1. Source: Daily Express {Main}
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Country: UK
Date: Saturday 20, December 2014
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GEARING up for a busy family
Christmas, Joanna Lumley has
called for everyone to look out for
an elderly neighbour during the
festive period.
The 68-year-old actress spoke to
Day & Night at the Age UK Love
Christmas carol concert on Thursday
night at St Paul’s Cathedral about her
desire for communities to come
together this Christmas.
“What I would like most of all is for
everyone to be aware of somebody
who is near to them, physically, who
they could drop in on,” Joanna tells
us. “It doesn’t have to be your own
relation, it could be Mrs Phillips who
lives across the street who you know
lives on her own. Just go in and say
Happy Christmas, give her a mince
pie, or say, ‘I’ve got a bottle of sherry
and you’re jolly well going to drink a
glass with me’.
“Just make sure that after
Christmas you say, ‘Is there anything
you want me to get from the shops?’”
Joanna, who made a cameo
appearance in Downton Abbey last
night with George Clooney for the
ITV Text Santa charity appeal, adds:
“If you’ve got a button to sew on a
shirt and don’t know how to do it
ask them for help.
“Old people always know. I know
how to sew buttons on shirts but lots
of people who are 30 don’t. It’s lovely
when somebody says, ‘Can you help
me with this?’”
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