Hey all,
catching up here as I didn't post yesterday - didn't feel like being on line. Thank you all for your lovely thoughts. I feel a bit better today. Muppet you made a really good point about if the woman with eight years experience was struggling to get work then the fact that I can't get a job isn't about me. It's hard to keep going but I just have to and hopefully something will come up soon.
Inzi - I am going to look into something like call centre work. I tried to search on the job centre page but it kept giving me jobs in London! Might have to go down to the local centre or something. As for how often I go out - I often have days at home. The weather is vile apart from anything else. Dareh isn't walking yet so that isn't an issue.
Crochet - well done coming second! I would like to do something like a choir - singing is good for the soul I think. I hadn't thought about a franchise. It's not something I know anything about actually so I will have to do some research on that. Let me know how you get on with your weekend away. I haven't been away from Dareh over night yet and am wondering how the boobs will cope if I ever do it.
LES - that was some email! Did you decide to send it in the end? She sounds awful.
We had some good news. Seven years ago my DH lent £700 to a Bulgarian friend that we worked with who buggered off back home to his own country before paying us back. We were pretty shocked at the time as he was a decent bloke. Anyway found out he is back in the UK and he has arranged to get the money back to us! It's going straight on DH's credit card as we are desperate to get rid of those debts - they are really expensive so we won't see the money as such but it will help reduce our monthly payments. Never thought we would see that money again and it really couldn't come at a better time!