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Re: Absent Friends

#281 Post by Dushan » Thu Jan 20, 2022 11:47 pm

I think stoneboat has email contact with Fox3. They don't live too far form each other (no, not walking distance, but in Canada 500 km is considered practically "next door").
Because they stand on the wall and say "nothing's gonna hurt you tonight, not on my watch".

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Re: Absent Friends

#282 Post by admin » Sun Feb 06, 2022 6:08 am

PN has been adrift for a couple of weeks. I hope he is well.

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#283 Post by OFSO » Sun Feb 06, 2022 6:38 am

PN last posted December 6th. Too long.

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#284 Post by Wodrick » Sun Feb 06, 2022 8:27 am

It's still too long for a prolific poster but it's actually 21st January - 16 days

I had a wonder if he had gone on a cruise - they have started again.
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Re: Absent Friends

#285 Post by k3k3 » Sun Feb 06, 2022 2:08 pm

PN is alive and well.

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#286 Post by Wodrick » Sun Feb 06, 2022 3:46 pm

Good, thank you.
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#287 Post by Rwy in Sight » Sun Feb 06, 2022 4:24 pm

Excellent news k3k3.

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#288 Post by OFSO » Sun Feb 06, 2022 6:14 pm

I've seen a gadget that monitors whether ancient wrinkly alone-dwellers have, eg, made a cup of tea or turned the electric blanket on in the past 24 hours, and if not, help is summoned. Perhaps in her cleverness Alison could install similar software here, so if within 24 hours I fail to mention my weather at 07:00, or the Ascots fail to provide a bat count, or BM doesn't post a link to some chappie telling us of a plot to kill us all, or TGG fails to post a music video, or UP denounce the Sturgeon Lady..... well an Enquiry is made and Help summoned. Or is this a mad idea?

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Re: Absent Friends

#289 Post by Boac » Sun Feb 06, 2022 7:04 pm

No, I think it would enhance the site.

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#290 Post by ribrash » Sun Feb 06, 2022 7:07 pm

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Sun Feb 06, 2022 6:14 pm
I've seen a gadget that monitors whether ancient wrinkly alone-dwellers have, eg, made a cup of tea or turned the electric blanket on in the past 24 hours, and if not, help is summoned. Perhaps in her cleverness Alison could install similar software here, so if within 24 hours I fail to mention my weather at 07:00, or the Ascots fail to provide a bat count, or BM doesn't post a link to some chappie telling us of a plot to kill us all, or TGG fails to post a music video, or UP denounce the Sturgeon Lady..... well an Enquiry is made and Help summoned. Or is this a mad idea?
I am now divorced and the kids have scattered in the wind.Having taking on a new pup I worry about falling off my perch and the pup is free to feast off my bits.I do warn the kids that one of them will eventually find a maggot infested lump of meat if they don't keep in touch every few days.Am I being too dramatic ?

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#291 Post by Boac » Sun Feb 06, 2022 7:12 pm

Just think of the dog.

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#292 Post by ribrash » Sun Feb 06, 2022 7:41 pm

Boac wrote:
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Just think of the dog.
There's enough of me to last for weeks. =)) =))

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#293 Post by llondel » Sun Feb 06, 2022 9:51 pm

OFSO wrote:
Sun Feb 06, 2022 6:14 pm
I've seen a gadget that monitors whether ancient wrinkly alone-dwellers have, eg, made a cup of tea or turned the electric blanket on in the past 24 hours, and if not, help is summoned. Perhaps in her cleverness Alison could install similar software here, so if within 24 hours I fail to mention my weather at 07:00, or the Ascots fail to provide a bat count, or BM doesn't post a link to some chappie telling us of a plot to kill us all, or TGG fails to post a music video, or UP denounce the Sturgeon Lady..... well an Enquiry is made and Help summoned. Or is this a mad idea?
I get that every weekend when my father forgets to call me. Did he just forget or is he unable to do it. He said he does talk on the phone with my sister every day so I assume she'd call me if something happened. I don't tend to call him because it costs money, whereas I set things up so he can call me for free. If it goes too long then I will call him to check.

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#294 Post by Wodrick » Sun Feb 06, 2022 11:05 pm

I don't know if it is possible, but it's a good idea.

For someone like me if I were living here alone our cleaner would be my nearest permanent neighbour.
Most houses around me are holiday homes. they are all foreign owned now. All our English friends have either sold up or died.

If SM died I think I would sell up and go back to the UK to somewhere where I had neighbours who would notice if anything happened to me.
Current thinking anyway

Morbid and boring.
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Re: Absent Friends

#295 Post by Boac » Thu Feb 10, 2022 10:12 am

k3k3 - having brought the good news of PN's continuing residence in this world, can you cast any light on the silence and when we might expect a return to the entertaining and challenging malapropism?

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#296 Post by TheGreenGoblin » Thu Feb 10, 2022 10:24 am

Boac wrote:
Thu Feb 10, 2022 10:12 am
k3k3 - having brought the good news of PN's continuing residence in this world, can you cast any light on the silence and when we might expect a return to the entertaining and challenging malapropism?
Yes, I miss the spulling and his penchant for Mrs Malaprop too! He didn't strike me as a sensitive soul. Besides he was our resident navigation expert and his comments on aviation were always interesting to me anyway.

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#297 Post by Wodrick » Thu Feb 10, 2022 10:50 am

I agree.
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#298 Post by Pinky the pilot » Fri Feb 11, 2022 10:37 am

Perhaps in her cleverness Alison could install similar software here, so if within 24 hours I fail to mention my weather at 07:00, or the Ascots fail to provide a bat count, or BM doesn't post a link to some chappie telling us of a plot to kill us all, or TGG fails to post a music video, or UP denounce the Sturgeon Lady..... well an Enquiry is made and Help summoned.
Agree whole heartedly.

I knew of a person who lived alone an a very small country town not far from here. No-one checked on him, and he was largely left to his own devices.

Then one day a local on their semi-regular morning walk noticed a particularly foul odour as he passed the house! :ymsick:

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Re: Absent Friends

#299 Post by k3k3 » Fri Feb 11, 2022 12:09 pm

Similar to a retired colleague of mine, a quiet chap, he lived alone after his wife died, then one day the free weekly newspaper deliverer noticed the smell and called the police. They found him in his armchair in front of the TV. Going by the amount of post and newspapers behind the door he had probably exited three or four weeks earlier.

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Re: Absent Friends

#300 Post by Boac » Fri Feb 11, 2022 12:14 pm

Fitting an 'odour detector' to the forum would tax most of us. :))

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