We arrived at People’s Park in Luton and began our work by collecting the litter scattered around the park. We focused especially on picking up plastic bottles and other discarded items found along the paths and under the trees.

Working together, we cleaned the area thoroughly, removing anything that could cause mess or harm the green spaces. Thanks to the team’s cooperation, the park became cleaner and more organized, and we felt proud of our positive contribution to the community.

This week’s group run was a full-body charge. We powered up our fitness and helped Farley Hill residents save on their energy bills. In celebration of This Girl Can’s “Lift the Curfew” campaign and marking the seasonal shift from Diwali’s glow to Halloween’s shadows, we lit up the night with colourful flashing wristbands to stay visible and vibrant.

We jogged out from the town centre, climbing the gentle incline toward the foot of the Dallow Downs. Our fitness challenge for the evening was sprint-walk intervals between streetlights, pushing up the mighty Winsdon Hill with serious leg wattage and heart-thumping effort. It was a high-voltage workout that sparked plenty of team spirit.

At the summit, we paused to recharge and admire the panoramic views. Spotting a dumped mattress dimming the landscape’s beauty, we moved it to the roadside and reported it to the council. First good deed done and civic pride fully powered.

With our batteries restored, we switched gears to our main task. We delivered flyers for Groundwork’s Green Doctor scheme, an outreach effort to help households facing fuel poverty find practical ways to reduce energy consumption and lighten the load of winter bills.

As we lit up the streets, our glowing wristbands caught the eye of curious locals. Their warm encouragement boosted our morale and added a spark to our steps.

We wrapped up the evening with one last look over the Dallow Downs and cruised back into town feeling connected, uplifted and fully charged. One friendly shopkeeper even gifted us each an orange to keep our energy levels up for the final leg. It was a juicy boost of natural fuel. It may have been a dark night, but our lights and our purpose made it brilliantly bright.

It was a return to the foot of Winsdon Hill on Dallow Downs this morning. Where Brambles had been cut away there was tons of litter on the ground, plus dumped furniture that we dragged down for collection from the roadside. Alongside the Friends of Dallow Downs And Winsdon Hill, we filled bag after bag of litter until we ran out of bags! A huge pile was made by the time our hour was up, but there was plenty more there so we'll be back soon to do some more.

8 Goodgymers joined ABCD-IN-LUTON and the Friends of Leagrave Park on their monthly litterpick. As ever there were some weird and wonderful finds amongst the 17 bags of rubbish that we all collected. Well done to everyone that took part

There was a warm welcome for us at The Bricklayers Arms, where we had convened, this time not for the start of a DIY or leafletting task, but to take part in the quiz. Despite having 6 of us on the team, none of us were even able to answer the first question, "Do you have a team name?" And by the time the question master asked us a third time and we replied, "Not Yet." He took that as our official name.

So Not Yet were poised and ready to start. Fortunate that we weren't split up this time, we were hopeful that we could, if not win, at least not come bottom.

It was a great team effort, with everyone contributing in their field of expertise, or having a jolly good guess, and if Duncan hadn't talked himself out of one of the answers (at least it wasn't me this time), and if we hadn't generously allowed the neighbouring team a point for a question they had written too answers for (surely that's cheating?) we would have beaten them by a fine margin. We were never going to come first (there were some really hot teams in the other bar) but we did ourselves proud.

Fun night out, and looking forward to the next one.

Thanks to Duncan for organising.

This week we ran and walked to Holy Trinity Church to give the porch a good cleaning. We brushed out the spider webs, cleaned the windows, cleaned and polished all the woodwork too.

As well as that we started preparing for a painting job on an interior wall that has peeling paint as a result of an old roof leak. We gave the loose paint a good scraping to get it off the wall. We made a good start but it definitely needs another go before it can be painted. we spent as long clearing up our mess as we did making it! We'll be back for another go.