I volunteered at Riddlesdown parkrun with my mum who did her first parkrun there since pre Covid 😊

At Canbury Gardens, Levita and Eleanor helped out by filling large water barrels with water from the river using wheelbarrows and water canisters. The water would later be used to water the plants and garden patches around the area. The activity also gave us a great workout for the day and definitely made us use our muscles while carrying and moving the water around. What a powerful way to start the weekend!

It was a full-on session at Full Cycle this week, bolstered by some fantastic neighbouring support - a few members of the GoodGym Merton team cycled across the borough to lend a hand with the packed to-do list.

In the workshop, it was all hands on deck as we dove into the usual recycling of inner tubes and tyres. This included sorting through wheel rims and tackling the somewhat difficult job of removing stubborn rubber from the metal.

Outside, the mission felt like a high-stakes game of bike Tetris. We had to move a sea of cycles and untangle them from encroaching brambles just to create a workspace. Once we had the room, the team made short work of cutting back the overgrowth, sweeping up leaves, and clearing rubbish before neatly returning every bike to storage.

Heavy lifting, tricky logistics, and plenty of camaraderie: just another un-tyre-ing group session!

Today I arrived to assist in the parade to the Thames as part of the sardine festival, making sure all was well.

Wow. What an absolute privilege to have been a Tailwalker at Sunday's London Marathon. For those who don't know, we're a band of (very organised) volunteers who start walking at the 12-mile point, to offer support and companionship to those runners struggling (they'll finish between 7:30pm and midnight, if they make it, taking 8 to 12.5 hours to complete the course).

I finished my own marathon years ago. So to go out and help others do the same, in for them much harder conditions - it felt really good. Thanks to all the volunteers. We didn't break the 2-hour record (or any record). But it was a special day.

Throughout the last week, 7 good- gymers from different areas collected and binned wayward items that had been strewn across our boroughs streets and parks.

Myself and Anna teemed up after another task to do this.

I even thought I had found my lift home, but alas, on closer inspection it had broken down and was waiting for the AA!