Brexit, for once some facts.

[guerney]

Thank you! they do provide a battery powered version used by the Humberside Fire Brigade, but that casts £250 more! not only that if it only got used say once a year (I wish!) the chances are the batteries would be discharged as I had neglected to regularly charge them.

Could you add a narrow lower bed and mattress on her side, about 3 inches lower, then another next to that 3 inches lower etc? That way, it'd easier to get up, and she wouldn't fall far. They might have to be made with custom matresses, or very thickly upholstered low bed bases.

Or how about a narrow bed and mattress (or large thickly upholstered board) held at an agle of 20 degrees from the horizontal on her side of the bed, to stop her falling out? It could probably be lowered using a permanently plugged in motor (or your lifting device, if it's powerful enough), to adjust the angle of the hinged upholstered board/platform to help getting into bed.

 

[oldgroaner]

Could you add a narrow lower bed and mattress on her side, about 3 inches lower, then another next to that 3 inches lower etc? That way, it'd easier to get up, and she wouldn't fall far. They might have to be made with custom matresses, or very thickly upholstered low bed bases.

Or how about a narrow bed and mattress (or large thickly upholstered board) held at an agle of 20 degrees from the horizontal on her side of the bed, to stop her falling out? It could probably be lowered using a permanently plugged in motor (or your lifting device, if it's powerful enough), to adjust the angle of the hinged upholstered board/platform to help th getting into bed.

All options will be considered, she fell out again at 5:30 AM this morning! And this is after her getting up at some point earlier and putting a cardigan on over the nightie I helped her into putting her to bed last night.

 

[oyster]

"U-turn" Johnson strikes again.

More visas! New tanker driver visas. Troops will actually drive tankers from Monday. More fruit & veg. visas.

From outside, it seems to have taken an awfully long time to get a military driver into the position of actually delivering. Hope they are quicker at some other things...

 

[oyster]

"By hook or by crook! That mediocre low paid civil service post will be mine! MINE! Muwahahaha! MUWAHAHAHAHAHA!"... there had to be some angle to this, and I was struggling to see what it was... So it's revenge for rejection by voters? Positioning for receiving backhanders? And a view to a knighthood somewhere along the line, tenuously justified with something like "For outstanding services rendered, and delivered with class, verve and distinction, to common trouserless Scottish people knee deep in bogs".

I thought a peerage was higher than a knighthood?

 

[guerney]

I thought a peerage was higher than a knighthood?

Only when the pen is mightier than the sword! Maybe he'll be knighted when the peerage wears off...

 

[guerney]

"U-turn" Johnson strikes again.

More visas! New tanker driver visas. Troops will actually drive tankers from Monday. More fruit & veg. visas.

From outside, it seems to have taken an awfully long time to get a military driver into the position of actually delivering. Hope they are quicker at some other things...

At this rate we'll be rejoining the European Union with the slogan "Stronger When Tethered".

I'm growing beansprouts, nearly all of my pre-Xmas shopping is beans and will be arriving shortly (if the vans have fuel) - there's Vitamin C in them thar little buggers:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Sprouter-Sprouting-Stainless-Germinator-Microgreens/dp/B08V59C4XK/

...I've got a 6 month supply. After that, my garden will be productive again.

 

[oyster]

(if the vans have fuel)

Crazy world of deliveries. I wanted one item which I could only find on Amazon, and they had a minorly damaged warehouse option. These things are (often) fine - but that meant the cost was below free-delivery £20.

Eventually found something I did want that would take me into free delivery territory.

Following the tracking (just because I'm sad - it doesn't really matter!) - and I see both items have separate paths and different delivery times.

Obviously there are two possibilities. Either they will be delivered together and it is the tracking information which is wrong. Or they will wastefully be delivered in two separate vans within an hour or so of each other!

The idea that for an extra fiver, they lose out on a £3.99 delivery charge, and possibly have to deliver one item separately, shows that it has little to do with real costs.

 

[guerney]

Crazy world of deliveries. I wanted one item which I could only find on Amazon, and they had a minorly damaged warehouse option. These things are (often) fine - but that meant the cost was below free-delivery £20.

Eventually found something I did want that would take me into free delivery territory.

Following the tracking (just because I'm sad - it doesn't really matter!) - and I see both items have separate paths and different delivery times.

Obviously there are two possibilities. Either they will be delivered together and it is the tracking information which is wrong. Or they will wastefully be delivered in two separate vans within an hour or so of each other!

The idea that for an extra fiver, they lose out on a £3.99 delivery charge, and possibly have to deliver one item separately, shows that it has little to do with real costs.

They want you to buy Amazon Prime, and they're playing the long game. It seems to be working - it's terrible that since prime, you can't get next day delivery without signing up. A good trick when looking for some low value likely useful item to get to the magic £20 threshold is to search for "A", list everything in order of price and select delivery by amazon only, if that doesn't turn up something useful, "E", "I", "O", and "U". "*" was available some time ago (not anymore), and would list everything.

 

[Woosh]

At this rate we'll be rejoining the European Union with the slogan "Stronger When Tethered".

in the last episode of BBC QT, one of the subjects was HGV driver shortage. At the end of that discussion, Fiona Bruce asked the audience:
Does anyone of you have something positive to say about brexit?
The audience fell silent.
No? anyone? the majority of you voted for brexit!
The audience replied with a little suppressed laugh.

 

[oyster]

They want you to buy Amazon Prime, and they're playing the long game. It seems to be working - it's terrible that since prime, you can't get next day delivery without signing up. A good trick when looking for some low value likely useful item to get to the magic £20 threshold is to search for "A", list everything in order of price and select delivery by amazon only, if that doesn't work, "E", "I", "O", and "U".

I try to use other vendors when possible - so long as I don't end up being fleeced! Bizarre that some companies that sell via Amazon also sell direct. And there is no predicting which way will be cheaper.

I usually leave a few trinket-level items in my saved items list.

Just tried your trick and it doesn't work. :-(

Ends up listing hundreds of things that would be free if I were in Prime!

It is actually bizarre. If I put "a" in, it switches from the department I identified to "All" and
Department

• Prime Video
• Movies
• TV
• Books

Sort by price, and the kindle and other "free" items dominate. Looks like it has been expressly programmed to preclude single letter searches being usable.

 

[guerney]

Just tried your trick and it doesn't work. :-(

Ends up listing hundreds of things that would be free if I were in Prime!

Drat! It used to. You should buy Prime, obviously. But "*" works again! Just pick your department and free Amazon delivery, then sort by price:

Amazon.co.uk : *

I try to use other vendors when possible - so long as I don't end up being fleeced! Bizarre that some companies that sell via Amazon also sell direct. And there is no predicting which way will be cheaper.

My first stop is Amazon, till I see what I want, then I buy the same thing on ebay without the "Amazon Tax" - they charge sellers rather a lot for storage, if Amazon deliver. If things don't sell, it all goes to landfill because sellers often won't pick stock up... too expensive, cheaper to ditch.

 

[oyster]

"Stronger When Tethered".

Stronger in Leather
Stronger in the Altogether
Warmer in Cold Weather
Stinkier than Thioether

 

[guerney]

You've got the end words rhyming (best to do first), just need to work on what happens before. Sometimes I think in rhyme whether I want to or not, but that might be a symptom of caffeine psychosis, or halitosis.

 

[flecc]

All options will be considered, she fell out again at 5:30 AM this morning! And this is after her getting up at some point earlier and putting a cardigan on over the nightie I helped her into putting her to bed last night.

A hammock is the answer.

Near impossible to fall out of, but dead easy to tip someone out.
.

 

[flecc]

Following the tracking (just because I'm sad - it doesn't really matter!) - and I see both items have separate paths and different delivery times.

Obviously there are two possibilities. Either they will be delivered together and it is the tracking information which is wrong. Or they will wastefully be delivered in two separate vans within an hour or so of each other!

Long ago when in plain English we had despatch departments using transport for deliveries, these things didn't happen.

Now we have logistics it's the norm.
.

 

[flecc]

I try to use other vendors when possible - so long as I don't end up being fleeced! Bizarre that some companies that sell via Amazon also sell direct.

Some while ago I totally boycotted them.

I don't buy from bullies.
.

 

[guerney]

Some while ago I totally boycotted them.

I don't buy from bullies.
.

When I received a computer motherboard which looked like it had been kicked about without the box on the warehouse floor (so hard the plastic had eroded, there was sand too, and the CPU pins were bent), I emailed Jeff Bezos and received a £20 gift voucher. jeff@amazon.com is how to get a rapid response, apparently he checks that email address often and forwards emails on to staff with "?", or as legend has it.

 

[guerney]

Some while ago I totally boycotted them.

I don't buy from bullies.
.

A shady deal has already been done, which you can't easily opt out of, for all of your medical records from the new centralised and unified database, by the NHS via Hancock to (among other US medical companies) the new fledgling Amazon arm. They tried to rush it through without anyone knowing, within 30 days, but it's been widely reported and now Javid is in charge - the same man who profited so much personally, selling toxic debt pre-2008.

 

[flecc]

When I received a computer motherboard which looked like it had been kicked about without the box on the warehouse floor (so hard the plastic had eroded, there was sand too, and the CPU pins were bent), I emailed Jeff Bezos and received a £20 gift voucher. jeff@amazon.com is how to get a rapid response, apparently he checks that email address often and forwards emails on to staff with "?", or as legend has it.

Still not interested in ever using Amazon again.
.

 

[guerney]

'Biggest data grab' in NHS history stuffs GP records in a central store for 'research' – and the time to opt out is now

'More data, more breadth, more depth... it's the whole f&*king deal'

www.theregister.com

Check out the comments, they're particularly well informed on that website (sometimes, sometimes often).