I was the run director at whitley bay junior parkrun on a very windy mother's day! The young runner weren't put of my the strong winds with a quarter of the young runners achieved a person best! A great time was had by all!

On a pleasant Monday evening, three GoodGym litter pickers headed out up Stepney Bank towards New Bridge Street. It's not an area we have litter picked in often and it was certainly needed. The main road into the city centre from Byker, New Bridge Street had mountains of litter, particularly around its bus stops. It's hard to understand how it ends up like this as there are numerous bins around the bus stops.

We had several people stopping to thank us and asking what GoodGym was. We did our best to explain and told people to look us up. If you were one of those people and are reading this, please sign up and come join us on a Monday night soon!

Today, Liz, Aimee and I met at Byker morrisons for the annual daffodil appeal. This happens every year in the early spring to help raise funds for the Marie Curie charity.

I was met with the lovely Pam, who kindly gave me the daffodils and collected them at the end of the session. Pam is a wonderful Marie curie volunteer who travels the North East raising funds for the charity.

It was a lovely day.

We will be back next year.

What did you do with your Sunday?

We always love a Monday night at Stepney Bank Stables.

Lloyd was meeting the resident horses for the first time and Aimee for about the fiftieth time but the novelty never wears off! Lloyd almost got mugged in the dark by one of the horses trying to steal the hay he was carrying!

Due to the amount of rain that had fallen, the hay at the bottom yard had gotten wet, so we had to move some from the top yard. After we had done that, we did a little digging around the edges of the arena. Quite a physical task tonight but as enjoyable as ever! Thank you to Sara for inviting us along to help.

Two GoodGymers delivered 500 leaflets on behalf of Riverside Window Walk 2026 on a cool but dry Saturday afternoon.

We zigzagged around the slightly unusual street layout of the Staiths area of Gateshead. Coming across blocks of flats with as many as twelve letterboxes side by side speeded up our task considerably!