Brent

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Pink Glow, Sweet Chariot 🎵

1 GoodGymer made their way to help an isolated older person in Brent.

  • Danny
 
Monday, 3rd of August 2020

I went to help Ms. J today moving into her new place.

Dom had helped her out earlier in the day with the packing-up down on the Harrow Road. https://www.goodgym.org/reports/bed-start It’s a bit of a ‘lively’ area down there, so she said she was glad to be in this new place. The new place is a nice flat in a quiet building, on a quiet leafy street in Willesden.

Having only just moved today, the tasks she wanted help with were the essentials.

  • Hanging up clothes in the closet
  • Finding the kettle and tin opener amongst all the boxes so that she could have some tea and food.
  • Put the bed clothes on the mattress (which was still on the floor) so that she could sleep tonight.

As I was getting ready to leave, I noticed there were no blinds or curtains anywhere. After a long day of moving today and with sunrise at 5.30am tomorrow, I suggested we try and block out the light so that she might sleep properly. Ms J gave me some nice big red carrier bags, and I made a hideous, but hopefully effective job of blinding the bedroom window somewhat. The room had a sort of pink glow afterwards, which she said she liked.

Report written by Danny


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Amy Pezet
Amy Pezet
Tuesday August 4th, 2020 09:43

Well done for going the extra mile to help Mrs J, Danny! I'm sure she was very grateful when the sun rose this morning.

Dom Tooze
Dom Tooze
he/him
Tuesday August 4th, 2020 15:59

Didn't see this had happened, Danny - looks great and I'm glad she had help on the other end 🥳
I think bed reassembly may be on the cards soon: https://www.goodgym.org/task_referrals/XkelzD0B

Danny
Danny
Saturday August 8th, 2020 18:26

Thanks both!
Raaa nice one helping her out with the bed Dom, at BOTH ends as well.

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