Helping the isolated..

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TomahawkMike Mar 2020 8:07pm, 23 Mar 2020 2693 posts	0 TomahawkMike I don't care if this appears goody goody and I certainly am not virtuous. This thread its intended to promote kindness and compassion.
TomahawkMike Mar 2020 8:09pm, 23 Mar 2020 2694 posts	0 TomahawkMike So today we took 6 eggs and some cooking butter (whatever that is) to Ann and Arthur who are 88 and 90 and locked down.They looked after my mother in law for many years. We are now taking food to them. Time for payback
TomahawkMike Mar 2020 8:10pm, 23 Mar 2020 2695 posts	0 TomahawkMike Let me know what simple things you guys are doing. It's not a competition. Just helps with ideas to lessen the anxiety of lockdown
RRR-CAZ 🇬🇧 Mar 2020 8:14pm, 23 Mar 2020 3572 posts	0 RRR-CAZ 🇬🇧 OH printed off some letters and delivered to neighbours offering help for shopping as she works next to local shops
FRU (KeepTheFaith) Mar 2020 8:16pm, 23 Mar 2020 12475 posts	0 FRU (KeepTheFaith) We are checking in with our neighbour, including waving and a chat through the window I am wondering who else and how else to help I have a car with petrol and can get about Hopefully more people will be doing stuff for each other, it is goody goody and it is ace!
SarahWoo Mar 2020 9:53am, 30 Mar 2020 10761 posts	0 SarahWoo I keep trying to help our 80+ neighbour by fetching his paper for him every day but he won't have it. Insists on going himself.
BaronessBL Mar 2020 9:59am, 30 Mar 2020 8209 posts	0 BaronessBL SarahWoo - I have a family member like that too. I think he has finally been persuaded that it is better to have the neighbour collect the paper now but it took a lot of convincing.
SailorSteve Mar 2020 10:23am, 30 Mar 2020 1557 posts	0 SailorSteve Has anyone had any volunteering assignments from the nhs Responder app yet? We signed up on day 1 but are still awaiting id confirmation I believe.