🦞🦂 *What are we up to?*🦂🦞

We hit the same problem about licence too Notspaghetti also with the celebrant. Having said that the end result was beautiful and I think DH would have approved.
Have you checked how many photos they will allow for the service. We had 25 I think which had to be fitted in a fixed time frame. There was only so much time allowed per funeral.
Kaimoana i too am concerned that you are not able to communicate easier. I’m surprised your son hasn’t found a better way to keep in touch. Can you use WhatsApp? Do you have any neighbours who could check on you at the weekend.
Notspaghetti that weaving loom looks an amazing price of equipment. I’m very impressed.
Grammaretto like you my landline is going now. I don’t use it and I think it’s stopped working anyway.
Been for lunch with friend today. Quite mild out here.

Yes Doodle, 25 for the reflection. But "any number" for the order of service. Apparently.

It's translated as "Just One Day" - not sure how good the translation is though as don't speak Swedish.

Just one day, one moment at a time
What a comfort, whatever comes to mind!
Everything rests in my Father's hands.
Would I, as a child, be worried then?
He who carries for me a father's heart
Gives to every newborn day
its fair share of joy and pain,
both from effort and pleasure.
For each special time with special grace.
He wants to bear each day's worries,
He who is called both Strength and Counsel.
I can save tomorrow's care,
Although uncertain, my path is visible.
"As your day, so shall your strength be,"
This promise he gave me.
only by your promises, dear Lord,
Do not waste my faith and my comfort.
which is kept in the Word.
Help me, Lord, that whatever happens to me
take from your faithful father's hand
just one day, one moment at a time,
until I reach the good land.

"I’m surprised your son hasn’t found a better way to keep in touch."

He's tried and if you can suggest something which doesn't need eyesight, we'll consider it gladly.

Can you use WhatsApp?

What's that? Does it need sight?

Do you have any neighbours who could check on you at the weekend.

Nope. Besides, they are all elderly and infirm and have enough problems of their own without taking on mine. Mainly though, we don't see one another so I hardly know them.
In fact I wouldn't know them if they came to my door - its not that sort of community here.

WhatsApp is an app for phone (and can be used by linking to a desktop if you have a phone number).
It can make calls through wi-fi.
It means I can call my son in the Philippines with no charges - and can also do video calls.

I don't know if you can voice activate it but it's worth asking him to find out. If not, maybe there's be some other voice activated "over the internet" option which would make calls free

If you have a phone can you "dial" via a gadget (such as Alexa)? - maybe by saying "call so-and-so?

Sadly I'm not very techy. And of course different countries offer different things

I wish I could visit for a chat

Me too NotSpaghetti I wish we could meet at Kaimoanas.

What NS suggested does sound doable.
DS in NZ speaks to me on WhatsApp but lack of eyesight is a bummer.

Here the RNIB it almost wrote RNLI have a lot of aids and gadgets which I acquired for DPiL who unfortunately weren't able to use them easily. There was one radio type player with big bright yellow buttons for ON and OFF which I envied.

I have just wished my DSis a happy birthday a day early. Luckily she was amused. She's in Paris having a wonderful weekend.

And I think I have been charged twice for my phone so I am the last person to have a clue about technology.

I loved that song with or without knowing what the words mean.
Thank you.

Yes Grammaretto. It really is lovely. And as both my mother-in-law's parents (and family) were Swedish it felt like "going home"...

Kaimoana i think Notspaghetti has answered the WhatsApp question. Do you have a mobile phone? No I’m not sure how you’d use WhatsApp with poor eyesight either. A real problem Your son must be worried about you living there without any support apart from the carers.

What about moving with your other granddaughter, is that still an option?
Oh yes wouldn’t it be wonderful if we could all meet up after all this time.

Notspaghetti what a lovely verse.
Grammaretto have you seen much of your new lodgers? Any helpers coming soon?

Kaimoana could you have some device like Alexa who you could ask to phone people for you?

I don't see much of my new lodgers Doodle but I hope they are settling in.
The granny flat is self contained and I come and go through my back door so we don't have much opportunity to run into eachother. We text if we need to speak. 😊

I went out with my walking group today. It was 4.9 miles but felt more like 9.4 miles to me! Lots of hills but fabulous views.😅

Another to express my concern about your circumstances, Kaimoana, tho' I sense a certain resignation in your tone.
I am sure someone, somewhere has the answers for you.🤞

A lovelyYomp? for you today, Grammaretto. You do have some lovely countryside around you.
How's the decluttering and where are you up to with Music Man's planning submissions?

Hope the very different planning is going well for NS and NN.

And Doodle, what have you been up to? 🍰?.

Debating whether to go to an inaugural Knit and Natter tomorrow afternoon locally.

Downside - friend won't come as she reckons she can't knit and natter at the same time🤷‍♀️

Upside- there will be cake.
.

Grammaretto you’re amazing. Please keep it up. I seriously struggle with two miles and need to rest a lot. My hip, knee leg and ankle are a problem the hip and knee make me want to get off my right leg as quickly as possible and my LFT ankle makes me want to get off my left leg so I do a sort of limo on both sides, 🤣
Ixion my day brought me close to tears. Had a difficult morning with broadband installation which took 4 hours and questions I couldn’t answer. DH would have sorted it in seconds as would our son who is in Miami at the moment. I wasn’t upset so much about the broadband so much as missing DH and his input. All,sorted now and I hope it works.
Molehills become mountains when you’re on your own.

Kaimoana i am such a wimp compared with you. When I think of he difficulties you encounter. Your courage and fortitude amaze me. Sending your much love and hugs. 💕

Thanks for your caring thoughts.
I can assure you I am not in any actual danger as I have altered a great deal of my life to fit in with my disabilities.

I do very little cooking now, having burned myself on oven shelves and cut myself with prep knives more times than I prefer.

Like many old people I live on simply stuff and have perfected getting a poached egg out of a pan safely. I pour boiling water egg and all into a seive over the sink.

When the toast is ready, I turn the toaster upside down and the bread falls oit

Yes, I too wish you could visit. Wouldn't it be lovely?

Having received no reply to my 2 request to the national agency who assess the elderly for safety in the home, I am seeing my doctor on Thursday, she'll get them moving.

Would/will they provide aids or just good ideas?

Good luck for Thursday!

Just back from an inaugural Community Knitting group, where we all but took over the capacity of a local independent café.

All around my age, early 30s, ladies of a certain age busy clicking away.

The waitress bringing my coffee asked, when I requested to pay,

Are you alright with a card reader? 😡

KImoana i knew you would come up with an ingenious way of doing things. Hope Doc on Thursday get some action for you,
Ixion 🤣
Been helping a friend sort out some paperwork today. Why do band and building societies send out so much junk. Hy not just a on sheet statement,

I remember when computers were really coming into their own, decades ago and the general comment was:
'We'll be able to do away with all that paperwork".

Hmmmmm

🤣🤣 So true Kaimoana never did happen did it.
Nice time at church this morning but very wet day outside. Art tomorrow then church knitting in the afternoon.

What is your ratio of talk to knit, Doodle?
Do you bring your own or follow a predetermined theme?

How much language and understanding changes with each generation.

I was explaining to my grand daughter (who'd asked) how slowly I must walk now, having only a scintilla of sight left and would have used the expression 'slowing down like a clockwork toy' when I realised she wouldn't know what I meant.

'Slowing down like a toy with its battery running out....?

Sometimes I definitely feel that my battery is running out Kaimoana

...sometimes it's a slow trickle-down and sometimes I just suddenly feel "enough" - so I suppose that's like the two main sorts of batteries!

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On reflection, she may know clockwork toys - but my grandchildren tend to call them "wind-up". I'm not sure if there is a difference mechanism-wise

The older ones definitely had wind-up spinning tops that you set off with a sort of pumping action and even the youngest have had very small wind-up plastic chicks or fish robots/dinosaurs/cows etc

Ours had a clockwork skull!
It reminds me that I have hardly made any inroads with the toy and games clearance.
Deep sigh!

There's a Burns lunch today so I should fish out something tartan to wear.

I was very relieved that my NZ DS and family weren't caught up in the Manganui campsite disaster. It sounds absolutely horrific.

Sorry to say they are expecting more rain today as well it seems
What a disaster it has been. Pleased your family is safe. You are no doubt watching the weather there Grammaretto as I was recently in the Philippines.

I did feel rather selfish when I was relieved that my own family was safe. Obviously it is terrible for those less fortunate

Tegarding clockwork toys , yes I remember a skull too. And the ubiquitous chattering false teeth!