Talking of labels, if you haven’t seen it,the Freshwell project have launched a barcode scanner app which categorises products into their traffic light system and flags up ultra processed items.
You and Hugo seem to be getting along famously @Annb.Hugo has arrived for his holiday. His gear was delivered last night and Em's big brother brought him up - a half mile walk which is no mean feat being an elderly dog with such short legs. He has lazed around most of the time since - did try to get up on the big chair but actually gave up after I said NO and told him to get down. Just had to do that a couple of times and now he seems to have given up. He gets fed at lunchtime and again in the evening but B hadn't fed him, so I just did. Alistair told me he is always quiet these days and very lazy but B did warn me that when he is fed, he gets very excited and energetic for a short time. He also barks a lot at that time. That's exactly what he did. Really loud barking and running around the house as though demented for a short time. He did stop barking though, when I told him to, so all's well. My goodness though, my ears!
Alistair says that the dog gets very stubborn with DIL although he is obedient to everyone else. He thought it might be a male/female thing but he's alright with me. Perhaps it's something to do with the pitch of the voice. DIL, like Em, has a high pitched voice (natural sopranos) whereas I am a natural contralto and am often mistaken for Neil over the phone.
The soul travels on horseback comes from a folk saying @Antje77. When we return home, following a trip away, it may take a day or two before we feel we have fully arrived. Our soul travelling on horseback has yet to catch up with us.In Dutch we have a saying where 'the soul travels by horse', and the horse seems to be catching up with me now. Do you have a saying like that in English?
Some thank you messages will have to be sent to various people who have given me a very warm welcome and went out of their way to make my holiday a wonderful one, but I needed to wait for my horse-riding soul to catch up with my car first!
We're getting along but he's very demanding. Wants attention the whole time but I'm afraid he's going to be disappointed in that. I can only do so much. However, grandson, B, has promised to come each day to take him for a walk, so he'll be happy with that. He does seem to have found a favourite place in the garden - underneath a huge fuchsia. He disappears completely from view and eventually emerges to go for stroll around the garden.You and Hugo seem to be getting along famously @Annb.
Thank you @Outlier. That makes absolute sense. High-frequency sounds are typically the first lost in age-related hearing loss both in humans and mammals in general.@Annb - as the dog is elderly, it may be that he is losing his hearing in some registers.
He may be like me then. My hearing is definitely missing those higher pitched notes. Most things come across as underwater sounds these days - I can hear Em and her mum, but they lack clarity, as do everyone else. Makes conversation difficult - and TV watching/listening.Thank you @Outlier. That makes absolute sense. High-frequency sounds are typically the first lost in age-related hearing loss both in humans and mammals in general.
High-pitched sounds such as children’s voices and women’s speech become difficult to hear clearly, especially where there are confusing background sounds.
Have you considered hearing aids? @Annb.He may be like me then. My hearing is definitely missing those higher pitched notes. Most things come across as underwater sounds these days - I can hear Em and her mum, but they lack clarity, as do everyone else. Makes conversation difficult - and TV watching/listening.
I've had a hearing aid for my left ear (family history of left ear hearing loss) for many years but it was no help at all - same as my mother who also found it useless (NHS hearing aids). Even my brother who bought a really expensive hearing aid earlier this year has found that it wasn't really any help. I still have mine somewhere, but haven't used it for ages. I'm not going to bother trying to get an aid for my right ear. The old left one just irritated the ear anyway. I had problems years ago as an audio typist with the headset causing me to lose a level of hearing and had to give up the job because when doing the reception part of the job I couldn't hear what clients were saying - not a great deal of use in a role that required confidentiality, having to ask clients to speak up.Have you considered hearing aids? @Annb.
I wear hearing aids both ears. There's a strong history of age-related hearing loss in my family, so I was more or less prepared for deafness in later life!
Even more frustrating for Neil, who has a very quiet voice, because I almost always have to ask him to repeat what he has said. It must be very annoying for him. Mind you - he should know by now to speak up/more clearly, but it doesn't come easily to him.I also wear 2 hearing aids and find it difficult to hear properly when in company. If I turn them up to hear a person, I put up the outside noise too so it's no better. Frustrating too to have to keep saying 'pardon' or 'say that again'.
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