I find searching on here for a thread that I want to reply to extremely difficult and, in this instance at least, impossible. This is mainly because I can’t remember the title I gave the original but anyway, if someone does recognise what I am about to say at least they will know the good news.
I was alarmed that a friend in England, who kept regularly in touch with us since moving back from here some years ago, had not been in touch since before my email to her about Fran’s death. Various people and authorities in England from taxis to local council, to police, to Age Concern, either could not or would not do a simple check on an old lady of 81 living alone.
Finally I contacted friends of mine who live only 15 minutes away. I left them 'till last because I know Roy had had a stroke and Christine had broken her ankle, but thank goodness I did because they both struggled into their car and drove to our friend’s addresse. She wasn’t in but they had printed off my email to them and taken it with them. They gave it to a neighbour, whose door they also knocked, to pass to Val if she was still there. The neighbour said she did and might have been out with her dog as the car was in the drive. He took the email and promised to give it to her later. He was as good as his word and yesterday Val sent me an email. She is fine but can’t understand how she missed my email, perhaps she is not like me who carefully reads and replies or discards as appropriate every morning. The missing of phone calls and texts was easily answered, she had bought a new phone to replace a lost or broken one and thus had a different number.
So thanks to my friends, the only people in England it seems with a bit of commonsense and humanity (sweeping generalisation I know ) for going the extra mile (15x2 to be exact) in answer to my call, and to those on here who gave helpful suggestions in a thread now completely lost to me.
Thanks @Porridge how on earth did you manage that? I searched through the whole of General, Health and something else back in one case to 2023 and even searched for an approximation to that title containing at least 3 key words with no result.
Well yes, but I am shocked at the lack of an official pathway in England to do a simple check on an old person possibly in need or even in dire need and danger.
Sign of the times I am afraid. People now are terrified are doing anything that could see them sued or verbally attacked for what seems the right thing to do and commonsense. Another side effect of the woke, mamby pamby generation in charge today. I am glad you found your friend safe and well,probably never gave a thought to letting people apart from close friends/rellies know her number had changed etc.
Sounds like someone who sold her the new phone or advised her to get a new phone should have told her she can keep her existing number even if buying the new phone has involved a change of phone network.
For an older person losing contacts and contactability in this way could be devastating.
Impressive enough for me. I’m sure I did all of that without success. I wonder if I have discovered @John_Scully’s secret, he can’t, like me, remember the titles of his posts.
@David_Spardo to find anything you have posted you go to the magnifying glass and in the search box put your @david_spardo in there and then click search.
Anything you have posted will return then you just click on the post you want.
Thank you @kim but I have just spent the last 10 minutes scrolling down at least 50 posts some dating back to 2022 and I still can’t find that thread, and it should be easier because this time I know, thanks to @Porridge , the title which when I first was looking I had forgotten.
But the list does not seem to be in chronological order, posts from earlier this year are mingled with ones from 2022.
I’ve noticed that when you search, the posts aren’t in any sort of chronological order. If I know approximately when the post was made, I use the ‘posted’ function and select ‘after’ with the date. At least then you don’t get pages of stuff from years ago. Works better of course if the post you want isnt from years ago. Oh, and you do have to remember approximately when
Correct! But enter the search terms and perform the search. The results will appear, and at the top right there is a button ‘Sort By’ with a drop-down box. One of the options is ‘latest post’.
) for going the extra mile (15x2 to be exact) in answer to my call, and to those on here who gave helpful suggestions in a thread now completely lost to me. 
. Thanks for the tip