Has anyone got Power of Attorney for him? If so, they would have the legal right to remove the car. Is there a sympathetic GP involved who could have a chat? Or better still a specialist dementia team doctor? There’s also the report to DVLA and then to police route. Once reported, call the police if he goes in the car. If he hasn’t met the conditions made for continuing to drive, he is ‘illegal’
Re other life decisions and management of affairs, look into Powers of Attorney and/or Guardianship (depending on whether he is deemed to have mental ‘capacity’) so future issues can be dealt with by spouse, family or other appointed person.

Edit: it’s not ‘denial’ as we know it. It’s called not having ‘insight’. He is cognitively unable to see the problem, not unwilling. It is unlikely to be a stage of coming terms with the disease as some experience with major ode trauma. Approach carer support agencies for his wife and get the family genned up.
Good luck it’s a tough journey and a cruel disease.

Quiet night. Early bed, early rise for a day out at the xscape Braehead , skiing and ice climbing with my 12 yr old daughter :D
Happy New year when it comes.

R4 has been a faithful companion through good and bad for all my life; even the Archers.

I learned to paddle in boats like that! I remember the itchy thighs…
Been holding my breath a few times so far watching this.

Sorry Keva, I was writing a reply while your apology was posted :)

Thanks Scotroutes for coming to my defence. It is indeed, simple maths, however, numbers are something I struggle with immensely, especially when there are other distracting factors such as stroke count and form to think about. I have tried techniques like those mentioned by gavskater to simplify things, but numbers are so abstract in my mind it all just jumbles. something many won’t appreciate, perhaps dyslexics might, but it’s still very stigmatized to be “unable to count”. Of course’ I can actually count, it’s just that numbers don’t really ‘stick’. Imagine reading something in a foreign or unfamiliar alphabet whilst having to do other mental and/or physical activities at the same time…
Part of the reason I’m asking is because during the training sessions the coach will say things like “8 50s on your pb plus 10 with stroke count plus or minus 4 followed by 400 pull” it takes me ages to work out how many lengths to do and then try and remember it all while im doing it. It’s quite humiliating as an adult to have to ask as you get responses like that of Keva above. a piece of technology could help me avoid such situations, thanks.

Hi all, the reason I’m looking is because I was told about the use of a Howson pic on the First Minister’s Christmas card and when I saw it it reminded me of the other painting I’m thinking of. I think it is probably a Ken Currie as in my mind it is a combination of the colours in the painting by mieklePartans and the subject matter of the pic Kcal has posted. Need a trip to Kelvingrove to check. Pretty sure it’s a permanent exhibit. Definitely a New Glasgow Boy style.
Thanks for your efforts. :)

Appenzeller. It’s a Swiss cheese and I’ve only ever found it in this country in specialist cheese shops, but it’s the most amazingly stinky delicious feety cheese I’ve ever tasted. It’s like ripe feet dipped in a mixture of nutty, fruity cheddar, Gruyere and emmenthal. NOM!

I immediately wondered if it was “one of us”. Looked exciting.

My colleagues were astounded that I’d run into work this morning. “In this weather?!!!” Yup, it was great fun!! Dodging wheelie bins and fallen branches all over.

Stoatsbrother, I like that idea! Would be easier, it’s an effing nightmare trying to get e-access to the body of the works I want to read. I can’t get to the library until at least Sunday and even then I can’t guarantee access to them.

“Thanks. Will do.”
(Cardwell, J. 2013, p1)

Thanks all. Midlifecrisis, it’s not a direct quotation, it’s discussion of an idea in a source that is then discussed in another work and finally mentioned in the one I’ve read. So the one I’ve read cites as follows:
“(Sackett et al. (1997) in Van De Luitgaarden (2009) p247)”

I’ve looked on the pages of the uni’s support for learning guide to citations and it’s rather general, simply stating that the school my course is in expects the Harvard style and gives general guidance about how to insert quotations and reference in the body of an essay. It doesn’t mention secondary, or indeed tertiary, referencing.

My old local club had two trails one called Barbie cos it had nice curvy bits and another called Sindy cos it’s like Barbie, but a bit different…

Like Scotroutes said
original and best!;-)

;-)

Laggan is only half an hour from aviemore. Don’t miss it. It’s the bijou highlight of Scottish trail centres.

Thread of the month :)

If one doesn’t do the job Caerphilly, one might Criccieth one’s neck.

Good call on the finalists I reckon.

I used to think it was “I’ll eat you all in the dance said he”.

My son was 14 when he asked me about when they were going to use the launch pads for the European space project just outside Glasgow. I’d told him a tall story when he was about 4 or 5 about the gasometers next to the M8 being where the European space project was based and he’d believed it all those years :oops:

Also, one holiday we were going to Skye with another family and the drive was murder with squalling, squabbling children. At one point one of them asked where we were going and I replied “to hell and back”. Again, about 10 years later, my son asked me about the place we went on holiday in Skye, “you know, the place called Hellenbach”

I hate being called ‘partner’, it’s so po-faced, too ‘reverent’ and proper. I prefer being a ‘girlfriend’. I’m 43.
Not even sure I’d be happy with ‘wife’ if I ever became one again I’m just not ‘wifely’. I’d prefer to be an ironic ‘missus’.

You can skip the tiny sleeping bag stage by getting a youth or adult sleeping bag and tying it off with cord or a belt at just below foot level. Kids are way tougher than adults, just go with the flow and get on with it. HOWEVER, they will always manage to get more sets of clothes wet than you think they will, take loads extra socks and man made fabrics like fleecy tops and trousers that dry easily.

Up here in Morayshire we have a local authority contingency plan that uses volunteers from various agencies and private individuals to get meals on wheels and essential home care services to vulnerable people in rural areas.

No, they can usually afford to keep the heating on all the time….

What? Oh! Sorry misread the title for conservative…

IGMC

Toys, I thought that too. Survival responses in the face of what seems to be an attack can be quite unpredictable. Some were amusing, but some just downright cruel.

Sorry if I seem a killjoy. The Asian lad with the machine gun noises and the kids with the dad with the chainsaw were horrible.

Wow, some of those are friggin evil!

It was at Tesco. Hence another reason to shop at Morrisonseseses.

Plus, if it belonged to two Morrisons, it would be Morrisons’.

I avoid those on grammatical principle.

Ooft! 3 edits to eliminate some rookie errors in that last one. I must be tired… or losing my touch.

The supermarket belonged to Mr Morrison at some point I presume. They will have dropped the apostrophe at some point; incorrectly, in my opinion, but if Kwikfit are allowed to exist, who am I to argue?

birthdays is plural & non possesive, fail in correct use of apostrophe.

Top of the class. Have a gold star. I hadn’t noticed. ;)

Lapped race song is always “let’s go round again” as sung by Take That. Gets a bit wearing after 24 hours.

It wasin the early 90s I worked there. They’ve had a proper nasty accident since then. Procedures are probably very different as a result.

Was just breaking news on R4’s PM programme, so probably not many links yet.

Oh, nightmare, Matt. Sorry to hear that. Hope they recover ok.

Was up around there on Saturday for a ski tour.

I wonder if they were running it at the extremes of it’s tolerance for windy conditions. It was pretty gusty wind mid afternoon on the coast up here. I worked on the lifts at Nevis range and we would sometimes push the boundaries on windy days, but would always have a staff member observing the behaviour of the line at critical observation points to report back to the engineers whether a lift was “running in” or “running out” at various towers.
Hope all concerned are not too poorly.

Go on, do tell.

Moved out a few months ago, stopped working there Friday.
What have they found?!?!

…Shergar. In kebab form….

‘Nother vote for Billy Bragg.
So much more than a political songwriter.

Looking out for the Chris Bell Racing/mleh/moray mbc people’s.
They are lucky as they have Roberta as pit queen looking after them. This is my first year not doing it apart from the inaugural puffer, so feeling a bit… Left out.

Ho hum, ride like the wind people!!! X

I’ve also been moved to tears by the overwhelming generosity of outdoorsy people and the people close to those we’ve lost. Many of us knowing, “There but for the grace of god…”

As I’ve been a ‘meeja whore’ and been filmed the last couple of times I’ve done the Puffer, I’ve sent a message to one of the Adventure Show team to see if they would be willing to cover the cause.

Donated. X

Go Chris!!! Pull a weeeeeeeelie :)
Happy times. That’s him in a nutshell. Thanks for posting it, Tom.
Let’s all give it all we can in his honour.