Dave and I joined up with volunteers from Fratton Community Pantry and Action Asylum to pack down after the cultural event at St Mary's Church.

We arrived in time to see the last couple of performances - local dance groups demonstrating dance and music styles from their cultures.

We then got to work packing down gazebos, then removing, folding and storing their tops. I employed some yoga moves to help squeeze the air out. Very reminiscent from my days camping with the guides!

Lastly, we helped bring some resources back down Fratton Road to the pantry for storage. I very much enjoyed being able to carry a giant phoenix - although we did get some very strange looks from passers by!

We wrapped up the day with a five-mile run - despite it being 6pm when we started, it was still crazily toasty!

The fact its taken me nearly 48 hours to write a Run Report shows quite how good a night we had celebrating the Amazing Andy before he leaves us (hopefully temporarily!) for pastures new.

A night at Dice escalated from family-friendly games to debauched drawings in Scrawl, leading to many photos of the night being NSFW. I have certainly not laughed so much in a long time - and I hope you enjoy Donkey Batman in the photos. No, I cannot remember the context for his existence.

The quiz round "Dead, English, Both or Neither" nearly brought our night to an early finish after Andy's heart broke after learning that Sean Connery was no longer with us. We shall raise a Martini (shaken, not stirred) in his honour at some point.

We ended the night channeling our inner Tom Jones (Andy) and The Little Mermaid (Big Wine Jen) at Bobby's Bar. I would recommend not watching the videos which have somehow made their way into the social chat...

Hope everyone had a great night, and yes, I did make it to work on time and semi-functional on Saturday morning.

6 incredible GoodGymers headed to the Stacey Centre for a fantastic gardening mission. Our small but mighty squad was buzzing to welcome a brand new member to the crew, ultramarathoner Donna! We were thrilled to have her with us, and even more thrilled she didn't try to make us run 50 miles!

The main mission of the night was to remove an overgrown patch of burdock, amongst other weeding duties. I’m not saying the roots were deep, but I’m pretty sure the team opened up a portal to the Upside Down! After much tug of war (and a cunning use of the secateurs!) we managed to rip the never-ending vines from the soil, potentially saving Portsmouth from a supernatural invasion!

Sweaty but victorious, we took a well-earned breather to marvel at the Stacey Centre’s impressive fruit collection, spotting plums, cherries, apples, peaches, blackcurrants, and grapes, like true gardening connoisseurs!

Top tier weeding team!

A beautiful morning for stretching, sun salutations and relaxing. 🌞 The 3 of us enjoyed the class and a coffee afterwards.

You can try attend Park Yoga any Sunday through the summer at 0930 at Queen Elizabeth Country Park and also at Staunton Country Park.

We were very pleased to be back here!

Our first task was to rescue a bench that had been gnawed by an over-enthusiastic resident; after a bit of sanding and a lick of paint it was looking almost as good as new!

We also fought the very thorny brambles and weeds on the main pathway. This involved multiple wheelbarrow trips to the composting area where we discovered large sand dunes.

After parkrun, we gave Great Salterns a bit of a clean up.

We welcomed Goodgym tourist Jacqui from Barnet and Rebecca's friend also called Rebecca from Southampton.

Among the usual finds, we found a particularly memorable find: part of a man's pants... always keeping things classy on a Goodgym task! On a more tasteful note, we also found a frisbee still in good shape, so we hung it on a low branch as a lucky gift for a passing dog!

What a pleasure it was to be part of parkrun's 1,000,000th Event weekend of celebrations!

Rebecca joined the volunteering team as a Marshal, whilst Jane took on Barcode Scanning for the runners at the end.

Jen and Dave managed to run and volunteer this week- Dave had to put his foot down to takeover Finish Tokens from the Run Director, whilst Jen added some shuttle runs to her cool-down whilst Token Sorting.

We also got to meet Jacqui from GoodGym Barnet, who joined us for two tasks after her parkrun tourism, and local MP Amanda Martin, who spoke so highly of GoodGym, which was wonderful to hear! Also - I wish I could look as glam a Amanda after a 5km!

Nice job, everyone!