IMPORTANT! Please read. Missing Gransnet member in France

I am shocked to the core. Let's hope we have some good news soon.

If you pray, do.

I hope Greatnan, Carol, is found safe and sound and asap. I'm new here Greatnan but I can see from reading here you are a well loved member of Gransnet. x

More local offices have been emailed. Tourist, hotels, cycling and walking groups. Surely, someone will come up with something today?

Missing Abroad Charity now involved. They have expertise, so can only be helpful.

Yes, there's a few of us in contact with her daughter and grandson-in-law. They're a lovely family, and doing all they can. As soon as there is more news, no matter how small, we'll update.

when PLEASE keep us updated.

She keeps walking poles, water, mountain maps, blankets, tyre chains and suchlike in her car.

Yes, police visited yesterday morning.

I assume someone has checked her flat [for items that might be missing that could give a clue [eg did she take walking poles with her and such like].

I remember that list, Tegan. Those are the precautions that she (mainly) follows. She would often mention her walks on Facebook, but her laptop has been failing in the last few weeks, so at first we assumed she wasn't posting because it had stopped working. That's when we checked back with her daughter, and tried phoning her, without success. Good job she is a prolific Facebook poster and phones her family often - we soon noticed when it went quiet!

The family and her friends have pooled loads of ideas about where she might be and shared them with police.

I put the poster up on FB, and the French version, as soon as we got it, and am amazed at how many friends are sharing it. Thank heavens for social networking!

Oh crikey; shocked to the core to read this. She did a list of advice for people going out walking alone once; would there be anything in that list that could give any clues? Yes' atheist as I am I'm going to say a prayer.

I have started a thread called GREATNAN MISSING for those of us who have nothing constructive to add to this thread but feel the need to share our worries and thoughts. Best to keep this thread clear for any news or progress updates.

The poster has also been translated into French by one of our members. Everyone is pulling together. when and I have both visited Carol in her French apartment and know how very difficult the terrain is to search. I hope that those with local knowledge will be able to track her down.

Thank you Grannyknot and as quite a few people have said in the last 36 hours, Greatnan, our well-known atheist, will have no objections at all to her Gransnet friends saying that they are praying for her

It is all so very distressing, and her daughter is so far away but doing everything she can. Let's hope, and hope, and publicise like mad. We are a closer knit community here than we might have realised. Aren't we?

Good Orderly Direction (GOD). Hope she's okay. Well said when.

Thanks, ffinnochio

That'll learn her, when !

I have shared on FB, and also on LIFT - Ladies in France Together.

gracesmum, greatnan will be the first to admit that a) it's not out of character - she's such a daredevil, especially on her own with no-one saying 'don't do that!' and b) she hates fuss! However, on this occasion, she can jolly well put up with the fuss and when we find her, hopefully safe and ok, things are gonna change! She's going on a curfew and hourly reporting!

She has got lost before, and had to scramble about in bad terrain with only a small torch or the light from a mobile phone. As it sounds as though her phone is not responding, she may have been using it again as a torch.

Well done for your work in getting this page and your other liaison work done WhenI'm

I have put a link to this thread on the Edinburgh FB page, and alerted the editors of the other local sites. The wider the better. I do hope she is Ok and it is all a storm in a teacup.