[Margaret Pilkington]

Gayle I appreciate your reply and it is good that you contacted someone you felt may be vulnerable.

My Mum is in her 80's and is finding this bad weather something of a trial......she has me to check on her...and I do, regularly.
It got me thinking that there must be many older folk, who in normal circumstances are quite active and able, but in the current conditions might need some help.
People, who perhaps, have no family living close by to check on them......that was my motive....and the reason I asked the good folk on Accyweb to consider their elderly neighbours.