Right in the middle of record breaking high temperatures we were expecting an uncomfortable session at Frenford Foodbank. Heat or no heat people need their food packages and everyone showed up ready to do their bit. Doors at both ends of the corridor were opened and extra fans provided which gave us a bit of airflow. Mercifully there weren't so many packages this time. As always, the mood was jovial, the team worked hard and we were done within the hour. Time for a quick break for cold drinks, ice lollys and other cold snacks until we were refreshed enough to battle the hot streets again.

Nice one Team GGR we could say we were Hot Stuff today 😁

AJ and her army of fellow volunteers had a huge supply of fresh veggies (courgettes, carrots, 🥕 broccoli 🥦 , and basil!🌿) to sort, stock the market and re-box for distribution. Spiderman couldn’t be bothered to join in and instead just ‘hung about’ watching us do all the hard work. So much for being a superhero. 🙄

The babybank team put out a call for assistance ahead of schedule to help deal with the volume of donations.

Cue the Goodgym family assembling from all directions and in just about all possible method - walk, ride, bus, run, in pretty tropical weather.

As always Adam had things set up and waiting for us - 5 sizeable crates this time, rather than a few bags. Whatever the amount, it all gets sorted out while still chatting & socialising all the way through. And with the numbers assembled this evening, it didn't even take an hour!

Leaving enough time to pop down to the local 'spoon to continue the socialising!

P.S.... the team behind the scenes sent their thanks having seen the empty crates and bags full of sorted items

Still helping Mrs S with organising her room. Today was another previously loved, flat packed storage kit. I tried several configurations but always ended up with either bits over or bits missing. Neither my Google search nor Mrs S’s ChatGPT were able to fathom it out. I ended up putting something together which resembled a storage unit and only had one bit left over. I think Mrs S would have liked another go to try and make it look a bit more presentable but by then we had gone overtime 😔

an energising 45mins to break up the morning at a desk.

Lots of cigarette butts and it looks like our cleaner is on holiday as this only happens when someone else cleans the streets. Thankfully I brought my gloves so I cleared all the planters.

A couple of planters had plants pulled out, which is annoying - why would people do it?!

the planters needed water but most of the planters are leaking water from the bolts/nuts so there's no way to fill up the reservoirs. I need to do aome DIY and bring filler to try and seal them.

A couple of lovely conversations as well, a lovely break from work!

P.S. forgot to bring my phone so old photo!

Three of us arrived at Frenford to help offload a supermarket delivery.

There were several crates with mixed goods. As we were sorting them out it became clear there was enough pasta to fill an entire cage with the rest on another cage. Addie grabbed the pasta cage while Ed took the rest of the food with Linda dealing with the nappies and toiletries. We then took the time to have a quick count up of all the stock.

Between the three of us, accompanied by some banging tunes supplied by Addie’s Bluetooth speaker, we got the stuff loaded and counted within an hour.