The Four Elements: Water under the Box 💧

3 Goodgymers helped an isolated person in Islington
Sevan
StephDucat
Kash
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Islington

Saturday 18th January

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Dear Reader, I will spare you the prologue about Ms P's predicaments and the Saturday exploits of Steph Ducat, Sevan and Kash as you have an opportunity to read about the earthly and windy adventures anytime you like.

This story starts, unlike most of the missions, with our heroes already in deep waters: with lots of unboxed and boxed inventory outside Ms P's garage - the goods that now needed to go back inside. Rearranging storage for others to make space isn't always easy, especially if they suffer from a hoarding disorder. You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make it drink. Ms P did not wish to throw away anything and only allowed Sevan to put into a separate box the items he might have considered not valuable, incomplete, not repairable or impractical. Kash took the liberty to recycle the broken cardboard boxes but dutifully packed all the loose carrier bags into a large, single box that could store them.

Steph stacked the repacked boxes back inside the garage: sturdy ones at the bottom and light, fragile and not-so-structured things on the top. Two trolleys, previously full of stuff, were now empty, stacked together and ready to use to transport other things between Ms P's flat and her garages.

Ms P, during the double mission, offered the three GoodGymers tea and biscuits and an option to... pass water, which was quite a comforting thing after three tasks. Not being able to remove any items from the garage, the trio felt they could have accomplished much more in the given time - but they have definitely made more space to bring furniture and more boxes in, and hopefully calmed the waters for Ms P for the time being.



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