Another week of warm, sunny weather and another great turnout.

We had 4 new GoodGymers so a big welcome to Jonathan, Raffaella, Jennifer and Kevin.*

Elliot was completing his 25th good deed!

Andy and Helen shared back runner duties with the latter also being responsible for photography.

Darren was walk leader.

Tonight we were visiting the lovely Waterloo Park and were greeted by Jean and her great team of volunteers who look after the gardens there. I was sure to remind people to say "Hi Jean" on arrival... if only there was a Vera to say "Aloe" to and a Primrose to say "Evening" to as well.

We had a Community Mission here several weeks back and it's great to see the flower bed that we cleared has now been planted with lovely flowers and plants. It's not that often we get the chance to see the final outcome of our hard work.

There were plenty more flower beds that we had the task of clearing out this evening so the team assembled with tools (we had a whole array of them to pick from) and went off to get stuck in. There was also a group edging the existing flower beds and some others weeding them.

By the end of the evening we had cleared the the remaining overgrown flower beds, once they have been planted the gardens will look phenomenal. It has a real community feel about it and some of the local children are growing sunflowers in one of the other flower beds.

I look forward to going to have a look later in the summer to see how pretty it is.

Next week we're doing a litter pick on Marriott's Way.

After the GoodGym BBQ yesterday, a few of us were wanting to get out and burn off a few calories but what a fantastic afternoon it was and thank you to all those that were able to make it.

This evening's run was to visit Catton Grove Community Centre as this time of year their bushes are prone to be overgrown so our task was to keep it all trim and looking nice.

We had two new runners this week in the lovely couple Ryan & Annie.

A few milestones too with Andy & Kate completing their 25th good deeds and Dave Tuthill completing his 25th good deed :-)

Hayley was photographer and what a great one she is.

Elizabeth was backrunner outbound and Bill inbound.

Linda met us on arrival and talked us through the areas that needed trimming back, the main focus being in front on the community mural. We had plenty of tools to use such as hoes, shears, loppers, rakes, spades and forks.

Andy may have found the most bizarre item on a GoodGym run to date... a rabbit (not the animal kind) complete with batteries. Safe to say it wasn't going to be recycled.

In the half an hour we had, loads got done and we even had time for 5 minutes of fun in the park :-)

Next week we're having a games night at The Hamlet Centre.