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!

The call came for some assistance in getting supplies from the #C2H base at Bancroft RFC to a charity in Plaistow, Alternatives Trust East London.

Energetic as always, Dan went through the stock and selected two boxes of books & a bag full of kids/baby clothing. All that was left was for us to go and drop it off.

So on the way back from a session at the Crisis warehouse ([report to follow]) everything was safely delivered to grateful staff at Alternatives.

P.S... cudos to Tina for a double task on her first day doing Goodgym!

After helping to build up and organise the central warehouse for Crisis for Christmas last year, it was now time to help get things in order for the inevitable clearing out - the building will be torn down to build flats...

It is usually best not to go in with any expectations, since it is hard to predict what tasks Richard has in store! Todays list of accomplishments:

• clearing up lots of chocolate boxes, all empty except for one bar that got 'rescued'
• sorting through a pallet of crates and put things back where they belong
• reorganise a series of crates & containers (the big ones on wheels)
• sort, count & repack the 'activities' section, with tables gathered around the complex

Now regarding the title.... credit to Katrin for this. She was referring to socks looking like Prince William, one pick out of a variety of items we came across, from little bags of pickled onions to tiny pepper & salt shakers and more.

Please give Tina & Tom a cheer for their first & second Goodgym experience respectively! Hope to see you guys again soon.