22-03-2014, 12:46 PM
Sit back, put your feet up and watch a few lathe and bandsaw videos. Oh, and have a piece of fruitcake and a nice cuppa Yorkshire tea. Your personal sunshine will return, despite what the weather and fate throws at you.
You can tell that I have just done that, excepting the detail on the videos - mine was a boxed set of how they have rebuilt XH558, the sole flying Vulcan. It is almost ready to fly this season's circuit of airshows after a quite major service and modification programme this winter.
Off this afternoon to brighten up my sister's afternoon and reset her care-call alarm - something the "official system" is supposed to do and fails time after time. It has been inoperative now for 5 days. Hence the need for me to monitor my landline and mobile phone constantly. Local care services and social service support here is abysmal - many staff "only work 2 days a week" as they have other jobs!!!! I even looked at building a "care suite" (disabled-adapted room and wet room) onto our bungalow with my own capital and then relying on care services to help us support my sister. Despite my wife and I being in our mid-60s, we would get NO support because then my sister would be in what they class as "family care". Apparently, it has been that way (locally?) for at least 15 years.
Colin
You can tell that I have just done that, excepting the detail on the videos - mine was a boxed set of how they have rebuilt XH558, the sole flying Vulcan. It is almost ready to fly this season's circuit of airshows after a quite major service and modification programme this winter.
Off this afternoon to brighten up my sister's afternoon and reset her care-call alarm - something the "official system" is supposed to do and fails time after time. It has been inoperative now for 5 days. Hence the need for me to monitor my landline and mobile phone constantly. Local care services and social service support here is abysmal - many staff "only work 2 days a week" as they have other jobs!!!! I even looked at building a "care suite" (disabled-adapted room and wet room) onto our bungalow with my own capital and then relying on care services to help us support my sister. Despite my wife and I being in our mid-60s, we would get NO support because then my sister would be in what they class as "family care". Apparently, it has been that way (locally?) for at least 15 years.
Colin
