Things were a little fraught when we first started at Frenford Foodbank today. We were two people down on the task owner side, one was the boss and the other was the one who sorts the admin.Ed and Addie sorted out the set up with the efficiency which befits their experience. For the most part the stand-ins had done a good job with the admin but Linda still had a little extra sorting to do. The result was people turning up before the paper work was ready making Linda grumpy-er than usual, sorry people 🙈 Peter continued to wind Linda up and was rewarded with a playful shove - not sorry for that 🤪. Natalie quietly got on with the job taking everything in her stride as always. With the other three Friends of Frenford working with us we finished quickly, had our usual refreshing tea, bickies and natter before making our ways home.

Milton greeted Miriam and me and assigned us our tasks in the corridor. We all got stuck in straight away. Milton carefully painted around the edges of the handrails and radiators with a brush, while Miriam diligently applied masking tape to the doors and windows, preparing them for painting. I was handed a roller and got to work applying the final coat of paint along the main corridor. It was good fun and quite therapeutic and we got the task of the corridor painting completed in no time!

3 of us popped in to Frenford Food Bank to have a little tidy up and count up after last week's picking & packing session. There was an anonymous donation to offload first, a count up of what was left on the shelves and some collections that needed to be moved from the cages onto the static shelves. We have this down to a fine art now and were finished in no time,

Everyone got there early, and litter pick was the chosen task, it was raised as an idea of litter picking towards our relatives homes as we were all located towards Hainault area. We started off towards Redbridge roundabout and halfway filled 2 bags, luckily there was a bin to empty them into and had 1 bag which had a massive hole in it, luckily we found a empty bag on our journey. When we went past Redbridge roundabout we managed to fill 6 bags, managed to find a place to dump and report, then we did a walk until Gants Hill station and called it a day.

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 😁