No 'Bog' Standard Task Tonight!

Absolutely thrilled on so many counts tonight. What a wonderful evening with wonderful people.

It was brilliant to be back with Jan and the team at the Wishing Well at the George’s tonight. We haven’t been there for months, so it was lovely to be back supporting this great community organisation and venue. We had an incredible ten members there for the task tonight, it was brilliant. It’s been a while since we’ve had numbers so high, so it was absolutely wonderful to see so many lovely faces again. Tonight there was Karen, Nigel, Emily, Emma, Barry, Pam, Lauren, Kat, Alex & Me

We started off with our warmup. We were able to make a bit of a game of it this week as we had enough people to make it fun! We had two teams and did school style races. Runners either had to hopscotch, jump or skip their way to Nigel (who made a very proficient marking post - thank you Nigel). Some of the interpretations of hopscotch, jumping and skipping were a little questionable but entertaining if nothing else! I actually can’t remember which team won but it didn’t matter as we were all too busy laughing anyway!

We then split into two groups. Pam, Barry & Nigel were the walking group, while the rest of us ran. We had the absolute privilege of running King Maurice Way tonight, even though we were sadly devoid of the King himself (Maurice for anyone that doesn't know). We had a good natter as we ran and certainly got the old heart rate up.

Once we’d all come back together, we headed inside to start on our task. We had such a lovely warm welcome from Jan who got us set to work on various tasks. There were two groups of loo cleaners (one for the ladies and one for the gents) and a group of moppers for the large hall. Barry, Lauren & Alex took the gents, while Kat, Emily and I took the ladies. Karen, Nigel, Emma and Pam took the mopping. There were definitely some funny antics going on while we were busy - Kat balancing on the loo and finding various items stashed behind the pipe (we won’t say what). Emily being terrified of the resident spider…. and the hand dryer too apparently – making her jump several times lol! Over in the other loos, Barry looked like he’d been cleaning the walls with his t-shirt as it was absolutely covered in paint! We couldn’t quite figure that one out!! The hall floor was gleaming after the fabulous four had worked their magic and all in all the place was looking much cleaner and fresher once we’d applied lots of elbow grease. I think the plan is paint the loos, so at least all the prep has been done now.

A huge shout out goes to Emily tonight for coming up with this week's pun - honestly, you've saved me hours of thinking time (I'm genuinely not joking!!!). You're a star Em, thanks!!

And finally, tonight was my 100th task, which I’m sharing in here for the sole reason of letting you know how wonderfully thoughtful our Goodgym members are. I was surprised with a balloon with beautiful words on, a card with beautiful words in, a box of chocolates, a lovely bobble hat and some scrumptious Colin & Connie the Caterpillar cake. Honestly, I can’t tell you how touched I was by the thoughtfulness (even though I was a tad shy about the attention). Honestly, being part of Goodgym has transformed my life in so many ways….. for being able to support so many wonderful organisations in our community, for our fun sessions and socials but mostly for the wonderful friends it’s brought into my life. Every single one of our members is equally inspirational and valued and my life has been enriched by all of them being a part of it. So thankful for each one of you, for all that you are, for all that you do and for all that you mean to me. I love you all to bits. Here's to the next 100!!!!

All my love Nicola xxxx