Saturday Morning Checklist:

Cup of tea ✔️

Use of toilet x 2 ✔️

parkrun ✔️

Shopping for Mrs J ✔️

Today’s Saturday was no exception. After a few false starts trying to get in to Asda (the travelator was closed so I ended up doing about a mile of walking with my bike to get to the blooming entrance), I was ready to see what was on Mrs J’s list today.

As always, V, Mrs J’s daughter had sent me her shopping list. This weeks was no different, most of the regular items (prawn cocktail and custard tarts) and a few that made cameo appearances, like spam and tinned potatoes.

This week, however, I was given an extra request, as V had sent me a second message on Saturday morning. It read as so: ‘ PPS dear Lucy, Please can you get mum 20 bars of the chocolate instead of 15. I think she's been giving it to the nurses!’

Classic Mrs J. If she’s not forcing galaxy upon GoodGym shoppers, it would be to the nurses who visit her! In good fortune, there were five packets of galaxy left in the cardboard box on the bottom shelf. Quick maths proved to me that what was left was the perfect twenty bars.

Shopping paid for, I made my way up and then down the hill to Mrs J’s. She was quick on the ball today, as I had barely rung the bell when she answered the door. No hello this week, but a ‘Have you got my chocolate?’ - YES I HAVE!

Once assured that the smooth milk galaxy was in the bag (all twenty bars), Mrs J said thank you. She asked me, as she does most weeks, if I like chocolate. Not one to lie to a pensioner, I had to say yes. She took this as her cue to pop to the fridge and present me with my own bar of galaxy.

You’d thought I’d be well practised at saying no, and today was no different, and as usual, I was made to take a bar of chocolate by a forceful 91 year old. No wonder she’s getting through twenty a week!!! Mrs J almost tried to make me take another, until I kindly reminded her I had already taken one, which she made sure thrice that I had put away safely, before waving me off on my way!