This Friday's Ealing Soup Kitchen morning session was Jacquie's first time as a chef alongside Angela. They had been frying chicken and veggie sausages, and later in the day, when the volunteers got to try lunch, the sausage turned out to be perfectly prepared! Well done Jacquie! You may end up hired as Angela's new chef!

In the meantime, Kash, who came to ESK incognito with her work colleagues, has been sorting clothes for display with regular volunteers: Doreen, Layla and Javier. Doreen had declared she was very bad with names but remembered Kash's very well when she had to call her to fold some menswear items. Meanwhile, Javier revealed his strategy to never forget names: all the ladies were Marias - apart from Doreen who was Auntie.

Shortly before service started, Kash was called to the kitchen duty to help with packing surplus onions for freezing and preparing gravy. Sausages have been all fried by that time and awaited the 1 pm lunch start in the cosy interior of the oven.