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2 Goodgymers helped an isolated person in Hounslow
Sevan
Kash
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Hounslow

Sunday 1st February

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Big changes had happened in the week since Mrs J's last GoodGym mission. Some plans had moved forward, like the electrician rewiring the house and painting had started in the bedrooms. Other plans had changed and the wardrobes that Sevan emptied of clothes last week were now going to be kept, not replaced by new units. The Swedish death cleaning had also proved to be too much to take on all at once, so some belongings were being moved to storage for now.

The 4 wardrobes now being kept were the main feature of today's mission as they had to be moved into another room across the landing. First, Kash and Sevan, helped by Mrs J's relative, pushed the existing furniture out of the way in the destination room to make space. They found out that the large corner sofa was a big jigsaw puzzle with interlocking pieces, meaning they could lighten it to shift it. They also learned that everything was interconnected. Moving one thing caused a domino effect, with other items toppling over, so they had to be very careful.

Once the destination room was ready, Sevan looked at the wardrobes and thought they wouldn't fit through the doors. Each of the 3 doors was tighter than the previous one, looking like matryoshka, and all but one of the wardrobes were too wide to pass on their back and too deep to pass sideways. That was a puzzler. While Kash and Sevan moved vintage furniture downstairs for donation and clothes upstairs to lighten the wardrobes, Mr J removed the tops of the wardrobes, making them much less deep and they also became much more floppy.

Kash and Sevan helped Mr J and his relative move some of the wardrobes on a trolley, guiding them through the narrow doors. They also moved wardrobes themselves. Those with clothes rails more or less held their shape. The one that didn't have a rail started to bow and disintegrate, taking a lot of care for Mr J to get it safely to its temporary new home.

With the wardrobes moved, it was time for some quick refreshments and to catch up on the next steps of Mrs J's treatment before Kash and Sevan ran off to their next mission.

"I need coffee because my body doesn't make it" - Mr J



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