Six jolly Goodgymmers, plus GGWF’s youngest recruit, 3-month old Max, convened at Walthamstow Toy Library for our monthly task, where the ever-brilliant Helen set us up with a gentle activity, giving a significant number of tin cans a good coat of white paint. These are going to be used for an Easter celebration, where they will be decorated with ears befitting of the very best Easter bunnies, and will be used to store Easter goodies, or as pots for spring plants. With lovely enthusiastic Goodgymmers visiting from various boroughs we had many hands to make exceptionally light work and our task was accomplished in record time!

The Toy Library continues to do excellent work, both in Walthamstow and at its sister location in Leytonstone, and will soon be celebrating its 50th anniversary. As always, it was a joy to be there, lending a helping hand to this pillar of the Waltham Forrest community. Keep your eyes peeled for the April visit to the Toy Library, which will be listed here on the Goodgym website soon!

Emily and myself arrived and got straight to work with this familiar task at Traid to help the team there with their seasonal stock changeover. Or so we thought.

The usual task is to bundle all the unsold clothes into boxes, easy! But today they needed to send cages of carefully folded clothes on the hangers to another store for them to sell. So after a bit of a wonky start, the team graciously showed us the correct way to fold them on the cages, sorry! Correct folding method shown in photo! Emily even picked herself a fancy new GoodGym outfit!

We were all done in the allotted time and on our ways into the evening, to a life drawing class for one of us and home for a lie down for another of us. 😃