A Little Help for the Lovely Mr S

1 Goodgymer helped an isolated person in Lewisham
Alex Murtough
Lewisham

Tuesday 13th April 2021

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Heading through Tuesday, I was thinking I'd be consigning it to the 'slightly struggling' / 'little worse than average' pile that too many of my days are currently falling into. Even tea wasn't working its usual magic.

And so mid-afternoon and in my Microsoft Teams 'interval', I popped onto the GoodGym website and headed towards my favourite source of feel-good options, the Missions page. A quick 30 minutes later and the super-efficient team at GG HQ had confirmed that I'd be out and about helping the lovely Mr S that evening. I made a tea to celebrate.

Being fortunate enough to walk or run is a treat. I'm certain my mind would like a jumbled mesh of jumbledness without it. Well, more jumbled than it is anyway. And trundling South-West towards Sydenham and a twilight sun felt like a shower for the brain. Just me, other walkers and runners, and Evan Davis's dulcet PM tones in my ears.

Mr S is just lovely and having a quick natter over the phone to firm up what he needed, he popped a smile on my spirits. The essentials were all he was after and I picked them up from an intimidatingly big and empty Sainsbury's. Which made me imagine I was a contestant on Supermarket Sweep. Really shouldn't have pushed those nice people out the way.

Having taken a steady stroll over to Mr S's, we shared a few chattering smiles and bid each other goodnight. Which sent me on my way feeling that maybe Tuesday wasn't that bad after all.

Nice one.



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Adele Prince

Sat 17th Apr 2021 at 4:19pm

Big Sainsbury's I call it, so big! Great work Alex and I hope tea starts doing its magic for you this week.

Alex Murtough
Alex Murtough (he/him)

Sun 18th Apr 2021 at 11:42am

It certainly is, Adele! And thank you, hoping you're out enjoying this first glimpse of Spring this weekend :)

Linda Cairns
Linda Cairns (she/her)

Mon 19th Apr 2021 at 10:46am

Love this report and your whole approach to GG missions, Alex

Liv Wicks
Liv Wicks (She/Her)

Mon 19th Apr 2021 at 11:21am

Agree with Linda, your reports are always a highlight on the run report tab!

Alex Murtough
Alex Murtough (he/him)

Mon 19th Apr 2021 at 2:55pm

Thank you, guys! Hoping you're enjoying this very lovely start to our week :)

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