I arrived to lead tonight's session to find that only one other GoodGymer had signed up...my husband.

After a thorough run and safety briefing, we walk/ran through the park to the CHESS homeless shelter, where their garden was in need of a tidy. They asked us to de-cobweb and clean the front door and porch, and weed and sweep the garden.

Head Gardener Walker weeded the path and trimmed the edges, while Undergardener Walker cleaned the front door and swept up all the mess I made with the leaves. Many snails were moved to safety during this process.

We filled three bags with garden waste and left the place looking tidy and pretty.

As it was just us, and as we live round the corner, we didn't run back, we just went home to microwave a post-task dinner 💪

8 GoodGymers went to Hearing Help Essex to give their garden a tidy while the builders are in doing renovation works. It was great to see Ram back, joining us for his second group run.

After a chatty run, we met Sallyann there, and were about to get stuck in when we realised we didn't have the code to the key safe. Luckily Rich found the email with the code so we didn't have to break in.

Martin and Ben got the tools out, Sallyann got stuck in clearing the path, and Joel took all the weeds round to the compost bins.

While we worked, Andy told us he was looking forward to the Clacton airshow; hopefully it won't be cancelled due to thunderstorms, but if it is, maybe he'll do the run leader training instead 🙂

This week we had a social after the task, so for once we didn't run back to HQ, but ran to Brewhouse instead, where we met Fay. We arrived just as their quiz night was starting, and (after much debate about rivers and county boundaries) came a creditable 5th out of 20.

Well done everyone 💪 Next week we are delivering charity leaflets around Melbourne.

PS Ram gets a Social Media credit for showing group admin Rich how to add his name to the WhatsApp group 🤦‍♀️