We arrived simultaneously and got straight to work. Luckily we are both pretty tall so no step ladder was needed to take down the net curtains although a little furniture shifting was required. Mrs J had not been able to wash her curtains since her Husband had passed and the accumulated dust cloud when we moved them was blinding! We offered to clear up the dust while the curtains were being washed but we were assured that the cleaning lady would deal with it so took the time to have a little chatty catch up. Sadly when the curtains came out of the machine it had shredded them so we were asked to help her fetch down the spare set. A few minutes later spares were located and put up, the furniture popped back and we were on our way.

What a lovely productive session that was.😊 Often there are just two of us on this regular task but luckily the stars were aligned and 5 of us were available for this midweek session. Not only did we get three cage loads of donations off loaded there was time to spare for extra shelf organising and filling plus a little stock taking in readiness for the next packing session. There was a slight "snackident" with some chocolates of an uncertain but as it turned out quite edible age and a little incident with some leaky Bovril 😬 but apart from that everything went very smoothly and efficiently. Well Done Everyone 🥳

Sadly our main task once again dropped out- a little worried about one of our favourites, the babybank.

So as a democraticly minded group, we had a vote to see what we would do instead.

It turned out that a social run was the favourite, so off we set to catch up on the move.

Engrossed in conversation we forgot to take any pics, so an old one will have to do.

Packing food in bags for collection and delivery, offloading the crate and stocking the shelves. We ran out of some food Helping to keep fit and exercise through helping and interacting with other volunteers met some volunteers today it was busy today but relaxing at the same time. I enjoyed some cake . The leaders made it welcoming for all and asked me to bring my sis in law again !!! Some food parcels were collected.

Sadly the Babybank task is not yet ready to be resumed, so we ended up improvising...

This usually means a litter pick and such was the case this time as well, although we were too busy talking to remember to grab the pickers when we left base! At least we had bags and gloves, since we were a kilometer up the road before we figured out what we forgot...

Redbridge Roundabout was tonights target.... or to be more precise, the foot & cycle paths crossing through the big roundabout.

Three bags of rubbish were left at a convenient place for the council to collect.

I volunteer for the local library to deliver books to elderly folks. Today I collected and delivered books to Mr S, who loves a good crime thriller!