Delivery people should be able to ask someone… phone… check the maps…
happens for others… you’re having a run of bad luck… perhaps
other than that… choose deliveries from those who can find you…
How on earth do you know who can find you? And which delivery service will be involved?
We have had trouble with certain delivery companies… so now, if buying through Amazon for example… there is generally a number of suppliers for a product. We check which delivery company a supplier uses to find one which works well for us.
A real nuisance… but we soon found out which ones worked for us and which ones didn’t.
since then… we’ve not had a problem…
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I have to look that up but that’s not a option if buy something from boulanger ore something similar they have there one delivery
If we use Shops like Lapeyre, Bricolage, Leroy Merlin… who will deliver… I always go to great lengths to give them our full, correct address… explain the problems which some drivers have… and ask them what more info I can give to get the stuff to my home…
I have always found such conversations bring out the best in folk… they take all sorts of details and always a phone contact… and it works… Hurrah…
Trust me I have tried so now I go and get stuff that I buy my self
sometimes that is the only way… 
True - but already is happening. Some 20 years ago I visited the then
quite new Museum of London where they had a Printing Expo. on.
It was a walk around my early life! i grew up with the print shops in around the Grays Inn Road, but this covered stuff up to the 1970s.
The ad world was always ‘early adopters’ of technology, and I knew print and paper backwards. No problems when I can see wheels, levers etc., but I knew I was in deep trouble when I joined a company in Brussels and was introduced to my new secretary - a small grey box sitting on my desk,- I think it was an Apple Mac. I didn’t understand it then, and I haven’t improved much since!
Basically yes Peter. I have no illusions about myself and how I am regarded . It now appears that my accident has had more consequences than we knew, and are only now starting to be addressed. It could be that my longevity might not be as imagined, but we will see.
Strange how from being a reasonably fit 80-year old of just a few months back - never took pills, been in hospital etc., etc, I am now an a bit of an old physical mess in the thrall of hospitals, doctors, physios, and pills, treatments.
Times can change very quickly!
Hi Norman
I’ve sent you a private message… can you take a look and zap me a reply, please…
cheers
It must be a shock to go from fit, fit, fit… to pills and potions, Norman…
but stick with it… things often seem worse, just before they start to get better… in my experience.
I’m relying on you … so keep your chat coming… makes me feel good when you write something about the past… keep it up, please.
From experience… at 2am in the morning, it’s the house lit up like a Christmas Tree when all the others are in darkness 
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… and more secure
H Stella, thanks for the kind words. Yes I agree with things getting better, and nothing is sure at this moment, so i am not getting too worried - other than hoping I will not be loading more on my long-suffering wife!
I had a scheduled heart test at the hospital which took over two hours when normally it takes about ten minutes.
It transpired that one of the heart specialists had been inattendance during my 'arm-op, and there were complications hitherto not mentioned, but were related to ‘body shock’ and a galloping heartrate that went off the charts. Certain options were open but they were contradictory and although he downplayed it, he did say that is why I have had the extra examinations and these would continue and now include new drugs to hold the heart-rate and blood pressure under control. Again ‘nothing to worry about, your heart is good’. Let’s hope so, but triple blood pressure taken twice a day over three days a week is not exactly standard. The physio has dropped my exercise regime by 50% and all round exhortations that if I feel ANY pain at all to stop immediately. This only applies to the exercises, as although I am definitely more mobile, and the pain has moderated a lot, it remains a constant factor in my days and nights. Almost four months after the event.
I’m not the sharpest pencil in the box, but without going into total negativity, self-evidently things are under more observation than I thought. Next hospital in another month - x-rays, heart checks etc., so we will see how it progresses. However, I AM now 80 years old, so longevity is already a factor as well.
Yes rom being fit, fit to this is indeed a massive drop in health and self-confidence.
However, I DO count myself fortunate in knowing how very few will grieve at my passing, whenever it happens. I don’t derive any satisfaction in thinking people will be sad by it. That much of a shit I am not!
Thanks again for the kind words. You are a very special lady on SFN, the top of a list of very few that I respect and admire!
I hope James and Catharine truly appreciate what you bring to the site!
Cheers;
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Me too! I have a dream of papering a wall with them all one day…
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