Course check at Catford parkrun was Jeff's first GG activity and his first ever parkrun too! Paul and Jeff picked a couple of black bags full of litter and moved a pair of Lime Bikes, then ran parkrun together.

Ms S has Multiple Sclerosis and I first helped her with opening some parcels around Christmas 2024. There has been a major deterioration and she is now struggling; through the referrer Social Services are beginning to get involved and a MS specialist will be visiting her in a week or two. For now we are focusing on sorting her kitchen out, bins were filled and a lot of disinfectant used. She is so grateful to the input from GG.

The lovely Ms Y is housebound and can’t enjoy her garden at all so hasn’t bothered with it. But some honeysuckle was blocking out most of the light to her kitchen.

She has really got any tools so I put pair of secateurs in the bottom of my bag. A lot of it was cut back and now she doesn’t have to have the light on all the time in the kitchen. But it really needs taking down and that would involve a proper garden clearance so for now it will be keeping it at bay.

I had a very happy cat watching me all the time.

In addition to the usual short list, the lovely Ms Y asked me if I could pop to her GP surgery which is almost next door to the Co-op and try and sort out an appointment for her spring vaccinations. This I sorted and the shop was straightforward. The 12 bags of crisps (not 12 crisps…) had gone up a lot in price which got us wondering about reasons - we didn’t know but assume it was nothing to do with the current wars in the Middle East.

Alas, this wasn’t a trip to the stunning black basalt sands of Reynisfjara or the actual ice of the glacial lagoon. It was its trade mission in Deptford High Street to buy Rice Krispies for the lovely Mr J as they were on offer. The rest was the usual mix of fruit and vegetables from ASDA and the market.