Slowlycatchymonkey

Cheers Pete, good to know.

Sounds like the amount of time n money on printing plastic would make it cheap

I'd rather walk than get on a bus, full of smelly people who don't know how to put their hand up when they cough.

Nice work.

This is interesting. It didn't cross my mind about casting from a 3D print doh! Could you get it cast in bronze and plated?

I think we should switch to PM to avoid bunging up the thread with deafy tech talk

Oh and it's the Phonak Roger 1.1 that it needs to be compatible with.

That is because it's a mind melting minefield with information holes bigger than the Grand Canyon! You'll need receivers (boots) for your hearing aids and the pen updated. These people are who my NHS audiology dept recommends and who I purchased the original pen from, they are excellent and will be able to tell you what receivers you need. Get your wife to ring them with your hearing aid make n model at the ready and ask them what you need, they don't over sell, in fact he honestly told me two pieces of tech were of no use to me. They also let you return stuff that doesn't work for you. There will be someone in the department who specialises in the Phonak accessories (usually the senior audiologist/technician) so you have to ask for an appt with them. That is why I have to go back, because the technician who set up my hearing aids can't navigate the compatibility minefield either! https://www.fmhearingsystems.co.uk

The new bits of tech are not funded by the NHS, it's the company they recommend I'm dealing with and when they arrive the NHS audiology dept will set it all up

See above

ps @Clive my current bluetooth pen will then be gathering dust from then on but it's still being supported by phonak and it just needs an update so if you know of any takers pm me

Just had a phone consult with the hearing peeps and a couple of bits of cool bluetooth tech are now winging there way towards me. Look out world

I heard they begged you.

Weak.

Not hard that though is it

I forgot about those things. Then again humidity is something we’re generally trying to get rid of in this country

Different generation isn’t it. My dad rarely cooked anything other than the odd tasty morsel he brought home for himself and then my mum up n left which after a lifetime of being clueless in the kitchen has led him to experimental delights such as chicken breast with mustard and marmalade or his “superb” coronation chicken which he insists better than the real thing even though its a teaspoon of mustard in some mayonnaise After having dinner at mine once he looked at my mother and said quite sincerely “I would have been a lot nicer to it if I’d of known it could cook like this” and they guffawed in that colluding way that makes you feel like crap. He’s not a nice person when they’re together! I pretty much stopped cooking for them after that (other than Christmas and his birthday when my mum wasn’t around). But I love cooking for my own family. It really floats my boat knowing what their likes and dislikes are and producing something that hits the spot and everyone goes quiet apart from the occasional “mmm” noise.

You could do part of it the old fashioned way til then and stick a saucer of warm water on top of a heat source (radiator, boiler etc) and depending on what type of cough you have a drop or two of Oilbus Oil or other decongestant in the water can be pleasant.

I look forward to a day when we look back and laugh at the morons who thought using a person of substance rather than a show pony to flog their stuff was even comment worthy. Like others have said who cares.

The particulates in solid fuels are a shocker for causing breathing problems. The purifiers we use at home do an incredible job bringing down the pollen count for my hayfever suffering son but they are a physical filter not an ioniser, ionisers I believe do small particles like tobacco smoke. Anyway sounds good, fingers crossed

Ooh that is cool.

Gonna get up to 18 degrees in Salobrena … which is brill when you’re a thousand miles away, it’s four degrees and you’re going to have to spend all day proof reading your stressy son’s uni work because he got massively distracted by some skirt and the deadlines are today and tomorrow Somehow (I don’t know exactly how) at some point this will all be my fault which of course I will do my best to weather but I guarantee there will be proper FaceTime rowing at some point. Kids the gift that keeps on giving.

Brilliant. What to you paint/coat it with or will it be staying white?

Pretty sure he posted this morning, something about buying a sleeping bag.