This week we were asked by Maz Brown of Brown books, Luton's community book shop, to take to the streets and deliver flyers advertising the upcoming Author Fest and half term events at the second-hand book shop.

It was only a short run to collect the leaflets from the pub, but we didn't hang about there, we kept going and delivered hundreds of flyers all over high town, with a short break in Peoples Park for a quick game of 'grab the cones'.

it was back to the pub with the few leftover flyers for a quick drink to refresh and round off the night.

There was not much food available for cooking the meal at FoodCycle tonight but there were a lot of bananas. So while Lucie got busy crafting a delicious vegetable Bolognaise Gill started making a sticky caramel sauce which she used to caramelise enough bananas to feed 40 people. They very sticky but went well with the rice pudding made by one of the other volunteers. Abdulrahman was his usual smiley self and as well as serving the guests, enjoyed a bowl if the pudding and sticky bananas too.

Office Dan from Luton community left us all stunned with his karaoke performance.

This week's group run took us from the town centre, along the busway to Kingsway Recreation ground and the 61 Football Club. Club secretary Richard was waiting there to issue the evenings tasks:

• taking down the plastic ceiling light panels and giving them a scrub down. They'd got a bit grubby and stained from old roof leaks.
• clearing out the storage unit, vaccuming and reorganising all the bits nicely back inside.
• painting the entrance lobby the club's baby blue colour.

We got to work straight away having completed completed the 3.5k run there, did a great job of all the tasks and got to enjoy a selection of fun-sized chocolate and orange squash generously provided by Richard to refuel us before the return back back into town.

Our first task today was to peel a mountain of veg. There were carrots galore which we had to peel and chop and 3 sacks of potatoes. The team had a lot of chatter while we worked and we hope we may have found a new recruit for GoodGym too.

so lovely to welcome Pelumi to the FoodCycle team tonight. Although he was on the hosting team with Abdulrahman he also joined us in the kitchen to help with the washing up and was a great help. As always we had great fun turning the supermarket surplus into a delicious three course meal; tonight the menu had a real autumnal feel. Lucie took charge of making a carrot and coriander soup while Dani and Gill made an apple crumble for pudding. With bags of carrots and a crate of apples there was a lot of peeling to do. Abdulrahman was a fine host and along with the others made sure that all guests were welcomed and served with a smile.