Meet Len, one of my home-help gentlemen.
Len is lucky at 89 to have been fit and well enough to represent his few surviving comrades at the his local Tribute celebrating the D-Day landings 70 years ago. Len was a young lad at this time not even 18, and his unit had been responsible for the assembling of the American glider crews. 500 gliders were towed across the Channel carrying crews of up to 30 men along with geeps and field guns to be dropped into the fields of Normandy.
On Sunday June 8th, 2014 Len was treated like the hero he is.
A widow after 50 happy years of wedded bliss he is living with skin cancer, leukemia and other medical conditions yet he rarely moans. There is just one thing, like many elderly people living alone he is desperately lonely. That Sunday Len had total strangers shake him by the hand, one young lady even planted a kiss on his cheek, he was made to feel really special and valued.
The next day he was still buzzing and it was lovely to see and hear. Now other people are saying hello to him and people who travelled to France to be part of the celebrations want to listen to his story.
Long may it last I say, loneliness in the elderly has been proved to be as dangerous to health as smoking 15 cigarettes a day.
Hello and thanks for taking the time to introduce your new business to me. I would like to wish you all the best in your new venture and think it will prove to be very popular in the future. It is also a very novel idea and I especially like the fact there is not tied in contract.
I would like to take a minute to introduce our company Friendly Feathers and our product which I feel, may appeal to many people. Our company was established in 2014 and hope to see our products available to all in need. Our product is aviary rental and servicing package. Our motto is ‘Bringing Nature Home’. To explain more on the business concept; it is an aviary rental concept. After discussing with you as a customer, we would build an aviary to match your needs and space. We will supply all materials and birds in the initial setup. This will all be on a rental purpose so nothing will be put in place permanently that we could not remove at a later date. We will then arrange a service package to meet your needs, in which a member of our team would attend site to feed, clean and take care of the birds.
This would leave you with an aviary of your choosing filled with birds of your choice that would be a great point for everyone. Not only will this be pleasing to the eye, also depending on your choice of birds, pleasant on your ears. This will mean no problems for you or any one else as we deal with all maintenance and animal husbandry.
We as a company have tried to make this rental system as easy for you as the customer as we can, with a one off payment for installation of the aviary, which will vary depending on size and birds of choice. A monthly charge to cover the weekly visits, food, cleaning and any other needs this would be the only ongoing charge. We have also made it easier and more beneficial for you to not have any long contracts to tie you down, but to have a rolling monthly contract, so with a months’ notice we can arrange complete removal of the aviary, returning the site to its previous state.
We would really like to hear your feedback and if it would be something that you would be interested in. We would also welcome the opportunity to discuss our concept, answer any questions you may have and explain further in detail.