Last Wednesday we went to a new task! We went to YHA Thameside to do some weeding.

Emma, Rosemary and Jessie met us at the task. Meanwhile, Isaac, Gemma, Sam and Emma ran with me and it was definitely one of our longer runs. The run was worth it though, since Jess from YHA gave us warm cookies and drinks.

The weeds were quite easy to pull out, apart from the spikey ones. Isaac also spotted some massive mushrooms.

We were met at the farm gates by Pat on a freezing winters morning. The farm was looking stunning in the chilly weather with bright blue skies. Our task for the morning was to fill a new allotment bed with manure and soil and then remove the soil and dismantle an old allotment bed. We did a lot of shovelling but managed to get the task done. Our reward at the end was feeding the goats!

The icy weather didn't stop 77 kids from turning out this morning on Peckham Rye.

Anna tailwalked, collecting high fives along the way from fellow Goodgymers Maria, Elena and Sam who were marshalling en route.

12 Goodgymmers competed against each other to clear up trees around Telegraph Hill.

On a night with snow, sleet and rain we set off from Old Spike, very wrapped up, after a brief warm up.

At Telegraph Hill we split up into 3 teams to collect trees. Paulin's team won with a massive 8 trees collected and 2.3km run and a total of 37 points.

Gosia helped with sorting the donations for Borough Food Cooperative. Had some second thoughts 💭 as the weather was just awful in the morning, with a heavy rain 🌧 and strong wind 🌬. I ended up arriving at 10:30 soaked with hair all over the place 🧹🧙‍♀️.

Almost right away the delivery truck 🚚 arrived so I made a break and helped with unloading it. Once all have been moved to the main hall, the tasks I tackled this time were as follows:

• - assembling and labelling assorted packages of bread 🍞 - delivery was very large and I spent almost an hour on this task;
• - assembling and labelling assorted packages of rolls and pastries 🥐 - just few packages here;
• - checking and sorting fruit supplies 🍌🍍 - a quick review of crates with pineapples and bananas and preparing them to go on the shelves;
• - sorting a mix of food on the racks 🍟🥣 - all to keep the products nice and tidy ready for the shoppers tomorrow.

There were just two volunteers today but we maange to tackle the entire delivery. Although I was in doubt in the morning I ended up being very pleased that I decided to be here today!

A very wet junior parkrun in peckham this morning. As I walked to my marshal point at 8.55, I could only see 4 children coming to run! Luckily everyone was just timing it well to minimise rain time, and we had 41 finishers altogether by 9.30.

This doesn't count the few drop outs along the way, which meant Olive had her work cut out as tail walker / runner as she sped to keep up with the last runners. Sam, Maria and Clare were on the finish line.