My neighbours, 70 and 80, have an iPad. After 12 months when the contract was finished they cancelled it because they hadn't once switched it on...because they didn't know how to work it...because they hadn't switched it on...because... Many times I offered to show them it was no more complicated than switching it on and following their noses but no....some other time maybe.
I don’t think age is the defining factor, I think Some people will be fine young or old, some won’t , my wife’s grandad who died 20 odd years ago in his 80s had 2 computers, emails computer games , DVD player , restored classic cars , grew fruit veg , had sound light video equipment that he was still using , whereas I know some people in their 20s that have no mobile phone, people who were interested in tech when they were younger still will be when they’re older, age doesn’t change being inquisitive , some people are, some aren’t .
My mum is 84 and has taken to her android tablets really well (other than still not getting that Rightmove only show you the interior of houses for sale, not all houses like street view shows you all outsides). She can’t grasp Facebook and WhatsApp...it’s the social media platforms I think they struggle with and how they work. I do think that we need to find a middle ground for older people...no idea how though.
My elder brother has moved in with my aged parent, he was there every weekend anyway, he had some sort of epiphany when he got divorced and turned into a human being.
Could have been worse https://twitter.com/hayleygreen78/status/1243730353212227585?s=09 Sent from my BND-L21 using Tapatalk
She has two android tablets, small one for spying on people and the other for watching Downton Abbey on playback. She also has a phone to ring me and my brothers 20 times a day to tell us what we are missing on TV!
Breaking news: Derbyshire police are now patrolling the Peaks using Predator drones equipped with Hellfire missiles. "We will rain fiery death on anyone seen walking their dog in completely empty countryside" said Derbyshire's chief constable.
You may mock, but without essential publications like this, lockdown would be even more ghastly darling. It is most fortunate that I was able to bag a couple of pheasant that had the misfortune to cross the east wing formal lawn. Hopefully Cook is following the recipe to the letter as I wish to publish some photos of my dinner in Country Life magazine.
I thought you'd let Cook go? I'm afraid I had to shoot one of my ground staff today. Giving them both barrels of my Purdey saves a lot of paperwork.
