Black Widow

Might look into this a bit just locally as a hobby type thing, i'd swap my I.T skills in exchange for some home baking skills and old stories!

I couldn't agree more, I took mine to their neighbour who's 90 ti show her some photographs and she was dumbstruck. Ended up showing her pictures on google of old Sheffield. I guess it's chicken and egg to offer in home help unless it was advertised in local shops etc. The joy Facetime and Skype alone have brought them has been worth it!

Well my dad is happy using his laptop but a tablet and touch screen were completely alien to him, my mum wanted nothing to do with it! Had I not been confident doing this sort of thing i would probably have never introduced them to it as they aren't the kind to go to a class, they prefer people to go to them. Maybe i should set up as a little side line lol! I'd have more patience with people who didnt call me at all hours asking daft questions about copying and pasting text!

After having the bright idea to give my parents an iPad to keep in touch with people better, i realised that neither had a clue on even the basics and the training and setting up took quite a while...and much patience! As more and more tablets, Apple in particular are becoming the norm and are often given as gifts to people we may assume are savvy enough to figure it out I got to wondering if there was anywhere locally for older people to learn the basics. Setting up wifi, email addresses, emailing, skype, gaming, photographs etc etc. Somewhere to get affordable basic advise and help, not repairs, just usage help and in their own home? I'm asking as i now seem to be on call constantly and i'm sure others get roped into 'helping' their elders for this kind of stuff!

Do you do adult kickboxing?

I'm currently looking at Norwood in S5. Affordable houses but not an area i'm really familiar with! Near the hospital and meadowhall which is good, but need to do what you suggested and go at different times of the day to see what the areas really like.

I've been house hunting and as a first time buyer i'm finding that my price range is moving me further and further away from the area I know and love s6/s10. I've seen some nice properties around Norwood near the Northern General, any thoughts on what it's like up here? I know some people have told me it's not so nice near Musgrave further up? Thanks

Looking for a well established mobile technician who can do acrylic and Gelish on evenings in S6 after 6pm. Must be Gelish with full range of colours and high standard of acrylic that doesn't lift after a few days and can be applied thinly! (On my own nails, no tips) inbox me details and any links to your work. If happy would be regular work

Did you have much luck finding one? Im after an absolute beginners club in S6 or S10 or someone equally as bad as me to buddy up with!

Is anyone aware of any clothing agencies that dont just deal in high end designer stuff? Sheffield ideally. There used to be one on Abbeydale Road a few doors down from Vamp but not seen any others since and have so much to sell now that I can't face ebay (and it's charges)!

I just wondered if anyone had actually been clamped in the carpark on Barber Road that belongs to PA Jewellery. Particularly out of hours when there's no trade. I am all for supporting local businesses and made the mistake of parking there before they opened at 8am to buy a paper and a sandwich. I was less than 5 minutes. When I got back to my car I was confronted by a rather arrogant man claiming to be their clamper in a blue transit with no markings on it and a lot of tools in the back of it. He may well work for them....but he also may not if operating out of hours? Either way I think i'll shop elsewhere now. (I should also add that I wouldn't park in the car park if the cobbled area was free and I once parked there, also for less than 5 minutes, a delivery man for the Co-op had left me a nice note saying 'Move your car dumb c***' when there was room to pass! Got to love it.)

If anyone can recommend a mobile nail technician who is qualified to do acrylic nails and Gelish in the S6 area please PM me. Only interested in Gelish rather than other Gel systems at the moment and need someone who can do evenings after 6pm. Basically I have acrylic nails with gelish over the top on my natural nails and I'm after someone who has been doing it a few years with images of their own work they can send! Thanks

So glad I stumbled on this, I thought it was just me! Shame no-one can be bothered to address my complaint. I had 'damp' back in July and the joiner and plumber covered it up with boxing over the old damp boxing after ripping out parts of the other bathroom. Cut to a month later and the source of the damp comes to light, into the flat downstairs bathroom! Poor guy. I've been waiting, and calling constantly, since it happened at the end of September and 3 weeks later - they've finally turned up and done nothing they had booked in, with nothing that matches the original bathroom and it's dragging on and on. The call centre are useless and cant even take messages and the Sheffield Homes Offices are just decoration as they dont even forward plan the jobs for Kier. Absolutely useless, and a shame for us that have no choice but to rent trying to take pride in our homes and work full time jobs when they turn up when they feel like it -often doing nothing....and breath.

Clothes Agencies are basically where busy people who have no time to sell their own new-ish clothes/bags/shoes take their items and an agent will sell them and split the profits. It's for items too nice to throw out or car boot etc, or those 'wear once' wonders we all have. So for example, I could take an item in to a shop and they sell it for £20. I would get £8 as the agent, and you would get £12 (usually 60% to the client I think is about what the rates are but I need to research this) I think there are a few around Sheffield but non I've been to myself...yet. It was just an idea i've had for a while as I'm forever buying stuff I'll wear one day...and don't and pretty sure others do the same!

Hi - just had a quick read through and I commend you for wanting to work so young. I'm going back a lot of years now but I started work at 14 in a clothes shop on fargate but had to get a work permit. Not sure whether this is still the case now but I did get emergency taxed for a while but got it all back. I suggest you approach local firms in your area with a polite letter as you'll not have a CV yet and ask about paid apprenticeships maybe or work in a garage to learn a skill while you earn? This will be useful to read for you so you make sure you get paid correctly. http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/Parents/ParentsRights/DG_4002945 Best of luck, if only there were more like you willing to get into work.