Camden

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A fruitful shop 🍌🍒🍓🍇🥑

1 GoodGymer made their way to help an isolated older person in Camden.

  • Beth Nelson
 
Wednesday, 7th of July 2021

My first mission of the day took me to the lovely Mrs M. She buzzed me in and I headed up to her flat where she was waiting at her front door armed with her shopping list, a £20 note, a pounds worth of coppers and stylish shopping trolley. I had a quick chat with her about how she was and her nuisance neighbour upstairs...something I could relate to and sympathise with! The phone rang mid-chat and I took this as my cue to head off and get her shopping.

I headed off to the local Tesco and began working my way down Mrs M's shopping - I spent the majority of my time in the fruit and veg aisles...no danger of scurvy for Mrs M! All the fruit looked berry a-ppealing but unfortunately I didn't get a pear-fect 100% as there were no fine green beans or papaya to be found.

I managed to get rid of the majority of Mrs M's coppers when I paid for her shopping, and even found a couple of rogue euro coins hidden amongst them!

On my way back I popped into Sainsbury's to try and find two remaining items on Mrs M's list, the fine green beans and papaya. Alas, no luck, other shoppers had bean and gone before me and the items were out of stock. The Co-op was my final hope in seeking out the elusive fine green beans and papaya. I was very peased to see a packed of fine green beans on the shelf, but sadly still no papaya.

I admitted defeat and headed back to Mrs M. My little arms were trolley grateful for her stylish shopping trolley as I could feel the weight of the shopping as I wheeled it along the pavement. I arrived back to Mrs M who was very grateful for all her shopping. She thanked me and after a quick last chat I headed off back to work.

Report written by Beth Nelson


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