Hi Graham,
don’t be disheartened by a lack of response to your first post. It’s nothing personal. Sometimes a post will get loads of responses and the same post at another time won’t get any. I think it’s down to way the site works, not there is a problem with it, it’s just that a lot of people come here in times of need, either to get advice or maybe just to have a rant and then they disappear. So the site has a high turnover of users so it’s kind of pot luck whether the people reading a post can relate to it or if they feel that they can contribute to a post in a meaningful way, some may sympathise but don’t have the words.
Also as Justine said, to help build up cyber friends here just keep posting on different threads.
All the best
Mark