300 good deeds done

What a night to celebrate our wonderful Barbara milestone. Our very own Babs has been doing good since May 2017 . She not only attends the group sessions but also volunteers at Wadars, our local animal shelter, at least once a week. Congratulations and Thank you ! We cant imagine GoodGym life without you :)

Cardboard City

The community rooms have been a long term project for a few years now. Every time we go back its overgrown again so this year we have come up with another plan. Tonight John and Belinda kindly recycled their recent electric bike purchase packaging to lay below the freshly dug earth. However firstly it needed to be dug!

Whilst the star of the evening headed out to get some steps in with Belinda and Daisy , who it was lovely to see again ( Happy New Year :) ) the rest of the team set to work.

Paul got stuck in the end of the garden that we had barely touched before. He was joined by Paula and then also Belinda, on her return. Our ultra runner Roxy did some amazing energetic digging perfectly preparing the ground for a generous layer of cardboard to be laid. Barbara joined in with Roxy on her return from walking.

It was so nice to Gillybean back on a Monday night. Special mention goes to Gill who has been busy volunteering at the food bank Tuesdays and sometimes Wednesdays too. Shout out to any of you who may be free on a Wednesday as the food bank could do with regular extra volunteers please.

Sarah and John worked and chatted as they always do - take a look at one of the photos of them together - I reckon we could have a caption contest :) John was in charge of the cardboard arranging and beavered away whilst some of us stood and admired his handiwork !

At the end of the task and to mark the special day, the team formed an arch with their tools for Barbara to run through - we managed to capture it with a video and photo too. Some then said their farewells whilst the rest of us headed to the pub for part 2 of our celebrations.

Barbara generously bought us all a round of drinks before we presented her with a beautiful engraved glass gift that she can drink her vegan hot chocolate in. What a lovely evening it was. Makes me feel very proud to know you all.

Here's to the next celebration - Will it be Sarah's 100th ?!

Have a good week.

Julia xxx

On a freezing night in February ❄️❄️❄️

Massive thanks to my 4 amazing team tonight.

Despite the dampness and freezing conditions El , Roxy, Megan and Paul all turned out to help brighten our seafront prom in readiness for our much awaited Spring. 💐🌹🌸 🏵. This evening we were at our very own seafront flowerbed to plant up some May flowering bulbs.

Luckily a few weeks ago the team had sorted and prepared the bed ready for planting. So tonight, it made our life easy to plant a variety of 150 bulbs. We can't wait to see them come up. Hopefully it will be colourful !

After we finished we went for a beautiful moonlit stroll around the pier and had a great catch up chat.

We all agreed that we were so pleased to have got out and done something good on am evening when it would have been so easy to stay at home in the warm ! Thank you and hope to see you all next week for Barbara's 300th !

Have a great week and stay warm.

Julia xx

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