I will one day!

Have you ever thought that you would like to do something, it had niggled on your mind for years, but having no time to do it , or no means knowing how to do it, or what the cost would be.
It might be to go to see other countries, build a house, have an allotment to grow your vegetables, be in a football team.

My ambition was to write a book about Trams.

So aged seventy, having been retired for five years, with time to look into trying to set about doing it.
I had no idea how a computer worked, as I had not even seen one close up.
I called at the College and asked if I could do a course to learn how to go about making a book.
She said that if I wanted to do it, I would, that is the main thing wanting to do it.
The Principle explained that there was not an advanced class on Publishing, I would have to start at the bottom.
I took a three hour ten week taster course, sitting along side teenagers who were there just to do the hours of Community Service, I got the hang of the simple bits.

This is some ten years ago. There were only set programmes then, these were of no use to me, at least I was getting practice, I had to have my photo taken for a badge with my name and picture etc to be worn at all times. This worked in my favour as I could use the College Library and Computers at any time, buy my meals in their restaurant, and got a Car Park place.
I had to pay for the classes, but this was very cheap compared with other pop in back street places.

Was I going to pass? Then buy a computer, and the programme I needed to work at?