Okay okay, I admit I brazenly stole that title pun from Yianny at GoodGym Lambeth, but it was so good I couldn't resist! And it was true too. This evening the temperature did seem to have dropped a few degrees, and we did put on a second coat....of paint at All Saints Junior School!

I need to keep this report short as it was a double good deed day for me, which also means two reports to write, so heree goes:

• Welcome back Angie! Great to have you along tonight.
• Thanks to Juli and Angie for leading each other round the block in your run, whilst the rest of us walked.
• It was lovely to see Nicola in her new black 50 good deeds t-shirt. Nicola was poorly and sad not to be able to join us (to show off her well deserved t-shirt) so we stopped by her doorstep to cheer her up with a song, chocolate and a medal to celebrate her 50th good deed. 'Oh Nikki you're so fine, you're so fine you blow my mind, hey Nikki!"
• Thanks to Mr Cameron at All Saints for a warm welcome once again.
• Well done Lena on your first ever paint job!
• And well done to all the team for lots of rollering and brushing to help cover up all that blue.
• Special mention to Georgeta for cleaning up the filing cabinets, leaving everything spick and span.
• Thanks again to DJ Lou for bringing the chooons! And well done Lou for getting your docs checked! Social visits here she comes...
• Thanks everyone for a super, chatty evening. As ever it was lovely to catch up.

Hope to see you all soon for more GoodGyming!

We headed to Eton Wick this evening to help make the Youth Centre spick and span before their re-opening. We met at the task location but before we rolled up our sleeves and donned our rubber gloves, we made the most of the last few rays of the setting sun to have a walk or run in the local area.

Both the walking and running routes took us out across Coolley's Meadow and back along the Thames Path, giving us a lovely view of Windsor Castle, as well as bringing back happy GoodGym memories of hay racking and hedgerow management in the area previously. While Lena, Lou and Anita powered round the 2km walking route, runners Rachel, Juli, Jess and I covered just shy of 4km, including discovering a few new footpaths... Special mention to Rachel, who was initially put off by the 4km route, but was persuaded to go for it and did brilliantly.

By the time the runners arrived at the task location, Anita, Lou and Lena had made an impressive start on cleaning and organising the lower kitchen cupboards. Task owner Helen welcomed the runners and showed us the 'games and toys' cupboard, which we were to empty and sort out.

Highlights from the next hour of cleaning and laughter included:

• Seeing what brilliant progress has been made on the venue by task owners Helen and Claire since our first visit.
• Watching Anita and Lena blitz that kitchen. Wow what a great job!
• The human chain to empty the games cupboard - love a human chain!!
• The crazy array of fun stuff that came out of the cupboard. From Christmas decorations to sumo suits...
• Discovering that I have the longest arms out of everyone attending this evening.
• Lou managing to stay away from the pub this time and doing an amazing job sorting and folding the sports kit.
• The efficiency and energy with which Juli, Rachel and Jess took control of the cupboard and gave it a fantastic makeover.
• Finding out how many GoodGymers it takes to get a condemned bean bag into a bin liner. Answer, 4 plus lots of laughing.
• Seeing that A-frame become shiny and clean.
• So many hula hoops to play with...!
• Helen's feedback at the end that she was really thrilled with how much we'd got done this evening.

We had 5 minutes left at the end, which could only mean one thing... time for a quick hula hoop obstacle relay! So. Much. Fun. Well done and thank you GoodGymers for a great evening!

This evening was our first group run since the death of the Queen, so we started with a minute of silent reflection to honour her incredible life of service. It felt good to acknowledge this moment in history together and I've never heard a group of GoodGymers be so quiet!

Obviously they soon made up for it by heckling me during my briefing, but it was all good natured and no doubt deserved.

This evening's start location was just 600 metres from the task location at York Stream, allowing us to get there nice and early and make the most of the light. Our job was to weed the formal beds along the stretch between the library and York Road. Thanks to Gillian and Sol for helping the less green fingered among us identify the weeds and well done to Steve, who worked hard despite this being his second GoodGym session of the day. We should also celebrate the fact that no one went swimming - well done team!

As the amount of chatting started to outweigh the amount of weeding being done, I decided it was time for some fitness. We ran or walked three laps(ish) of a loop around the area where we had been working, with little pauses for exercises like squats and lunges when runners and walkers met each other. Then we moved onto a group work-out, which everyone contributed to. Thanks Sara for bringing the burpees!

Then it was time to head back to our start location for stretches and goodbyes. We learnt that a few of the group will be heading off on holidays over the next couple of weeks - hope you have fun and don't forget to show the world (the Swiss, Colombians, Ecuadorians and Sotonians specifically) your favourite red t-shirt.