hi gretch welcome to the UK and this forum,just like me before when my first week here after cleaning the house im still bored when he went home he saw me sad and had teary eyes and he asked what's wrong?, and said to him im bored and i want to go to work any kind of work cleaning,caring,cashier ect.as long as im out of this house.he phoned the hotels,carer homes and shops furtunately one of the hotel reply straight away bcoz they need a staff and went to enterviewed and they hired me i got the job on my 2nd weeks here in england..so gretch if you want to work try yourself getting busy to apply a jobs ask your husband if you don't know the place or go to the job centre in your town