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!

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.

We had our first trip of the year in 2024 to Redmayne View.

It was great to see the tenants again, and lovely that they remember us and look forward to seeing us each time.

On this occasion we had a quiz night. 50 questions asked by moi, split into 5 rounds of 10.

I must say, I was rather impressed with some of the knowledge in the room, especially around One Direction haha.

I was so engrossed in reading the quiz questions, that I forgot to take any photos, so an old one is uploaded.

It was a great task this evening as we visited Somerleyton Gardens again, this time to lay some new paths with wood bark (and no, thats not Woody pretending to be a dog).

Half of the gang were digging up the grass for a new section of path while the other half of the gang were pulling up grass between wild flowers, where the rest of the bark (woof woof) would be laid.

Each time we visit we make a great impact on Somerleyton Gardens, I need to find some old photos of our first ever visit to do some comparisons.

I love the group photo underneath the tree full of blossom.

549 people completed the Spring Blickling Half Marathon, with Michelle on race registration and Steven as RD.