A Little Help for the Lovely Ms E
1 GoodGymer made their way to help an isolated older person in Lewisham.
- Friday, 15th of January 2021
The last third of my Friday was lovely. The first third had mainly been sleep (also lovely), but the middle third had mainly been working from home. Which was a little less lovely than lovely. Even if this does goes against all accepted Goldilocks-induced wisdom that things in the middle are always just right.
Well, Goldilocks clearly hadn't spoken to Ms E. Which is what I did after my last bits of work were tidied up (/forgotten until Monday). I called to firm up Ms E's shopping list and we ended up chatting for a good half hour. It was wonderful. Sometimes people say the art of conversation is being interesting - but I think it's all about being interested. And Ms E spoke about so many different and interesting things, but also wanted to know about me - it's lovely to feel listened to and heard - a little tonic all of us need.
And so I made the short hop and skip to Lewisham a little buoyant for a dark winter evening, and even the dooms and glooms of the radio news filling my headphones didn't lower me. At Tesco, I even had a conversation with a lady about whether I was 'bloody freezing' in my shorts. Wonderful.
Following my short jaunt around the shops, I popped over to Ms E's to leave her essentials on the doorstep, ready and waiting for her nurse to take them in when they arrived. A little call to Ms E (although sadly I could only get through to her voicemail) to let her know and I was off back to Greenwich. Still springy in step from having spent a few happy minutes with Ms E earlier.
Nice one.
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Alex Murtough
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This is lovely Alex, well done for connecting with Ms E :)
So pleased you managed to get the shopping Ms E wanted - well done Alex
A lovely run report as usual, Alex! :)
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