Archev's adventures in the Berlingo

[decrep]

I'm a Firefox browser fan, so if Apple will let you try downloading Firefox.
I give it a 90% chance of fixing the issue.

 

[T1 Terry]

You could get a proper phone ........ just saying ...... heading for fall out shelter .....


T1 Terry

 

[Archev]

You could get a proper phone ........ just saying ...... heading for fall out shelter .....


T1 Terry

Just picked up and read your message. Then realised I was right there - no mucking about for the first time in weeks .
Scared to switch off in case it comes back

 

[securespark]

You could get a proper phone ........ just saying ...... heading for fall out shelter .....


T1 Terry

Joking aside, I got my Mum an Android phone years ago when Android 5 was current. She uses WhatsApp a lot and eventually, WA said it was going to discontinue support for old Android phones, so I was going to get her an up to date Android phone. She was used to how it worked after all.

Along comes here niece and persuades her to buy an iPhone.

She doesn't get on with it at all. But feels having invested all that money in it, that she can't just ditch it....

 

[Archev]

Joking aside, I got my Mum an Android phone years ago when Android 5 was current. She uses WhatsApp a lot and eventually, WA said it was going to discontinue support for old Android phones, so I was going to get her an up to date Android phone. She was used to how it worked after all.

Along comes here niece and persuades her to buy an iPhone.

She doesn't get on with it at all. But feels having invested all that money in it, that she can't just ditch it....

I originally had an android and had endless glitches with it. The common denominator seems to be me ?

 

[Gomev]

What annoys me is that the lazy media (BBC ?) always refers to mobile phones as iPhones when over 70% of mobile phones worldwide are Android.

 

[Archev]

Oh well I’ll need to go, I’ve over charged the Berlingo to 87% so I must go and drive it to get that down a bit . Good excuse
I’m actually going to pick up some lunch stuff for a Kiwi who lives in Oz who’s here in UK to visit as much of Scotland as he can.

 

[securespark]

Archev

I get issues with all my phones when they get old and fed up of me dropping them!

I have CP and am clumsy and drop the thing at least 10 times a day.

I like my current phone as it is built to a tough military standard with a tough Gorilla Glass Victus screen. It's survived 4 years of abuse from me!

It was one of the last Android One phones that came with a guaranteed number of OS and security updates. I'm on the last of those now, so it will become vulnerable in the future.
I'm currently on Android 14 with a security update on 1 March 25.

I need to find something similarly tough to replace it.

 

[T1 Terry]

The wife discovered that her new Samsung wasn't round about traffic toughened enough, when she left it on the car roof and it fell off at the second round about, apparently it wasn't busy enough for the phone at the first round about
With a new screen, it did actually turn on so she could get the information stored on the phone to transfer to the sim card. We used the phone for a while as the go between for Google Play to put movies on the TV from another mobile, but the house fire ended that ..... apparently, they can survive being run over multiple times, but they don't recover from a fire hot enough to melt the aluminium window frames and the bull bar on the front of the motorhome ...... Thought about sending a complaint to Samsung ...... but the computers didn't survive the fire either ......

T1 Terry

 

[Archev]

Somewhere along the line all of your helpful advice and suggestions seems to have sorted out my problem. I no longer get the annoying pop ups and I am back to remaining logged in. I’ve waited a while and looked in to check periodically and all would appear well.
So thank you all for your help.
I’m hitting the trail soon. Looks like some good weather coming up in Scotland so I’ll post up any pictures and / or interest I encounter.

 

[OriginalBigAl]

Somewhere along the line all of your helpful advice and suggestions seems to have sorted out my problem. I no longer get the annoying pop ups and I am back to remaining logged in. I’ve waited a while and looked in to check periodically and all would appear well.
So thank you all for your help.
I’m hitting the trail soon. Looks like some good weather coming up in Scotland so I’ll post up any pictures and / or interest I encounter.

Head off down Loch Ness, you never know your luck! No photoshopping now! we will know. Bon voyage.

 

[Rolfe]

I'm considering a couple of days on Arran to see how much of the island's road network I can cycle in that time. I had a big dentist's appointment yesterday and my dentist (who is young and fit) mentioned that he'd just done a sponsored cycle round Arran (55 miles) and then climbed Goat Fell the next day. I did Goat Fell in about 1968 and that'll do me for that one.

 

[Archev]

I'm considering a couple of days on Arran to see how much of the island's road network I can cycle in that time. I had a big dentist's appointment yesterday and my dentist (who is young and fit) mentioned that he'd just done a sponsored cycle round Arran (55 miles) and then climbed Goat Fell the next day. I did Goat Fell in about 1968 and that'll do me for that one.

It should be grand over there for the next week or so. Beautiful island, enjoy. I’ll likely be on the west coast somewhere. Mull or Applecross possibly but I’ll see where Berlingo takes me.

 

[Rolfe]

I'm a bit tied up over the next week or two so I don't know when I'll manage over, but I have a fancy for waiting till the nights are a wee bit warmer anyway.

 

[Archev]

Head off down Loch Ness, you never know your luck! No photoshopping now! we will know. Bon voyage.

I’ll buy another lotto ticket too. I’m on a euphoric high after my 2.36 windfall at the weekend. I blew the lot (and a wee bit more) on a very fine baked potato with roasted vegetables at the Falkirk Wheel restaurant

 

[Rolfe]

You're living the dream!

 

[decrep]

I blew the lot (and a wee bit more) on a very fine baked potato with roasted vegetables at the Falkirk Wheel restaurant

There you go again, I'm fascinated by the Falkirk Wheel. I'd love to have a meal at the resturant.

 

[Archev]

There you go again, I'm fascinated by the Falkirk Wheel. I'd love to have a meal at the resturant.

It’s electrically powered and I just discovered that two of the boats you can ride the wheel on are being converted now from ice to proper power.

 

[securespark]

I did Goat Fell in about 1968 and that'll do me for that one.

I too did mad things in my youth, like the Manchester to Blackpool bike ride for charity in 1989, although I was nearly 23 at that point.

Mind you, I also did it again in 2009 when I was not quite so youthful!
I stupidly thought "I'll be OK, I don't need to do any training beforehand, just a warm-up will do...." (and indeed I did), but afterwards, I wish I'd done some!

And what amazed me, just like in 1989, were riders that were crossing the finish line, then turning round and heading back to Manchester!

I can't remember the exact mileage in both cases, but it was something like late 60s, early 70s.

Since 2009, I have put on loads of weight, but have started losing it while in hospital.

My aim is to lose more weight and try to get back on the bike. I'm not sure if I will be able to with the ankle, but in that case I might get a trike, or maybe fit stabilisers, but I'm not sure if anyone make adult sized versions?

Maybe even hire one that you pedal with your arms, although, I have ridden one of those and they are hard work. Can't imagine doing 70 miles on one!

But one way or another, could I do the BBR again in '29?

 

[Archev]

I too did mad things in my youth, like the Manchester to Blackpool bike ride for charity in 1989, although I was nearly 23 at that point.

Mind you, I also did it again in 2009 when I was not quite so youthful!
I stupidly thought "I'll be OK, I don't need to do any training beforehand, just a warm-up will do...." (and indeed I did), but afterwards, I wish I'd done some!

And what amazed me, just like in 1989, were riders that were crossing the finish line, then turning round and heading back to Manchester!

I can't remember the exact mileage in both cases, but it was something like late 60s, early 70s.

Since 2009, I have put on loads of weight, but have started losing it while in hospital.

My aim is to lose more weight and try to get back on the bike. I'm not sure if I will be able to with the ankle, but in that case I might get a trike, or maybe fit stabilisers, but I'm not sure if anyone make adult sized versions?

Maybe even hire one that you pedal with your arms, although, I have ridden one of those and they are hard work. Can't imagine doing 70 miles on one!

But one way or another, could I do the BBR again in '29?

indeed there are three wheel bikes for adults. My late wife enjoyed cycling before I met her. Purely for fun and to visit relatives her and her Mum would cycle many miles.
When our Son and his wife emigrated to the USA they left their mountain bikes and we used them a few times but she had lost confidence and balance following some medical problems including a subbarachnoid haemorrhage and a broken ankle.
She tried a conventional trike and found it to be quite unstable ( strangely) on the rougher gravel roads we encountered.
Then we discovered an Italian company made “tadpole” configured trikes with two wheels at the front. They were electric assisted on the back wheel and a very clever and stable leaning steering system on the front wheels. On a test drive my wife took to it like she’d always ridden one. She found it very stable and of course she could place the front wheels exactly where she wanted them and one the rear would be fine - not the case when it was two following the single front wheel !
Sadly that coincided with her general health deteriorating and we never got the machine for her. We had been quoted many months for delivery and the supplier wasn’t the best either.
But there’s a possibility for you, a tadpole trike - it sounds peculiar but it was a very reassuring machine to ride and stable on corners with the way the steering worked along with its ability to lean.
I’ll see if I can come up with the manufacturer’s name.
There’s also Jorvik in York who make excellent trikes.