To reach the Care4Calais on late Sunday morning, Sevan and Kash ran from Acton up and down Hanger Hill. At the task location, they met James, who had arrived for his first task in Ealing. The fourth musketeer slot had been filled by one of Tamzin's recent regular volunteers who himself lived in a hotel for asylum seekers that Care4Calais supported.

The challenge task owner Tamzin had this spring was the abundance of stock (partially due to other C4C storage spaces handing her their goods) and a halved number of requests from the hotels. Those were generally good problems to have.

Sevan joined Tamzin in making custom packs, while Kash, James and the third volunteer sorted through loads of women's and men's clothes. If you think the abundance of outfits made it easier for Sevan to find a t-shirt for a woman who had requested it, think again. He had to dig through the layers of tangled long-sleeved tops in the overflowing boxes and couldn't even reach the most suitable one, which must have been buried underneath.

Meanwhile, for the sorting crew, the task of putting filtered clothes away was the main challenge: squeezing things in, finding the overflow bags for the surplus items and making new containers for clothes that were impossible to fit anywhere. Despite having to virtually bend the rules of physics to find homes for all the outfits, the team smashed sorting the whole huge batch of donations in two hours!

Notable finds:

• Christmas-themed Elf movie pyjamas
• An elf hat
• Skull socks (sadly, not suitable for refugees)
• A straw fedora hat
• African headscarves
• A Minion's costume