A very exciting shift at the FoodShare Shop today - a power cut and a labelling job.

Nicolson's Centre had a power cut just as soon as I arrived for my shift. If that wasn't interesting already, the manager told me that having seen the label-and-sorting work I had done in the previous weeks, the big boss of the Foodbank had asked for a label machine to be bought. "This looks so good, we must label everything!", he may have said 😂 Yay for initiative!

I spent the whole two hours labelling every shelf. Plus picked up a new skill - how to use a label maker!

PS: for those wondering, it was quite dark and although the eyes adjusted, I did most of the label making by the windows at the other end of the Foodbank.

This evening's group run took us about 2km up the hill to All Saints C of E Junior School, where it turned out we had just 20 minutes to blitz a gardening task.

No problem! When a dozen GoodGymers are fenced into a small triangle of land and Nicola is armed with a children's spade, we can do quite a lot of scarifying, weeding and generally flinging bits of turf around.

This was exactly what was needed to prepare the ground for master re-soiler Angela, who arrived just in time to spread some fresh compost around.

We then bombed the area with seeds and we hope nature will do the rest to turn this patch into a lovely wildflower haven for pollinators.

After what was possibly the speediest bit of gardening we've ever done, we headed off to celebrate Scarlett's 50th good deed with some of Gillian's gorgeous ginger cake. Scarlett started GoodGyming in July 2023, so has done really well, notching up more than 1 good deed a week. Congratulations Scarlett - here's to the next 50!