Finding Ms C's GP surgery, where her new insulin pen was waiting for her, was easy enough and the evening receptionist did her best to help locate it for me. Mission impossible this time though because the keys needed were not available... so I phoned Ms C to explain we'd have to reschedule delivery for after the weekend. We had a nice chat anyway and she was grateful to me for trying!

There was a two pronged attack on Lewisham litter - Adi in the autumn colours of Mayow Psrk in Sydenham, Paul in Deptford.

Paul had expected a lot more litter this week along the Ravensbourne in Brookmill Park as there had been heavy rain a couple of times and the banks will have overflown. Oddly the high flows had been and gone but hadn’t left much rubbish behind. There were the usual beer cans and takeaway wrappers plus a sodden cushion which was dragged up to a bin. There was a lot of wildlife too - the pair of herons, a couple of Egyptian geese, lots of mallards, some talkative crows. Plus the return of two young foxes, that he hadn’t seen for a month or two one of which tried to follow him to his next mission.

Feeling in need of the restorative power of nature! I arranged some time off work to relax & clear my brain - and with recently recovering from Covid, i have not been outside nearly enough!

I spent a lovely few hours re-clearing some of the overgrown paths and enjoying the sunshine coming through the trees.

After a couple of hours of work I enjoyed catching up with the regular volunteers and the new Friday leader, Leigh, as we had lunch outside. We were all very happy to have such great weather after the massive storm yesterday had led to the Thursday session being cancelled. Today was beautiful!

It was tiring afterwards as I have not quite got my usual stamina back yet, but the good, wholesome kind of tired where you have been out in fresh air and worked hard.

A great lead into the weekend and hopefully a good start to getting back into more energetic activities.

Happy. 🥰

I had a chat with the lovely Ms Y whilst in Sainsburys by the station buying her bread and she asked me to get a light bulb for her hall, she wasn’t sure about the brightness or the fitting. So, I said I’d check once back to hers and get an equivalent in the Co-Op. So …..I got her stepladder out, checked the bulb, put the step ladder away, went to the Co-Op and bought the bulb (plus the other shopping), got the ladder out, put the new bulb in and her hall was flooded with light, put the ladder away, disposed of the spent bulb and packaging. Ms L was happy.

It was a straightforward shop for Mr J today, I was able to get almost everything on his dictated list from either ASDA or Deptford market. The only exception being the Basil plants which I looked for with an internal monologue with the voice of Prunella Scales (Sybil in Fawlty Towers) shouting ‘Basil!’ at me.

This morning I had the privilege of collecting some groceries for someone unable to go to her local food bank down in sunny Deptford.

All went well and after the collection I took a stroll through a local park to find Ms L.

The food bank had no lemons today alas, but they did have some home cooked pumpkin soup which smells really good.

And I not only had the pleasure of meeting the lovely Ms L but a good hours worth of fresh air and sunshine.

Smashing!