New to Gransnet?

I always notice that you are the first to welcome newcomers, don't bow out, Charleygirl!
That poster was out of order.

Excellent QuaintIrene to hear you have found your people. Welcome.

Hello ! I joined recently. I was looking for book reviews and one of your threads popped up. I am a widow, live in West Yorkshire and Nannie to 5. I love reading, animals,wine and cake. I may have found my people ! Thank you?

Thank you MawB, corner, grannyqueenie and Grammaretto for the kind remarks. It is not the first time so I will have a rest for a while.

I agree! 3 cheers for Charleygirl. Please don't give up.

Hi all. New to gransnet retirement and colchester. Struggling to know what to do . Is there a retirement group that meets in colchester. X

Charleygirl, you’ve been more than “up to scratch “ you’ve done sterling work in welcoming so many, thank you.

Too me somewhat aback!

Thank you MawB and cornergran- I am bowing out from the welcoming committee if I am not up to scratch. I thought the comment was downright rude.

Agree maw, bit OTT.

Blimey!
Poor Charleygirl a welcoming hand bitten off!

Snap Ellbell! I’ve heard of mumsnet but now qualify for nansnet! Having a mooch around atm!

I heard about you from a question on The Chaser.
Glad to be here.

Good evening all.

I am new to gransnet so it is a lovely thought to pop into this area for a cuppa.

The support I have received with my problem, has really helped.

Thank you everyone.

Thank you, MissAdventure. A much more pleasant welcome.

Hello ExperiencedNotOld.

If you look at the top of the page, it says 'forums'.
Click on that, and a list will come up of different forums (chat, health, bereavement, etc)

There is one for work related issues, but also the 'chat' one would be fine too.

Click on whichever forum you decide to use, and you should get options showing up, one of which is 'start new discussion' or something like that.

Hope that helps (a bit!) Give it a go and see what happens.

And how would someone new do that? Signpost to instructions please.

Welcome. You will have to open another thread re partial retirement experiences because in theory this is really just to welcome new folk on board. Not everybody looks at this particular thread.

I’ve joined today hoping to draw on other people’s experience regarding partial retirement. I’m a civil servant (definitely not as boring as people think, not in my line of business), an SME in my field and judged by my peers to still be very relevant. I do enjoy what I do, enjoy the freedom of having a good disposable income (I had kids at 35 and 37 so have not long cast of the shackles) - but I’m tired. I get bored easily and am scared of not being part of a team and not being challenged. At 61 I am happily married to a 58 yr old. All input welcomed!

Welcome, you need a rest now after all of that hard work. I hope it was worth it!

Hello all I just joined this morning ?

I live in Manchester and have found myself with a lot of free time after just finishing a degree course in my late 50s.

So I just wanted to say hello and I’m looking forward to reading through the threads and getting stuck in ?

Welcome, there are others who are members of GN who also live in the US but I do not have a clue where. I hope you enjoy the different threads. You may find that people are very helpful.

Hi everyone. I joined yesterday and spent a lot of time poring over the discussion threads. I'm in the US Midwest. I'm a new grandmother; my daughter and grandson both live with me (I posted about this in the Grandparenting thread so I won't repeat myself here).

I visited London and Stratford many years ago (it was one of the years John McEnroe played in a Wimbledon final). I don't travel abroad much anymore but have been enjoying a number of exported TV series -- Spooks (they changed the title to "MI-5" here), The Great British Baking Show, Doctor Who, Sherlock, the original version of The Office, North and South, as well as some great documentaries and archaeology shows.

I have been following your news and politics with interest, as we are facing many similar issues here.

I live in Salford too! Great city. Shame about the rugby on Saturday!

Welcome- you can obviously find your way around-enjoy!