If you do some googling I believe memory location #1 contains the phone number on a lot of mobile phones Thete will be a shortcode, say 3 or 4 digits including # or an * typically, for each phone that will display the contents of memory lication 1 or even just it’s phonw number. You just dial the short code then preas the green button exactly as if you were diallibg a phone number. Google finds this stuff for each phone model.
It used to be possible to buy a topup voucher for a lot of phones - if you switch it on it should show you the network it sutomatically connects to so you can try to top up if that netwoek will still accept voucher (often svailable online in places like ebay) or supermarket card top ups. Look in Settings under Call options and set it to display its number when the phone rings of the person being dialled. That way your number can also be seen if you can crack how to dial with it.
You still need to make sure that backup is configured (ditto for Android) and these things usually happen just at the wrong moment (i.e when you have been promising yourself “I’ll sort back up out” for several months).
We did my wife’s new phone on a direct “copy from old phone” and it still took an evening to get everything happy. Not huge amounts of time, granted, but not “a couple of minutes” and would have been much more of a challenge without the old phone.
A related riverbank danger, particularly in late winter/spring is a weakened bank collapsing. I only use the footpath on our side of the Lot in summer/early autumn. The path runs between the low river bank and a much higher modern embankment. The latter is solid, but the former is often submerged in the early months and bits of it can remain fragile after the river level has subsided.
So sorry to hear your news David. You may find you have a couple of days of reaction, so go easy on yourself. Glad to hear it was no worse.
Is there a way to make sure your phone always stays with you? Inside zipped pocket for example? I just think you need to have it on all the time and a way for people to find you, if needs be.
By all means go on living the life you want, but it’s important others can also take care of you.
Thank you once again, all of you. To answer a few points, as I am a devotee of non smart, data means nothing to me but it is all my contacts that will get some doing to get back. Hopefully I won’t have to contact everyone, I have already filled in a form with Reglo to get my number transferred to my new phone with a new sim, have had an auto receipt so far but no answer otherwise.
I don’t think having the phone in my pocket would have helped. Eddie, who drove up here later to check if I was ok, said the phone would have been dead in the water anyway. I was fully immersed remember.
All my clothes have been washed and are almost dry now, my boots and gloves too though I did overheat the hairdryer at one point and had to wait for 10 minutes for it to recover.
The physical after effects are diminishing now, the sore throat is rapidly recovering, but my shoulders ache a bit and it was painful combing my hair this morning, but who knows, the jolt to my brain might have ameliorated my short term memory loss.
Perhaps not, just checked and I still can’t remember the middle 4 digits of my phone number.
Anyway, once my boots are dry (need them for walking the dogs later) this afternoon I will be off to Nontron to check the insurance status of my hearing aids with Amplifon, and also a visit to the Coop to see if I can replicate the lost hunters’ cap which has kept my head warm and dry for years. On the way I’ll drop Fran’s phone off at Eddie’s to see if he can find a way to extricate it’s number.
@toryroo I knew I would have given you even more of a shock than I gave myself, but 16 hours? What took you so long? Lost in the chookery I imagine. I think I can install the magnetic window cleaner without recourse to step ladders, pretty sure the spare caravan step will do the job and, in any case, I think I have proved that my head can withstand a fall from even almost double my height. It arrived yesterday (the cleaner not my head) but I haven’t even started on the 4 page instructions yet.
Strangely enough, it didn’t feel cold, in fact positively refreshing. Obviously my winter swimming habit is paying off.
The bad news is that my very expensive hearing aids aren’t insured, although I’ll check the house insurance in the morning, so may not be all lost. But I won’t be buying again at that price, I think a half decent cheapo in one ear will suffice. As long as I can still shout QUOI?, should be ok.
The good news is that I found a furry Canuck Lumberjack hat in a garden centre for 11 € but then, as that isn’t exactly what I wanted I bought an exact replica of the lost one which also has a furry interior (no animals harmed) from the big A, arriving on Thursday for €22.99. Got a replacement bag to carry dog treats in for a fiver from Inter. No compartment for a phone but in future that will be clasped to my bosom, so no problem.
No response yet from Reglo but am pretty sure that I can get a new sim for my new phone with my old number, and might be free.
Can’t use the one in Fran’s phone as, although Eddie managed to find the number, they won’t allow me to recharge it so tant pis, I only used the one anyway.
I went into the Tamar a couple of times when I owned a boatyard.
Once when being uber-cool and stepping out onto the pontoon after racing in at 20 knots, directly at the pontoon, and then doing a sort of marine handbrake turn. The idea being that the wash picks the boat up and you step straight onto the pontoon
This time, as my wash caught up with me, it bounced back off the pontoon and threw the boat back a couple of metres as I was in mid-step.
In I went.
But there was now another problem. From a metre under the surface I could see the boat, which had reared up, coming down again. I didn’t want 800 kgs of welded aluminium landing on my head. I managed to swim just deep enough that the boat came down in water not on bone.
I squelched past the party doing a haul-out "I bin in … " "Well! So you have! "
A guy used to bring his two Newfoundlands down to the river and set them in off the public slipway. He had them on gt long lines - 60-70m long. Those dogs could cope with the tidal flow. I couldn’t
I went in on purpose once, at slack water, to cut free a rope that had tangled round my prop shaft. This always takes time because as the turns build up around the shaft the heat melts it into a solid block.
Sawing away with a bread knife with the other hand gripping a rope to keep me in under the stern.
The tide turned. The moment it started to run, I was streamed out on my rope and couldn’t get back under the boat. I gave up and came ashore. I’d been in about 20 mins. Although I didn’t feel particularly cold a neighbour, a nurse, said I looked hypothermic and had better get dry and warm, chop-chop.
The Tamar has this problem. It’s tidal for about 10 miles above The Narrows, and is the waterway for the Bodmin Moor watershed. When the water is pounding down from Bodmin and a big spring tide is running against it, the banks collapse regularly.
This frequently leads to the demise of cattle and sheep. Unfortunately the bodies always ended up beached on a shoal 5 mins walk down-river from the yard.
Border Collies might be the brainboxes of dogs but they’re still dogs and mine and her pal liked nothing better than to eat their way into a carcase rotting on the foreshore.
They’d come home in a disgusting, filthy state. Penguin, as her name suggests, loved fetching sticks thrown into the river, so she was easy to clean up. My collie hated getting wet so I had to resort to flinging her into the river, as far as I could, off the deepest part of the slipway.
Dog fur dried from being wet with salt water smells awful, so the indignity was compounded by being hosed down with fresh. If looks could kill …
I’d then call the council and a bloke in a bio suit would come to remove the remains.
That is bad news but usual for a home contents policy to cover it, check policy wording if you can as water immersion for electronics is not frequently covered whereas loss would be
Good to know that you survived David. We would all miss you terribly from this forum so go carefully out there.
Worst thing is the loss of the hearing aids. My wife would be totally lost without hers. When you get replacements, do please have them for a trial period before paying. My wife had to have hers factory serviced a while ago, and the temporary (latest issue) loaners were much too difficult to use for her liking. Just like cars, TVs, and phones, the latest hearing aids have become too ‘clever’ for their own good. “Auto shutdown” to save battery life during quiet periods might seem like a good idea, but you can’t hear the doorbell if the hearing aids have decided to previously turn themselves off.
Re hearing aids - unless you specifically included them in your household insurance they most likely will not be covered.
OH just got his… nearly 4grand but this includes insurance cover new for old for the next 4 years…
Considering this a 3cent per day of wear expenditure.
I hope you reported this incident to the local gendarmes. Given the involvement of a dead pigeon, they may wish to rule out fowl play . . . . . . (I’ll get me coat . . )
At that value I am not surprised and high cost individual items need listing separately usually. Things like small electrical and items away from home could be covered up to around 1500-2000 depending on the policy wording. That might give you a claim albeit under insured which would reduce the payout by a similar percentage.
I’ve almost given up trying and written off the exhorbitant cost to experience, but I will check with the insurance today.
I have been looking at cheapos on A and elsewhere and marvel at the price differences. Some admittedly not rechargeable so no good for me but one I looked at was €90 delivered next day. Bearing in mind that the ones I lost cost in the region of €4,000, how can this be? Are the cheap ones so useless?
Also I know there are some people on here that got them for nearly nothing on the State. How did that work?
Anyway, just had a 1 hour video call with my son in a rooftop cafe in Macau and I could hear him pretty well, so maybe cheapos are the way to go, I certainly won’t be going back to Amplifon. He is worried for me and wants me to go and live in Bangkok when he returns there next year, but I can’t imagine living anywhere without understanding the local language.
Had to laugh though because he included his Mum, my former wife, in the equation and I said ‘has she ever been in a plane?’ His reply was ‘of course, she went to Vegas one year.’ WHAT? My little stay at home to look after the allotment ex-wife was in VEGAS?
the ‘free’ hearing aids are not really free, CPAM gives 480E - even the free ones cost more…
OH went for battery aids, as the rechargeable ones cut out after about 10hours and need recharging. No good if thats in the middle of a dinner out or watching a movie…
We checked several hearing aid places and went with a local (St. Junien) place called Audika. The techncian was very thourough, but the ones that fitted the hearing requirements cost a bomb.
minus the 480 from the government + 560 for the insurance the bill came to just under 4000.
the ‘not so adaptable’ ones would have been just under 3000…
He is happy with the new HA. We went to a New Years do at the local village hall and despite disco & loads of people talking he could follow a conversation at the table. Pretty good compared to before. And he can adjust them himself with a phone app. So instead of ‘conversation at Dinner’ he can switch to ‘listening to music’ or adjust the level of background noise… good if in a crowded place.
it is well worth taking the 4week test offers. It gives you a chance to compare what you can live with or better what you can live without hearing…
Lost in the chookery I imagine. 
I think I can install the magnetic window cleaner without recourse to step ladders, pretty sure the spare caravan step will do the job and, in any case, I think I have proved that my head can withstand a fall from even almost double my height. 
(I’ll get me coat . . )
Are the cheap ones so useless?