Sunday 8th November
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Report written by Sevan
After Ms M's partner passed away a few years ago and after needing to evacuate her house, both of their belongings were returned to a storage room that was piled high. Kash and Sevan arrived to help Ms M find precious photo albums that she thought were hiding somewhere in that room.
Initially, Ms M didn't sound very sure about what was important for her to find, then paperwork came to mind, quickly followed by a blue and a red photo album. After asking for more details of what the albums looked like, Kash and Sevan started the hunt, searching high and low, in boxes and on shelves. Soon and blue and brown albums were spotted on a high shelf. The blue was a hit and the (reddy) brown a miss, so the search went on.
Finding the photo albums and other folders of photos triggered more memories. Ms M remembered that there should be a framed photo of her partner. The best one that Ms M had ever taken, she said. A new hunt started for photo frames. A few were found with portraits of the couple, not the solo portrait that Ms M had in her mind.
As the room was packed, Kash and Sevan began reorganising to keep similar things together. Sevan took care of finding lost CDs, DVDs and books to group them on the same shelves. Kash arranged Ms M's partner's artwork. With bright and colourful paintings, fabrics, canvases and animal sculptures all over the room, she found clear spaces to stack them up.
At the last minute, Ms M remembered about the computer equipment that she used to have. Luckily, Kash and Sevan already knew where that was hiding. With no clear surfaces to put them onto though, that would be a job for next time as well as finding that red photo album.
Very little was disposed of during the mission and still, the corner of the room where the GoodGymers were working looked remarkably neater than at the start. Ms M too was happy that everything was better organised at the end of the session.
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