We were very excited to set off to do our first (amateur) bat survey this evening guided by Lucy with her new bat detector! We didn't have to wait long before we heard pipistrelles both Common and Soprano. We also think we heard Lesser Horseshoes, Serotines and Daubentons so a very successful first attempt. Lucy was matching the sounds heard on the detector to bat sounds on an app to verify they were what we thought. It started to rain a bit harder so the bats called it a night and so did we!

Thanks to everyone who cleared out their bra collection for donation to the MS Therapy Centre. When i dropped our big bag of bras off it contributed to filling up their donation box. Excellent work.

They will continue to take donations so please feel free to drop off any other things you find in your Spring cleans!

Photo from Portsmouth 100 group run as i didn't think anyone would want their old underwear immortalised on the internet!

Steph and I were honoured to represent GoodGym Southampton at the Kendal Mountain Festival on tour. We arrived early ready for a mic check on stage ahead of our question and answer session. It was slightly nerve wrecking particularly when he found out 200 tickets had been sold! It became even more nerve wrecking after we watched some inspiring films and heard a talk by two twins who had climbed a 6000 metre mountain in Nepal while one of them wore replica Malory kit while they carried out a variety of scientific experiments! After a quick rehearsal in the interval it was time to go on. We think we just about managed to sunmarise all the great reasons to join GoodGym! Hopefully we'll have some new attendees and perhaps some new referrals too :)