It was a busy night at Stepney Bank Stables as 12 Newcastle University students, from a wide variety of places including Buffalo (New York), Nova Scotia, Costa Rica and even Coventry joined us. They joined some of our regulars in painting the fence at Stepney Bank Stables' arena, filling some goody bags for a party and smoothing some walls. Everyone worked hard and some good progress was made!

Sara from Stepney Bank Stables was as welcoming as ever, giving us a tour of the stables, which involved meeting several of the resident horses. GoodGymers new and old always relish meeting the four-legged residents, one or two of whom were a bit grumpy tonight as their evening meal hadn't been served yet.

We'll be back at the stables in two weeks to try to make some more progress with painting the fence.

This Monday was considerably more pleasant than last week, with a lot more sunshine and a lot less rain (none). Five GoodGymers set out for The Lighthouse Project, aiming to make the garden look better.

Lots of large weeds of various kinds were pulled out and chopped down, while the long grass had a trim. The before and after photographs show quite a difference!

We're doing more of the same at Greenhill Allotments on Saturday, before our first volunteer stint for a while at Stepney Bank Stables next Monday. Please join us if you can!

This was the third of an as yet unknown number of sessions delivering leaflets to support Love Dunston and getting the word out about their summer fair later this month. Five (yes - five - on a Wednesday afternoon!) GoodGymers walked 5.5km and delivered another few hundred leaflets.

We discovered:

1. Dunston is very hilly in places.
   
2. Some houses on hills in Dunston have lots of steep steps up to their letterboxes.
3. Lots of houses in Dunston have animal themed ornaments in their gardens!

I've included our Strava map for your admiration - it turned out to be quite an efficient coverage of streets quite close to where the fair is going to be held. Plus, as some of you know, I love a leaflet delivery Strava map!

We have at least one more session with these leaflets at our group run on Monday, and possibly more to come. Check out the website!