267 people braved the heavy drizzle today for Cattons Parkrun including 2 first timers, well done for turning out, and we had 6 tourists to. I was Timekeeper today, never good in the rain, you must keep the phone screen dry, to avoid droplets interfering with the numbers! and a wet screen can add numbers! Today we tried out umbrellas on stands to keep us dry, result it works. Bobby was on disco corner with his maracas, fresh from off shore, welcome back. Goodgymers running today Alina and Roisin. Well done everyone

We had our first visit or the year to Bowthorpe Community Gardens, and what a lovely place it is.

For once the weather was kind to us, dare I say it actually felt a little like summer!

We completed an array are tasks to help the gardens look spruce.

A cold and wet day of marshalling for the Good Gymers helping out at the inaugural Norfolk Marathon didn't dampen the spirits for an excellent event.

Good Gymers were largely in seperate places but travelled together so they could go on some rides in the park before the race commenced.

It remained wet and windy throughout the day but the marathoners were in good spirits and were very happy and thankful for the support and directions along the course.

A humungous shout out to Hitch and the EPIC Norfolk team for organising this event, it was seen on the faces of so many runners how much it meant to them to take part and the impact it has on fundraising for so many charities makes events like this ever so important in any community, here's to many more years of the Norfolk Marathon!

A return trip to Mrs J to continue the cataloguing of her extensive audio CD collection was completed. A different technique was used this time with Mrs J using her computer to log the randomly selected CDs from the top shelf of the first of 2 full shelving units to label. We worked through quite a few more times with this technique, and also shared many tales promoted by the music or audio books that came up. A local Norfolk story teller, a poem by Kubla Khan called ‘or a vision in a dream’ was recommended to look up. Alongside Pete Seeger’s album Long Time Passing. A album of folk protest songs including the anti war tune called where have all the flowers gone. Sadly still relevant to today’s world. The total completed this time was 42! The answer to….... life, the universe and everything.

I marshalled at Eaton Junior Parkrun. Although a rather wet morning the rain eased up a little and the sun came out briefly. The weather didn’t seem to deter the youngsters who turned out to run.

We visited the residents at Dell Rose Court Housing with Care, for an evening of Bingo, which they were all excited for... thinking they would take us to the cleaners haha.

Well... Maddy was going to put an end to that by taking the first two Full Houses... she really wanted the hand cream but when she had the choice of biscuits, cakes or fig rolls... she went for the fig roles, I'm shocked.

Luckily the tenants came back and took the final three Full Houses.

The evening finished with some discussions with the tenants and we look forward to returning again soon.