Doh !! I knew you would ignore me, the way this thing is going it will start that all on its own, and I haven’t long mastered paying with my card.
Not true actually but it was a long time ago and quite painful. At the start of it all if I walked anywhere near a till with nothing to pay for I held it tightly in my hand stuffed into the pocket furthest away from the evil machine. 
Back to the watch issue, have you tried turning it off and then back on again.
Yes, but the off button only starts the process, it gives the choice of 4 icons to press, the 3rd of which is an off button. If you can get to this tiny thing quick enough to accurately press it you are then faced with a swipe button and have to be quick again.
But I haven’t got as far as the tiny off button since early yesterday so no chance of off and back on again.
I notice in the last hour or so that it has changed its tune again. now it displays time and date again but if I move to twist my wrist further better to read it it quickly changes to the floating outsized numbers again.
Holdfing the side button down at first causes a short vibration then back to the big numbers , but as I have been typing this I saw it, very briefly, switch to the normal sos/medical/cancel/off screen again but far too rapid to allow anything to be pressed.
Should I get my popcorn ready 
I think you have inadvertently zoomed in on a screen. You can ask Eddy to disable the zoom feature altogether in the settings (it’s in the accesibility settings). If this is still on the screen now, you can cancel it by double tapping the centre of the screen with two fingers held together.
All that does is show a message saying ‘you have entered the wrong passcode, try again in one hour’.
It gave a similar message about an hour ago. I should mention that I have not attempted the passcode all day today partly because I don’t want to, I prefer to use it on standby until needed in an emergency, and partly because it hasn’t allowed me the opportunity. The number pad shows only for less than a second, and is gone.
Looks like I might be going back to the Doro and the Dog before long, the 2 things that possibly saved me from a fatal frozen night just before Christmas. 
Although highly unlikely at my time of life, if I ever become a publican I think The Doro and the Dog would make an excellent pub sign. 
You should become the new grauniad tech reviewer, you shall be a refreshing change 
Yes, I wear my non-techie badge with honour. 
But you have to enable a passcode on the watch. A pain in the arse and bad design. It shouldn’t require that if your iPhone close by.
No I don’t. Passcode when I put it on in the morning and that is all. Have you got yours set up differently?
I’ll check how frequently it asks me for my pass code, but it was onerous, and my wife just disabled the Apple pay feature on her’s for that reason. If I’ve got my phone in my pocket (ie less than a metre away) I don’t think the watch should bother with security.
A major flaw with Facebook groups is that many people join a group on a whim, a “Thats interesting”, or a “I might need that” then forget completely they joined the group.
Facebook is free but they make joining a group too easy.
I run a Facebook group for Brits living in the EU27 and some have said we make people jump through hoops to get in. I say we dont want you if it is on a whim.
The waitress in the pub last week asked if I had any allergies so I said “yes, brazil nuts” - my chicken and bacon sandwich arrived with a little white flag in it… either the chef had surrendered or (I presume) they had evicted all brazil nuts from the kitchen while preparing it. 
But I am with you on being allergic to small noisy children, as is She Whose Views Must Be Taken Into Consideration. She travelled back to Cornwall on GWR on Tuesday and despite being in First Class had to move to a different carriage because of the presence of a child with some sort of electronic device, whose Grandma announced “make sure you turn the volume down, Nanny has forgotten your earphones…”
I had a quick Google and it seems it might be because the watch strap is too loose? Our whole family has them and passcode needed only when you put them on.
Do you have to carry the blessed iPhone with you as well? Bit different to my little piece of plastic. 
BTW, all by itself without any external pressure the Watch started to behave itself late yesterday. That is, it settled down to tell me the time and date (albeit rapidly vanishing if I dared to move it slightly to get a better look, making my comprehension of the time erroneous). Today it is a bit more considerate, it allows the time etc to linger long enough to be read before then announcing that I have put in the wrong passcode (I haven’t put in any passcode because I don’t want more from it) and that I should try again in 3 hours 
I bet you can guess what I do not leave at home when I depart with Jules for the forest. I’ll give you a clue, it is red and flips open obligingly with ever so slight pressure from my thumb. And she doesn’t live on my wrist.
The wrist adornment is brought along if I remember and if it is behaving acceptably.
Yes you do need your phone though my watch still pays when I leave my phone in the in the supermarket car park.
David,
Perhaps you are discovering that you are in fact a previously unknowing member of the Electromagnetic Aura Club just like myself.
Over the years I have been gifted some very fancy and expensive wristwatches that after a month or so on my wrist simply fail to function. Likewise with a number of quartz crystal cigarette lighters that give up the ghost after a few weeks in my pocket. Transistor radios fall silent as I approach them which makes adjusting the volume awkward, and if I stripped naked at the airport the security portal would still sound an alarm.
The wife’s smartphone throws a wobbler if I put my hand anywhere near it, let alone actually touch the darned thing.
I just wish that more people would accept that there are some of us for whom body worn tech simply will not work for very long at all.
Dang, I sat next to David at the SF lunch in Bordeaux eighteen months ago, it was lucky my phone didn’t explode.
I think you might be right, Robert, but with me it is not just stuff on my body, one of my two identical internet radios performs the same way. The one in the bedroom sorted itself within a couple of minutes after the long power cut, but the one beside me now in the kitchen falls silenty for no reason at all and stayed that way for 2 days after the cut.
It is stubbornly silent now, half an hour since switching it on. It is not off, I can see the Radio 4 logo in the little window, but that’s all.
No, it’s snug enough Emily. Snug enough for ECGs etc. A notification just came through and it asked to for the passcode before displaying it. I’ll keep a track during the day. Maybe I have some ultra secure setting on