Try turning the volume up to full blast and then leaving the room. That way you’ll know if it recovers from the Faraday Cage syndrome that you may inadvertently be creating simply by being in the room with the recalcitrant object.
If that doesn’t work, then try threatening it with a ride to the recycling center. 
I know that this is probably a very stupid question @David_Spardo that you will have answered before but is one of those emergency button things you can put round your neck or on your wrist out of the question?
Our local Mairie is sponsoring those for elderly/at risk people in the village…
I briefly thought about it when advised by one of Fran’s aides but, although she said it was probably waterproof I thought that as, at that time, the major threat came to me from wild swimming in the pond it wouldn’t be much good.
This Watch is very strange, without anybody doing anything to it it has righted itself all by itself now and I have tested it round at M-P and Mario’s today. We have worked out between us, and with what I read online, that if I fall or have another emergency it does not automatically alert the emergency services but I have to press a side button and an sos icon appears which, when tapped, automatically sends a message to M-P which alerts her to ring them, Better than any thing in fact because with one husband and 2 sons as pompiers she knows full well to ring the local station, not a central switchboard which is why they got to me so quickly before Christmas.
So thank you for your concern, which was not in any way stupid, quite the opposite, but as long as this thing continues to behave I think it is the best insurance I have. If it proves faulty, a replacement will arrive (Davey ordered it from Amazon Fr while he was in Thailand so is fully covered) and I can resurrect the no longer used iPhone to kick start that one.
Went for my MRI scan this afternoon, what a performance, 15 to 20 minutes inside the tunnel with all sorts of weird noise mingling with rap music through headphones and the operator occasionally shouting progress to me.
I was a little worried halfway through because beforehand he asked me for allergies teeth, specs, watch, all to be mentioned and/or removed and also asked if I had heart problems. I think he knew about last May as he just nodded but then asked if I was operated on. I said ‘no, just 2 or3 days in the hospital and then they sent me home’. Whilst in the tunnel I suddenly remembered the 2 hour operation to insert 2 stents in my heart 
and hoped that perhaps that didn’t count. So far, no adverse effects, fingers crossed. 
@Robert_Hodge I’ll try that tomorrow but I think this radio is faulty because the other identical one works perfectly. This one is still sulking here from yesterday’s power cut reinforced by another one as I left the house this morning. I think I just have to accept that it will do this whenever there is an abnormal switch off. It is annoying though because it used to cut out for seconds at a time as soon as it arrived and I was in the process of sending it back to Amazon, but halted the complaint as I convinced myself it was the live box cutting out. Too late now so I’ll just have to live with it’s foibles.
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Did you come away with any details of what the MRI found/didn’t find?
Presumably they reckon you’re OK 
Well they let me go, so I suppose that’s a plus, but I was told the results will reach my doctor in due course. I was also given a document beforehand which I think allows me to check them, but not sure what the time lag must be.
I know the results of mine before I leave. Usually a matter of waiting an hour or so for the letter to be typed for the MT, copy to me. Mind you it’s not an MRI scan.
Where did you go for the M R I?
No chance of me hanging around for an hour, Jules fast asleep in the car but only an hour left to get home by his dinnertime. So he missed the 2nd walk around the grassy areas of the hospital grounds, but I know which he prefers.
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To CHP Perigueux, very quick and efficient. 
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I’ve almost got “air miles” for the number of times I’ve been there
OK I had one a couple of weeks ago at Francheville and the file and a disc with all the images on it was ready as soon as I finished dressing.
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Yes I had one at Francheville a few years back and they were very quick with the results. In fact I was more than pleased because I went for an X-ray but the lady in charge said that a scan would be better and, as it happens, our scanner is unoccupied at the moment, so they wheeled me round there instead. 
The one downside was that they refused to accept my driving licence as ID so I had to walk a mile to get my passport instead. Good job nobody asks me for anything these days bearing in mind my passport problems, but I have to go to Nontron in a week or so so will knock on some more photography doors.
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I hope people take note of your experience!
The need to have a passport for hospital and all sorts of thingies has been mentioned more than once on this Forum…
Better to have one’s passport and not be asked for it, than for an important appointment/whatever to be cancelled (worst scenario)
EDIT: I am, of course, referring to non-French people using Hospitals etc in France. Very often the Hosp/whatever will display a sign, saying about the need for a Passport for non-French.
for us furriners, DL, Tds/Cds whatever… it’s not ID… one’s Passport is our ID
I don’t know if the UK has national ID cards (I suppose it does), but that would be a valid form of ID for the French. I carry my Italian CIE in my wallet for any legal purpose and the US has a card form of passport as well that should technically work.
No, it doesn’t. Life would be a lot easier if it did.
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I am still, officially a non-person. 
Neither I nor OH has ever been asked for our passport at the hospital. Our TDS and Carte Vitale have always been enough. Perhaps some hospitals or areas are different.
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Neither have I, but this was Clinique Francheville, and maybe not policy just one rather over officious person. If at my next visit in March to the main Hospital and for once they ask me for passport, I wonder if they will notice that it is out of date. Can’t even put on a wig and use Fran’s, we renewed them both on the same visit. 
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I think the person was following procedure.
OH was there last year and he took the long list of docs he had been pre-warned to bring (which included his passport). In the event, I think the person only glanced vaguely at it… but it was presented with all the other stuff!
Places across France will doubtless vary.
I have seen the Signs in various Health places (Dordogne and Haute Vienne), talking about the need for Passport… and have always obeyed when visiting those premises and any others as a “just in case”.
Not saying all places will demand it… but…
But would they turn me away when other IDs are present from a possibly life saving MRI scan? 