Needs crisps, not chocolate biscuits though 
Wow, been away from the PC and busy and so much to think about now I’m back. The only one I can answer definitively is from @JaneJones . No use sorry to say, Fran never used makeup of any kind, precisely how I could see how beautiful she was from the moment I met her back in the early '60s 
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Especially toe and finger nails if left on for more than a few days. Made that mistake with toes and left varnish on for three weeks, surface of big toenails had turned white and flaked and took ages with a lot of moisturising etc to get it back to a healthy finish again. Binned all nail varnish after that and will never touch it again
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The crisps are just out of the top of the picture. 
Like a Reform UK speech?
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A litter boomerang . So that when they throw it into the countryside it returns and smacks them on the head !
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I would love a house-cleaning house-tidying robot with AI all seeing control. One which I could instruct and watch as needed. “Make the bed!” “Do the washing up!” “Lift the sideboard & sweep!” “Clean the windows!” etc. I imagine one day there may well be such a thing. Maybe there already is?
Claude AI tells me it is on its way!
“Pricing is the real story of how fast this is moving. 1X Technologies started shipping its NEO robot to U.S. homes in 2026, costing $20,000 upfront or $499 a month, with human-level hand dexterity that can unload a dishwasher, water plants, and tidy up — though it still falls over sometimes and needs help. Tesla’s Optimus is aiming for consumer sales by late 2027 at a similar price point. jeangalea”
Such a device must be able to remind which “safe place” I put X in as well as telling me why I had entered the room I found myself standing in.
Such a device could be programmed, with supplementary cameras in each room, to relay to you what you’ve been doing all day long, but maybe not why you went upstairs and came down again looking perplexed.
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I have a piece of paper fixed prominently in the kitchen on which I write anything that has been moved from its normal place. Worked quite well to start with but then I forgot to note the removal, or, having duly noted it, I then forgot to read the notice to find a lost object.
Which reminds me I haven’t looked at it for ages, I’ll go and look now…the latest 2 are 1) salt and Marmite behind measure jug and, 2) Listerine behind kettles.
No idea why in both cases, and non are there now. 
As long as such a system was a one-off purchase and not on a subscription model, I’d be on this like a tramp on chips.
I try to remind myself to always put things back where they belong. All keys hang on 3 hooks screwed to the front door. If I see that a hook is unoccupied, I have no idea where that particular bunch of keys may be. It’s a battle! But haven’t lost anything yet.
If I have to put my smartphone down somewhere for example, because I need both hands to do something else, I look hard at where I put it before turning away. The visual image remains in my mind’s eye.
A constant home surveillance system might help, but that’s not new - already been invented.
My father - “a place for everything and everything in its place”. I wish!
It works though - if successful! A cardinal rule always to be remembered.
I thought smartphones were all singing all dancing. 
Surely it senses your distress and calls out ‘I’m over here’, doesn’t it?
So far on my smartphone I have used it only for photos, at which it is very good, calculator, I couldn’t believe yesterday as I was measuring roof spars in the bird hide, how much my inbuilt mental arithmetic has deserted me and was forced to use it to multiply 36 x 2 and then on realising that I needed 52 x 2 , which it got right both times, I think.
Last evening with nothing better to do I discovered that it has been counting my steps each day and loads of other personal stuff as well. It even lets me make phone calls too, as long as they are not too far from here, as it doesn’t have a sim card in it. 
Not my smartphone. If I can’t find it, I ring it from my fixed phone line, or from an older set aside smartphone which can initiate a ringing tone from its attached doodah.
I need it for all car journeys if I break down, for photos while out and not lugging my proper camera around, to verify online purchases, bank account access and to connect to websites which need to confirm that I am who I am.
I don’t think of my smartphone as a ‘fondle pad’ as a friend named them long ago. It doesn’t live with me as a permanent extra limb but I reluctantly need it, though it does take good photos/videos. And I don’t like to use it as a phone – much prefer the fixed line.
It is well underused no doubt.
‘Flollop’ is a word invented by the English writer Douglas Adams in his novel Life, the Universe and Everything so I’m told by AI, and verified by another AI. Got the book around somewhere.
I am a fully paid up member of the Douglas Adams fan club, but am clearly not the most knowledgable one.
Thanks.
There comes a time in everybody’s life when they turn to the hereafter for help.
You go upstairs, walk into a room and cry
"What the F#@** am I here after.