We had a fab session at the Riding Centre.

Ramon and Kelsey were the first to arrive, with smiles. Fergus arrived soon after.

We followed the map we were given to a dark underpass that looked like Venice. We enjoyed catching up - the weather had cleared.

Following round to the other side, we found plenty of litter by the roadside. David found 30 beer cans and we found a drawer.

Ruby showing her commitment, came for the second half. And borrowed a picker from David for solo deeds.

Altogether we filled 5 bags. Quick photo, chat about upcoming tasks and out into the night we went.

We had a good time with St Mary's!

Natasha, Fergus, Helen, Hristo, Kelsey, Ramon, Nadi and I were greeted by Tim, the friendly gardener, who explained the project.

It was Hristo's first time, so welcome!

Nerys made an appearance, with a post-vaccine dead arm.

We made quick work of the bramble and Ivy and filled three enormous tarp bags.

It was such a pleasure to see everyone again and have what felt like a classic group task together.

So due to unforseen circumstances today became our last visit to the Crisis warehouse.

A very warm welcome from Richard to greet us on this chilly day,after a quick catch up we headed to Bay 3 for our final packing assignment.

Helen and I had the task of repacking and listing the craft items....it seems crafting and paper was not enough information for the spreadsheet bosses.....Richard had helped by part unpacking the cages for us.

Paul,Kevin and Graham had the task of PPE packing....so many face masks Hilary and Rosa counted and packed away the hand sanitiser units.

A great morning of work and we headed of for lunch.

Some additional personnel arrived for the final push

Brad and Ryan joined the PPE sorting and counting.

Jade, Kelsey and Grace helped with the craft sorting.

John and Becky headed to the office areas to dismantle white boards and pack away mugs and kettles.

The office team and the PPE teams had great fun shrink wrapping the filled pallets ready for them to be collected to go into storage ready for Christmas 2021

A long with a bunch of other Goodgymers I volunteered at the Crisis at Christmas take down. Helen

Lots of goodgymers pitching in to help dismantle the Crisis at Christmas warehouse this weekend.

We had Peter and Aidan taking picnic tables down to pieces and packing into containers, the ambition was to get them into just 3 containers... they did it in 2, EEEE-ZEH!... Kitchen areas cleared and cardboard sorted into the recycling (that bit's very important).

Hilary,Helen , Chris and Tina(we salute you) were tearing up miles and miles of carpet tiles.

Graham, Rosa,Siobhan,Nickand John were on printers in the morning - testing them for toner... making sure they were toned up like the goodgymers!

Brad, Tori,Jade Kelsey, Kevin, Sharonand Paul were working on sorting out the remaining donations, including a footy umbrella

Break for lunch, bake off between Hilary (brownies) and Rosa (cookies) because both are approaching milestone numbers of tasks - whoop whoop!

After lunch there was a hilarious amount of flooring to be taken up in the warehouse, I'm no expert but I'd estimate at least 100,000 square metres. Team printers and team carpet tiles joined forces to tackle it and Paula entered the fray bringing Spanish flair to the exercise. All had to be stacked in a very particular way, time consuming, but got there in the end. And the reward was neatly folding enormous carpets.

All then had to be shrink wrapped...An exercise which has psychologically scarred a teenage Graham. This time Graham came out on top. Take that shrink wrap!

How's that for a slice of fried gold. See you all next time!