Kash & Sevan were part of a smaller team at Care4Calais today and were looking forward to a nice, warm, indoor session on a day where the weather was forecast to get wetter and wetter. With that in mind, task owner Tamzin surprised them with a pair of prams in the garden that needed to be washed down and directed Kash outside, to the hose pipe.

Last time Kash washed down prams and wheelchairs, she was given waterproof overtrousers and Crocs to stop her clothes from getting wet. The overtrousers were long gone to someone in need, so instead Tamzin rummaged around her clothing stock and found some very small biker's leathers. They should be waterproof and windproof, right? Wrong! After hosing down 2 prams, Kash was wet, but at least the prams were now clean.

Elsewhere, Sevan was working with a Care4Calais volunteer to prepare clothing packs for recipients, with most of the requests being for jackets. Understandable given the changing of the seasons. Tamzin was ready for this as the stock room now resembled an assault course. There were bags of winter coats in various sizes piled up in bags on the floor, ready to be picked and packed. Some had to be re-sized, with Kash trying each one on before putting it in the XS, S or M group.

Once all of the requests were fulfilled, the GoodGymers moved to other side of the stock funnel. Sorting donations to fill up the boxes to pick future requests from. Some sizes of clothing were running low, while others were overflowing. Tamzin recommended the netball technique for the latter, launching items onto the top of the pile ⛹️. As always, the new donations were "varied", with some stand out items being one person's collection of jumpsuits, 2 pairs of colourful Nike shoes that had been returned and a pair of quite extreme harem trousers. They were so extreme, that Sevan initially held them upside down and spent a minute wondering why there was no hole for someone's head to go through 🤦.

With requests caught up and new donations mostly sorted, Kash and Sevan left things in a good state, ready for the next set of volunteers to pick up.