Nice people thread part 4 - sugar and spice and all things

Masomnia

SingleSue wrote: »

I've told my kids to shoot me if I have to go into a home, after working in one and seeing how some of the staff treat the residents, I most def do not want to go into a home.

My parents instructions are for them not to be put into a home, if they need care, then buy it in from the equity in their house (plus they are a little errr....vocal shall we say about the government using their house to pay for them to be in a care home, doesn't matter how much I tell them about choice, better homes etc, they are rather eek about it all - I dare not broach the subject too often as my mum gets all rather het up about it)

I won't go into a home either, a long way off yet though. If I need that level of care, and no one is interested in caring for me, then dignitas it is! Sorry to be morbid

Masomnia

vivatifosi wrote: »

I mentioned here earlier this year, got an HTC Wildfire with 700 minutes and unlimited texts and a small amount of data for £15 per month, phone cost me £60 (Tesco Mobile). It's been very good so far.

That's fantastic, I'll have to look out for that!

My phone is due for an upgrade, and I'm not sure what to do, as really I don't want to be spending much more than I am at the moment.

lostinrates

Masomnia wrote: »

I won't go into a home either, a long way off yet though. If I need that level of care, and no one is interested in caring for me, then dignitas it is! Sorry to be morbid

I don't think its particularly depressing thinking about the future. Its, imo, less depressing than avoiding something inevitable. What worries me slightly for me is ''pulling the trigger'' in premature expectation. It certainly makes me less depressed than some of the alternatives.


I think though there are nice and good homes, but fewer of the really nice ones than the depressing ones.

LydiaJ

vivatifosi wrote: »

I know you've probably already decided against, but BBC's Click did a thing on the new Nokia Microsoft phone that might be worth watching.

They said it was promising, but the danger at the moment is being an early adopter, tied into a contract for 18 months or so with a phone that doesn't meet your requirements.

I mentioned here earlier this year, got an HTC Wildfire with 700 minutes and unlimited texts and a small amount of data for £15 per month, phone cost me £60 (Tesco Mobile). It's been very good so far.

A wildfire is what I've got at the moment. It's great, and I'm very happy with it... for everything except syncing with outlook. I won't be changing unless I'm convinced the replacement would sync with outlook better.

Generali wrote: »

You can pick up an iPhone 3GS pretty cheaply these days. Apple do a thing whereby if it breaks out of guarantee then they replace it for a reduced price.

I am far from being an Apple fanboy, in fact I find that side of things quite creepy. However the product itself is great, simple to use and it works. I always had the cheapest phone I could buy that had a radio in it before this. I said however that if a phone can out that was a Blackberry with GPS and a music player then I'd buy it.

I've had an iphone 3GS before. I liked a lot of things about it, actually, but one thing made it a non-starter for me, I'm afraid. I am absolutely useless at remembering where I've put my phone. I'm forever putting it down and then having to ring it up to work out where I've put it - which is fine as long as the phone is not on silent. The problem is that I spend a lot of my time in places where the phone has to be on silent - at work, mostly, but also in church, watching my kids' school events, that kind of thing. Mercifully, those are not the sorts of places where I'm likely to lose it, so all is well as long as it gets put back off silent again when I leave.

Unfortunately I'm useless at remembering to do that. With my old non-smart Nokia, it was simple - I just put it on timed silent, and it would put itself back on normal at the specified time. With my wildfire, I've been able to get a free app to do the same thing. With an iphone, it's impossible because silent is a hard switch.

PS There's another reason why it's all the more important that I'm prevented from leaving the phone on silent unintentionally. I'm also useless about putting my keys down and forgetting where I've put them. So I have them attached to my phone. Then when I lose my keys, I ring up the phone, and I can hear where the keys are. Works every time. I may be absent-minded, but at least I'm ingenious.

lemonjelly

Lydia, this ones for you...

A golfer, playing a round by himself, is about to tee off, and a greasy little salesman runs up to him, and yells, "Wait! Before you tee off, I have something really amazing to show you!"

The golfer, annoyed, says, "What is it?"

"It's a special golf ball," says the salesman. "You can never lose it!"

"Whattaya mean," scoffs the golfer, "you can never lose it? What if you hit it into the water?"

"No problem," says the salesman. "It floats, and it detects where the shore is, and spins towards it."

"Well, what if you hit it into the woods?"

"Easy," says the salesman. "It emits a beeping sound, and you can find it with your eyes closed."

"Okay," says the golfer, impressed. "But what if your round goes late and it gets dark?"

"No problem, sir, this golf ball glows in the dark! I'm telling you, you can never lose this golf ball!"

The golfer buys it at once. "Just one question," he says to the salesman. "Where did you get it?"

"I found it."

GDB2222

LydiaJ wrote: »

Very helpful, thanks. I shan't be spending any money upgrading my phone then. Searching around a bit, I found this:



That's from the website of CompanionLink, who developed the software for a workaround to get outlook to sync with an android. It does exactly what I need, but incredibly slowly, and with the possibility of randomly deleting calendar events, or changing their dates, so that I don't trust it. If CompanionLink worked properly, I'd be happy with my android, so I'm not about to get a W7 phone if I'd need CompanionLink to make it sync.

Lydia, I was looking at Android, and this is one of the problems I faced. This linky helps quite a bit, though. Have a look, as it may be what you need.

http://www.google.com/support/calendar/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=98563

LydiaJ

GDB2222 wrote: »

Lydia, I was looking at Android, and this is one of the problems I faced. This linky helps quite a bit, though. Have a look, as it may be what you need.

http://www.google.com/support/calendar/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=98563

Thanks GDB, but my outlook calendar is nicely colour coded with categories for work, kids, home, personal, etc (which is nice but I could manage without) and an action category that makes things appear in red if I need childcare and haven't yet organised it (and which is much more than nice, and I really don't want to do without - childcare is enough of a headache for me already without making things harder). Google calendar doesn't support categories or labels or anything that would do this job. A quick search turns up pages and pages of people complaining about the lack of this feature over the last two years, but nothing has happened, so I'm not holding my breath.

michaels

What annoys me about google docs is you can't password protect individual documents - again people have been requesting it for ages but nothing ever happens.

I guess another potential pitful of having all my life in the cloud is that if i lost connectivity I wouldn't have a clue...

silvercar

I've never used the calendar feature on my Blackberry. I have a little diary with a pen in my handbag and "sync" it by hand with the calendar on the wall at home.

Everyone else in the house knows that if they don't write something on the calendar then it doesn't count, so I get occasional BBMs/ texts asking if a certain date is free.

The system works.

sss555s

My contract is up this month too.

I had an HTC Android fone, 3000 mins 5000 texts and (truly) unlimited internet for £23.50 + vat on 24 months

I'm not looking for anything like those minutes for the next contract this time but i fancy either a Samsung Galaxy S2 or a Nokia Lumia 800.

If i see a good deal on a 600-1000 min sim i may go for that and buy a fone at my leisure.