The WDW Food Recovery Team swung into action to grab as many leftovers from the Newtopia Food Convention. In a very fast paced / hectic environment, a total of 30 pallets of food and drink were recovered for redistribution to the local community foodbanks. Great fun was had by all.

As the title already hints at, sometimes things do not quite work out the way you planned.

Body, as well as mind, not to mention Aunty Linda all gave signals it might be better to postpone this donation and reschedule it for another date.

So that is what happened.

Anyone else did manage to sort an appointment and keep it? drop me a message and a pic and I'll edit & add!

Perhaps we missed the memo, but it turned out Wanstead House was closed for the summer holidays. Good thing we got a key to 'our' little home round the back!

Coming across the car park we noticed the gardening crew was not on holiday, with several piles of branches & leaves & dirt spread around. So we gathered all the loose bits in one place for easier green waste collection.

Just as we were finishing off, Cedric popped round to see what we were up to. With Peter struggling a bit after a long day, the 'batton' was passed to James to do part 2:

..... We picked up our bags and litter picks and off we went. Picked a route from The George pub to Redbridge roundabout, a long stretch of road near the motorway, havent picked there in about 6 weeks, so it was a fair pick we managed to get with the 3 or us, about 4 bags worth. Cedric left us and continued on his run, and Linda and myself managed to find a new member on the feline side which we habe nicknamed good jim.

Three of us arrived to do a little stock take after last weeks packing session. Ed was in charge of extras and BBE date checking. Addie and Linda started at each end of the shelves counting stock. A lot of shelves were pretty much empty after last weeks session and Addie is a super quick counter so it didn't take long and we were on our way after about 40 minutes.

I believe the title could also refer to a tv series set in the US, but in this case it is actually about the sides of the hill...

Today the northern side was the target: - wooden pallet - cans & bottles - plastic bags - general rubbish - dog poo bags - more dog poo bags - even more dog poo bags

It definitely raised a few questions on why people cannot just take care of their own rubbish....

Addie, Sharon, Eddie and Linda arrived early and started the set up. Sharon was on admin testing out instructions Linda had written to make sure they made sense and made it through identifying some minor hiccups.

Eddie and Addie got out the cages and set the bag table up. Natalie and Peter arrived and got stuck straight in with picking and packing. We also had two friends of Frenford helping out. With so many experienced willing hands we were done and sitting down to tea within the hour. We had a nice chatty catch up afterwards, we must enjoy each others company as "teabreak" took almost as long as the session 😊