On what was a very rainy day, the weather gods knew the drill and made sure it had stopped by the time Me, Andy and Fiona met outside the gym, because... it never rains on goodgym 🥰

We ran off into the dusk and were joined by Leah along the way towards Little Edi where we would be doing a spot of painting. As we arrived Fay and Sallyann had already arrived and got ourselves organised into two groups. Me,Andy and Leah painted the wall a lovely shade of blue. And Fay,Sallyann and Fiona painted the hallway, door and toilet wall a brilliant shade of white.

Covering most of the walls (and Leah's hands) we gathered the tins of paint and brushes and rollers and Andy showed his domesticated skills at the sink by washing the paint out of all of them. Leaving them on the side to dry we left , after i remembered to take a group photo, and made our way back home for a well deserved dinner/tea/snack/cocktail.

Well done everyone

We'll be back at Little Edi next week to continue our painting and hopefully back again over the winter to help with other bits and pieces they need doing.

Thanks for coming all and......

Run Happy

Rich

We welcomed a happy gang of litter pickers, including Fiona for her 3rd session, and Ram for his 5th session 🙌

Fay and Sallyann walked with the litter pickers and bags, whilst Ben sped off ahead, somehow I kept up with him, and the rest of the group sensibly jogged together.

Jane bravely climbed down to the river's edge for maximum litter picking opportunities, whilst Rich joined for a photo opportunity, after the photo opportunity of dragging a chair from the bushes.

Andy alerted us to the news that Chelmsford institution, Back Inn Time, is celebrating it's 40th anniversary with prices from when it first opened. We promptly booked our next social there!

For a final photo opp, Rich of course got into the rogue trolley we found, with Fiona and Ben joining in this time.

Next week we have Painting for Little Edi.

See you all soon!

Laurie

After arriving slightly early to discuss a good meeting point and whether the parking restrictions on First Ave had changed in the last 6 years, Fay and I headed over to meet Laurie and help carry the huge stack of leaflets back.

We greeted Jane, Andy and Martin and said cheerio to Fay as she left to drive the leaflets over. The rest of us had a steady pace over to Melbourne, during which I led not just the run but a good old moaning session about how hectic life is! Thankfully, Laurie and Jane agreed and were happy to join in, while Martin and Andy luckily escaped with their own conversation!

We met Fay and proceeded to deliver all the leaflets while only getting slightly confused about which roads we had already walked down and all commenting that we had never seen so many cats in one area!

Martin and Fay bid us farewell, while the remaining 4 delivered the last few leaflets on the way home. Thanks everyone!

Jen

We ventured into new territory to do some prep ahead of our next leaflet delivery task. Four GoodGymers ran to our first leaflet folding session at the Orange Tree, with Jen impressing everyone with her trekking exploits and Andy scaring the local dogs. We met Fay and Sallyann and the leaflets at the venue, and got to work compiling the information for half a dozen good causes. After Rich made a quick dash home for some plastic bags to carry the bundles away, we watched the sun set as we made our way back, with Martin, Jen and Andy discussing GoodGym protocol about when to start getting out heads torches out again.