Found: drinking companions to join elderly gentleman for a friendly beer at his local pub.
Mike Hammond was bombarded with offers after advertising in his village post office for someone to accompany his 88-year-old father, Jack, on visits to a southern England pub from a nursing home.
He offered the lucky winner £7 an hour plus expenses and, after sifting through the applicants, decided on a job-share. Drinking duties are to be divided between a retired doctor and a former military man.
”Dad’s now going to be going down to the pub several times a week — three times with his new friends and twice with me,” Mike Hammond told the Times on Thursday. ”I want to give him some of his old life back.” — Reuters