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  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Maybe we can adapt something like this  👩‍🚀 
    We’ll have to think creatively 🧐 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    the main problem with hearing aids is that you can no longer select what you want to hear. Some can cancel out background noise but that's not the same as tuning in to what you want to hear in a crowd 
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • Lizzie27Lizzie27 Posts: 12,494
    True @B3. What I find very annoying is the intermittant buzz I get when I'm travelling in a car. I don't know if I'm getting a pulse from somebody's Bluetooth or the aliens are trying to tell me they're coming. There's no rhyme or reason for it. 
    North East Somerset - Clay soil over limestone
  • Nanny BeachNanny Beach Posts: 8,719
    Perhaps I should go for a tin foil hat as well then!
  • Poly-anthusPoly-anthus Posts: 155
    NannyBeach I'm not saying that all NHS aids are like the ones I was offered a good few years ago.  They had a lot of clear plastic which sat inside the ear and was very visible.  The modern ones are pretty discreet, small bit behind the ear with a very small plastic tube which fits inside the ear connected to the "microphone".  My friends who have them are very pleased with them and they're certainly not obvious to anyone who doesn't know they're there.  If I didn't have my very expensive private ones, I'd be more than happy to have the modern NHS ones.
  • Poly-anthusPoly-anthus Posts: 155
    Should have said, NHS ones are free, and as far as I can remember, the batteries come free as well! 
  • Busy-LizzieBusy-Lizzie Posts: 24,043
    Yes, NHS batteries are free.
    Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
  • Nanny BeachNanny Beach Posts: 8,719
    I just rang my 94 , year old cousin,who has hearing aids and doesn't "need" them it's an absolute nightmare. When I see her,if she doesn't like something you have said,she just conveniently says she can't hear you when you know she actually has!!
  • I wear hearing aids from NHS. Everything free like other comments. But agree a pain with covid mask on, when you take it off, gets tangled in the ear loops.
  • madpenguinmadpenguin Posts: 2,543
    I wear hearing aids from NHS. Everything free like other comments. But agree a pain with covid mask on, when you take it off, gets tangled in the ear loops.
    I put elastic so it goes round the back of my head rather than on my ears.
    Glasses,hearing aids and a mask are just too much for my ears !
    “Every day is ordinary, until it isn't.” - Bernard Cornwell-Death of Kings
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