Hook Home Help is helping in and out of the home around Hook

This week started with hanging some washing out in a client’s garden. It felt like a really peaceful start to the week. Hanging washing out is a very unremarkable task but it felt really positive to be doing it to help someone out. The sun was shining and the garden was beautiful. It’s the sort of thing, like changing the duvet cover, that is just a chore when you do it for yourself but doing these things for someone who can’t, makes me feel grateful both that I can do these things, and that I am able to help other people with them. 

I felt grateful to be miles away from office politics and the challenges that come with other jobs and grateful to be able to make a difference to one person at a time. The gentleman of the house was watching me do this, and complimented afterwards on my washing hanging skills. That’s a first. No one has ever said that to me before. And then he repeated this several times during the morning. As he was an engineer for many years, I am taking that compliment. 

We spent the morning together chatting about all sorts of things including his family, career and world politics. What he wanted to say most was that life is short and we need to enjoy it and be happy and kind to each other. He told me over and over again that people don’t realise how short life is and that is why there is conflict both internationally and at home. At nearly 90 he said it still felt like a short amount of time and that we need to share this with people who don’t realise that life is short, because when they know that, they will be happier. This couldn’t be more true and is definitely something we should all try to remember. 

When his wife came home, we folded the sheets together and chatted and she was grateful for my help. It just felt like a really positive start to the week.

Hook Home Help is helping people in and around Hook. Contact me if you would like to talk about how we could help you, or someone you know