The heat may have been huge, but the desire to GoodGym on a Monday eve is bigger!

Starting with a warm up in Richmond, we headed across the green and down to the river to run across the lock and back along the river on the north bank into East Twickenham, turning in to St Christopher's Fellowship.

We are very familiar with the garden there and get on with weeding, litter picking, cutting back and sorting out without needing instruction! The brambles had been weaving their way around everything and weeds were clearly loving the heavy rain followed by sunshine, until we turned up!

45 minutes later the large garden felt more under control again, even if our own temperatures were not so much!

We are back there next month to keep on top of the summer growth.

Shopping for Mr K, this time featuring a bottle of bleach

A very warm Saturday morning saw 3 Richmond GGers gather at the Power Station youth club to support youth leader Danielle.

Today’s task was more lamination of recipe cards for the kids to use during the summer programme. We quickly assumed roles, sharing out the duties of folding the inserts, putting them into plastic sleeves and passing them through the laminators.

Modest disaster struck when it was realised that the instructions for the chocolate cornflake cakes involved 500g of beef mince (triggering a short reminiscence of an episode of Friends), but these misprinted cards were quickly discarded and we carried on.

Danielle handed over the guillotine to Rosie to trim the edges off the papers, and we had a smooth production line going, finishing the last card just inside an hour.

We finished off the morning with coffees at a very pleasant cafe nearby and then set off for the rest of our weekend activities.