When I visited Ms D only my social visit yesterday she was very distressed as despite having limited mobility and visual impairment, the hotel where she lives said she had to move rooms from a first floor room to a room on the ground floor the other side of the car park. Fortunately I managed to get her referee to make a referral so that Goodgym could help with the move. I was the only one available , but with help from a worker from the Stroke Association we managed to pack up her things. I was then up and down the stairs collecting the boxes, cases and bags, carrying them down and getting them into her room. Ms D was overwhelmed but together we worked out how to organise her things and eventually got the room looking comfy and homely. I also helped her do a little decluttering too and by the time I left Ms D was feeling so much happier about her new “home “.

This week it was a return to the Brown Books shop for another session pushing this community bookshop one step closer to re-opening.

On the way there, David and Chrisshane worked together on Chrisshanes week 4 of Couch to 5k, doing a loop with four 5 minute runs with walking rests in between. Chrisshane is doing fantastically at building her running stamina!

Completing the run on arrival at the shop the rest of the gang were hard at work sorting the space out. All the books and other stuff had arrived from storage and needed putting out on shelves. Masking tape needed peeling, paint splashes on the floor needed scrubbing up and the whole floor mopped clean of all the building grime from the last week.

We soon transformed the shop from what looked like a junk shop of piles of boxes and bits, into a clean, spacious area ready to be arranged to entice readers in to browse the books.

Feeling glazy

Teriyaki means luster glaze in Japanese. Tuesday’s scramble was covered in it. We finally got to use the minecraft cake.

We served 42 meals and everyone enjoyed themselves.

Thank you to those who collected food, cooked, hosted and cleaned up.