I posted links on here a while back about alternatives that others were saying work quite well, things that can be adjusted by yourself via a lap top.
The 2nd biggest con next to printing ink is hearing aids, high time that industry was taken down a peg or three. Look at an iphone for instance, infinitely more complex and clever for 1/4 of the price of an amplifier, in the UK the industry is protected by legislation meaning you have to be an audiologist to deal with hearing aids and as its pretty much 1 manufacturer controlling the industry with of course several different company names but that all leads back to basically 1 company.
I have never gone 10 hours with the aids in, I only put them in before going out where I might meet people and then left in for TV in the evening, but if I donât go out I donât use them at all, just turn the TV or radio up a bit.
These are the ones I am about to order I canât be doing with little batteries, only rechargeable will do, also these have a button to switch on or off without removing and to increase or decrease the volume as required by the situation.
I certainly have the thought that I have several weeks to keep or return them, so that gives me confidence to order. My one reservation, which may be groundless is that they remain in place without any sort of wiring or looping over the ear, so I will be very carefull to make sure they donât fall out, and I will not be walking close to the river bank. 
What I might do for security is, once I leave the populated areas for the lonely walk with the dogs, is keep the little case in an inside pocket and replace them in it. But Iâll see how secure a fit they are first, there are several sizes of earplugs with them.
worth a try if you only want louder âŠ
certainly at lot less than we had to fork outâŠ
I have come to the conclusion that I really do only need louder, which only goes to demonstrate that I have been ripped off paying âŹ4,000 when âŹ90 will do.
But that remains to be seen. They arrive today and I will start my 30 days evaluation and act accordingly. But even now the pester has started. This morning I got an email from Amazon saying why did I refuse the 60 day offer before paying a fiver a month for some sort of further evaluation. No way.
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Waited in all morning 'till 11.30 for the delivery of the hearing aids, also my new hat. The hearing aids had to be signed for and somebody must be in to do it. Thursday is my 2nd biggest shopping day of the week and then I had to check on Christine, the former aide to Fran who is now stricken with cancer, also a trip a little out of the village to Gill, another former aide who, with Marie-Paule, has agreed to be my post life organiser. Monday really set that in motion, the fragility of life etc.
By 11.30 I was fed up and we all set out with eagle eyes to spot the post lady. I found her not far away and, because she knows me, readily handed over the parcels. And the signature? No need, what, Iâve hung about for 2 hours to make my cross and it wasnât needed. 
Anyway got everything else done and at last the dogs and I headed for the river field. The river, so comparatively calm on Monday was a raging torrent, and the level right up to the top of the 2 metre bank that I fell off. It has risen 2 metres. If I had fallen today I wouldnât have banged my head on the bottom, thatâs the good news, on the other hand I would have been well on my way to Bordeaux. 
I have tried the hat, very furry, warm and comfy, and the hearing aids, but not 'till this evening as there were dire warnings about what to do and what not to do and the advice to take it easy as they will take 3 weeks to get used to. 
An email from Reglo saying that if I send them this and that they will send me a new sim for free , or I could go to Leclerc and they will do it all for me. So itâs off to Leclerc in the morning. 
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I was surprised to see quite how far across the field next to my garden the Charente has travelled in the past couple of days.
So sorry to hear that after she spent so many days caring for Fran, cancer is such a curse, just hoping its treatable and not too debiliating.
Iâm glad to hear that you are curtailing your plummeting activities for the foreseeable future, David.
They werenât voluntary in the first place, you never know when you step out of the door what you are going to trip over.
@Corona Indeed it is, she is thin and pale with a woolly hat on and, in her words, âlegs like jellyâ. The chemo is very draining. I stayed chatting for 2 hours, then after another English friend and her husband arrived before she chucked us all out. Not the husband, obviously. She was the best of the best, so sad, and fingers firmly crossed for her.
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Itâs not only outside. I have two staircases in my house. Yesterday afternoon I put a plastic washing basket that was on the kitchen floor about three or four steps up on the staircase from there meaning to take it the rest of the way later on. When I went to bed I used the second staircase. Early this morning in the semi dark I came down the kitchen staircase and luckily in the gloom made out the shape of something in the way. It was of course the washing basket. I hate to think what would have happened if I had stepped into it. For once luck was on my side.
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David we have a little battery powered person sensor light on our stairs, just comes on as you start climbing or decending, stairs are so dangerous in the dark with or without obstacles to deal with. Suggestion for today
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I have a telecommand next to my bed which I use when it is dark. Itâs normally fine when I get up, today was darker than usual because of the overcast skies. The other stairway has a light, the kitchen one does not as itâs open plan and the room is a gallery above the kitchen. Having either the light on in the kitchen or the room above is more than enough. The telecommand operates a light in the room above the kitchen I should have used it this morning.
We have (already in the house when we bought) LED strips on our landing (under the exposed purlin) and down the stairs at tread level. Set to a dim blue or purple and on 24/7 as they use just slightly more than no electricity .
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We have several of those (from IKEA, I believe) and theyâre excellent for stairs and short corridors with a light switch at one end.
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So glad you are ok.
What an upsetting experience.
I am getting over tripping over a basket onto our tiled floor.
I have huge bruises on both knees and my left elbow, pulled muscles in my back and I think, bruised ribs.
Jim put the basket safely out of my way to the bathroom but I went to tell him about Musk dropping Farage so my way to the bathroom was different.
Jim says I should put the light on, but I know my way in the dark, it is not far and if he had put it more out of the way I would have been ok.
Tiles are very hard!
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I had something similar from Lidl. It was particularly good because it used a rechargeable torch that you could have as a light with a sensor or remove and use as a torch. It however needed to be plugged into a socket.
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So did my mum, just before her fatal fall, please light the space.
Oh no Jane I hope it isnât too painful, bon rĂ©tablissement!
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good grief⊠hope you feel better soon, but I fear it might take a while⊠
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I am fine when there are no obstacles in the way.
I put the light on in the corridor and that gives me sufficient light in my bathroom too.
It was that I came from the gallery to the bathroom and not my normal way.
It wasnât the best place to leave this big wicker basket either.
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