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All those Britcoms mentioned and As Time Goes by, Dad's Army, Last of the Summer Wine, Keeping Up Appearances, All Creatures Great and Small, Doc Martin, The Old Guys, Open All Hours,

I have seen Mother and Son - it was good too.

I don't watch much TV any more but I will watch Britcoms. Love the British sense of humour.
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@Glad, Need, & Beatty

Those shows were classic British comedy. I watch the reruns of 'Good Neighbhors' with Felicity Kendall and 'Are You Being Served?'. Classic.
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Oh I LOVE Farty Towels, ha ha. (Faulty Towers for those not in the know).

If you can get it where you live, try the Australian series 'Mother and Son'. It's old (1980s-90s) & a little slow to start but hang wait til you meet Mother. The actress playing her is just supurb.

I'll try to find a YouTube clip.. may not work but here's a couple.

https://youtu.be/W3IoZ9jMcKg
https://youtu.be/hsrZ_iEMBQg
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Glad,

I remember all of those shows!

I watch some classic shows. I am enjoying BritBox. I adore British humor.

It’s funny, my husband has a very dry sense of humor and he’s Italian and French.

I am predominantly English. I can’t tell you how many episodes I have watched over and over of Faulty Towers. Love it!

There is a show on BritBox about the elderly living in an assisted facility. It’s called, Waiting for God.’ It’s so funny 😆!

A lot of the shows are really funny.
British comedy shows are great.
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FF, the Hamilton and Perry were not the same actors as in Perry Mason, just the names were the same.
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gladimhere, Perry Mason is on FeTV [Family Entertainment Television] and he is also on MeTV. Both stations have him on at 8pm Sunday, so I need to flip a coin :)

I'll have to look for that Dick Van Dyke show with Perry and Hamilton.

Also a big fan of Andy Griffith Show, always a good lesson learned. I use to watch Adam-12 but have seen the reruns so many times I know them by heart.
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Huge anti-whine here and bless God!!!

I have been looking out my front windows and not liking seeing the snow that is piling up in the driveway. Today I got a wonderful surprise. Three 1/2 ton trucks, 3 dads, and 6 young sons arrived all with shovels and cleared it nicely and quickly. They brought a drink container and all the lads were given drinks when it was done. I saw some very nice father-son interactions too. I opened the door and thanked them. The nearest father smiled said "All done in 5 minutes and we will be here all winter! Wow!!! God is good and provides in abundance. What a great example and training for the young ones. I'm blown over.

The company that did it about a week ago still hasn't billed me. Maybe I got a freebie from them!
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Love Perry Mason. Used to watch it all the time.
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LOL, FF! There It s a Dick Van Dyke episode where Rob is a juror in a criminal case, with a beautiful jewelry smuggler where the defense attorney is Mr. Berger and the prosecutor is Mr. Mason! Or was that the other way around? The episode is titled One Angry Man.

FF, where do you watch Perry Mason. That was a good one!
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Lately I've been hooked big time on "Perry Mason", the acting is superb. Nothing like the ho-hum and mumbling acting on current TV series.
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Some of you know this; I go to sleep each night watching old classic tv shows on YouTube. Started this about ten years ago when caring for mom. It was a pleasant way to unwind at the end of the day.

Started with Golden Girls, then to Andy Griffith, most recently Dick Van Dyke. One by one they were taken off of YouTube. It took awhile though. I found Lassie on YT, then Car 54. Neither cut it very well. A dog barking in my room as I am falling asleep was not a good.plan.😕😕 And Gunther Toody is just plain irritating as falling asleep!😁😁😄😄

I just started to try to find Dick VD and found him on an Amazon Channel called The Best TV Ever. It is a subscription for $.99 a month. There are many old classics there. Cheap fun entertainment and sleep aid! Thought others may want to check it out. There is a free trial period. I will sign up for the trial in the morning.😊😊
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MILWAUKEE, WI— Taking a bat to a mailbox, hitting it with a brick, or setting off a firecracker or pipe bomb inside may seem like fun to some rambunctious teens. However, it’s not a rite of passage - it’s a criminal act that hurts our neighbors and our community.
“Mailbox vandalism increases during the summer months, and we need to encourage everyone to be aware of any misconduct that may occur in their neighborhoods”, said Milwaukee Postmaster Kim Quayle. Mailboxes are protected by federal law, and crimes against them and the mail they contain are considered a federal offense.  Violators can be fined up to $250,000 or imprisoned for up to three years for each act of vandalism.
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We have the same hooligans and a structural steel post, filled with concrete and a structural steel box puts an end to the vandalism.

Explain that to the ER you little rats. :-)
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Yes, here too Glad! My dad used to look for it in the ditch then just hammer out the dents and put the box back up, until one day it disappeared altogether.
Snowplows can do a lot of damage to rural boxes too.
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Rural mailboxes here are targets for juvenile delinquents that think bashing them with bats is a sport!
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I actually prefer my community mail box because your mail is locked up, with typical rural boxes and those lucky few who have door to door delivery everything is just sitting there for thieves to access. There is a local news story today warning people to be aware of somebody who is raiding mail and possibly using the info for identity theft, advice is to consider getting a box with a lock.
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This is an example of what is occurring in some, mostly, small town post offices here. Post offices refused to deliver to in town residents. Customers had to purchase P.O. Boxes, no other choice. It has been going on for years and finally a few of the communities are winning!

https://arkvalleyvoice.com/buena-vista-post-office-listens-to-frustrated-residents-will-offer-free-po-box-services-starting-2023/

https://kdvr.com/news/problem-solvers/elizabeth-spends-200k-on-mailboxes-but-cant-get-mail/
The problem with this second case is the Town did not get approval for the location, placement of type of cluster units. Town has a history of just forging ahead and doing what it likes.

CW, I know of a similar blindness case where the box was across the road. Eventually, the post office relented and allowed the customer to move the box across the street so blind person wouldn't have to cross the road..... This was a rural area.
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Our postmistress always insisted that mom did have a free mail option and it was her choice not to use it. At the time it never occurred to me to play the disability card - mind you this was a small town (population 400!) and they new d@*ned well that mom couldn't see!
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I guess it would tick you off! I hope your mum's needs would have been accommodated. I hope!

I have gone as paperless as I can but a few important things still arrive by the paper route, and some parcels. In the winter I don't pick up my mail daily - closer to weekly depending on the weather.

The ongoing Relocation Soap Opera. I won't regale you with all that has happened but this is worthy of mention. A month or so ago R's car was stolen and in it were many of his tools and - also - all our condo keys! Fortunately you can get in the main door with the passcode, but he had to replace our condo unit door lock. I haven't yet informed the powers that be. R thinks there is little danger of the thieves knowing what the keys are for and thus having access to the main building. He also assures me that the keys are difficult to use - you have to now how. I thought Life 101 teaches us that you don't put all your keys in one place. I told him to get a copy of our door key and give it to that friendly neighbour next door (who keeps offering to help) as required by the condo rules. I really need to get down there to look after some things!
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I think it was more of a problem a decade or so ago because people actually got mail, I've mostly gone paperless (and so have many others) so what shows up in my mailbox is mostly junk.
Back when my mom first lost her eyesight she was living on a farm with the mailbox across the road, we knew that was a disaster waiting to happen so I rented a box in town and I would collect her mail when I came home on weekends. Now that I'm older and wiser I've wondered whether we could have asked for an accommodation due to her disability, that PO box rent went from under $50 per year to $300 and it always ticked me off when I had to pay for what everyone else got for free.
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I should add that I have paid taxes longer than most people and that perhaps, with that in mind, some concessions to my age are a pretty reasonable expectation, not to speak of the costs to the health system should a bone or two be broken while collecting my mail, though I gather from gershun's experience that breaking foot bones isn't too hard on government resources. I need another coffee! 😜
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Thx, cw. it's not that I CAN'T do it. I know there are some that can't or for whom it is much more difficult than for me. But, it is harder on me (the cold for example) and more dangerous in terms of slipping on the ice and breaking something. This is true for all of us as we get older and certainly for someone my age. I just checked online and there is a customer service number to call referring to the disabled, but it might be worth it. I suspect they were avoiding the "senior" issue considering that the % of seniors in the population is growing.
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Back when Canada Post was pushing hard toward discontinuing door to door delivery there was a lot of push back from people who said they were elderly or disabled and they couldn't possibly do that 🙄. Anyway, I recall promises of delivery to those in need but can't say if that ever happened...
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@ventingisback

Of course you should be discussing your mother's health conditions with her caregiver. That is common sense because you know her the best and a caregiver who is well informed on their client's health conditions will be better at their job.
Discussing the abusive personal relationship you have with your mother with her caregiver is completely inappropriate.
I don't believe that your mother's doctor advised you to discuss the abusive relationship the two of you have with her caregiver. Please explain this.
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glad - I have wondered about that but never followed up. Certainly in the information we have been given about community mail boxes that was never mentioned. I may check it out. It's less of an issue now as I am moving but It sure would be convenient even for a short while. Due recent events I am not encouraged as to the interest here in accommodating senior's needs. I mentioned in my email re the waste collection that I was 85 and couldn't handle the bins as well as I used to. I got no acknowledgement of that. As it was I found I could handle the empty bin quite well so it became non issue for me. But. it is not right that an 85 year old should have to go out when it is 25 below and icy and rescue ner trash bin from her rose bushes. 🌹
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Golden have you spoken to the post office to tell them you NEED your mail delivered to the house? In my neck of the woods the post office will do home delivery, in spite of having cluster boxes, for the elderly or in cases of sickness and safety reasons. I would think that would be a reasonable request.
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luta - I think we all have. but maybe not to the degree that you have. I would think that a disintegrated hip would be dangerous. Hope you survive ok till surgery.

FYBKIHYD - the only thing they could do, other than talk to that driver, was to pick up the bin and return it to the house and then, in future, not do it again. I left the bin there till suppertime and then went and got it myself. It was a bit "creepy" as 5 mins later I got the COMPLETE email. About the future, I am moving soon so it won't matter to me then. I do think there are times to be very persistent as you have been. BTDT. I completely understand about the frustration of using your time to deal with someone else's incompetence. I get other people's mail in my mail box too often and always return it in the mail slot. I haven't complained but if I was staying here I would. I wonder how much of my mail has been mishandled and disappeared. This coincides with the arrival of the community mail boxes 1/2 a block away which are extremely inconvenient at 40 below and when it is icy. We get 4-5 months of winter here. Don't get me going on those or the notices they put on my door that I wasn't in (I was) so I have to go to the post office to pick up the parcel!!! Small things but they add up. Deep breaths and another cup of coffee lol.
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@golden23

Please keep hounding the sanitation department until they make things right. It isn't unreasonable to ask that they do their jobs correctly.

The postal service and UPS and a few other companies have done astoundingly incompetent things and then had the gall to mark my messages as "resolved" or "complete" without ever fixing what they had done wrong. I have had to follow up two, three, and even four times until they made things right. It made me super uncomfortable to do that, but I tell myself that I'm not really being a Karen in these circumstances.

I just wish that all the follow-up on my part hadn't taken up so much of my freaking time. I always have trouble deciding whether to let a complaint go unresolved (thus saving me the frustration of fighting the incompetent powers that be) versus fighting tooth and nail to get the satisfaction that I deserve (and spending a lot of time and energy to get it).
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Mom is stooped over the floor, about 12 inches from nose to floor.
Me: mom what are you looking at down there?
Mom: I'm trying to figure out where I'm going to set all the plates of food down here so we don't have to worry about putting it all on the table first.
😶
Time to lock the fridge.
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natasana NO guilt. Enjoy your respite!!!!

cm -I have never cared that much for society norms or being "nice". Yes I pay for garbage collection so I am entitled to give feedback for a job badly done, in fact I see it as my responsibility. All my situation needed was a word to that garbage truck driver to be careful to check with their side mirror that the bins are placed back properly, and then a word to me that it had been brought to their attention. It's not so difficult.
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