Last night, Khai and I set off on a run down to St Andrew’s Youth Club in Victoria, dodging the wall of cyclists at Hyde Park along the way and chatting about Khai’s recent success in the Big Half!

We arrived to meet Adrian, who had a mission for us: to tackle the garage and make it a more accessible, organised and welcoming space. No problem! We rolled up our sleeves and got stuck in.

We started by sorting out the glasses before being joined by Brenda, who helped us get the space into much better shape. There were heavy tables to move, scooters to reorganise, and super soakers to investigate (we’re still not entirely sure how those work!). We shuffled things around, negotiated some new storage arrangements and generally had a great time turning garage chaos into something a little more orderly.

And then there was the fridge. 🤢 A particularly grim-looking specimen needed relocating to the bins for collection, giving us an extra challenge to add to our evening of garage gymnastics. Nothing says community spirit quite like hauling a questionable fridge out of the way!

There were a few other discoveries along the way, including a Scottish-themed table. We also had to tactfully distract Brenda from the football banner for the wrong team hanging on the wall. Sorry, Brenda! ⚽️

With the hard work done, we gave Adrian a tour of the transformed space. He was delighted to see the difference we’d made, and we shared a few more ideas about how the garage could become even more organised and accessible.

It was brilliant to see such a visible change in one evening, and lovely to work alongside Adrian and Brenda to make the space more useful for everyone.

Watch this space for the next instalment of the great garage reorganisation! 👀

One GoodGymer had a fang-tastic time at TRAID, sorting and hanging boo-tiful pre-loved clothes and saving them from a ghoulish trip to landfill. No tricks, just treats, teamwork and a spook-tacular good deed!

Whilst sometimes a routine list is welcome, it's always quite entertaining when something new is added to the list and I end up wandering the aisles of Tesco determined to hunt it down, in this particular case, a jar of capers for Mr R - he described the recipe that he then prepares using the capers and other ingredients and I have to say it sounded amazing...

One GoodGymer joined Under One Sky at St Mary's Church to make and pack sandwiches for the charity's outreach team, turning donated ingredients into meals for people experiencing homelessness across London. Fast hands, full lunch bags, real impact.

Saturday evening and it is getting darker and colder so hot food and drinks were much appreciated by the customers on The Strand.

3 regular Goodgymers turned up to serve vegetable biryani, apples, bananas, some chocolate sweets and hot drinks. The apples were so shiny! Anna and Steph Ducat were on rice serving duties and Aman on hot drinks. Another great session on the Strand.

Miss N has been away on holiday for the past couple of weeks, so was good to catch up on how it had been - she was looking well for the change of scene! Today's Aldi task was mostly fruit and cheese related, plus an unusually difficult hunt for a Honeydew, but found one in the end at Church St Market.