It was a pleasure to catch up today with London Marathon runner extraordinaire Latoya after her amazing street bashing exploits of last Sunday, and her efforts of last week were a useful training ground for today's furniture building mission for Ms E.

With three different Ikea items to be built, and a very limited amount of floor space, we decided to divide the task - I took the largest box (a set of shelves) into the kitchen, and Latoya was left with the smaller cabinets in the very dark narrow hallway (hence the extremely poor quality photo...a miners lamp would've been helpful).

We individually worked through our various instruction leaflets, aided by some of Ms E's tools (including an unusually shaped hammer), and after a good hour of toil, we were 2/3 of the way there, albeit the challenge was then to relocate the various items into the rooms Ms E had chosen. After a bit more building and dismantling, Latoya had the final cabinet complete and looking pretty smart, and she left this in the kitchen ready for Ms E to move into her bathroom once space had been cleared.

No medals this week for crossing the finishing line, but Ms E seemed delighted with our efforts, and we felt pretty chuffed ourselves that we'd got everything done before the cut off time...

Today's topics of discussion with Mr T landed on common ground for the both of us - famous golfers of times past, and favourite Scottish golf courses and almost everything in between from tee to green, and whilst it would be wrong to say we spent a lot time hacking around in the rough, the shopping part of today's mission was almost incidental to the lengthy conversation we had on all things golf when I returned with all his treasure! It proved to be a very fulfilling wander around the fairways of Scotland's finest turf, exchanging our thoughts on some mighty fine players of times past.

(The only bogey in the round was my failure yet again to find the ever elusive red label tea...)

Arrived in time and took some times for Mrs E to answer the door. She was not well and the state of her flat just didn’t help. I managed to fight my way in to the flat and did 2 rounds bin bag runs, also fought through the bin bags to open the window to let him some fresh air and got out in one piece. I sincerely think she needs more than goodgymmers’ help. Photo attached just to show one corner of the flat and there is nowhere she can move around really.

Five were seen digging this morning...

...nestled behind Kilburn's residential streets, in a St Cuthbert's gorgeous communal green space, five well-meaning souls were seen chatting, laughing, and digging this morning.

Agatha and Will (on their first good-deeds, congrats!!) joined Steve, Pulin, and Alex, and we spent two and a half hours digging a trench for timber, laying timber, and announcing a new enclosed and sunken flower bed, ripe and ready for filling and growing :)

Thank you, all, for your time and work this morning. It was a joy to share the morning with you, and we made a real difference to the space, especially as we step towards the warm and spring!

See you at the next one!!

Barbra Streisand celebrated her birthday on Wednesday - Happy Birthday, Barbra!!

I know this because of the OnThisDay website. And Wikipedia. I double checked on Wikipedia. I trust Wikipedia, but I didn't trust OnThisDay.

But now, of course, I do. And they tell me that Wednesday would also have been William of Orange's 491st birthday - big numbers, Will!

Then there's Lou Thesz - who was a wrestler; and Philippe Pétain - who was a French general; and the list goes on and on. But...

...does it mention GoodGym Camden... why heck, it doesn't! What would Barbra say, OnThisDay, hey?

Because it was big news as our merry group met outside the Francis Crick on Wednesday evening - GoodGym Camden was 11!!

Dan, Faye, Jackie, John, Lucy, and Steve met in spring light and we started the evening with a gentle warm up game of Get to 33!

Warmed and chatting, we strolled next door to the special King's Cross Story Garden. Housed above the British Library's car park, the space is a cared-for curation of nature and crafts, sat snug and peaceful amidst King's Cross's hub-bub.

Chimen (who was on their first good deed - welcome!!), Emre, and Louise joined us on site, where we were welcomed by the lovely Holly, the Story Garden's Manager.

Our task was simple - get things out of the way - preparing the way for the removal team, who will be taking stock over to the garden's new permanent home a stone's throw away.

We got to it, dismantling gazebos, shifting pallets, lifting portable saunas, and then making things tidy and neat once again.

Over 45 minutes, this team of 10 made such a difference, and we did so whilst sharing our own stories and laughter.

Thanks, everyone, I really appreciate your work, and I hope to see you at another session soon!!!

All went well, despite having problems with my eyes before I started. Mr T was flexible with timing so we started the mission earlier to make sure we got all he wanted. In and out of the shop in 30mins, did my own little shopping at the same time. Then spent 20mins with Mr T talking about his past and current affairs, he was grateful with the help and I wish Mr T well.