What a beautiful morning to start the week! Kash joined Roger, Gary, and Wayne at 8 am to unpack a neatly stacked pallet of exotic produce and fill the shelves of the Community Food Cupboard at St Mary’s Church. Fairly familiar chillies and okra from today's delivery were accompanied by mysterious fruit and leaves from Spitalfields Market. The volunteers identified from the labels on the boxes that the extraordinary goods were cherimoyas and aloe vera.

Aloe vera - not sure if anyone will take those. Isn’t that for skincare? To put on a face?
Do the Food Cupboard clients need a beauty treatment?

Were the customers beautiful enough without aloe vera, or in need of food in the first place? Maybe both. One lady started queuing at 8:20 am for the 1 pm distribution of donated surplus food! Kash spotted her when carrying out the old crates outside the church and stacking them by the road for collection. The next stage was flattening empty cardboard boxes into more flattering shapes.

The last bonus task Wayne gave Kash was to clean mouldy dust off the skin of perfectly good oranges that were in a box with spoiled fruit. Those citruses certainly received their beauty treatment and were ready to dazzle the clients! Having contributed her little bit to one of the most beautiful initiatives in South Ealing, Kash wrapped up and was back to start work just in time!