Bedtime Story
3 GoodGymers made their way to help an isolated older person in Lewisham.
- Monday, 5th of February 2018
Brr, chilly ββοΈ! Mridula, Nykolette and Gosia met up in Lewisham today to visit Mr A. His wife is being discharged from a hospital very soon and he needed help in making a space for her hospital bed in the bedroom π.
After saying 'hello' and taking a moment to delight ourselves with an indoor warm π‘ and coziness, we proceeded to the task. The action was quite simple - we separated the first half of a double bed and made it securely lean against the wall. The second half stayed as it was before, for Mr A to keep sleeping in. Then, we helped him make his bed - tucking in the sheets under the bed, putting on blankets and a pillow.
We smashed the task in around half hour and Mr A couldn't think of anything else more to do. We stayed for a bit longer though just to talk a bit more. To do that we moved to Mr A's incredibly good looking classy style home office. While we were admiring his library π and furnishings in the room, he shared with us stories about his younger years. Amongst them, he told us about him and a friend witnessing a parachute mine falling down during WW II just few meters from where they were standing.
In this sentimental, emotional spirit he also played us a quick jazzy music piece on the piano, saying that he learned how to play mostly by himself still not knowing very well how to read the notes πΆπΉ.
We left Mr A's house late and quite reluctantly. None of us wanted to get back to that cold weather but also we were charmed and touched π by his stories and a great enthusiasm for sharing all these precious memories with us this evening.
Report written by Gosia Rybacka
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This sounds magical. And what a dream team to do the task!
Ahhhhh that library π such an amazing task. Brilliant report Gosia ππ½
This is wonderful!
Wow - great work, and what a wonderful house!
This is so nice :)
Fantastic work! Sounds like a lovely task :)
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