need a friend

Hi Kate and a warm welcome - look forward to chatting to you. Nice to have another Gransnetter from Australia

Welcome Kate2012. Maybe you could send us some of your sunshine . As you'll gather from many of the posts, it's RAINING with a vengeance across most of the UK, although officially we are in a drought!

Kate2012 Come on in and chat to your heart's content. I could be lonely - but, thanks to a whole host of marvellous GNs, I'm far from it. We are here to share and care.

Pleased to meet you, Kate2012!

Welcome Kate2012 you are among friends

Hello, Kate Welcome; I hope you enjoy GN as much as I do!

Hi Kate looking forward to hearing from you

I just checked in and found all your welcoming posts - thank you all.

It seems strange to so quickly find friends on the other side of the world,, but I am very happy I took the plunge and posted here.

9.30 a.m here on a cool, sunny morning; 12.50 a.m for most of you, so sleep well. I will be back soon.
Kate

Welcome Kate, I live in Australia too.

I have three good friends, one I met nearly forty years ago, she was my neighbour. Even though we don't always see each other we have always kept in touch. The second I met when our daughters attended kindergarten together thirty five years ago, our girls did not keep up the friendship, but we did. The third I met at work 18 years ago.

Recently I moved to the country in another state and I would love some friends of my age. My son in law plays Aussie Rules football and last week we went to his first game at a new club about an hours drive away. It is a wheat farming area and I guess for a lot of the people who live there, the only social life for they have for the week. I have never met so many friendly people, male and female and lots were my age and they came up and introduced themselves to me and had a chat. Usually if I go to a game to watch my son in law play, no one speaks to me unless it is someone D2 and sil know.

Welcome to all newbies. We are a kind, friendly, chatty, slightly batty (well the others are!), feisty, wise and wonderful bunch so plunge in wherever you feel like it.

Thanks Faye.
I am still in touch with friends I had in England, before we moved to Australia, and am on good terms with my now neighbours, but we are not friends.
Most of them are much younger than I, have children in school or day care, are busy with work & their own families and friends when not, but pleasant enough. We wave, smile, and do each other small favours, which is fine with me.

City living world wide doesn't give anyone much time for making friends of any age now life is so hectic.

I have always found country people very friendly too, even if some of them are wary of people from the Big Smoke - not sure why, but have never been around long enough to ask.
I hope you have landed on your feet now you have moved and will meet people you can build a friendship with.

I suppose it is a shock to the system after so many years of working with people from all ethnic backgrounds to suddenly come up against what seems like a brick wall when I hung up my spurs, so to speak, and became just another body. Not that I expected special attention, nothing more than I would offer to any newcomer anyway.

I know it is a common thing for people to feel invisible once they reach sixty, but why sixty, I wonder?

I am content with my own company, & have many interests, but it would be good to share them with at least one or two people, but so far no one has turned up, but I live in hope.



Thanks kittylester for your welcome.
Just from reading here i can see that you are all lovely, warm people.
I will look forward to getting to know you all. Not sure which category I will fit into, but slightly batty is probably close.

Hi Kate, slightly batty is good enough for us! Welcome and enjoy the company!

Faye: I forgot to mention that, if you are a reader, and have moved to the wheatlands you might enjoy

'The Dressmaker " by Rosalie Ham. an Australian author.
" Dungatar is a small town like any other in the Victorian wheatlands - except that the woman dress like Paris models. ."

I think it would be fun to match your locals to some characters in the book, though maybe not mention it until you get to know them better.

kate2012 wellcome from me as well! There are quite a few of us from the medical professions, so you should feel at home. I'm not sure about the 'slightly' batty though? Stark raving would probably fit in best, particularly on party nights!
Enjoy!

Thanks Jeni

Slightly batty was the polite version, stark raving sounds familiar though.
It is 7.45 p.m here, so G&T time.
Cheers.

Hello Nuttynanna, I like you am looking for a friend as I am on my own now and I dont see my sons as often as I would like, I have tried looking at local social clubs to join, but its like walking into the land of the living dead, I dont mean that perhaps clubs in other parts of the country are the same its just where I live which is in Essex, near Southend on Sea, so If you live anywhere near I would gladly be your friend, I have a car so I dont mind travelling out of the county, I know that this site is good, but there is nothing like meeting out and having coffee or lunch and a good old chin wag with a real human being instead of " virtual " friends, although this site is a good form of communication, I like to go out ( if you know what I mean ) sometimes I get fed up with always being stuck indoors, mind you I am very glad of my " indoors " on wet and rainy days like recently, I hope you live in the south East, it would be nice to meet you

jeni is speaking for herself, of course .

Warm welcome to all newcomers. The more the merrier. Enjoy!

I consider myself to be eccentric [in other words - "batty"] and, I feel very much at home with others of a similar ilk No names mentioned

Feeling a bit today, I have many "friends! but only a handful that are true friends( I know this is true for most of us) .
But last week my best friend passed away and it has just hit me how much I am going to miss her.
I feel so empty at the moment. Sorry to come on here and have a moan about it

Annika you really must come here to tell us of your sorrow. A moan, it isn't. A need to share your grief is something we can share. I'm sending loving thoughts and a virtual arm around your shoulder.

I was speaking to someone from Australia last week and, although they said it is a fab country for young people [surfing in lunch break and such like] it doesn't have the available activities for older people that he finds over here.

Annika you have spent so long supporting your friend that you are bound to feel her loss particularly keenly. It is only now that she has gone and you no longer have to be strong for her that you can take in how much you will miss her. A best friend is someone very special, for many women even more important than a partner, so it is not surprising that you will mourn her so deeply. Please be kind to yourself and give yourself time to adjust to a different future. There are many grans on here who have suffered bereavements and this is a place where we can share our sadness without needing to apologise (((hugs)))

annika its only natural that you will be feeling this way, be kind to yourself