pre-LOVEd is in the air

Tonight we welcomed Penny, Frankie AND Sandra to their first ever gym runs. Great to see you all and hope you will be back soon!

BIG LOVE NEWS IN VALENTINE'S WEEK! We also welcomed Rosie back from her trip to New Zealand where she got engaged! Congrats to Rosie and Aaron.

Luckily tonight's task was to the Naomi House charity shop, which have wedding dresses and outfits aplenty so Rosie could get some early ideas to start her planning!

The shop had received bags and bags of donations since we were last there, it's quite incredible how much comes through the shop itself. So we had the challenge of seeing whether we could empty and sort all the donations that had come in. Challenge accepted! And, of course, completed.

There was a good scale from "really?" to "wow look at this" in the donations piles this time. Highlights being a slanket (modeled by Frankie), a mermaid bikini (suits you Louisa), an Elsa wig which made Tony look like Pat Sharp and Sandra found a motivational t-shirt with some odd typeface placement. There were also some maternity trousers but unfortunately they'd be more like shorts on Laura so no luck there! And LOADS of Christmas things we unpacked including brand new Star Wars themed hats and stockings. Definitely worth a shopping trip in November!

Post run we headed back to the community centre for curry-themed circuits (tandoori tuck jump anyone?) and Sam ably lead the cool down stretches. After all that excitement, 11 of us sampled the delights of the Paanchi takeaway and rolled out of the community centre stuffed to bursting a little later than usual!

We are back to Naomi House again as a community mission at 2pm on Saturday 2nd March - we will be doing different jobs like steaming, tagging and sorting in the stock room. We are also back here on another group run on Wednesday 13th March for more donation sort outs. What gems will we find then? Sign up to one or both to keep on collecting your good deeds.

Next week we are outside for a big litter pick - sign up here. Fingers crossed it's a good weather week!