Boredom

leads to eating.

We all know that.

So.. it is extraordinarily important to me to not get bored or when bored to de-bore myself as quick as I can.

Problem is though that with 'bored' also the 'can't be bothered' kicks in.

Is it any coincidence that the word 'bothered' can be split up in THE BORED?

Ha!

Anyway, being aware that staying bored can only lead to mischief of having too many gingernuts (28 pence from Tesco, best cookies in the world because of their taste AND consistency being sweet, spicy and rock hard which makes you feel you had something to eat, much better than any spongy things :-))

I need to get my brain into gear and think of possibilities instead of making songs on 'I am so bored, so bored, so bored'.

So.... possible career change (don't panic, I will not do anything rash :-))

is...

pom pom pom....

Tutoring elderly in Scotland in simple computing.

Does that make sense?

In fact.. it is my mother in law who gave me the idea, she decided I had talked her into it and bought herself for her 79th birthday a wireless laptop and router when I promised to set her up (in a merely positive way of course) with broadband and would give her the basics of 'how to work with a laptop and an internet connection'.

Since we came really close to bullying her into it instead of talking her into it, I was really scared that she would totally not like it and blame me for making a dubious purchase.

But no.... except for some router issues which were caused by a lightning strike it all has gone extremely smooth.

I got the broadband for her (did all the calling and administration), ordered the hardware (laptop, router, printer), took reception of it all and last April she got connected.

I have spent a few hours with her slowly trying to explain Outlook Express to her, Internet Explorer, a bit of Word, some basic Windows file and folder handling and she is absolutely over the moon!

She is now emailing her grand children (and children) regularly, types out her notes from a weekly meeting she attends in Word which she loves because of the red squigglies it gives when she types anybodies names , watches life sport events online (BBC Sport), thinks google is so clever that it comes up with an answer for everything, and is addicted to 'Spider' (a standard game that comes with Windows).

She is a bit worried about it because now she says when the internet connection is not working for some reason or other she feels 'cut off'. She is also very miffed that 'the computer doesn't come with a user manual, just a little book where you can look up how you can copy and paste and things'. And asked if it wasn't possible to just download the internet

Generally though, it has all been a doddle, I have so much fun trying to make her understand things like how email works, to try and get her to see that Microsoft programmes really all work the same with copy and paste (failing miserably so far) and I know I am not known as a patient person but I never get tired of explaining it, I think it is fun.

So... I suddenly thought.. is there a market here? Are there more over 70's that would like to be connected but are a bit daunted by it all? And would love to get the personal one on one attention? Or carehomes, would they be interested to be 'connected' and getting training on 'how to contact your grandchildren'?

And how do I start?

Well... the idea certainly de-bored me!

Please, tell me why it is a rubbish idea? Or tell me why not? Or give me the name of your grandparents who would be interested (and live in Scotland preferably :-))