This evening we had a change of scenery from our usual Wednesday night stomping ground and went on tour to Bray Parish. Georgeta, Gillian, Matthew, Scarlett, Sophie and Sue joined me to get fit by delivering newsletters to residents in streets around the Holyport Road.

The newsletter informs residents about lots of local services and events such as the Holyport Village Fair, Prostate Cancer Testing, Community Speedwatch and lots more - it is particularly helpful for residents who are less well connected digitally.

Like animals going into the Ark(ley Court), we set off two by two (and with one three) to cover the required area. It was a (Tithe) Close call whether Gillian and I would get lost on Aysgarth Park and Eskdale Gardens but as the saying goes, all's well that Cresswells Mead and we covered a really Lonsdale Way - over 6km in total. Along the way Georgeta, Sophie and Sue said hello to Spring(field gardens), and we all delivered Moor newsletters in the End than I had thought possible Prior(s Way) to joining GoodGym!

When it was time to say goodByland Drive, we all agreed we'd had a great workout and set off for home under a lovely pink sunset.

On a sunny , but chilly morning, 6 Goodgymmers helped out at Ockwells Junior Park Run. Gillian, Tessa and Amanda were marshalling and dotted around the course, James and Sheila were barcode scanning and timekeeping respectively, and Amy was Run-directing the whole show. We directed, encouraged, cheered and congratulated an impressive 118 youngsters around the course. What a lovely way to spend a Sunday morning!

This evening's group run took us about 2km up the hill to All Saints C of E Junior School, where it turned out we had just 20 minutes to blitz a gardening task.

No problem! When a dozen GoodGymers are fenced into a small triangle of land and Nicola is armed with a children's spade, we can do quite a lot of scarifying, weeding and generally flinging bits of turf around.

This was exactly what was needed to prepare the ground for master re-soiler Angela, who arrived just in time to spread some fresh compost around.

We then bombed the area with seeds and we hope nature will do the rest to turn this patch into a lovely wildflower haven for pollinators.

After what was possibly the speediest bit of gardening we've ever done, we headed off to celebrate Scarlett's 50th good deed with some of Gillian's gorgeous ginger cake. Scarlett started GoodGyming in July 2023, so has done really well, notching up more than 1 good deed a week. Congratulations Scarlett - here's to the next 50!