll be having a leaving do.
Back from shopping and a message on the phone.Amazon a charge of £300 and £400 have been made against your account,press 1 if this was not you.NO YOU T***s we won't because neither of us has ordered or bought anything,we always tell each other,plus we have something special attached to our bank account.Any spending gets a ping on Mrs P's phone,and guess what no pinning today or yesterday so pass off scammer.
classic33
Leg End Member
And the dog?
biggs682
Itching to get back on my bike's
- Location
- Northamptonshire
We managed a slightly later lunch time walk in the dry .
Illaveago
Guru
- Location
- Chippenham,Wiltshire.
We've been for a little drive to Southampton to pick up a bike I bought . It was a horrible drive down , road works everywhere, rain and pot holes. I've been outside giving it a bit of a clean.
biggs682
Itching to get back on my bike's
- Location
- Northamptonshire
Working day completed
As suspected the return was a bit more fraught. Realised there was a bus at the hospital stop just too far away to get to before it set off. 14 minutes said the display for the next one on what should be every 10 minutes. Um.. time to walk to Lidl, needed to pick up some bananas at least. Of course no sooner than I had come out of Lidl than the bus passed me, seeing a queue at the stop a bit of running was needed, what was that the hospital said about no exercise for a couple of days. Just got to the bus as the driver shut the door but he kindly reopened to his regret as I could not find the ticket on the mobile for what seemed ages.
That did actually make for a good connection at the bus station but time was ticking towards 4 and the roads were getting busy and the bus somewhat laden down by school children such that it was a rather slow journey.
That did actually make for a good connection at the bus station but time was ticking towards 4 and the roads were getting busy and the bus somewhat laden down by school children such that it was a rather slow journey.
Jenkins
Legendary Member
- Location
- Felixstowe
Well here I am officially retired and having a mug of coffee before making my way northish to the Crauford Arms to see The Bug Club. Very wet trip from Liverpool Street to Euston earlier and the 3 miles took much longer than expected due to the amount of traffic, traffic lights and badly parked vehicles.
Not my thing as I prefer to keep things low key. I did wish everyone well on my way out and donated £200 to the tea club to make it free for all for as long as the money lasted
Working life completed (hopefully) 😂
Grant Fondo
Guru
- Location
- Cheshire
Footling around in the kitchen catching up with some FA cup replays and getting some severe mithering off the cat.
slowmotion
Quite dreadful
- Location
- lost somewhere
I suspect Greta won't like it but I removed the flow restrictor from the shower handset 
