This is what it said on the ticket, although I explained that I'd rather they did the lovely Ms E's towels and bedding for me to pick up on Monday and I will go home and have a shower!

A lot was crammed into my shopping visit to the lovely Ms Y’s today - bread and tea bags from the Sainsbury’s by the station, a trip to Mr Chips to get chicken and chips for her lunch, the usual items at the Co-Op, a 90 year old birthday card and taping up some trip hazards on her hall carpet. As well as swapping Christmas presents and Bruce Forsyth catchphrases.

…..well people bearing gifts and food anyway. A now standard trip to Kingfisher Medical Centre with a sample for Mr J (a real kingfisher was seen and stayed still enough to photograph on the walk to Mr J’s!!)

As for the ‘gifts’ - the gold was plantain, the frankincense was some garlic infused olive oil. We skipped the myrrh and swapped seasonal greetings and wine.

Paul was slightly concerned that there wouldn’t be enough space for both him and Emily to help the lovely Ms D find her home again. He needn’t of worried, Ms D got Emily helping to sort out her large supply of aquarium equipment. Paul set to work on making space in her front room and a route to it so she could watch her guppies without risk of falling over getting there. As always, Ms D was incredibly grateful for the time we spent there - it is clear that it makes a real difference to her.

I’ve been shopping for the lovely Ms Y for 18 months, she’s housebound and has very limited mobility. Today was her 80th birthday and I wanted to make sure that it wasn’t just carers that she saw. So we planned a birthday tea for this afternoon, I bought things for her that she wouldn’t dream of buying for herself and she put on her best dress - she loved it! In many ways it was just like a social visit.

The usual part of the weekend litterati were out keeping Lewisham litter free, Adi enjoyed the glorious sunrise on Saturday in Sydenham’s Mayow Park - although couldn’t help feeling that it calm before the storm, litter wise, as a Santa's grotto was being setup for later.

Paul was in Deptford’s Brookmill Park a day earlier in drizzle, where there seemed to be an abundance of abandoned coffee cups and energy drink cans. He was able to see a lot of wildlife as he picked and bagged the litter, after last week’s nest preparation by the herons, that seemed to have been disrupted by the return of one of last year’s brood. There was a young fox, plus lots of ducks and a kingfisher zooming past.