Operation St Jude’s

21 GoodGymmers standing on a wall. Or bouncing on wobbleboards/trampolines/seesaws whilst out first excursion of 2022 took us to a new-for-GoodGym area of Bristol, St Jude's.

After much fitness bouncing/swinging/roundabouting, we managed some litterpicking through the trampolines, under some hedges, in some long grass and pulling out oodles of noodles of bindweed root and scraping moss.

A short run back to Queen Square followed for the amazing poem* to celebrate Richard's awesome 500 good deeds and Caroline defecting from Wandsworth to glorious Bristol. Or just moving house. Definitely one of the two.

• Twas brillig, and Giddings the running tove, Did deed and gimber in Brizzle hove, 500 is friggly number now, Samploistics just shout out wow!

Hail Sir Giddings of GoodGym, p0p Knight of the litterpicker, Who halted the woppy jumblericker

Richy G sorted the tins, Filled up the bins, Made cardboard beds And shifted... the shifty things...

Hail Sir Giddings of GoodGym, Knight of the running art, Who made the roads look like, zagg-rart.

Mr G entertains us all, With run reports full of stories tall, Quirkiness to make us smile, A cracker costume or a blompydile

Hail Sir Giddings of GoodGym, Knight of the gromits run, Who made us pose like chuttermun

He avoided the dogs that guard the door, With teeth so veep you can't ignore, He dighted the worms so they didn't die, He chopped the weeds so they didn't thrive...

Hail Sir Giddings of GoodGym Champion of 500 good deeds