Could someone set him up with an Echo Show? Dead easy to use for video calls. And could enjoy using Alexa too (music, reading out books, talking to, news, whatever). My mother (late 80's) has never used a computer or smart phone in her life, and refuses to entertain the idea ..... but uses an Echo Show no problem at all, and enjoys it. She regularly now sees family and wider relatives who call her, including new great grandchild (no, the new great grandchild doesn't actually call her himself! .... just yet).
Edit: it's definitely worth paying the bit extra to get the Echo Show 8 (v's the 5). Not just screen size, but also sound quality.
we did a zoom with his 3 daughters families on xmas day and during the end he started crying and was on a downer for the next 3 hours tearful and really trashed what should have been a good piss up.
daughters quietly whispering "we wont do that again"
if it was a weekly occurance then maybe he wouldnt get so upset.
ive never heard of those echo shows. ill look into them cheers gone for a walk
but he wouldnt be able to handle anything like alexa. hes an old fool who wont listen.
we arent around when he gets his weekly phone calls from his other two daughters so who knows he might be just as upset after them.
he's a lonely miserable cantankerous old bloke who stopped meeting up with his friends once out of the army then got married and had a family and hasnt had one friend in 55 years. treated his wife like a dogsbody behind closed doors yet all smiles in company apart from the odd lapse.
once wife was dead he then started shouting at his daughters. they soon put a stop to that.
he just needed a new punch bag.
we involve him in loads of family get togethers but he very rarely has anything to offer.
to be fair i think vic is right
maybe hes better off dead.
looks like he's getting over covid too.
anyone recommend a good discreet hit man?
