Decent little clan of us yesterday on another balmy October evening. A sizeable run ahead of us, we did some looseners then went into the RWQ "What was the highlight of your weekend?" As always a superb range of different activities: Autumnal walks in Epping Forest, smashing pumpkins, performing at a long waited gig, a fiftieth b'day party shenanigans, brick pointing at Cody Dock, a delicious chicken pie, time with the wife, a satisfying bike ride and East is East at the National Theatre. Reckon I'll recycle that question, easier to answer than some of our other questions, handy to have up the sleeve.

Once at Newham Hospital we got to chopping, weeding, pruning, sweeping and bagging. There was some light directions given, but the gist was understood - give the gaff a haircut - and that's what we did. I counted eight bags in the zone I was in, I know the other guys did a thorough and transformative job in their patch. Think the gardens had been neglected since the pandemic, hence the overgrowth. I bet they'll be very appreciative of our efforts, hopefully it will be used even more now as a result.

It being Social Night (last Wednesday of the month) - we nestled into the PrintHouse, getting some pizza calories in, plus well-earned isotonic drinks. Was a great night and good to bed the routine firmly back into the diary.

Need to organise the next few weeks, had a couple of hopeful tasks, that haven't materialised, but will list a bunch of sessions tomorrow, apologies.

Right that's all from me, check the parkrun chat on the whatsapp group, there's a team going,...and have a great weekend.

Until next week,

B

I’m not gonna tell you patience is a virtue.... I’m not gonna tell you time flies when you’re having fun... and I’m not gonna bombard you with cliches, but I will say this... Sometimes, when the chips are down, you’ve just got to suck it up, roll with the punches, turn the tables, and take the paint on the glove.

Lil, Dave, kev, shaz, hil, Claudia, Chris and Rosa did just that as they painted two picnic benches/tables and oiled the bejesus our of a really really heavy bench.

They got stuck in, came out swinging (their paint brushes), greased the wheels, ducked for the line, turned on the after-burners and got the job done...

They think it’s all over...

Well done all.

A return to Manorfield Primary for us this evening,a slight delay to the start due to mix up on timings but with all the amazing work head teacher Paul has done since the start of lock-down we were happy to wait.

Lil and David joined us for their first Goodgym mission and we had some Goodgym tourism with Isabelle and Becky joining us from Tower Hamlets and Katrin from Greenwich.

As always Paul had a lost of jobs and after giving the new Manorfield visitors a brief history of the changes Goodgym have been involved with the school so far we split into 3 groups....the Goodgym staple of the Summer watering! Barrier moving to create an outdoor bubble for when the children return to school,moving a very large bag of sand and to start the demolition of some rotting decking.

Watering....completed Barrier moving.....completed Sand moving.....completed Decking removal.....to be continued

We do love a bum pic

We also said a final farewell to Charlotte

We are back at Manorfield next Wednesday so come and join us as Paul will have a new list to go with the decking demolition

https://www.goodgym.org/happenings/summer-holiday-help-at-manorfield-primary-school-9f32946f-9531-4575-bea6-c29d7bbcd6dc