Another enjoyable lunchtime at the Elizabeth House Food Hub, helping customers select food, and clearing up afterwards. There is always a friendly buzz about the place.

By the time the session ends, some of the fruit and vegetables is looking a little past its prime. So it is sent off to be composted by and for local growers - and the food cycle starts again.

Thursday evening is Achilles UK evenings. Guides and VI runners meet then run together with different goals for the day, but also to socialise and have a good chat. Despite the typical British weather loads turned up for another great session in Hyde Park. Goodgymers present as usual.

Today I had the pleasure of helping a resident of Islington to tidy their garden, so they can enjoy the outdoor space.

We have been to this resident before and although that was a few weeks ago now the ground had become full of new weeds.

I did manage to uproot some stumps today and all is well in the back garden now.

Epic!

One goodgymmer joined Plastic Free Exmouth for their weekly beach clean. The usual rubbish was found and removed from the beach including bits of fishing rope/nets, food and drink wrappers, plastic toys and a sock.

Whilst last week, the Food Hub team was already clearing up when I arrived, this week the hall was still busy with customers. So that gave me the chance to walk round with a lovely lady, collecting all the food items she wanted, before packing them carefully in her trolley. Then table wiping and floor sweeping, to help leave the hall tidy for the next users.

The task description was to move a triple wardrobe across the bedroom for Mr A to give him better access to his desk. Mr A's wife greeted David and I at the front gate when we arrived and said that she didn't think it was possible to do what was being asked...but if experience from these sorts of tasks has taught us anything, it's at least to give it a try...

Because what Mr A really wanted was for us to move a double wardrobe from its existing location, move a second triple wardrobe into the space vacated by the double wardrobe, and then move a second triple wardrobe into the new space vacated by the first triple wardrobe, with the double wardrobe then being moved into the old space that the second triple wardrobe had previously been occupying...all the while Mr A was in his hospital bed, precariously close to the action, and his room was chock full of other furniture.

We soon discovered that the double wardrobe was on a plinth, so pushing it at a comfortable shoulder height was only going to end in disaster, and we were pushing it on carpet. After getting low and "giving it some" we somehow got this one moved out.

The next triple we simply couldn't budge unless we emptied the clothes from it - so we used Mr A's various chairs and other furniture as clothes horses, and then again adopting the bobsleigh push start position, slowly wriggled this one along the carpet - success...

Wardrobe three also needed its contents removed, so we had to first replace wardrobe two's contents, to free up the space on the clothes horses, and also empty a bathroom's worth of toiletries that were on the shelves to give ourselves any chance. Once done, we shoved that one across the carpet - magically it fitted into the space, and the bedroom door would still open.

It was then a question of somehow not tipping the double wardrobe onto Mr A in his bed, and walking this one across the carpet into the new space by the entrance door...and putting all the clothes and other items back into wardrobe three.

Neither Mr A nor Mrs A could quite believe that we'd been able to do what had been asked - to be honest I'm not sure David and I believed it either...as they say in the film "I'm feeling very Olympic today..."