We might have only been skimming the surface but we certainly weren't milking in

Thanks this week go to Christina mainly for the pun. What a team we were: Rowan, Christina, Pauline, Daniel, Helena and Mat. A MASSIVE WELCOME to Helena as this was her first task for Good Gym. It was also only Daniel's second one, so good to see him come back for more and the hope is that you both enjoyed it, got a lot out of it and will want to return again. And of course we had four not so old, old timers making up the intrepid team. Christina in particular was welcome back after a busy time away. It is always lovely to see people again after so long.

The weather decided to dump some drizzly rain on us on the way to the task but of course as we arrived it pretty much stopped. Not dampened by this we met the lovely Jo, who runs the food bank and got stuck into the first task of the day, which was to unpack various food items into small crates. We polished this off in no time and then had to sort hundreds of packs of long life milk (hence the pun) into date order as some of it is about to go out of date in November. As a bonus we managed to also check dates on crate loads of cereal and so in only an hour we had managed to do more than Jo had dreamed we would be able to do and was really pleased. It still amazes me how much a group of people are able to get done in only an hour, which is part of the magic of Good Gym. And a different group get to do it all again on Thursday.

People are getting pretty desperate out there and so this food bank is their only means to getting food. Helping Jo out sorting is vital so that she can get on and actually get the food out to those who need it most, so well done one and all.