A typical English summer(ish) morning... in other words, rain + sun + drizzle + more rain

Ofcourse that does not deter any Goodgymmer nor Parkrunner/walker

So a set of GG'ers descended on Valentines Park to help out and/or run in prep for more GG activities...

• Ed guarded & managed the main car park entrance in his usual enthusiastic style - must be approaching 250 times by now?
• Linda rode down and braved the rain to guide a VI walker round for a lap (hence dog pic)
• Sharon G joined the scanning crew
• James stepped in on short notice to Marshall the vital first corner / 1st 2nd lap split
• Peter juggled finish tokens and handed our 426 in total

And last but not least, GG Newham Queen Hillary (sorry Sharon P) joined for the run before taking charge of a lovely local community mission later in the morning - see report here (once posted and link edited)

P.S..... animal pics courtesy of Linda, showing off the lovely sides of Valentines Park

The first job when we got there was to move the room sized piece of carpet out of the way, it had been left in a heap and we needed the space so we did our best to straighten in out and roll it up. It was heavy work especially with a cute (if unhelpful) cat darting about on it 🐈‍⬛ 😂 but a lot of sweat and a few choice words later we managed to get the carpet condensed in volume by quite a bit. After ensuring little puss wasn’t rolled up in it, we moved the carpet out of the way and shifted our attention to the next task.

Mrs S had been given a previously owned canvas wardrobe but without any instructions or idea of what it should look like, she’d had to admit defeat when trying to put it together alone. Linda found a photo of something online which looked like it might be a comparable construction and Louse had had some previous experience with a shoe rack which was similarly built. Still very little to go on but we worked together, figuring it out and (despite there being a couple of bits missing) we managed to put together a serviceable wardrobe. There was a cover which we fitted that finished the job off nicely and we fully zipped it up to keep the nosey Kitty out.

Looking round the room we felt we had made quite a difference in there during our two visits and Mrs S agreed.

Mission accomplished by AJ and the regular Tuesday crew of volunteers who were kept busy restocking fresh fruits and veggies along with a barrowload of fresh rooted basil which could be repotted for use at home. Result!

Heatwave over, the weather was distinctly more unpredictable.... clouds, drizzly, rain...

But none of that stops a Goodgym crew, especially with a Babybank session in the calendar. So it was no surprise to see 6 assemble at the Cornerstone Church, joined by a 7th once S figured out she was at the wrong church.... not the first mixup of the eve it turned out!

A dark room and locked door did not bode well... Adam is usually well on time and starting prep before we get there. A call went to voicemail, but very quickly after Adam was in touch, it turned out there had been a little calendar mishap at his end. 10 minutes later, our session did get going after Adam dashed over and as per usual a string of bags and a couple of crates got checked & sorted, finishing at 8 as usual.

15/6 - a little tidy up at our 'home' of Wanstead House 13/7 - next babybank session

5 of us arrived on a hot day to pick and pack for Frenford FoodBank. We are all experienced in this task at these premises so (to stop us zoning out) lively music was put on to keep our spirits up and ice lollies provided to keep our temperatures down. These measures went down well with both the goodgym and the Frenford volunteers so we sang and danced our way together through the session and finished early with a little time for social chit chat afterwards.

47 people will be a little better off for our efforts today. 🥳🥳

unfortunately no full report due to Tech Issues - AJ does not get the post task email(s) to upload a report etc

She has been a busy girl though!