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We might get warm enough tomorrow for me to allow the fire to go out. 
maybe
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Humph. The gloves we use for putting wood onto the fire have just caught fire with my hand in them. My hand now smells of burnt hair.
I guess someone is telling me that the wood fire season is almost over!
(My hand is fine, I just batted it out on the fireproof rug we keep in front of the fire).
I guess someone is telling me that the wood fire season is almost over!
(My hand is fine, I just batted it out on the fireproof rug we keep in front of the fire).
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I use cheap welder's gloves for fire tending. The pair I have now are at least ten years old, and IIRC, they cost me 12-bucks US.
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I'll try a tactful suggestion but I'm not holding my breath.
After my emergency hospital admission at the weekend, I'm grounded. I don't have enough energy to go shopping anyhow, but right now my health won't manage it either. I'm not cooking, barely eating or drinking and pretty much only sleeping at the moment. Lost 4kg since Friday.
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Oh and this was on the wall when I opened a doorway curtain this morning.
MG, don't look.
This one is a small one. They do grow to the size of a hand and I've had the walk across the car windscreen on the outside whilst I've been driving at 110kph. I've no idea how they stay attached!
Hubby is never home when you want him! Lol
MG, don't look.
This one is a small one. They do grow to the size of a hand and I've had the walk across the car windscreen on the outside whilst I've been driving at 110kph. I've no idea how they stay attached!
Hubby is never home when you want him! Lol
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Yes to venomous, no idea on the biting of humans though, generally considered to be harmless and great to have around. Good sign of a healthy environment. It's just not really something you want to wander into the bathroom during the night, glance up at the mirror and find 2 of it looking back at you. They can grow to 6inches (15cm).
That one is a baby but still needed the large spider catching kit to safely escort it outside.
It's a huntsman spider. I gather they occur in Florida and Africa, South American and so on.
Australian National Museum - Spider facts.
Huntsman spider - Wikipedia
medtran49
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Craig very, very rarely has used his phone since he had the fall and the subsequent issues in 2020. It was old then because he has never liked learning how to use new electronics. On the rare occasions that he needs a phone, his has gotten so bad that it won't hold a charge for more than a few hours and shuts itself off after a few moments of inactivity. So, I ordered him a new phone. It came today.
OMG, I had to download an app to copy everything from the old phone to new because not only was the camera unable to scan a QRC because phone was so old, but the app to copy and transfer wasn't on the old phone because the code wasn't written until years after the old phone was made. It took forever for the app to download and install because the phone kept turning off unless I watched it like a hawk and kept touching the screen.
After about an hour and me developing a headache, the new phone is good to go for the most part, but the user still has to learn how to use it.
Never again will I let him go for so long without a new phone. I can't remember exactly how old the phone was, but it was at least 10 years old.
OMG, I had to download an app to copy everything from the old phone to new because not only was the camera unable to scan a QRC because phone was so old, but the app to copy and transfer wasn't on the old phone because the code wasn't written until years after the old phone was made. It took forever for the app to download and install because the phone kept turning off unless I watched it like a hawk and kept touching the screen.
After about an hour and me developing a headache, the new phone is good to go for the most part, but the user still has to learn how to use it.
Never again will I let him go for so long without a new phone. I can't remember exactly how old the phone was, but it was at least 10 years old.
My sympathy. Good luck with that. I hope he will take to it. Steve (my partner with dementia) hasn't been able to use a phone now for five years or more (and that was a simple old style phone). Now, he can't even use the TV remote control. He can still switch on the electric kettle. I think that's now as far as his ability with electronic/digital gadgets goes.
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Craig still has problems with the remote sometimes. I'm not sure though whether he is actually having problems or he's just having mental slowness.
I'd be happy if he could just use the actual phone. The problem is he somehow opens other apps and then can't figure out how to get back to phone.
I'd be happy if he could just use the actual phone. The problem is he somehow opens other apps and then can't figure out how to get back to phone.
caseydog
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My mother never had a stroke, and NEVER learned how to use a cell phone, especially a smart phone. She is just as bad with a computer, and just barely competent with a TV remote. If anything at all unexpected happens while using any of these devices, her brain locks up. She goes into panic mode. "Help, HELP!!!"
My dad used to help her, but now he can't, so she calls my sister or me. We have her TV/Cable remote pretty well memorized now, and tell her step-by-step what buttons to push to fix her problem.
My dad got her an iPhone when they first came out. She never used it. We got rid of it a few years ago. This is my mom's level of phone technology...
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My mum used to berate my wife last year because she was always using "that computer!"
I clearly remember the first cellphone I had, way back in 1992. Weighed half a ton and I was given TWO extra batteries, so my ex-Marine boss could keep in touch "24/7".
Like it or not, cellphones are one of the most amazing inventions of the last 40 years and, these days, absolutely essential.
I do get really annoyed, however, when I'm at a dinner or a party and people have their heads stuck into the screen.
I clearly remember the first cellphone I had, way back in 1992. Weighed half a ton and I was given TWO extra batteries, so my ex-Marine boss could keep in touch "24/7".
Like it or not, cellphones are one of the most amazing inventions of the last 40 years and, these days, absolutely essential.
I do get really annoyed, however, when I'm at a dinner or a party and people have their heads stuck into the screen.
caseydog
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My dad was an Oil Refinery Manager when I was in High School, and he was always "on-call" for emergencies. Gulf Oil provided him with a company car (1979 Chevy Malibu in butt-ugly tan color), and a cell phone. It was one of those Motorola bag phones, but at the time, it was the coolest thing you could have.
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I have that talk with MrsT a lot, as she’s a tightwad with money and wants to use it until it won’t work any longer.
I keep pointing out it’s harder to skip multiple generations of phones and not lose something in the process. I also point out that since we alternate getting a new phone, that her dragging her feet keeps me from getting a new phone!
My mom, crazy as it sounds, was an early adopter of home computing - she got one before I did, and I work in IT.
She was very good at doing the things she wanted to do, like email and searching for things on the internet, but she never grasped really what a computer is or does, so instead of just bookmarking a website, she’d bookmark it, save the link off to her desktop, save a copy of whatever it was in another document, and print it out.
She never understood files and folders on a computer, she could never equate them to tangible files and folders…even though she was printing off hard copies and filing them…in actual folders.
Phones - she liked her flip phone, never really understood her smartphone. She had difficulty texting, or knowing the difference between a text and an email, or understanding that the Gmail email account on her computer was the sameas the Gmail email account on her phone. If you said you emailed her something, she’d always ask, “Did you send it to my phone email or my computer email?”
On my phone you press the 'home' button to get back to the basic screen. It might be worth hiding all the apps except for the few he uses.