Nykolette

Hannah, Nykolette and Ian rolled up to the Living Well Foodbank for another session helping this fabulous - and currently quite stretched, more below - team. Our mission for the day was to help the team with one of those periodic jobs, sorting out the "miscellaneous" cupboard, cleaning it and then putting everything back properly. We found some winners medals (well done Nykolette!), a few things went in the bin along the way, but we also stacked eggboxes for maximum space efficiency and also carefully decanted veggie oil and shampoo from mega-5-litre bottles into small jam jars. Why? Because when the Living Well give out single-person allocations, they use egg-boxes to take 2 eggs, and the jam jars for single-person quantities of cooking oil and shampoo.
As I said, the Living Well are quite stretched at the moment as the need for their services is rocketing. This means they are having to buy food in quite large quantities (for example £600 worth of tinned meat last week), to supplement the many donations that come from the local community.
You can help too, if you want to, by donating at https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/cost-of-living. All donations (up to £250) are currently being matched by the National Emergencies Trust Local Action Fund, so go on, every £10 becomes £20. Please give them a hand and try and get their fundraising up from £20,000 (which they've hit) to £30,000.

Mission 1 of the day went successfully but that was hard work with the sun beating down on me.

I think Mrs L’s son felt sorry for me and came to help in the end, it was nice to have someone to talk to as we trimmed away.

Hedge done on to mission number 2.

Sunny Se6 was as beautiful as ever with the last of the sun going down.

Ms P was pleased that the rubbish wouldn’t be lingering in her flat any longer than it had to.

This was such a lovely mission this morning.

Mrs M was very surprised to see me as she was expecting a retired elderly gentleman but happy I was there all the same.

Mrs M had gone out and bought a brand new strimmer especially for the occasion which did the job perfectly, however I did have to finish off some parts with the lawnmower.

Mrs M talked to me throughout and we equally enjoyed being out in the sunshine, I got so carried away I hadn’t realised my time was up and it was time to get going.