Bags of fun

We returned to Slough Outreach's community hub shop for another clothes sorting task.

On Friday we made good headway by clearing a mountain of donated bags into 3 piles and we had managed to find the floor again by the end of that task. Tonight we were repeating what we did on Friday however we did not think the mountain could have grown that fast in just 3 days..yet it had!

We met directly outside the shop with the intention of doing a run before we started the task. Did you feel the freeze today?? So did we! With Hamid, Mehdi and Ali arriving super early, I watched them doing football style drills to keep warm! Hamid had created a star shaped warm up which on arrival new member Ryan plus Ruth and Gauri all started doing. With 20 mins still to go before Shin was arriving we decided to get some walking km's in by going for a round robin loop around the shops. We managed to squeeze in 1.6km before starting the task!

Once inside we did a task brief on what went in which bag.

• Bags for rags;

• Bags for the homeless and;

• Table top of shop saleable items

Oh and a bag for summer clothes

Quickly we got to work. We managed to get the hang of deciphering the good from the bad (via the sight test) and the odour to the odourless (via the sniff test).

Great to have Ryan join us on his first session and Ali returning for his second! Thanks for coming along guys.

Slowly yet surely, we watched the mountain melt down to a small hill to a valley of emptiness! You could see the floor again! Superb efforts by everyone.

We are only in week one of our January challenge and so far we have already clocked up 34 good deeds! Keep up the great work...we should totally smash our target this year.