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Re: Diary summary week ending 27th April
« Reply #18 on: Saturday 26 April 25 04:16 BST (UK) »
Morning Viktoria,  hope you get sorted soon, frustrating  this modern technology.

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« Reply #19 on: Saturday 26 April 25 09:51 BST (UK) »
My daughter talked me through a good while last night but it still does not notify me of new emails ,lThe locking message for  Church Unity won’t go away.
I need my iPad to communicate with the mobility  scooter people .
The offer even if I buy another is £2000 less than I paid .
Not sure what if I don’t buy again from them .
I really thought I was on the Vitess2 ,that was what interested me,safety and stability and kerb mounting etc,
The test rude  in January was easy and simple, so I agreed to have one.
§Then the monster arrived —- very very complicated and really for car drivers.I really can’t manage it and as I have said it lost a tyre doing what it is supposed to do safely ie mount a kerb.,
Repair man came and took me out on it but itbwas so fast and keen ,not like the one I tested which in my opinion was smooth and so easy .
I thought the new one was perhaps an updated one from the one I test drove.
So this week along cone the original salesmen .
The new one had been set in the fastest setting !,no wonder it jumped forward so alarmingly.
I nearly killed the delivery man.
It has 0.6 of a mile on it!
So not used at all really.
I did another test run on Thursday, again so easy and gentle.
I was on the one I did the first test on ,which was NOT the Vitess 2 but the Plus, a gentler model sooooo I had not test driven a Vitess 2!
I naturally had expected to have a test run on the model I was interested in buying! I was not told it was not a Vitess 2 so agreed to have one as it was so easy, thinking it was a  Vitess2.
Why on earth I was not tested on the type I had expressed an interest in I can’t imagine .
That is the strongest point in my argument with them , but I won’t get very far with them I feel sure .
But a £2,000 loss and a new price of replacement wil be more than I paid in the first place.Not sure what I will get if I don’t get another from them .
They will get some bad publicity though !
Enough of that.

Quite sunny but chilly here, Tesco delivery between four and eight O’clock.

I see a bird quite often on my lawn, but since Mr. rat I don’t want to put food out even in the feeders - I see a Squirrel, getting food ,well rats can do what squirrels can -

Hope all have a peaceful weekend .
 Cheerio.
Viktoria.
 

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« Reply #20 on: Saturday 26 April 25 10:58 BST (UK) »
That is it, keep doing what we are doing , I laughed with a friend recently  and said I am living  as long  as I can to annoy as many people as I can and collect  my pension, ha  ha,!

How's the scooter Viktoria

Enjoy your day folks

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L.M.  ;D  ;D  ;D  ;D  ;D  ;D you made me laugh at two of your reasons to keep going.

Viktoria, oh ipads and pc, I hope you get fixed up  :) . Technology is annoying when it won't play ball.

My old Laptop gave up, so I purchased one with a C.D. drive, a lot more Memory and a big screen.

I paid for the 3 year Remote and at Home Support.

Suddenly, my new pc refused to connect to the Internet, with a reason why, on the 'phone to a very nice patient lady in Support and she had me in the computer operating system.

Oh it isn't that she said, I want you to try this and sent some instructions by email, but each instruction line went over two lines (on this phone) and some lines need a space inserting, according to the Tutorial sent too.

The Tutorial link emailed too, was far far too quick for me.

I gave up, had tea and went to bed earlier on Day 1, after the afternoon 'phone call my brain was exhausted.

On Day 2,

I had to keep stopping and reversing the short Tutorial for about 3 hours, to write down each line of words and characters and then to write down exactly, where each line went in the long scroll of text.  ???

I was mentally exhausted, with an A4 page of gobbledygook lines  :-\ and where to be inserted in the scroll of text.

Day 3, I inserted the lines and was back online and I haven't a clue how  ::)

Mark

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Re: Diary summary week ending 27th April
« Reply #21 on: Saturday 26 April 25 11:38 BST (UK) »
Viktoria,

I hope you are fixed up with your scooter and have the one that best suits your needs.

Fancy them, leaving the knob in the fastest setting at delivery!

When any motor vehicle is delivered and the buyer sits in, to be shown the controls and start it up, the person delivering a car should make sure the car was left in Neutral and everything switched off.

Oh Mr Rat, the people of Birmingham, have them running about there as big as block pavings (same size as house bricks)!

BBC Verify claimed the rate they earn was only just above minimum wage.

The rents in the Midlands, or mortgage for a small family home are huge money, for that amount of wage.

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« Reply #22 on: Saturday 26 April 25 12:16 BST (UK) »
Similar experiences with new printer this week. Loads of paper bumph, mostly not in English! Problem loading and connecting because of something which the old printer left behind. Eventually managed to get it going, with some help from a neighbour and lots of patience and Christian Fortitude. So, bought on Tuesday, up and running by Friday late afternoon.
Why ,oh why do they make life so difficult for those of us with limited computer savvy?
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« Reply #23 on: Saturday 26 April 25 12:18 BST (UK) »
Well between them both, my eldest son and daughter,by phone to each other have sorted  out my iPad.Phew,it was like losing my best friend!

I have been doing it all wrong- for years,not fit to be let loose on , however baby Lily and Flash Harry and Kyra’s photos and videos all,gone!
They will be somewhere - but - where?

Well must get on.
Look after yourselves folks ,you will never know how much I missed you!  ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
Gosh,just reading of your problems Jeff and Bushinn made me want to lie down in a darkened room!
I am not technically minded , it is gobbledygook to me ,I ought not to be let loose on one!

Thanks again ,I was getting withdrawal symptoms.
Viktoria,I think —— well I was when I went to bed last night!
Viktoria.

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« Reply #24 on: Saturday 26 April 25 15:31 BST (UK) »
Viktoria, in the fastest setting you might nearly have pulled a wheelie  ;D

I'm lying down in that darkened room  ;D  ;D  just recalling it!

Re your photos & videos, did they put your device back to factory settings?

If this was done with a PC, pictures etc., used to be lost?

A reputable computer specialist managed to recover my deleted photos of RAF and Air Ministry Files, our holiday, family photos and history book files, even though the PC had failed.

It was over £100, but he repaired the pc and recovered what was on the PC too.

That is why I insisted on my new PC had a CD Drive, because everything from 2004 and some, from the years before 2004, were saved on CDs.

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RJ,
I agree, how do Windows, Apple and PC manufacturers and their whizz kid Technicians, ever expect us with limited knowledge to understand what they are saying, let alone remedy the problem?

I wanted to save about 20 of those £3 GRO images (before GRO delete them), when I right click on them, this new Windows 11 can't always save all of them as viewable jpeg images, forcing me to save a few into Windows Paint first, then save them from there as jpeg.

All the best everyone, Mark

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« Reply #25 on: Saturday 26 April 25 17:01 BST (UK) »
Given my lack of knowledge I ought to have a gas iPad!
Like the gas television comedian Arthur Haynes wanted to buy from the salesman ,played by Nicholaaaaaase Parsons.

A quiet day otherwise.
Many would love to have some of those.

0melettes for tea ,mushroom and cheese.
With salad.

Ham joint tomorrow.with ———( pineapple)  :-(How 1950’s- 60’s )
How nice if we could go back there -

Hope all have a nice day tomorrow ,and thanks for your concern re the scooter!
I think the fact that I had not seen never mind ridden the  Vitess2 is quite a valid reason for me to reject it ,We will see .

A lazy day today ,things to do but they can wait.
Cheerio.Viktoria.



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« Reply #26 on: Saturday 26 April 25 17:21 BST (UK) »
This afternoon I ventured out on my first "solo" drive, other than just popping to the shops, since Jane died. It had a particular purpose rather than just a trip out. I went to a village called Sutton Veny,just south east of Warminster, a distance of about 20 miles from home. And for what reason.
Well this week has seen the ANZAC Day remembrances and during the first world war there were a number of military camps and some hospitals sited around Salisbury Plain, and in particular a large one at Sutton Veny. Sadly some soldiers there died from their wounds, whilst recuperating; others were caught by the Spanish Flu epidemic of 1918.
In the churchyard of St John the Evangelist are the graves of those deceased sodiers. But why did I bother?
Well our son Andrew, who now lives in a small country town in NSW and teaches at the local school will be doing something on the ANZAC story in the coming week and thought some background from Sutton Veny would be appropriate.
The Australian Forces badge which is in the ANZAC Chapel in the church is also replicated on a hillside a few miles from Sutton Veny, just east of Codford St Mary.
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