We will keep it brief this week but an excellent session was had running GG Lambeth's inaugural Bingo Litter Pick!

Before we get to the details it was lovely to welcome Peter for his first ever GG session, thanks for joining Peter it was great to have you with us!

So to tonight's session, the premise is simple - in pairs head out with gloves on and some black bags and collect as many items of litter as possible while trying to tick off items from the grid in the description of the task. There are two winning categories, first is quantity of litter picked by a pair and the second is the most boxes checked off the grid.

The group set off for a breezy 3km run round the nicer parts of Stockwell and then looped back to meet Aimee at base, collect the bags and gloves and then head off. For those who track these things tonight's category was favourite wild animal and we had some great ones like tapir, red panda, platypus and so on.

Our final pairs were Peter and Joao, Maya and Aimee and Clare and Hannah with AA Yianny adjudicating. Arguably the most interesting item found was a coconut shell by Maya/Aimee but our outright winners having brought back 3 bin liners full and ticking off a mammoth 21 boxes were Hannah and Clare!!

Well done everyone, not only did we make Lambeth a tidier place but it was a fun task to try out and will definitely be back again this summer - who dares to take on the Litter Pick Bingo matrix??!!

Four Goodgymers attended Sunday's mission at St Faith's community centre. We picked up donations bags from the shed and carried them over to the centre where we sorted and hanged clothes. There were a few helping hands from GROAD volunteers 🙋‍♀️ 🙌 😊 everyone was in high spirits and we left everything set for tomorrow's Open House 😎 There were also a few donations drop offs.

Once again we returned to Hillside Gardens where it was a beautiful sunny Saturday morning to help Tom out with some jobs in the park.

A great group of 8 of us came to help out for an hour with leaf sweeping, grass cutting and mulching.

Lindy, Joao and I worked up near the allotments and tennis courts sweeping up and collecting leaves. We then used our best logic and teamwork skills to untangle a very long and heavy hosepipe!

Down the hill, Clare, Tracey, Hannah, Kaz and a sleepy Nathan 😴 were preparing the ground for some small trees that will arrive in a few weeks. Long grass was cut back along the fence and around the small plants and mulch was spread.

And to top it all off, today was my 250th good deed so I have dedicated the pun to myself 😁

This evening we were back up to strength with our Group Run numbers and I'm sure it had nothing to do with the promise of a social afterwards right everyone.....??!

The nights have finally drawn in and by 6:30pm Papa's was bathed in darkness and lit only by the glow of the halogen street lamps outside. A no show for a document check meant AA had time on his hands so went exploring and discovered that Valcie after a long day working at the café had left all her signs out on the street - not a problem you might think but this is Brixton and occasionally people are known to 'relocate' unattended street decorations for entertainment. Emergency situation resolved - after confirming that these were to be brought in and stored runners started making their way in to the park - bonus points to Super Sam and Joao for arriving first and to Charlotte for scraping in with a minute to spare, I like your style.

So for once there were no bikes and no bags to take care of and with an experienced group we whipped through a quick warm up (warm up deniers, it was chilly!) and then we headed off early to try to maximise our time at Jubilee Primary School. The idea was that we get there as early as we could so we could get away a bit early in time for the pub quiz at the Effra Social just down the road but we needn't have worried, Juan ended up 'running' late (get it?) in fact he was stuck in traffic so our instructions were transmitted by phone and via the cleaning staff at the school. Rebecca and Frances joined us at the task as well.

While we waited Tim and Frances were discussing an old task helping to sort the library many moons ago and lo and behold our task this evening was back in said library! Actually it was just outside the library and we had to transfer some old books, toys and games to the bins at the back of the school. Everybody grabbed a handful and made their way over the starlight highway (see pics) to the land of refuse and reuse to deposit their wares.

As tasks go this may have been a record short one but no matter it meant we were able to help out the school and cleaning staff, have our run and then settle in at the pub in plenty of time for the quiz.

That was it for the evening then, Nathan our Quiz Master led us down to the Effra Social (and despite some claims during the quiz from Hannah and Inny that the AA was trying to put off the other team - the cheek!) our mental powers were thoroughly put to the test and it was good fun to boot.

See you all next week!