We were back at the food bank again for another bonus Wednesday mission, helping unpacking boxes and pack delivery driver’s cars.

Me and Flo were mostly on packing boxes of food donated by shops, putting them into crates and then stacking creates of the same food type into towers, to create a well organised stock room. Max was packing bags of food to go out and then taking them to the driver’s cars.

One of the more unusual things we were unpacking among boxes of tea, jars of coffee and tins of chopped tomatoes was many cans of haggis. We can only presume these were left over stock from burns night on Monday evening.

I forgot to take a group picture before Flo had to leave so instead there is a very rushed one of me and Max before I had to also leave to hurry back to work.

As always, a great way to take my break from work with some heavy lifting and helping people.

*Actually they were limes! With East End Women’s super woman Nancy, first timer at the food bank Charlotte, returning for a second time Florence, and I all sharing out the jobs today, the task today was easy peas-y lemon squeezy! Charlotte and Florence stacked the fab new shelves, I packed some more bags ready for delivery and we all helped load the bags into the volunteer delivery drivers’ cars. We built a huge Fruit Shoot mountain and a fluorescent pink Lucozade display! We were short of fresh veg this week but someone had kindly cooked curry and rice for the food bank’s freezer so hopefully, together with a naan bread this was a good substitute. Same time next week?

Food to sort and bags to pack, corn today in flakes or snack. Tea comes iced and rice is nice, Tins and buns and juice suffice. Michael took the broom to sweep and piled the rubbish in a heap. But what's inside the mystery tin? Next time perhaps we'll guess again! Pasta and a jar of sauce. Same again next week? OF COURSE!

This evening we returned to Building Futures (based on the banks of the Tyne, in Walker) to help transform a workshop to be used for a brilliant local project, "Stitch Sisters" It was exciting to see the transformation from our last visit! (Have a look at the photos)

Myself and Darren got there first, and we were met by the task owner, Rebecca. Everything was so organised as always with everything already set out (rollers, paint brushes and paint) We got stuck in straight away with Darren using the extended roller to paint up high.

We were then joined by Louise and Aimee and it was lovely to see Florence return for her 2nd good deed.

Louise successfully completed building Ikea furniture (well done!) whilst Aimee and Florence were also painting.

An hour soon flew by and it was time to pack away. I'm sure we will be back very soon!