"Please don’t talk the age thing; I tip the higher end of the scale. It’s not an age thing." Well said Carol VH!

As I often relate - I worked as an IT tutor in a college outreach centre for two years and my two top students were a 69 year old man and a 74 year old woman. It's more about attitude that it is about age, but sadly, many, many people hide behind their age - using that as an excuse to cover any of a myriad real reasons: fear, laziness, whatever.

Like Harold, I wish my kids had access to someone like you. The librarians in my sons' school have inspired so little confidence that my older son recently identified them as the one "commodity" the world would be better without. I was mortified, since my Gran was a librarian and the hub of her community.