I have learnt so much about various different subjects through this forum, so thank you to everyone for sharing your wealth of experience.
Earlier this year my OH was in a serious accident and I posted that I was struggling to manage whilst he was in hospital. I was inundated with offers of help from people on here but was too embarrassed to accept , choosing instead to pay someone to do it.
However, not every one is in the privileged situation of doing that.
I was wondering if there is any way we could list skills we are willing to share / help/ carry out the work , to help others ,for what ever reason ,aren't in the situation to do themselves.
I don't know what skills I would have to offer, but I'm not scared of hard work and mucking in...or mucking out.
My OH is an electrician to trade, and although he still as physical injuries and has further surgeries to go through, he could advise and hopefully in 6 months time he can return to doing manual work.
For 6 months now I have needed to get 3 goats ear tagged. I have the tags, I have the plier things but I don't know what to do and am scared to do it myself. I have fencing that needs tightened, but again not to sure where to start. So these things are challenges to me, but to others this is a simple job.
I know of a guy that is superb at dispatching chickens, not something that I could do, but he is skilled at this and would do it for anyone for a dozen eggs.
I hope someone can take this idea forward, because I am sure there are people out there that need help in a variety of areas that to people that have the knowledge / skill /equipment it isn't too much of a challenge.
I appreciate that we are all busy people, and that sometimes there isn't enough hours/daylight in the day, but I'd like to think if someone needed help, whatever it is, they could ask for it and not be embarrassed like I was and didn't accept.
Mojo