Islington

Mission

I clip my cHair back and forth

2 GoodGymers made their way to help an isolated older person in Islington.

  • Emma Presley Abbott
  • Elizabeth
 
Wednesday, 15th of May 2019

After what felt like a long day at work, I met up with the awesome Emma for a mission for Mrs G in Islington.

Mrs G was released from hospital yesterday and needs a fancy new recliner chair to aid her recovery. Our job was to move a normal recliner chair from her living room to a back bedroom to make space for the new recliner.

We were welcomed into Mrs G's home by her daughter, who also showed us the chair to be moved.

The chair looked very fat next to the very narrow doorway, and Emma and I weren't entirely sure how feasible it would be to move it through the flat. Just as we were almost wholly filled with doubtful contemplation, Mrs G's daughter floated the possibility of the chair being detachable.

After a little bit of fussing and turning things upside down, we found a couple of somethings on the chair that looked like clips and accompanying rails. However, toggling the clips in and out didn't inspire the chair to come apart quite in the way that we'd hoped. Luckily, we decided to persevere, clipping and unclipping the couple of somethings and occasionally yanking on the chair back until finally one of them started to give: The second one followed soon afterwards (I suspect it had fear of missing out).

Chair dismantled, we made short work of moving the base and the back forth into the rear bedroom, before making our goodbyes to Mrs G and her daughter.

It was lovely finally putting a face to a name, Emma! Hope you enjoy watching the football, and congrats on recently becoming a run leader! 😄

Report written by Elizabeth


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Emma Presley Abbott
Emma Presley Abbott
Wednesday May 15th, 2019 23:14

Thanks for a great run report and pun Elizabeth, it was lovely to finally meet you too!

Redbridge runner
Redbridge runner
Thursday May 16th, 2019 11:10

@Liz: love the title! @Emma: Liz a GG legend

Dom Tooze
Dom Tooze
he/him
Thursday May 16th, 2019 11:14

Well done both, sounds like a challenging one but you smashed it!

Elizabeth
Elizabeth
Thursday May 16th, 2019 11:20

Cheers guys! :D

Patrick Luong
Patrick Luong
Thursday May 16th, 2019 13:12

Love that pun title! Great that Liz is straight back on the missions!

Elizabeth
Elizabeth
Thursday May 16th, 2019 13:57

Thanks, Patrick :D 5 more to go!

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