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Photography, bike riding, building my gaff, cycling, but of those only the photography isn't directly related to being a daily part of life and is the only pure pastime.

Just got a new lease of life from all my broken, gurgling, leaking Vivi Novas, with an assortment of coil heads and re-wiring samples from FT. It's good having a range of them to fall back on, now. I was getting a bit worried there, as I was down to two and one of them was dodgy.

What you need is someone who is versed in joystick controls - like an aeromodeller who build their own kit and not an off-the-shelf buyer. I'd be willing to bet it's not all that exotic inside and likely uses some easily available/replaceable componentry or at the very least a more standard part can be adapted to match it.
I've been scunnered before by the outrageous mark-ups made on disability kit, by some right rip-off companies.

Was your mother in the habit of carrying some small snacks around for those odd moments when a nibble might appeal? I'm thinking of pocket-sized salami or a whole range of German or Italian sausages, one of which might have slipped out place, given the movement of holding the baby.
Chorizo?

All I can do is throw my groat's worth into the mix.
In 2009 I weighed 143kg - 312lbs - 22stones.
Now, I'm 103kg.
I kick-started the process with Atkins, but didn't intend to do that all the time as I'd yo-yoed with that before, but I knew it would get some weight off quickly.
After a couple of months I relaxed the Atkins and started allowing a few more carbs into it, although my primary intake was protein. It worked, and the weight came off steadily over the next two years, about 25kg or so.
Then it stalled, every time I lost a kilo it would go back on again and this went on for months.
I also observed a few things about my own metabolism - this might not apply to you or anyone else - that every 10kg down there was a threshold where the weight-loss would stall and had to be kickstarted again.
That's still happening, but now I know what to look for and have a fair idea what's causing it.
Explanation (I'm not a doctor, dietician or lawyer, nor do I play one on TV, so this is worth what you paid for it); A fat man of 150kg needs 3500 calories per day just to maintain that weight - as the weight goes down, so does his need for the baseline calories and every so often this is what I was running into. It was time for another step-change in intake; to actually reduce calorific intake and as time passed and was less at risk of a coronary, to start doing some exercise on the bicycle. Nothing drastic, just a bit of pedalling up and down to the village and later, into the nearest small town.
The reduced intake and bit of puffing/panting would get it going again.
Also, and this is the biggest single thing I did to make it easier for me - buy a set of scales and use them every morning. After you've emptied your bladder and/or bowels, but keep it consistent. It doesn't matter about targets, feck them, just keep the trend going in the right direction and if you put a bit back on, so what, rectify it over the next few days. There's no need to be despondent because a kilo went back on - the trend is still downward - remember that, it's important.
As I sit here at 103kg I'm feeling much healthier and happier about things - it was utter shit being that fat and really, really uncomfortable, as well as being life-threatening. What tipped it over the edge for me was working out in the sun on a blazing July day and feeling as if I was going to die. It was crap, believe me.
I still intend to lose another few kgs and if I get below 100kg by the end of this year, I'll be happy enough.
That's the nearest thing to a target I've set myself.

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I didn't know about that - one-time payment of Eight Dollah, Mistah.
Might bung a few quid in.