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Rosequartz You have just described my daughter as she was some years ago. She would dump all the angst on me late at night so she could get to sleep and I then lay awake.

Maybe someone else could find it helpful though.

Bookbinding - just remembered a friend's daughter has just finished her training.

I wasn't on here then; perhaps people use it for a while but can't find what they are looking for so drift away, or sort things out, or become so busy they don't have time.

It is so kind of you to worry so much, Dragonfly and I often worry about people and their problems, but a friend pointed out to me that unless you can actually change things for them, you can advise only and can't worry if they choose not to take that advice. I have noticed that people often offload all their problems, leave you fretting then next time you see them they say 'oh, everything's fine now, didn't I tell you?'. So I try not to take people's problems on board so much now.

I hope Paula is OK though, and sorts out the best way forward for herself.

Or perhaps they've forgotten their passwords. Happens to me all the time!

D'you think so, rose? I do so worry when people disappear! There was Withany with her bridge, whose marital saga bothered me all over Christmas, and Eliza, whose house-swapping traumas and need to change career rallied so much GN support. And actually, we haven't heard from ps for ages, and that really does bother me. I suppose people naturally drop away when they don't need us any more.

I was hoping for lots of

Perhaps Paula will come back and update us when she has decided.

Perhaps she has had a better offer

feeling rejected. Maybe Jobcentre Plus isn't ready for my talents after all.

It might be ofhelp to others though Dragonfly - I'm keeping a close eye on suggestions in case something takes my fancy

I've lots of ideas, Soutra, but Paula seems to have disappeared.... No point posting them if she's not interested, is there?

Paula8 - another idea for starting your own business, especially if you like working with your hands, would be to start up your own leather repair business. Training is reasonably priced and it doesn't take too long to learn. I don't think the initial layout is expensive either but the bank may be willing to provide a loan as it is a new business.

My son used to own his own car restoration business and he used to hire a woman that was very skilled at repairing leather seats (much cheaper than buying new leather covers). She also used to make home visits to repair leather settees - even much loved handbags and shoes! My son said that once repaired, it isn't noticeable - and that includes tears in the leather.

I think it's quite a new technique (relatively speaking) so if you get a move on, you shouldn't have too much competition!

www.leatherrepaircompany.com/leather-training-courses/

There are others offering training and can be found by googling 'leather reapir training courses'.

I think we are regrouping to get time to think of more.

This thread has gone quiet ? Have we run out of ideas?

CariGransnet

Yes!!!

Borrowing the song from Grease: tell me more, tell me more

Actually, Paula, that's probably good advice from GillT57; you do seem to have had a lot of previous traumas, so maybe you should wait till things are more stable.

Can I just throw a bucket of cold water over things? I understand that yu are about to leave your husband/get divorced? Dont you think it may be best to get all that trauma sorted out, see what your financial position is, and then consider what you want to do? Dont do too many things at once, however tempting, it may be good to have some certainty in your life, at least for the short term. If I have misunderstood, or go the wrong person, I apologise.

I didn't realise you got PAID to do it! I thought it was for love and

How naive of me!

Bloody hell - have I actually been useful for once?

Hollydaze The easiest way to contact GNHQ from the thread is just to report one of your own posts! ( Righthand link on the mauve/lilac strip above your post) Instead of reporting someone else for spam or whatever else has offended you, use the text box to write to them suggesting yourself as an editor. They will take it from there.

Brilliant idea Dragonfly1

I am a Local Editor and it's the sort of thing you can fit around whatever you are already doing and you need not even leave the sofa.

HollyDaze could you not be a local editor for Islands, then there would be 2 of us

Dragonfly1

become a Gransnet Local editor?

What a good suggestion - we don't have anything here at all! Does that put me in the running?

How would we go about it? Can this post stand as a SUPER HINT to GNHQ

Thank you Elegran. It was one of my better overnight ideas, I think. I did dream that she could do a plumbing course, but I don't think that would be practical.

That is avery good idea, Dragonfly. It depends where Paula lives, of course, and whether there is already an editor. Going to the nearest local meetup and meeting some Gransnetters would be a start, even if it is not on the doorstep. Have you found out which is your nearest, Paula and who is editing that one?