Ms K's partner met us at the front door with an apology. "I fear I may have brought you on a wild goose chase" he said, and then proceeded to show us the stairlift that had been installed yesterday, and which he feared would make moving the various items of furniture from the back bedroom to the front difficult as it narrowed the landing and staircase.

Emma and I, being experienced furniture shifters(...), and not to be deterred in our mission, took a look at the overall situation and confidently pronounced it was all doable. We started with the bed/mattress, which once separated proved remarkably easy to shift and we soon had that tucked up against the wall in the front room.

A heavy looking drawer unit was next and whilst this required a bit more grunt to lift it up and over the various obstacles, we soon had that done - leaving just a rather large (empty) wardrobe to bring downstairs - fortunately this was light enough to move around, and we left it outside the front door for collection as instructed.

Mr P was delighted (surprised?) with our efforts and we wished him well with the imminent return of Ms K.

It was good to be back at the community garden with some familiar faces. Jorge brought his family along with loads of snacks for us. (Much appreciated after parkrun).

Some of us lined the raised bed with wood chips, others assembled the strawberry planter and the rest of us planted some trees around the boundary of the plot.

Luckily the sun was shining for us and we were all smiles throughout the task.

On International Day of Happiness and French Language Day, Sam welcomed in Elena, Paulin, Isaac, Lindy, Katy, Nelly, Maria and Daryl into Old Spike Peckham for another group run. After his intro speech, his ice-breaker question was to do with one of the social dates...he chose to ask what everyone's favourite French word is:

From "Boh" to "pittoresque" and "bissou" to "oo la la", we had all your stereotypes and intriguing French words.

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What's flyering in french?

With this being one of our longer runs, Sam opted to skip the warm-up and head to Galleywall Nature Reserve as it is a 4k run each way. We started off fast to avoid the people on Rye Lane before feeling the humidity on this warm muggy night. We all made it to the Nature Reserve just after 19:15 to find Eddie welcoming in Phil, but we did not notice until after Eddie gave a list of jobs/tasks that Sander had already arrived and was cracking on with transporting leaf mulch. Yet, we had more people than tasks, but luckily Sam had flyers from Library of Things to distribute to the neighbourhood around Surrey Quays. Staying with Eddie in the Nature Reserve:

• Emma, Elena, Lindy, Maria, Nelly, Phil and Sander stayed behind to collect leaf mulch, saw wood and put in wooden pole signage firmly into the ground.
• Whilst Daryl, Isaac, Katy, Paulin and Sam ran off to deliver the flyers using the 40 minutes to tackle the estates near Surrey Quays Overground.

Upon arriving back at the Nature Reserve close to 20:00, Sam noticed those at the Nature Reserve had already been done with their tasks about five minutes prior, so without further waiting he took a group photo and they said their goodbyes to Eddie, Elena(who lives closeby), Emma, Phil and Sander.

We ran back to Peckham at a slower pace as most of us were tired and the humidity was still in the air. Once we arrived back at Old Spike at 20:30, Sam opted out of a stretch and told everyone left to stretch at home.

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Thank You to all the GG-ers

A personal thanks from me to all those who came out last night! Eddie always appreciates our time at the Nature Reserve to help fine tune the area and we got a shoutout from Library of Things on Instragram too. Thank you to Maria for backmarking the runs to / from Galleywall Nature Reserve.

5 GoodGymers met up on a Tuesday night to help pack away clothes and sort shoes at TRAID in Peckham to make space for the new season's clothes to be put out. All the team tackled taking clothes off hangers and boxing them up before Emma and John split off to help match shoes towards the end of the hour.