Ms D was in a bit of a fluster this morning when I arrived - her neighbour was apparently up on the roof clearing leaves and her physio hadn't been able to visit due to her dealing with a domestic matter at home...so we needed a few minutes of calming down time before we ran through the list, for which the most most important item was a new box of clothes washing tablets...and anything else I could think of that she might have missed. Fortunately everything she needed was findable in the aisles, and she was delighted that she could finally do some washing when I got back with this week's treasure.

A return visit to Mr R's to build a(nother) table for him - this time onto which he could position his DVD player. He showed me the box, and where he wanted the table, and I prepared myself for a bit of construction - however the key bag of fittings/screws that were needed to attach the table top to the folding legs was nowhere to be found either in the box or on the floor of his living room, and after explaining this to Mr R, he called Amazon who agreed to give him a full refund (and not require him to return the table).

Mr R subsequently ordered a new table online, which hopefully will arrive with all the necessary parts in the next few days, and a new mission will then need to be set up to get this new table built. He then asked me to take the existing (not quite a) table down to the bin store to dispose of it.

Our first weekday evening community mission, but at one of our regular tasks.

This week Sybil had over 200 bulbs for us to plant in the long flower bed at the front of the church.

Mark joined us for his 2nd GG good deed while Bianca joined us for her 3rd and Steven joined us for a 2nd tourist visit to Newham.

Sybil had clear instructions
* clear leaves
* dig in compost
* make holes
* plant bulbs (make sure they're the right way up)
* refill holes
* leaves back to act as additional mulch

In less than forty minutes all 200 bulbs were planted and covered.

Some light refreshments as a thank you from the church for our hard work before we headed off home.

This evening's shop for Ms S proved to be something of a mixed bag in more ways than one as her dictated over the phone list consisted of a specific Tesco ready meal, own brand antibacterial gel, Oral B 24 hr mouthwash, 3.5 strength reading glasses, replacement wipes for a Flash mop and a particular brand of socks.

Knowing that the glasses were high on the priority list, I diverted to my nearest Poundland (success!) before heading south of the river to Ms S's to try and find the rest of the items - unfortunately the ready meal and socks were nowhere to be seen in Tesco (just about every other type of sock was available...), but I managed to track down everything else, and it was good to be able to hand deliver the bag to Ms S, who, as always, was extremely grateful.