Another Saturday, another parkrun at Valentines

Once again the weather did cooperate, the rain lashing the country overnight subsided and a crisp clear December morning made for good running weather.

Ed did his usual at the car park entrance. Linda walked a lap with R and then chased down the Tail Walker - she made it look easy! And I ended up on my first experience of the app to do timings

Side note - Julia chased down James, who managed to just stay ahead. #96 done for her, still on track to hit 100 before end of year

it is December after all, so some chocolates & mince pies do seem appropriate for our last visit to the baby bank for 2025...

7 Goodgymmers made their way on foot & by bus down to the Cornerstone Church to meet Adam and get stuck into the bags of clothing to be sorted as usual.

Job done, goodbyes said.

A few GoodGymers independently got out for their own local litter picks this month — a brilliant ripple effect. If you fancy doing the same in December, even a short session helps keep England looking its best. Actions speak louder than words, and together we make a visible difference.

Sally and I did the November litterpick. Lots of discarded Halloween paraphernalia, including a plastic dagger smeared with fake blood 🗡️😮

Three of us arrived at Frenford Food bank to find 50 food orders to be packed. Luckily we had four lovely friends of Frenford to help too. As usual both teams gelled really well, working together and helping one another out or facilitating rest and refuel breaks. Just as we thought we had finished another two were added so in the end 52 packages were picked and packed.

Linda and Ed had already been there twice this week prepping for today and must have done a good job of organising things as we seemed to finish really quickly and a shout out goes to Peter for using his valuable annual leave to give the task his invaluable help.