First off, congratulations to Jim who completed his 10th good deed tonight, making him eligible to join the Task Force and 'just' 40 good deeds away from the black T-shirt. Jim describes his wardrobe as inspired by Wednesday Addams so the 50 good deeds tee will fit right in!

I got a bit sidetracked by Wednesday one-liners before writing the run report, this was the one that reminded me most of our group:

"I cause chaos. I don't succumb to it.”

Jim and I formed the cycling group to the Stacey Centre, meeting Sinéad (who'd run 9k beforehand), Laura and Tracey at the Stacey Centre Orchard.

Some other volunteers had been in and finished off our ball court weeding job so we were sent to clear the path at the back of the shed and vines to ensure a safe fire exit route. We made a lot of snails homeless which resulted in a slow race up the fencing to claim a new spot; we battled brambles and grappled with grapevines. Once we'd finished up the path was much clearer than it had been 45 minutes earlier.

We celebrated with a non-homemade sweet snack and then headed on back home for a variety of dinners.

Thanks everyone, look out for the next visit to Stacey Centre, Tom promised no rain!!

p.s. As it was too dark for any decent photos, I've included a pic of Kingston Rec at 5pm today featuring (if you look closely) a double 🌈

A fantastic team of 10 Goodgymers whizzed through a range of tasks at the kennels. Together we painted one side of a cable reel (we'll need to come back to do the other side), weeded the entrance area and cut back brambles in the exercise area.

Afterwards we were treated to greetings from a gorgeous resident who charmed us all and made sure everyone got a cuddle!

Wow, what a turn out! It was great to see so many GoodGymers out tonight - thank you everyone for coming.

We welcomed Dani from GoodGym Lewisham for a spot of GG Tourism whilst he is house-sitting locally, and met Lucifer for his first ever session - head to their profiles to give them a cheer!

Tom had plenty of tasks for us tonight, the main job being spreading woodchip over the children's play area and around the pond. With lots of lifting and shifting, and plenty of raking, many hands made light work of the task.

Meanwhile, the rest of the team got to work weeding and pruning on the side path of the orchard. We temporarily lost David to a large bush where he was extracting a bramble. Sinéad's trimming of the rosemary bush left a pleasant aroma for the rest of the evening. The discovery of Fred the Frog led to a lot of distraction, and even a photoshoot, courtesy of Jane.

We enjoyed and evening of education, with history lessons with Jim, spanish with Dani and nature studies with Sinead. Other conversation topics includes Sandi Toksvig, Mastermind and David the Gnome.

We ended the session with picking apples and grapes, ready for our lunchboxes for the rest of the week.

It was fab to welcome back Tracey for our task this evening, after a break away from GoodGym. We made our way to St Faith's, and got straight to work with litter picking, lopping and sweeping.

Tracey and The Katies took on litter picking, Our team and managed to put together the best part of a full outfit with their finds - pants, trousers, a sock and a glove, as well as coat hanger to display them all!

Team Dave were in lopping duty, tidying up the brambles and budlia round the front of the church. Dave spent as much time in the bag of cuttings as he did out of it.

Jim helped David from the church with clearing the side path. They made such a difference I didn't recognise the place when I walked back through at the end of the task.

There was quite a lot of Double Trouble tonight, especially when the we included the church volunteers too! Two Katies, two Jens and in impressive three Davids. We very much enjoyed some tea, squash and biscuits before heading back to FCC. And we also learned plenty about looking after snakes 🐍 - fortunately we didn't come across any in the church yard.