No allan key, no problem!

2 Goodgymers helped an isolated person in Hackney
Rosa
Stefan
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Hackney

Thursday 4th June 2020

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Stefan and I met up at Mr C's house in Clapton where we were warmly welcomed in by his daughter. Our challenge today was to move a bed and dresser upstairs in the house to make room for a hospital bed that had been delivered just minutes before we arrived, so that Mr C could be comfortably discharged from hospital later this week.

We set to work carefully dismantling the bed, which had a lovely large wooden frame that you don't see everyday! At first we were a bit stumped as it looked like we'd need an allan key, but Mr C's daughter quickly provided us with a range of different screwdrivers and we managed to take enough of the brackets off to safely move the different pieces through the house. After a great discovery upstairs of a properly vintage record player, we returned to the bedroom to move the dresser safely out of the way and then brought the hospital bed into the bedroom, all ready for the real experts to come and build tomorrow.

Feeling like we'd had a good workout, and having had a real laugh with Mr C's daughter who was calling us 'mate' in no time, we took some slightly blurry report photos, waved goodbye and set off just as it began to rain, a nice way to cool down from all that heavy lifting!



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Stefan

Thu 4th Jun 2020 at 10:50pm

Nicely done "matey" ! Thanks for putting it all on paper :)

Rosa

Fri 5th Jun 2020 at 11:13am

Thanks “mate”! Good to meet you (again) yesterday :)

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