The dog has really, really got used to making use of this stair lift now, to get her upstairs. She hasn't quite sussed out, though, how it works - that somebody needs to press a button on one of the remote controls, before it will actually move. When she decides herself, that she wants to go up, she steps on the board I adapted the footrest with, then if it doesn't go, she bounces up and down on it, to try to wake it up. There have been times when Avril has got up before me, on a morning, leaving me in bed. Dog might follow her downstairs, have her breakfast treat, then she wants to go back up to bed - all you hear is clatter, clatter, as she bounces on the footplate board, trying to make it start.
At bedtime, she had to be always sent up on the lift first, she hadn't quite got the idea of getting on, with you pressing the button at the top, the lift is slow, and the board is difficult for me to climb past it, when it's other than at the bottom. I've just found a way around that - I tell her to get on the board, me behind her, then I go up ahead of her, pressing the remote, so she is following close behind me.
At lunchtime today, I've arranged to go look at, and probably buy/collect, a little used trailer. Only a few weeks ago, I swapped car and caravan electrics, over to 13 pin. Now I find that most small trailers are still 7 pin, so yesterday I went to the large car parts store, in the next village, to source a 13 to 7 pin, plug in adaptor, in readiness. I then remembered I had a spare trailer board tucked away on a shelf in the garage, and so thought it would be simpler to simply get that tested, set up with the number-plate, and use that instead of any lights the trailer might be fitted with, just to get it quickly home. Plugged in on test, the car was complaining the board had a faulty right turn indicator, which I eventually traced to the lamp, not quite making proper contact with the centre pin.