Guy and Kim

Who: Guy
How: Phone Call

I chatted to Guy for a few minutes about his new son William and how Sam was going at his new school.
It sounds like Kim had a pretty rough labour and I think Guy also found it emotionally much harder than Isla's birth.
I've arranged that I'll pop around Tuesday afternoon after work and before Guy goes back to work.

Outcome:
* I will visit on Tuesday
* I think Guy got some benefit from talking about the labour.
* I offered any help I can.

Why the Good Egg?

In January this year I attended a funeral of a friend I had meet through my mothers group.  I started thinking about what people might say in my eulogy and realised the main thing I wanted people to say was "she was a good egg, a good friend."  

This friend was one of those people who always had time for other people.

Since January I have been working hard to do things for other people and this has been easy as I've always been a bit like that.  

But I realised that the thing I'm not good at is contacting friends.  So this blog is about my efforts to contact at least one friend or family each day. 

THE RULES

1) That I contact one friend or family member each day. (Not my mum)

2) Contact can be

* Phone Call 

* Written Snail Mail (It counts on the day I wrote, but can't be counted until in the mailbox) 

* SMS (To count I would like to get a reply)

* Email  (No more than 3 a week, as I tend to prefer this method and I don't think it creates the same connection)

3) I will do a blog here each day, with the name of the person, how I contacted them and the outcome.  

I will put a 2 lists down the side of the blog

1) people I want to contact,

2) weekly record of the types of contact I have used.