Yesterday I volunteered to help with a house clearance; someone leaving UK to return to their home country (France) who were donating most of their furniture to the charity my wife is involved with.
A man with a van was engaged to assist, typical of Latinos he arrived an hour late, then his Sat Nav came up with a weird route, which I eventually decided to over rule.
The clearance was in "The Boltons" area of Earl's Court, a 4th floor flat with no lift. It's fair to say I worked up a sweat and possibly looked worse than I felt. I'll never forget the look on the householder's face when I clutched at my left breast... My mobile, on silent, was vibrating with an incoming call.
Despite telling the driver which bridge to cross he slavishly followed Sat Nav again, I quickly over ruled again.
When we got to the storage location we discovered half the stuff was broken and useless.
Why do folks think it ok to pass on their junk issue to a charity?
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Before this has been exchanging pms with another board user on a place to watch game tonight, went to book in and discovered I'd lost my debit card, cue panic, I re-tread my steps from my morning walk, nothing, then remembered youngest offspring had dropped my phone in the car. My phone is my wallet, sure enough cards were down by the seat runner in the footwell, phew!
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I've written before about Youngest Offspring and her time with the Met Police Volunteer Cadets, she's 19 soon so her time with them coming to an end.
Yesterday was the annual inter borough competition, last year's was scrapped for obvious reasons, the year before she missed out due to an accident at school. So it was her last competition. Our Borough, Lewisham are regular top 4 competitors vying with Bexley, Bromley and Croydon.
They came second, sadly only 23 of the 32 boroughs entered, and there's a suggestion of dishonesty on the part of another borough due to homophobia towards one of Lewisham's staff. |  |
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