Mrs M has certainly got the routine perfected - she greeted me warmly when I arrived this morning morning bright and early, handed me the Waitrose bag and beckoned me to the now familiar seat at the kitchen table to take dictation.

Not for the first time today's list took me in new directions and in search of items I've certainly never bought before - Himalayan salt featured highly, both in crisp form and as a seasoning - but it was her description of the Scotts Porage Oats that made me smile. Apart from a slightly leaking bag of wholemeal flour, everything was safely secured, and she was delighted when the box with the man in a kilt appeared from the bag.

Never a truer word spoken, but the packaging on the two outdoor storage/seating items that Ms S wanted built today had "Quick and Easy" flashed across it, so she was confident I'd be able to get them built today with no trouble at all.

The constructing part wasn't actually too difficult, requiring only the use of a screwdriver to lock everything together once a bit of force had been applied to push the various plastic lugs in place, and for once the instructions actually made sense and weren't in minuscule print.

The challenge was finding enough floor space in Ms S's patio to build the items - but once we'd overcome that challenge, the units took shape as expected, and provide Ms S with a significant amount of extra weatherproof outdoor storage space, and a place to sit too.

Ms D admitted that this week's list was a bit "all over the place", but she said she'd knew I'd work it out (eventually). At first glance all looked familiar and in order until I got to "Ad Vacades - bag", for which I needed the teacher's assistance. One full basket, and subsequently one very full Waitrose recyclable bag, later, I was back at her door with almost all of this week's treasure from her artistic list - strangely the world's politest supermarket hasn't been able to catch any haddock for a few weeks now, or at least the lesser found breaded variety.

It was excellent to welcome some new faces to our group last night - a huge welcome to Laura and Lan who joined us for the first time!

We met in a very busy Hyde Park ready to run through a very busy Central London, all the way to the small basement of a refugee centre where squeezed into very close (clothes) quarters. There was definitely a theme to the session last night!

After a warm up we took off towards Leicester Square, discussing all things parkrun, racing and epic challenges such as the Great Wall of China marathon. The energy levels were high! We ran past some iconic sights - through Wellington Arch and past the Ritz, taking a short pause for a pic beside Eros before ending up outside the blue door of the Notre dame Refugee Centre.

This amazing place assists refugees asylum seekers, undocumented migrants and other human rights applicants who are in the UK either seeking protection or with precarious immigration status. They have a storage space where all the donations they receive are put, but it needed a bit of love.

We jumped in, sorting through bags of clothes, hunting down precious hangers and helping get the place more organised. With so many pairs of helping hands it didn't take long to get the job done, we even had time for a bit of styling advice from Louise and Dan!

Before the second part of the task we took ourselves upstairs for a short - but intense - core blast on a very hard floor. Still, it didn't hold us back, and we knocked out planks, crunches, v sits and toe taps.

The next task took us up four flights of stairs, so we got a bit of bonus fitness (although not quite as much as Kamil and Dan who braved the stair challenge at least two more times than the rest of us!) before stepping in to sort a big office cupboard in an even more cramped space. Old crisps out, new stationary in - the result? One very tidy office area.

Next week we've got a much more spacious task to do. We're going to be painting the Lillington Garden community centre - I hope you'll be able to join us to do even more good in Westminster.

A huge welcome to Kamil, who came for his very first GoodGym session yesterday - and extra points for making it out on a drizzly Sunday morning!

GoodGym have been helping transform a community centre foyer with a brand new lick of paint, and yesterday's task was our second session at Lillington Gardens. So after a quick warm up in Hyde Park, we set off past Buckingham Palace, dodged the tourists at Victoria, and arrived just in time for Darlene to let us in.

We wasted no time getting stuck in to the painting. The time flew by as we discussed parkruns, our fave music and how on Saturday I had managed to spill a can of paint - so I was being extra careful!

In the time I did one small section of wall, Kamil had managed to cover about three times as much, nice job! We washed our brushes and ourselves up, closed up the centre and headed off to enjoy the rest of our Sundays. A good morning's work making a community centre that much more welcoming for local people.

When I arrived this morning, Ms D was struggling (and frustrated) with one her hearing aids, which had stopped working, so alongside the shopping list (and a letter to post) she asked if I'd mind dropping into Specsavers to see if they could fix it - not a problem I said once she'd explained where it was on the Edgware Road. Thankfully it proved to be an easy and reasonably quick fix, and armed with the aid (and new batteries), I headed to the aisles to successfully complete the rest of today's task, and even avoid the rain showers on the way back.