(apologies to Buddy Holly)

The weatherman didn't say clear today, He didn't know that we wanted to say, "Please don't be raining, Raining in the park."

The sun's not out, The sky's not blue, So many clouds right over you, It was raining, Raining in the park.

Oh littery, littery. And it was the first time for Lee. 🌧️ We get our hoops and off we go, We’re picking litter as you know , It’s still raining, raining in the park. 🌧️ We keep on going, in the rain, Soaked to the skin but don’t complain. It was raining, raining in the park .

This week's Group Run took us to Wardown Park to fill up barrows of woodchip for mulching trees.

Sounds easy, but we needed to move those barrows over the hill of Pope's Meadow to deliver the mulch to the People's Park orchard. It's a steep hill so with three people pushing the XL barrows it was still a hard job maintaining momentum and pushing on to the top of the hill!

We met Konni from the Luton Orchard's Project who was delighted to see us and have this mulch delivered ready for her volunteers on Friday to distribute around the trees.

With empty barrows it was once more over the hill for us to return them and then before heading back to town we stopped off for a plank challenge and to try out a plank-based lights-out game for a bit of fun core-toning activity.

Another fabulous evening at FoodCycle and they qere sonomeased to have lur team of 6 GoodGymers providing some vital support. Gill and Lucie were coking - Lucie on the starter made a delicious celery and stilton soup while Gill made use of the lemons 🍋 to make a lemon and sultana sponge pudding. Ezrik joined them in the kitchen for his first FoodCycle task and did an amazing job of the washing up. Teklay had his first turn at hosting alongside Sam and Abdulrahman and they did a great job of setting up the hall, serving the guests and tidying up after. Another evening of great team work. Well done all.

This week's group run saw us: 👋🏼 Welcome Fanual and Biruk to first sessions 🏃🏿‍♂️ Run to Wardown Park 🪵 Collect some wood chip 🏃🏼 Run further down the road 🌳 Mulch trees we planted previously 🏃🏻‍♂️Run back to the park 🪜 Do a stair climb workout 🏃🏼‍♀️Run back into town

A great workout for a misty Wednesday evening!