5 GoodGymers headed down to John Pounds Medical Centre to give their entryway a spruce up. The recent nice weather had created a jungle look to the area. Judy and Jane took to the bushes with the strimmer so that the windows could get some light in to enjoy the summer and also rescued a bin that had been swallowed by the greenery. Wilson entered the depths of the forest to tackle those pesky branches that were trying to sneak past us. And Dave and Maura were on the pull, ridding the path of all the weeds that were poking through.

Firstly, a big welcome to Ssapan and Ranjitha who joined us tonight. It was Ssapan's first good deed and Ranjitha's second as she got one in just before lockdown! Hopefully there will be lots more opportunities for good deeds in the next few weeks and months.

Tonight's task was helping to get the John Pounds Centre garden area back under control ready for the nursery to reopen on Monday and hopefully the rest of the centre in the not too distant future.

Ranjitha and Ssapan tackled one flower bed with Vicki and John in another corner (with a lot of brambles). Lynn was sculpting a rose of Sharon into a chicken (or was it a boat?) and I was finding very sharp thorns in the mysterious greenery that appeared to be growing mini pumpkins.

After an hour and a half we'd cleared a lot of greenery, added to the huge pile of big branches, filled numerous bags and recovered various toys belonging to the nursery.

Another area cleared, tomorrow morning it's the beach clean & then afternoon at the Lido with a Great Salterns litter pick on Sunday morning. Plenty more good deeds will be happening this weekend!

Firstly a warm welcome to T who joined us for his first GoodGym experience - give him a cheer. Congrats to Louisa on her 50th good deed tonight (the celebratory cap will be worn at the next group run) and to Maura who did her 100th good deed at the weekend and so got to wear the wings tonight.

Well done also to Kat who took 2.5 minutes off her parkrun PB at the weekend - she's on fire!

We had a few changes to the task this week so I was very grateful that John Pounds Centre found us something useful to do - painting round the entrance to the youth club. There were lots of us in a small space and also with members of the youth club coming in and out so there was an extra challenge of trying not to lean on freshly painted walls to keep out of the way of each other.

To help with the lack of space, I took 3 small group fitness sessions of running drills and body weight exercises. Each group had an additional exercise added by the previous group. Group 3 enjoyed the "oh my" skips suggested by the other Katie! After each group had finished we rotated with some of the other painters. I was almost not allowed to get Michael out for the fitness session as his height advantage was being well used to paint the top of the walls! Tony was not using his height at all as he was sat under the stairs giving that wall a coat of magnolia (for anyone lying under the stairs to appreciate). Tim got top marks for his washing up at the end, and all the paint trays definitely got their 20 seconds of washing and then some.

Catherine was in photographer mode and has sent me LOADS of photos, including some for my blackmail collection... the less said about that collection the better though!

Thanks to everyone tonight for your energy and enthusiasm in both the painting and the fitness session. There are lots of projects going on at John Pounds Centre so hopefully we will be back there in slightly less drizzly weather later in the year.