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Getting the hang of timing for the chat room but finding that my clumsiness in typing is holding me back. By the time I have a reasonable reply typed in the chat has moved on and is often off the page. I will have to find how to increase the size of the page for this program to work for me. It got a bit crowded today,Thursday midday my time, evening the day before for you! Christine from Australia joined it and it was 1030am Thursday there! Gets a bit confusing! Deigh

MarkA has his own picture on the emoji in the chat room. anyone know how this is achieved? Deigh

Thanks for understanding, that incidence has taught me a thing or two. Firstly is to make sure I know exactly what I want before leaving home and to avoid 'winging'it. I can make myself understood fairly well but not if I get flustered or am required to make instant decisions. Then I can completely lose it! I am fortunate to live in a country where one's shortcomings are allowed for and shop assistants are pretty tolerant of the disadvantaged! Deigh

Heading should read 'Red Glass Cabinet extension' but I stuffed that up too! Deigh

I'm definitely short of skills but make up with sheer stubbornesss! Deigh

After four years I thought I knew how to handle the problems left me by my stroke, last week proved me wrong! My wife is approaching her eightieth birthday and I decided that for the occasion I would make an extension to the cabinet containing her ever growing collection of red glass. My plans required that I visit the local hardware shop, purchase a set length of Melamine shelving and have the store cut it to lengths to suit me. First problem was that the different lengths were not displayed in an orderly fashion and selecting a piece to fit my requirements meant me working out the most economical length to suit proved a little tricky. My brain would just not cope with the simple mathematics to do this and gentle prompts by the assistant did not help! I needed to sit down at a desk with paper and pencil but this luxury was not available and as a result I chose wrongly and had tremendous wastage of expensive material. This was a blow both to my pocket and my dignity since making instant calculations and decisions is a norm in engineering! Deigh

Paul, The pixillation problem we discussed before has changed! It used to roughly form a 'C' shape, recently it became colourless for a day or so and last week it turned around and faced left rather than right. I kept looking at it and gradually it got bigger and bigger till eventually vanishing! It is quite amusing to follow, what it does, there is no problem with it being there! Deigh

I'm the worst backseat driver ever, I admit it. My wife is a good driver except for her judgement, she is overcautious. Approaching a roundabout is like being in a bumper car, stop, go, yes, no, and she misses the obviously safe occasion to enter quite frequently. If we lived in America we would have to endure a hundred protesting horn honkers. It is only because this country has more tolerance that we get away with it. I try to shut up but sooner or later my frustration shows itself and she gets furious. I'm surprised our marriage has lasted 58 years. Deigh

Take it easy Tracy.....We still havn't met in the chat room! Deigh

Jim, Welcome to the club that no one really wants to join! You have found the site a lot earlier than I did in my recovery journey. The first few months left me very confused and unsure at what had hit me. This site gave me the opportunity to discuss my problems with people who had faced them themselves and were prepared to offer solutions. Deigh

That seems like a god idea, I'll adopt it if you don't mind! I try to really concentrate on names when meeting new people, one trick is to bracket them with other people I have known with the same name. This can surprisingly successful. If their name is a new one to me then I rhyme it with another word that can describe them. That is easier to do than it sounds! Perhaps one day we will all end up with barcodes tattooed on our hands which contain our name plus other data like our address and credit rating which would only be read with people with special power! Deigh

I'm a Probus member and my local club has started ukelele group for beginners. I've bought an instrument and have joined. It is not that I have any great desire to play the instrument but the challenge for my fingers (and brain) will make the effort worthwhile, it is also an excuse to mix with other musicians. We have named the group the Probuskers and I'm enjoying it although the fingers are not keen on twisting into rather small tight positions. My knowledge of music is a great advantage to me and tends to offset my stroke created clumsiness. There is a slight problem inasmuch as the ladies either side of me me tend to mother me and leap to help if I drop anything or have problems slipping new items into my folder. This is very nice of them but they do not realise that I need to do everything myself. I'm not making an issue about it and find it rather amusing. Deigh