Set your phone to record messages, ethelbags and get the hell out of the house when you can. You can answer your mobile phone on the bus. or check them over your land line when you get home. You don't work in the morning so don't work in the morning
There are a million things to look up on Google, most of which will not horrify you.
You can learn new things from the internet and still be available to answer the phone or email. You can enroll in a course to do at home, with all materials sent to you or shown on the screen.
You can learn practical skills from books if you have the ability to understand what you read.
Local authority classes are on in the mornings, afternoons, evenings, weekends. You don't work 16 hours a day seven days a week.
Your two biggest challenges are not to regard the whole wide world as a conspiracy to do you down, so that you can start taking advantage of the opportunities out there, and to avoid envying others. Envy eats away at the soul and makes a person resentful and unlovable.
Is your health bad? Is your brain failing? Do you have to spend your spare time looking after parents,siblings, children, grandchildren? Do you have too little money to buy essentials? No? Many people on Gransnet would envy you.
Or are you "just winding us up" again, as you have on other occasions when you felt bored?
